{"id":34640,"date":"2022-07-26T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/maos-move-doesnt-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:07:25","slug":"maos-move-doesnt-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/maos-move-doesnt-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye","title":{"rendered":"Mao\u2019s move doesn’t mean much for Ugandans – Besigye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) politician Kizza Besigye has downplayed the Democratic Party (DP) president general Norbert Mao\u2019s decision to join President Museveni\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye, who is in Soroti to drum up support for FDC candidate Moses Attan Okia for the Soroti City East Division MP seat, told Monitor that Mr Mao\u2019s decision to serve as a minister in the NRM party, \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean much for Ugandans\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt (his decision) simply means that the person who has been fighting with us has reached his capacity and can\u2019t go any further and that doesn\u2019t mean we will have to end the struggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Adding: \u201cOthers may fall off at 10 miles, but we must continue. That is how we defeated the British, that is how other countries that have freedom attained it.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Museveni on July 21 appointed Mr Mao as the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister.<\/p>\n

Mr Mao, the leader of Uganda\u2019s oldest political party since 2010, has previously been criticised by Opposition elements for \u201chobnobbing with the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.\u201d
\nThere was a significant exodus of the party members ahead of the 2021 polls to Robert Kyagulanyi\u2019s National Unity Platform (NUP).<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye joined several dissidents in questioning Mao\u2019s party at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen NRM finishes capturing state agencies, then other organisations follow. You think DP is strong but it will be seized,\u201d Dr Besigye said then.<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye yesterday said change will only be achieved by the population, and not through elite negotiations with the captors in power.<\/p>\n

He said just like many other people who have crossed to work with President Museveni, he respects Mao\u2019s contribution to the struggle.<\/p>\n

He, however, said he does not understand what prompted Mr Mao to hand himself over to the captors. \u201cI have heard that he is going with his party and at the same time I heard his party members protest that they are not part of him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The FDC stalwart said overtime, Mr Mao has criticised President Museveni\u2019s government and described what is going on in Uganda as \u2018gun rule\u2019, adding that he does not know how Mao hopes to cause dialogue after 37 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow will Mao then pull out that feat of causing dialogue where people like Amama Mbabazi, former Prime Minister in Museveni\u2019s government, and the late Eriya Kategaya, former first deputy prime minister, failed, and what some of us who knew Museveni many years ago failed,\u201d he wondered.
\nHe said the Opposition working with Mr Museveni will not stop them from fighting for justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 1960s, most members left DP and crossed to UPC, only four remained but that did not affect DP. Likewise, those who believe in UPC are still there under the leadership of senior counsel Peter Walubiri,\u201d Besigye said.<\/p>\n

UPC has two factions; one led by Walubiri and the other by Jimmy Akena.<\/p>\n

Mr Besigye said after 60 years of independence, Uganda\u2019s governments have never been changed through democracy but by use of guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has been brought by guns, what we have is gun rule, not people rule, and in that way people are captives to the guns, therefore we don\u2019t talk about Opposition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mr Besigye said since the 1960s, people are fighting to regain their citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who hold power use terror, they can kill, they can torture, they control, use guns to control the wealth of Ugandans. … they control media and information, that is how the British retained power, that is how the post British military have controlled power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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