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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>For me I think (and that\u2019s bad English!) a DNA test needs to be made to confirm if Hussein Lumumba Amin is truly the son of former president Idi Amin Dada.<\/p>\n

The boy has come out strongly to condemn the Museveni administration for the widespread State-inspired violence: the killings with impunity, the kidnappings by State operatives\u2026with people turning up dead or disappearing permanently \u2013 virtues which for many years were branded as a monopoly of Idi Amin\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

There is absolutely no need for any such test with regard to the kids of a pick of Uganda\u2019s current leaders. Those whose parents are known to pinch public resources and elections\u2026 are doing just that. Looks consistent to me! Those who parents are known to commit human rights abuses \u2013 kidnaps, tortures and disappearances \u2013 are heading outfits that are busy doing exactly that. The apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree!<\/p>\n

Hussein\u2019s message, suggesting a case of the apple that did fall a good distance from the tree, trended quite a bit on social media. Had I been a \u201cdrunko\u201d, I\u2019d have quit drinking immediately, believing that I was now \u201cseeing things\u201d. But the strongest drink I ever sipped is Pepsi and it hasn\u2019t carried me away to such glorious heights yet, ahem!<\/p>\n

These juxtapositions may seem meaningless at first, for those who didn\u2019t know Idi Amin\u2026and those are pretty many! That\u2019s why it would be a good idea to read The World\u2019s Most Evil Men by Bruce Jones and Neil Blandford (1989). One of the names that come up quite easily, in the same breath as Cambodia\u2019s Pol Pot and Germany\u2019s Adolf Hitler, Haiti\u2019s Papa Doc, Soviet Union\u2019s Joseph Stalin, Mongolian Genghis Khan and Russia\u2019s Ivan the Terrible, is our own \u201cBig Daddy\u201d, Gen Idi Amin Dada, who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979. In fact, Idi Amin\u2019s story is the very first \u2013 or second – in the book.<\/p>\n

Let the record reflect, however, that evil as Amin was, no one can ever point a finger at his children, for the simple reason that, unlike the case of\u2026ahem! (just clearing my throat)\u2026 Amin\u2019s children were too young to have played any part in the atrocities of their father. And this Hussein boy, we must admit, does appear very polished, intellectual and humane, even if most of us feel unable to agree with his very diligent attempts to exonerate his father on the human rights front.<\/p>\n

The statement of Amin\u2019s son tells a simple story: we are back to where we were in Amin\u2019s regime, in terms of the human rights violations and having to choose between the two leaders is just about where the Israelites were at, wondering which, between Pharaoh behind them and the Red Sea ahead, was better. Honours even!<\/p>\n

We are talking about two full-blown military dictatorships on the table! The main difference is that Amin was a wolf who attacked the sheep, dressed as a wolf! He didn\u2019t pretend to be no sheep! He saved the taxpayer lots of money by declaring himself president for life. We didn\u2019t waste trillions of taxpayer\u2019s money on pretending we had a Parliament.<\/p>\n

There was no need organising sham elections designed to be won by only one person, with opponents and entire campaign teams being jailed on trumped up charges. There was no need to spend taxpayer\u2019s money bribing Members of Parliament to remove term limits, then remove age limits, then pass this or that law. The country, therefore, saved plenty of money by being run \u2013 and by identifying itself \u2013 as a dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Amin seems, within his limited frame of reference (because of limited education) to have had a heart for the country. He didn\u2019t steal public property, or interfere with the systems the colonialists had left in place. So we had a functional public transport system, hospitals actually worked and people attended the university free of charge.<\/p>\n

At this rate, something tells me that a few years from now when a new edition of The World\u2019s Most Evil Men is written, there just might be a new name entered in, from the land where the Nile begins its journey to Egypt.<\/p>\n

Mr Tegulle is an advocate of the High Court of Uganda gtegulle@gmail.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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