{"id":8567,"date":"2021-04-18T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:12:37","slug":"kyankwanzi-the-indoctrination-of-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kyankwanzi-the-indoctrination-of-irrelevance","title":{"rendered":"Kyankwanzi: The indoctrination of irrelevance\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>As I was preparing to pen my next piece for these columns, a photo \u2013 almost certainly from Kyankwanzi \u2013 and, almost certainly of incoming NRA\/NRM legislators being \u2018baptised\u2019 as part of their \u2018orientation\u2019, hit my inbox. Immediately, thoughts raced; here is a new season for electoral and parliamentary charade.<\/p>\n

Looking back, immediately after the arrival \u2013 by force \u2013 of NRA\/NRM into State power in 1986, word had it that civil servants were being forced or rather, instructed to go for \u2018training\u2019 at Kyankwanzi.<\/p>\n

The \u2018trainings\u2019 were, in fact, nothing but indoctrination, the kind the kadogos had to go through in the bush in effect, nothing but national \u2018initiation\u2019 into NRA\/NRM. Initially it was heads of departments, organisations and institutions like in case of schools, head teachers.<\/p>\n

Then it became mandatory. Then it became criteria for getting or remaining in certain jobs. Then it became national. Many sensible citizens refused and nearly all of those who refused lost their jobs or, opportunities for jobs.<\/p>\n

They were right as there was (still is) no co-relation between being an effective head teacher and having been \u2018schooled\u2019 in Kyankwanzi. But being an early strategy for State-capture and control of the minds of Ugandans \u2013 mbu \u2013 for all of them to belong to allegedly \u2018all embracing movement\u2019, it worked.<\/p>\n

I once visited a local health facility in my constituency in Tororo and the public official in charge looked at me as if I was a nuisance who had attended the facility to arrest him. Turns out I was doing the decent thing; fact finding, courtesy call, talking to the patients and assisting some.<\/p>\n

Only at the end of an hour did he realise that I was a net asset to his own job and well-being, the patients and the facility rather than the \u2018UPC enemy\u2019 he must have initially thought. Even better, it turned out that the facility \u2013 now in crutches \u2013 had been built, equipped, stocked and staffed to excellent levels by a previous UPC government.<\/p>\n

A good friend recently told of how they once attended Kyankwanzi through work and, a senior \u2018tutor\u2019 who happens to be a senior military officer went furious when he was \u2018asked a difficult question\u2019 around the subjects \u2018taught\u2019 and the relevance of their retreat.<\/p>\n

Simply put, the guy \u2013 a lawyer and of a background-not-expected to have had problems with Kyankwanzi \u2013 had in fact raised a major national issue, spoilt the party and had to be stopped. He was rudely interrupted. Thankfully, he did not lose his job on return and nor could he as he was lucky to be sufficiently connected.<\/p>\n

So looking at the picture posted onto my inbox in which a military officer is seemingly baptising \u2018legislators\u2019, one wonders: what are the latest purposes for incoming NRA\/NRM legislators spending time in Kyankwanzi? Are these baptisms or rather initiations about loyalty to NRA\/NRM, Parliament, the chief guest or is this the perfection of patriotism?<\/p>\n

Whatever the answer\/s, I still have issues for, a previous letter allegedly from NRA\/NRM secretary general (to Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah) seem to give theme to these events: ideological orientation for social-economic transformation; what exactly does this mean and what has it done to this country after 35 years?<\/p>\n

Even more so, who is in charge of Kyankwanzi, who owns it and is it only for NRA\/NRM leaders? Regardless, who is paying for this so-called retreat?<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, if Kyankwanzi is a national \u2018leadership institute\u2019 for Ugandans then I am looking forward to other political parties and organisations holding events at that venue and, I cannot wait to hold a briefing session for UPC leaders \u2013 unfettered \u2013 there soon.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, these \u2018baptism\u2019 are no national service, are contrary to (Romans 12:1) and, NRA\/NRM are merely national users-for-selves and nothing else. You decide.<\/p>\n

The writer is a former UPC spokespersonJop3upc@yahoo.co.uk<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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