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February 6th, 2024. Uganda.
Inspired by the recent events in Nigeria, the officers in Uganda have been getting restless. In the past two weeks, three events have been noticed in multiple army barracks in the country, with eight officers having been arrested for these rebellions.
Muhoozi’s dominance of the Special Forces has been under the scrutiny of opposition members of Parliament and the Armed Forces, but his only response was to sack Minister of Defense Charles Engola, and to replace him with Leopold Kyanda, while giving Kyanda’s position to Hudson Mukasa.
This sacking of military officials served to provide even more unrest for the military, who launched another public note, claiming:
“The Muhoozi administration is playing with fire. Uprooting the military institutions of Uganda are not only subversive, but illegal and traitorous to a nation that has fought for decades in order to attain its freedom. The Armed Forces will not bow down to cowards, autocrats and tyrants. We will liberate Uganda if it is necessary, and we shall not blink, not in the face of tyranny, oppression and values that go completely against our nation.”
This manifesto had, as its main signatory, Elly Tumwine, and Muhoozi had decided he had enough. He had called an emergency meeting of the Special Forces and other loyalist military generals, including Leopold Kyanda, Hudson Mukasa, Sam Kiwanuka, and Fred Tolit. The main consensus was to arrest Tumwine on sedition charges, but the meeting was concluded with no formal decision, Muhoozi was still scared of upsetting the balance, and indecision took control of his cabinet.
In further news regarding the relationship between the government of Uganda and its Armed Forces, many military officers have called for a new political party that can revitalize and transform Uganda into a proper regional power, with a modern State, based on the well-being of the population, a revitalization of Ugandan culture and a transformation from the established order.
One such officer, Major General Don William Nabasa is the main theorist of this new Ugandan political movement, which is, in essence, an amalgamation of militarist frustrations with the government, corruption – among the lower strata of officers – and an inefficient economy. Other military proponents, most significantly Kahinda Otafiire, has called for new economic programs and social programs that can provide an immense rise in standards of living in Uganda, while still prosperously coexisting with a free market economy.
While Nabasa and Otafiire are the most prolific writers of this new situation that is brewing in Uganda, they are not the only ones, and the theoretical hodgepodge of ideologies is based on three key programs: National Revitalization, Social Revitalization and Economic Revitalization, or the Three Revitalizations Program.
They are based on nationalistic principles, with a focus on left-wing social programs and economic models based on development economics, such as the ones based on Kaushik Basu and Abhijit Banerjee.
These ideological leanings are, on their core, pragmatic; especially since these theorists do not believe that the Armed Forces are a permanent force on the national political scene, but a stabilizing force responsible for stepping in, revitalizing and setting the ground for civilian democratic rule, through a quasi-positivist Republican Dictatorship.
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