What is LEGAL is NOT what is JUST in Uganda today – Part I

Museveni never broke a law in his entire career. That’s right – he found a perfect way to make it all legal: paying those who make the law, to make the law just the way he likes it; that’s an example. Then paying those who defend the law even more, to look the other way, do their job but not their duty; having political judges littered across the justice system is another example. Everything he has done is therefore perfectly legal, to him, because he made sure of that.

So, the young people of Uganda, with or without interest in the state, the law, or politics are equally baffled: What is the law supposed to accomplish? Is it meant to actualize man’s desires? Is it supposed to reflect peoples’ hopes, collectively? Or is it supposed to convey what God wants for man?

Museveni’s abuse of law-making is evidence that everything illegal can be made legal. More fundamentally; how can a leader be satisfied by this? Or does this perpetual injustice in fact explain why our leaders are in never satisfied –  having mistaken the purpose of the law – justice, and mocked God’s work expressed in the collective voices of the people? Maybe the religious leaders can interpret the purpose of the law to us, because the

A young Ugandan lawyer

politicians have failed flatly.

Ideologically, in terms of the state – how can the whole theory of law-making not have a tenet to self-correct when it’s being abused? An object can be self-aware and therefore self correct in computing theories – when a process is interfered with, the information is not committed. Didn’t the architects of law-making foresee a situation like this?

How can the people not be protected by law, against assault by leaders using the law, as they replace its natural purpose – justice, with a man-made purpose – legality? Do people make laws to govern them because they need legality? Or do they do people make laws because they want justice in the land, and in the whole world…

More than any other time in Ugandan history, the law has been thrown back at people spitefully, whenever a leader wanted to evade accounting to them; and whenever the wrath of truth has approached them; the law has been used as shield for thieves and liars – the Museveni government. In Idi Amin’s reign, history recalls, there was no law at all; it was publicly & popular set aside. So nobody was confused about how the country is governed; by decree. The enemy clearly identified himself – he saw no need to hide under any guises. So Ugandans fought him on this principle, and he lost after ruling for 9 years. Atleast he did not make farce out of the law.

What is LEGAL is NOT what is JUST in Uganda today

But now we have one governing for 30 years, all the while making the people believe that this is their will – using the law of course. One must live in a twisted reality to think or believe that this is right.

In the end, it is the poor people who are destroyed- because they are the ones who hope the most for justice. The people’s sense of right and wrong as a whole can be distorted in this type of leadership, coming from their leaders. When things happen on the African continent, which the world thinks are bizarre, the world doesn’t stop for a second to recon how the continent has been led the bizarre path by its leaders.

We cannot realistically hold Zimbabweans to blame, or Ugandans to error, or Burundians to fault, or South Sudanese for adversity; for the poor state of their countries; the leaders there have conveyed man’s untruthfulness through the law, and man’s sinful nature to present legality as justice.

So, my appeal to fellow Africans, especially those who are in the employ of making illegal ideas legal, is that; you will

destroy yourselves first, by perpetually doing things you do not believe in; and after that you will destroy your families,  after losing the moral correctness that children perceive naturally from parents. And that is how our countries are destroyed.

Giving children sweets in exchange for their FREEDOM

Somehow God made it open for man to perceive the world independently; and somehow He speaks to man individually. So it’s not possible to corrupt everyone. That’s how our countries can be saved.

End- of Part I