Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:01:56 +0000 Yoweri Museveni’s warning against anarchy Dear Editor, I understand that President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda took a swipe at the UPND for its intention to cause anarchy and not to accept defeat in the last general elections during his recent high profile visit to Zambia. He went as far as advising the UPND leadership against falling into the temptation of destroying the country they were aspiring to govern and he further warned that the opposition party risked taking over a politically destroyed country (“Museveni warns against anarchy”, Daily Nation, October 24, 2016). As far as I am concerned, the warning was timely coming from a seasoned African statesman whose security forces are pedigreed with strong-arm tactics when it comes to quelling civil unrests. For instance in 2011, civil society groups in Uganda had once decided to highlight the sky-rocketing cost of food and fuel by walking en-masse to work. […]
