ON THE WANGADYAS OF THIS WORLD
For a long time, Museveni's regime has relied on individuals occupying
positions of public authority to execute its political agenda, at the cost of
justice and the rights of fellow Ugandans. To ensure regime survival, many
have traded their integrity for power, privilege, or protection, only to discover
that the very system they served has no loyalty to them whatsoever.
We have seen this pattern repeatedly: Kakooza Mutale, Abdallah Kitatta, Kale
Kayihura, Peter Elwelu, Anita Among, and now, apparently, Mariam
Wangadya, who has reportedly resigned as Chairperson of the Uganda Human
Rights Commission after she was reminded that she's not one of them.
Whatever the reasons behind her resignation, I think she has taken what
could be her final opportunity to reclaim what is left of her dignity.
The tragedy here is not one individual's downfall. It is the fact that this cycle
keeps repeating itself. People are appointed, empowered, and celebrated, not
to serve the public but to serve the regime, many times at the citizens' painful
cost. They become instruments of repression against their own people.
Then, after years of unquestioning loyalty, they are dumped the moment they
cease to be politically useful. The regime abandons them without hesitation.
They are isolated and left to face public anger, legal consequences, and the
judgment of history, alone, while those who gave them orders quietly move on
to recruit the next willing enforcer.
It is difficult to feel sympathy for them because this fate has never been a
secret. Museveni's regime has consistently demonstrated that loyalty to him
is purely transactional. Yesterday's trusted enforcer eventually becomes
today's forgotten casualty. Yet each new generation of enablers convinces
itself that it will somehow be treated differently. It never is.
That is why every public servant should remember that offices are temporary
but reputations are permanent. Power expires. Titles disappear. Official
protection ends. What remains is your name, your conscience, and the legacy
of the choices you made while you had authority.
Before accepting the role of persecuting, silencing, or oppressing fellow
Ugandans for political survival or personal gain, ask yourself one question;
what will remain when the office and the power is gone?
The Museveni regime does not protect its enablers forever. It simply replaces
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