As People Power accuses one another of corruption and bribery in Jinja, as political cards are being played to reduce competition for Lord Mayor Lukwago and as bar owners cry for reopening and exposing people to the deadly virus, money continuously flows in to finance disorganization and unrest in our country. Civil society organizations and Non-profit, non-government organizations have continued to actively take part in active politics and working against Uganda’s stability.
On 22nd, while speaking during a quarterly meeting with officials from Ministry of Internal affairs Sarah Bireete, the Executive Director of Centre for the constitutional governance accused the President of calling them mercenaries. The question is, has she actually gone down the roots and routes to rule out the Presidents accusation.
When anyone terms them as mercenaries against the sovereignty and democracy of Uganda, their response is bitter and cruel. I do not disagree with the tremendous contribution some of the civil society organizations have put on the table to the development of Uganda but there is a lot of rotten tomatoes within the rack.
The Security and intelligence organizations of the Uganda government have previously held a lot of evidence and information from our top placed sources suggests that some NGOs whose main agenda is to aid foreign enemies set up covert bureaus for offensive operations against Uganda. And some others involved in money laundering activities and human trafficking. With more misappropriating funds from donors by duping funders that they are doing charity when in the actual sense they use the money in crime and politics.
Yesterday, Ms Sarah Bireete, the Executive Director of Centre for the constitutional governance, said that the government should not attack the NGOs for working with foreign countries because the partners who fund them are the same that fund government.
With due respect, NGOs are accountable to government, besides her assumption does not sum up to the fact that the same funds do not want to destabilize our nation. The truth is that some of the NGOs are operating as channels of espionage and others as mercenaries against Uganda. Some are aware and are cooperating and some are others are being used without their full awareness.
What Bireete should be doing before crying out against those accusations on NGOs, should be to call in experts to carry out deep forensic investigations on so many of these civil organizations to rule out aiding of enemies of Uganda.
As a matter of fact, last Months the New Vision and Daily monitor published a list of NGOs and more than 500 of them were operating with no proper registration or expired rights.
The common person needs to realize that colonialism took a different direction, slavery has shifted trends. It is through civil society organizations that peonage is being used. A few grants and we give free labour and yet profits are repatriated.
Civil organizations should embrace cleaning their bedrooms for them to be able to hold government more accountable to Ugandans, or else, they are housing bed bags and extremely long term pests that will see our country with unhealing syndromes of dependence and loss of direct sovereignty.
