Four time presidential aspirant Dr Kiiza Besigye, in an attempt to re assert his weight on his diminishing political arena over the years, last week, re echoed his Plan B to liberate ‘oppressed’ Ugandans whom he will lead to reclaim their rights, justice and freedom over their resources.
Dr Kiiza Besigye said his Plan B will not necessarily mean getting guns and going to war but using any available means to bring change to the people.
It should be remembered that the good Doctor who announced himself as the People’s President installed a shadow outfit named People’s Government where he named a ‘Cabinet’.
The People’s Government has previously run and championed political activism campaigns such as Walk to Work, Tubalemese among others, all meant to retard Government’s programs but has always hit a dead end without registering any tangible impact. His approaches to rally people to take to the streets and protest purposed to overthrow Government have miserably failed.
The people who he claims are yearning for change have explicitly shunned these campaigns of protest against the Government. It is crystal clear knowledge that the few that join do so because they are offered a ‘small envelope’.
The people shun these political campaigns because they are time wasting and are there to benefit the direct actors who get international funding to destabilize Government programs.
Besigye says part of Plan B is to mobilize taxi drivers, boda boda riders, market vendors, and students to demand for their rights, which is a stale approach to the common man’s ears as he has been employing these same approaches that have yielded no results.
During the COVID 19 lockdown which saw all activities and national programs come to a stand still for months, he called on people who were under lock down to take to the streets and hit empty saucepans, bang spoons and plates as an awakening call to Government that the people are hungry.
To his dismay, the ‘oppressed’ people refused to join his call as no one took to the streets.
The people finally saw that they would rather keep focus on their livelihoods than become accompaniments to the political opportunists who have amassed wealth and wealth out of their foreign- funded activism.
Dr Besigye’s Plan B is therefore nothing inconsequential but a recap of false hopes served to gullible Ugandans, an old dance of a tired dancer.
