The disaster that hit Kiteezi over the weekend on August 10, 2024, exposed the usual weaknesses and hypocrisy of the opposition leaders in the central region. The central region has majority opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) who should take the blame, but they are instead blaming President Museveni for anything wrong that happens.
The Kiteezi Landfill has been in operation for 20 years, and no political leader or technical person should say was not aware of the impending disaster.
Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has been a leader since 2005, first as an MP representing the central region up to 2011 and as the lord mayor for Kampala city since 2011 to date. There is no way he could have failed for all these years to discuss a solution for the same place.
Instead of taking the blame and conceding the failure, he claims it is President Museveni who should be blamed and goes ahead to say he suggested solutions, but he was ignored! Why say all this after the disaster has happened? He is not on record for tabling the same anywhere.
The opposition politicians in Uganda are fond of playing to the gallery and playing hypocritical games with double standards. There is no way the lord mayor should still be in office after more than 20 people lost their lives because of reckless abandon by traitors in the name of opposition politicians.
It is already confirmed the disaster happened because of negligence and corruption at City Hall. Why and how all these political and technical leaders at the KCCA are still in office makes everything look like it is illegal to resign in this country. In any country that cares about the lives of its people, these officials should have been in prison already.
It is interesting how these opposition leaders in Uganda want to take credit for only good things even when they have contributed nothing but at the same time want to attribute bad things to the person of the president. Any good leader owns both the bad and the good in his line of duty, but it is different in Uganda.
For how long shall Ugandans continue losing lives because of sheer negligence by these opposition self-seekers and corrupt public office holders? Ugandans should open their eyes and be careful with opposition politicians. They are busy swindling the taxes as the taxpayers perish. It is surprising that none of these leaders have resigned but instead are everywhere in media playing to the gallery.
The politics of populism and playing sympathy cards while occupying offices doing incompitent work and sometimes nothing is the main characteristic of opposition politics in Uganda. These opposition leaders should understand that Ugandans have since known them, and there is no way they should keep blaming the president even for the self-created minor household mistakes. Lukwago and team should do Ugandans a service and resign from their offices over their incompetence and negligence.