ZCC SHOULD INTERVENE IN UGANDAN ISSUE
Since 1986, an East African rebel commander has been occupying the Ugandan State House. Initially he rebelled against the dictatorship of Milton Obote, a rowdy- haired, political nuisance who couped Idi Amin, himself a British- trained assassin who plied his dark trade on Kenya’s Mau Mau freedom fighters. Now this rebel commander, whose thesis at the University of Dar es Salaam was on revolutionary violence, is leading a rebellion against Uganda itself. When he arrived from the bush, he was wearing military fatigues but has since switched to ill- fitting business suits that always appear three sizes too large. Not only is he dastardly oppressing Ugandans, he is also grooming other dictators in the region – one ( Paul Kagame) actually grew up in Uganda. A Setswana proverb says a name foretells fate ( Ina lebe seromo) and this rebel commander was given a name which is pronounced as “you weary.” Indeed, you have only to take one look at this deep- sea monster in human form ( Youweary Museveni) to tell that it is weary and should have made way for someone else a long time ago. As Uganda’s most unpopular, Youweary now claims to have won a popularity contest and there is a video of him celebrating his “win.”
While the dance is as unimpressive as Youweary’s rule, nepotism, suits and looks, the video is useful in one respect: it reveals possible association with an organisation that might help restrain his dark impulses. In the video, Youweary emerges from the State House and walks onto the front porch. He is wearing a yellow windbreaker and what appears to be a Zion Christian Church hat.
He breaks out into a dance that features at three styles: one, which he keeps going back to, imitates the gallop of a horse, the second is ZCC’s M’khukhu and the third is half of the nightclub’s bad- girl dance. The half he displays is holding fisted hands in front of his chest and pumping them horizontally the way a bad girl would but also bending at the waist to twerk vigorously. The video ends as Youweary appears to be assuming a posture for the first moves of the John Vuli Gate dance. The M’khukhu and hat establish some yet unclear connection between Youweary and ZCC and that if anyone can rein him in, it is the church leadership. We are unable to establish which faction of the Church he is associated with but suppose it would be the “star” one because Youweary, who received guerrilla training from FRELIMO, is a four- star general. Ultimately, it might turn out that it is Bishop Lekganyane and not Bobby Wine who can liberate Ugandans from the clutches of a 200year old tyrant. However, if it turns out that Youweary has no connection with ZCC, then the Church should demand that he should stop tainting its brand by performing its dance publicly.