What more need anyone want to know about the NRM's insistence at the Kiggundu/Museveni EC to hold the 2011 general elections, other than the messed up NRM primaries?

The NRM's own privately-sponsored mouthpiece, the Red Pepper, appropriately shouted: "NRM Rigs Own Poll". Other tactless voices called it, "Thieves Accusing Thieves".

Across the country there have been depressing reports about rigging on an unimaginable scale by NRM party operatives: ministers, chairmen, etc, struggling to "lead" their own party and this country to its doom. I cannot put it better than Mbale LC5 Chairman, Bernard Mujasi, who castigated his own party saying that it had "failed to lead by example". 
"Where voting materials are inadequate and ballot papers are already in the streets, we should not deceive ourselves that we have democracy."

Indeed, we have never had a democracy: the term and impression has been used to trick the donor community to think that Uganda is in the community of nations, and therefore deserves financial support.

But the money, which is the only preoccupation of the "NRM leaders", is simply stolen. It does not matter whether you rope in the European Union, International Monetary Fund, the African Development Bank, Commonwealth or the World Bank.

These people have created ways of draining off this money into personal pockets. It is what Journalist Angelo Izama of The Monitor, in an interview last week in the CNN, termed: "Dracula [the blood-sucking vampire] breaking into the World Bank".

These are the thugs of people we are forced to call "our leaders", people who have no undertaking for the country, while claiming that they have vision. In public addresses they even preach from the Bible, blaspheming the name and word of God.

They go to the stage to announce things which they are not ready to implement. In his Roman letter, 14:23, Paul called it acts "done in bad faith is sin". In other words, eventually, it does not matter what lies one tells the people, if the fellows go against what they preach they shall be damned.

Since we all believe that we are Christians, we should be guided by prophecies of men of God, like Isaiah. He said in 1:4-6 that, "A sinful nation, a people weighed down with guilt, a breed of wrong-doers, perverted sons…. Where shall I strike you next, since you heap on betrayal after another? The whole head is sick, the whole heart grown faint; from the sole of the foot to the head, there is not a sound spot."

That condemnation is already obvious as many of the primaries are being canceled or postponed. An NRM election commissioner, Lydia Wanyoto, admitted to the "difficulties", but as always, these fellows never deny their treachery as a means of fooling the people.

But the reaction of the people in Tororo, where they supplemented the ballot papers with their own notebook slips, should be a disturbing eye-opener: order is breaking down!

There is not a sound spot! A lot of people who were retrenched from the Civil Service will tell you that Uganda, as an orderly civilized state, is unrecognizable. It reminds one with the condition of Israel at the time when the "leadership" of the Judges was coming to an end.

There is a story of an Ephraimite and his concubine. At that time of lawlessness it ended with the man's concubine being raped to death by some brigands who broke into the house of the old man who had sheltered the couple. It led to civil war when the man cut up the woman into twelve pieces and sent those to all the tribes of Israel. Judges 21:25 says, "In those days there was no king in Israel, and every man did as he pleased." 

This can be stretched to the situation obtaining here. There have been accusations and counter accusations; thieves accusing other thieves. As if this was not disturbing enough some of the thieves are appealing to other thieves to "save" them and "rectify" the situation. It is in this that we are going to a general election.

The situation is boding on evil, and it is with this background that the Catholic's bishops pastoral letter of July 11 that appeal to all not to "ignore Uganda's problems of agony, war, violence and fraud". Chaired by Archbishop John Baptist Odama, an ardent advocate for peace, who has been vilified by this government over the war against Joseph Kony, these bishops pin their hopes on "good governance". But even the NRM thieves talk of that.

However, the bishops go so far as urging for "change to inspire people to participate" in the general election with the hope of a "strict review of the appointment and, management of the EC". Judging by the NRM primaries, this is a bishops' dream, but may be a thieves' bonanza.                               
                              
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