Daily Monitor
Sunday May 09 2021
At the start of 1998 (February and March) I wrote an eight-part feature series in The Monitor – as it was then – titled: “Was the NRM Bush War a revolution or just a rebellion?”
I interviewed many people, great and small alike. One of the unforgettable ones was Sam Njuba, Uganda’s Constitutional Affairs minister from 1986 to 1993, and the one who laid the foundation for the 1995 Constitution.
“When we came to power, we didn’t know what to do,” he said. “None of us had been in power before, we were learning on the job.” Njuba, bless his soul, admitted the Museveni administration had for all intents and purposes gambled quite a bit with the nation’s fortunes. But back then it was understandable – and forgivable. Not now.