Former senior member of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party Captain Francis Babu has urged the party chairman who is also the president Yoweri Museveni to step down so that young people can take over the country. Talking to this Website, Babu said that the supreme and absolute power the African leaders have has always led to political instability in their countries and Museveni being an experienced leader and politician should have seen this earlier .
“President Museveni has absolute powers, he runs the whole country alone and he is everything. That’s the reason most of the institutions are now dead, we the NRM people and the supporters are also affected, we are always insulted wherever we pass yet it’s only one person, people think we are part of this, it’s time for him to step down. This has been clearly shown by the recent two elections Arua and Bugiri,” the former minister warned.
While analysing the political situation in the country, Babu, who is one of the country’s most seasoned aviators coutined his former boss that he should hand over power to the young generation particularly the youth just like countries like France and Austria did.
Babu also called upon the president to stop calling Ugandans his ‘bazukulu’ (grandsons) because everyone knows their jajjas (grandparents).
“Uganda’s problem currently is President Museveni, the country can’t be run by one person. In a race there are many runners, Museveni should let others participate in the running of this country,” the two-time Kampala Central MP added.
