Museveni, NRM on the wrong track in Northern Uganda
Museveni, NRM on wrong track For the last 22 years, the NRM did not govern in the interests of Ugandans. It has therefore been and is bumbling on, on the wrong tracks. Post-conflict policy in northern Uganda is illustrative. Relative peace in northern Uganda is changing programming from humanitarian relief to reconstruction and development. NGO plans are predicated on disbanding camps and resettling people to their land. Likewise, the NRM are repositioning. Unlike humanitarian agencies, the government is reinforcing coercive state infrastructures, and dubious "investment", and "modernisation" strategies that are discordant with the immediate needs and priorities in the region. For instance, the government is spoiling to alienate 40, 000 and 20,000 hectares of land in Amuru District for Madhvani Group, and Canada's Eco-Gestion-NileCan, to grow sugar cane. As centrepiece of the government's socioeconomic reconstruction strategy, the policy ignores 22 years ...