My legal advice to Bukenya is to plead guilty, apologise to the people of Uganda and then be escorted to Luzira maximum prison for the rest of his life.

I wrote hear that former vice president, Gilbert Bukenya, has a case to answer and I was advised by some people that Bukenya will win this case on technical grounds. If Bukenya read so much into WBK's advice, he must be in for a rude-shock.

You just don't eat money from Kaguta's palm and then walk away just like that. Our people need to learn that if something looks too good, then it is too good to be true or even too good in the real sense of it.

It is time for Bukenya to count his teeth with his own tongue. This money belonged to the people of Uganda. And Bukenya helped the mafia to help themselves with this money. Surely, what did he think he was doing?

My legal advice to Bukenya is to plead guilty, apologise to the people of Uganda and then be escorted to Luzira maximum prison for the rest of his life. This will serve as an example to many other Ugandans and Bukenya will have helped in the fight against corruption and abuse of office by being honest about his criminal acts, show genuine remorse and then do time behind the bars.

I thank God for having got the chance to study, work and live outside Uganda. I sometimes feel as if I'm not a Ugandan anymore because I'm very different. Ugandan leaders have this tendency of thriving on falsehoods and the tendency of never to take responsibility for their actions.

Then, we the good citizens are good at clapping our hands every time these sick politicians stand at the podium and feed us with their falsehoods. A man is given the responsibility of over-seeing CHOGM, and then he connives with the mafias to steal the money. He then turns around and says that he is immune from prosecution not because he is innocent, but because he stole or acted on behalf of the president who sanctioned the criminal act.

Bukenya had other options like going to court and report this criminal act, resigning or refusing to execute illegal orders.

Milton Obote and Idi Amin, stole ivory and gold from Congo, and while parliament was arranging to have them tried, they overthrew the government, abrogated the constitution and even claimed to be heroes. Up to now, the power which Amin and Obote robbed from Ugandans is still being held and abused by the military dictatorship in Uganda. We Ugandans lack the culture of constitutionalism, rule of law and the respect for human rights.

One of the most disappointing things is that many punks clap their hands and thank these dictators whenever they abuse the power which Milton Obote and Idi Amin robbed from us.  Obote, Amin, Okellos, Museveni, Muwanga etc have all abused the power which they held. This power truly belongs to the people of Uganda and to them it should return. But because we keep on clapping our hands and thank these punks every time they abuse power, we  continue to suffer at the hands of these senseless, selfish, greedy and insensitive idiots.

In Uganda, people laugh and even clap their hands whenever M7 lies, farts or steals public funds. We never hold people accountable for their crimes. No, we do not have that in our culture.

Bukenya thanked Kaguta for killing Ugandans who were demonstrating during Kayunga riots. He used to pretend to be fighting the mafias but turned around and stole with them.

Where is accountability and responsibility? When shall we learn to hold people accountable for their actions?

RICHARD MUKASA

LONDON