{President Yoweri Museveni returned home after Mandela funeral and immediately called his top political and army advisers where he dropped the bombshell:}<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going home, I din\u2019t realize just how the world has changed, till I went to South Africa,\u201d said Museveni to the shocked members of his inner cabinet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be no other rap,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n
During the last elections, Museveni, popularly known as Ssebo, had developed a rap campaign song: \u2018Do you want another rap?\u2019<\/p>\n
But he had more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have travelled a lot in Africa and abroad, I do not want Uganda to be like our neighbour with retired presidents so old they can no longer run a kilometer, I thank comrades in the army and the NRM, we saved Uganda from a savage and we must now look from aside\u201d reports the Red Pepper, Uganda\u2019s authoritative newspaper.<\/p>\n
The image of world presidents trooping to Uganda seemed to have left a powerful imprint in one of the remaining \u2018strongmen\u2019 of Africa. However, If opposition politician Kizza Besigye thought he would rise easily, he was in for a rude shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this country is not a medical laboratory. No, not even when i\u2019m gone will comrades let the vision of the revolution and NRM fall to the stooges,\u201d said Museveni in an indirect allusion to Besigye who is a medical doctor by training.<\/p>\n
Later, when asked about Barack Obama\u2019s speech about leaders who kill dissent \u2018by their own people\u2019 while feeling sorry for the passing of Madiba, Museveni said Obama \u2018exaggerated the situation\u2019, saying no current African leader has problems with opposition leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe likes talking in parables . . . in New York, that\u2019s what I told him, Africa\u2019s problems are too complex for them. He exaggerates situations in Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just taking photos,\u201d he added, then entered his motorcade and swirled off!<\/p>\n
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