Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, a Ugandan musician-turned politician, seems to be shaking things up. This youthful Member of Parliament for Kyaddondo has caught President Yoweri Museveni by surprise not to mention taking Uganda by storm. What has been ongoing in Uganda may tell us something we don't know. What we didn't expect is the reaction of the government after facing some resistance. Since Museveni came to power, he has held Uganda at ransom. He created a brutal but fickle regime that subjected Ugandans to fear and intimidation.
Like his counterpart in Libya, Muamar Gadaffi, Museveni has turned Uganda into his private estate. This has guaranteed him the ownership of Uganda. For, this reason, Museveni doesn't think that there is a time his autocratic and corrupt rule will come to an end. I don't know if Museveni believe even in death.
Now that the cast is die, chances for Museveni's rule to start crumbling are on the agora. Faced with youths who want changes, Museveni is forced to unleash his military apparatuses to intimidate them and creating more anger and angst. The more he will kill the more will he will encourage to shun the fear and get out to oppose him. This will have domino effects on Museven's aging regime. Like Gadaffi, Museveni may be caught off guard so as to go down quickly and unexpectedly. Like Blaise Compaore, Museveni's ouster may come from unexpected angle, especially if youths stand their ground to see to it that Museveni is packing and hit the road.
In sum, by the look of the things, this is the beginning of the end of Uganda's longtime under Museveni. Bobi Wine may act as Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia whose ripple effects consumed the whole Maghreb leaving many dictators cascading like houseflies from power.