Uganda is a 50 year old independent African country unlike Ethiopia that has been hosting OAU/AU for five decades while enjoying her own thousands of years of “independent” history. Ironically, Ethiopia has no independent institution which is equally inhabited by independent minded people who refuse to be bullied by the establishment.

While Ethiopian Kangaroo Courts condemn dissidents to long term imprisonment, Ugandan courts dismiss politically motivated charges to the extent of scraping draconian or anachronistic legislations as unconstitutional. While the so-called Ethiopian parliament always rushes to endorse the whim of the dictatorship by ejecting MPs of the ruling party who dare to show dissent as well as lifting their immunity like it was done to Seye Abraha & Co.and recently to Junedin Sadoo who fled to Kenya, no such thing is possible with the parliament of this tiny country that’s been hosting me for the past six years.

A case in point is the dismissal of the request of the ruling party by the speaker of the parliament, Honorable Rebecca Kadaga, herself member of the ruling party. The ruling party chaired by President Museveni expelled four members of its own who were also elected as MPs.It requested too that parliament do the same by ejecting the “rebel”MPs from the august house.Unfortunately, the Honorable lady speaker said, no joke is possible in the parliament she presides, and therefore decided to retain the MPs as per the wishes of their constituents.

While public figures in the 50 year old Uganda follow their conscience and exercise their authority independently notwithstanding some setbacks, Ethiopia the host of a 50 year old OAU by contrast is littered with officials and public figures who even take blind order from a corpse.

Kiflu Hussain
WardheerNews contributor
Email: kiflu.hussain08@gmail.com
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Kiflu is an Ethiopian Social and Political Commentator exiled in Uganda
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