Emmanuel Gyezaho
Kampala
President Museveni, in power since 1986, is way past his sell-by date and shouldnt stand at the next election if Ugandas political stability is to be guaranteed, a Supreme Court judge and former political ally has said.
In the final part of an interview with Daily Monitor, Justice George Wilson Kanyeihamba, a former Attorney General who retires from the bench in November, said Mr Museveni had reached his academic political ceiling.
Justice Kanyeihamba said: I must be honest and say President Museveni is exhausted. I wont talk much about his exhaustion but the evidence is clear; when you see him on TV, when he is in meetings, you see the man is totally exhausted.
Mr Kanyeihambas comments come after President Museveni, who is preparing to stand for his fourth election in 2011, told MPs from his National Resistance Movement party that he was yet to identify a suitable successor from within the partys top officials.
The Supreme Court judges comments are likely to draw a strong response from President Museveni who has always insisted, especially as he worked to lift the two-term limit on the presidency in 2005, that he should be allowed to remain in office for as long as most Ugandans vote for him. Senior NRM officials have also repeatedly said the decision of the partys presidential candidate should be left to its members and their delegates conference.
Whereas President Musevenis supporters say he has achieved political stability, economic growth and improved standards of living, his critics argue that many of those gains are being lost as the governments attention shifts to regime survival.
In the final part of the interview that has been serialised in this newspaper since Monday, Justice Kanyeihamba accuses President Museveni of personalising the achievements of the NRM government, and failing to build institutions and groom suitable successors to take over the party and the country.
Justice Kanyeihamba, who is set to retire after 13 years on the bench, was the brains behind the extension of the NRM government in 1989 as well as part of the team in the Constituent Assembly that helped draw up the Constitution.
He fell out with the government after he started openly criticising its governance credentials the reason, he says, he was blocked from two prestigious jobs at the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights and as Chief Justice of the Republic of Seychelles and was one of three judges who ruled, unsuccessfully, for the annulment of the disputed 2006 election.
Kampala
President Museveni, in power since 1986, is way past his sell-by date and shouldnt stand at the next election if Ugandas political stability is to be guaranteed, a Supreme Court judge and former political ally has said.
In the final part of an interview with Daily Monitor, Justice George Wilson Kanyeihamba, a former Attorney General who retires from the bench in November, said Mr Museveni had reached his academic political ceiling.
Justice Kanyeihamba said: I must be honest and say President Museveni is exhausted. I wont talk much about his exhaustion but the evidence is clear; when you see him on TV, when he is in meetings, you see the man is totally exhausted.
Mr Kanyeihambas comments come after President Museveni, who is preparing to stand for his fourth election in 2011, told MPs from his National Resistance Movement party that he was yet to identify a suitable successor from within the partys top officials.
The Supreme Court judges comments are likely to draw a strong response from President Museveni who has always insisted, especially as he worked to lift the two-term limit on the presidency in 2005, that he should be allowed to remain in office for as long as most Ugandans vote for him. Senior NRM officials have also repeatedly said the decision of the partys presidential candidate should be left to its members and their delegates conference.
Whereas President Musevenis supporters say he has achieved political stability, economic growth and improved standards of living, his critics argue that many of those gains are being lost as the governments attention shifts to regime survival.
In the final part of the interview that has been serialised in this newspaper since Monday, Justice Kanyeihamba accuses President Museveni of personalising the achievements of the NRM government, and failing to build institutions and groom suitable successors to take over the party and the country.
Justice Kanyeihamba, who is set to retire after 13 years on the bench, was the brains behind the extension of the NRM government in 1989 as well as part of the team in the Constituent Assembly that helped draw up the Constitution.
He fell out with the government after he started openly criticising its governance credentials the reason, he says, he was blocked from two prestigious jobs at the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights and as Chief Justice of the Republic of Seychelles and was one of three judges who ruled, unsuccessfully, for the annulment of the disputed 2006 election.