Coup talk takes us back to Obote

These seem to have been strengthened by the US Ambassador’s recent remarks on the subject. We should not fool ourselves.
The United States’ friendship with Uganda is built first and foremost with Uganda’s military and security institutions as opposed to the civilian ones.

Those are their real friends. What is more, the US has dealt with and deals with regimes that are already further down the path of naked despotism than the NRM has so far managed to travel.

If a new openly military regime is to be prevented, it will not be done by the Americans, but we ourselves.
We will just be at the beginning. Again.
The writer is a journalist