Clash between Mao and Besigye misses the elephant in the room

The discussion in the opposition should be about the strategic outcome and how to get wider appeal and support for those reforms, including among NRM members and supporters.

Who in the energy sector, seeing the chronic delays in Karuma and the oil and gas sector, does not feel the need for reforms to have a more efficient way of doing things?

These are all governance issues and a symptom of the entrenched interests that put regime survival and perpetuation ahead of economic growth and social transformation.
Setting up political parties and preparing them to contest in the next election will not, under current circumstances, lead to any reforms.

What Mao, Besigye, and other political leaders ought to do is find incentives to encourage reforms and disincentives to punish the anti-reform elements in the regime.
That is the crux of the matter. To deliberate otherwise is to mistake form (parties or personalities) for substance (space for genuine, issue-based political contests).

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