Uganda, March 9 -- I prefer to more accurately call it a rulership, or more precisely a military regime. That is what we have in the Uganda of Mr Yoweri Museveni.

But there is something else, arguably more corrosive and cunning than one would find in a true military rulership of the Idi Amin stripe: the pretence to being democratic, putting up a facade that entices and grants false hope to citizens ostensibly engaged in democratic processes.

This is what we can decipher from the theatrics and empty motions that play out at parliament with members of the public believing that they have democratically elected representatives who are their voices.

It is also in the same vein, as I argued last week, that we hold to the (false?) hope of int...