#FEDERALISM. President Museveni Fingerpointing; The Initial Non-existence of East African Community (EAC) Member States Fueled Genocides, Corruptions and Mass Killings By Former Leaders of Uganda, Tanzania, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and S. Sudan.

General Idi Amin Dada (Former President of Uganda).

President Museveni says he was assigned by the East African Community Summit to sensitise East Africans on the need for the federation.

He apparently looked at the problems of rising levels of L. Victoria, desert locusts currently troubling all the East African countries as well as the coronavirus pandemic.

Museveni says if the East African federation had succeeded, East Africa would be where India is today.

God is the one who put East Africans together. What God has put together no man should put asunder, he said.

“Uganda is the bedroom, Kenya is the sitting room, Tanzania is the other bedroom, DR Congo is another room,” Museveni explained.

Museveni said Tuesday that if the federation had been formed then, Idi Amin would not have come to power, massacres of Burundi would not have happened, the problems of Congo  would not have happened, the issue  of South Sudan would have taken shorter time to solve, genocide in Rwanda would not have happened, and managing this crisis would have been much easier in a consolidated way. 

“In my job as the champion for the East African Federation, I thought I should tell the people that you have got to work with the other East Africans if they are to unite.”

He added: “Mwalimu Nyerere talked, you didn’t listen to him, he left. And now you are the ones inheriting these problems.”