You only have the ‘power’ to bully institutions inside Uganda. Step outside Uganda’s borders and your threats are as valuable as a veto in a room where you don’t have a seat.
It takes a remarkably primitive political imagination to inherit influence and conclude that its highest purpose is shutting down media houses. While serious nations are competing to build world class universities, industries, research centres, and militaries, you are proudly advertising censorship as though it were a national achievement.
Instead of helping Mzee leave behind a prosperous, technologically advanced Uganda, you boast about destroying businesses, silencing journalists, and reinforcing the very stereotypes that have held African politics back for decades. You possess the mentality of an oversized political infant who mistakes coercion for competence and inherited authority for personal greatness.
Uganda has thepotential to be one of Africa’s leading economies. The tragedy is that its potential is too often constrained by leaders who still think like feudal chiefs rather than twenty first century nation builders. History has never been kind to rulers who confuse fear with respect, or obedience with legitimacy.
Wewe ni mbwa sana.
Without Standard Media, nobody would even know you the way they know you today. You were built by the same media ecosystem you are now trying to spit on.
Let people who grew without newsroom platforms, TV exposure, editors, cameras, newspapers and institutional media backing be the ones to lecture the industry.
That is why many Kenyan journalists disappear the moment they leave mainstream media. Some rushed to YouTube, some started small media companies, some tried to become brands on their own, but reality slapped them very fast.
Media gave many of you the name, the audience, the credibility and the doors you now pretend came from your own greatness.
Respect the ecosystem that raised you, even when you think you have outgrown it.