Fictitious corporations shouldn’t forget the Musevenicity of the Sovereignty Protection Bill

By Jumbwike Sam

I authorize and give up my right of governing myself to this man or this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in the like manner…This is the generation of that Great Leviathan (or rather to speak more reverently) of that Mortal God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defense – Thomas Hobbes.

On a sunny December 2012 afternoon, I found myself aboard a State House-bound vehicle with a team of one of the Kampala Diasporan Communities that had been invited for the annual national prayers. Of course I was not among the initially invited guests, but given the late December dynamics where many Uganda based foreigners return to their home countries for holidays, the team found itself depleted on representation and yet didn’t want to send regrets, so that is how I ended up visiting the center of power in Uganda.

I saw all the shakers and movers of the different sectors in Uganda ranging from businessmen, educationists, media practitioners, agriculturalists, cultural leaders, sportsmen, soldiers, academicians, politicians, NGO leaders and Diplomats struggling to get the attention of the President and whoever got the opportunity to get attended to would kowtow in a manner that would make Chinese Monks look pedestrian before Budha.

2012 was the year of Uganda’s golden Jubilee and the mood around the country was about celebrating Uganda’s 50-year journey, so all religious leaders who got the opportunity to say something anchored their messages around peaceful coexistence, peaceful power transition on top of extending powerful prayers for the protection and wisdom of the President. Then came the President’s speech; he started by castigating those who abandoned things that mattered and focused on things that don’t matter and wondered why Christians spent a lot of time on prayers instead of accomplishing assignments allocated to them. He then took a swipe at conventional Christians for their hypocrisy and narrated how professing Christians encouraged him to engage Traditional healers during the bush days to charm the war against Obote. Nonetheless the President affirmed his belief in the supreme God and reminded those who were concerned about his over stay in power that God would have recalled him right from the bush or during his early day in power if the Immortal God didn’t want him to lead Uganda.

Over the past few days, the Civil Society and Private Sector entities have put up a spirited fight against the Sovereignty Protection Bill 2026. The primary objective of the bill is clear- to protect the sovereignty of the people of Uganda. Interestingly, the opposers of the bill are arguing from angles which clearly show that they are unaware of who Uganda’s sovereign is. Uganda has a mortal God, the sovereign, to whom Ugandans submitted their wills and surrendered all the authority, and this sovereign can only be effective when he neither has internal equals nor external superiors, and the spirit behind the bill is to protect the Mortal God’s rights. Any successful challenge to the sovereign rights of the Mortal God makes this Mortal God a defective sovereign, which is a fertile risk factor for losing power and ceasing to be the sovereign.

All the entities opposing the Sovereignty Protection Bill are in existence by the authority of the sovereign, and their resistance to the will of the sovereign is an invitation to an iron response from the sovereign. The leaders of these artificial organizations must subject their individual wills to the will of the Sovereign for the good of Uganda. It is the Sovereign with the moral right to think and decide for Ugandans, and protecting this Mortal God is protecting Uganda.

The Writer is the Director of Saam Salley Humanitarian Agency