Bringing God into politics is a dicey complicated affair since God herself works in mysterious ways not unlike the political realm. So, I am flabbergasted and scratch my head (and I suspect many are) when the first lady of Uganda attributes or calls upon God for her political fortunes. This is in a milieu where her husband (by his own statement) is a representative of God in Uganda. Who is kidding who? Are we that gullible?
Recently Mrs. Janet Museveni was appointed as an assistant minister for Karamoja affairs. She quickly announced that it was God who gave her the daunting job—a job that defeated the British power, was not completed in Obote I, and her husband’s NRA exploited.
Is the Karamoja appointment an attempt by the national representative of God to lock in the monolithic Karamoja votes come 2011? In the meantime maybe her friends from America can flock in to dress the Karamojong and stop the slicing of women’s clitoris. If successful, the efforts will be major historical achievements.
She has asked the Karamojong to pray for rain. For the rain to materialize the Karamojong can aid their prayers by stopping stealing cattle and murdering their neighbors with the NRA guns supplied to them in the days of strategic containment of neighbors unsympathetic to the excesses of the early NRA. The Bible says that, for your prayers to be answered, you have to settle with your brother first—extinguish the bad karma unless, of course, you have a powerful spouse who is beyond the grasp of karma—so he thinks. The Lord, indeed, works in mysterious ways.
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