In the end, I suppose there is no doubt that Kizza Besigye is the greatest Ugandan that has ever lived. The man just simply refused to compromise on his values. He went to the bush to fight for a Uganda he believed in. When he won the war, he put on his overalls and set out to build. Deep down, he knew that compromising on the Uganda he believed in was a betrayal of all the people whose lives were extremely inconvenienced by the war—especially the children who lost their parents to the war in one way or another and were now suffering poverty in the name of the dream to build a democratic Uganda. Perhaps it is that guilt that keeps him going. He knows his burden is nothing compared to all the pain the war caused others. So, he knows that the least he can do is insist on the promise of a democratic Uganda. Because that is what he fought and killed for, and if he doesn't deliver, what does that make him?
Besigye would later learn that he was just a pawn in a game of powerful men. And in response, he has refused to acknowledge those so-called powerful men. He will never stop fighting for the Uganda he promised the dead because he has already lost too much; nothing other than a democratic Uganda can pay him back.
He was raised Christian, and those stories of faith have a way of devoting a man to something. And for him, he is devoted to paying the debt.
God bless that man. He is the greatest Ugandan that has ever lived.
