Ugandan leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is optimistic that a united Africa can defeat any Western Powers which can attempt to invade the continent.
Museveni sounding very confident believes that African countries don’t have to seek indulgence of Foreigners to solver their internal matters, adding that the African nations need to unite and speak “one language” and can subsequently defeat whoever attempts to launch an attack on their people.
The President who this week has been in London attending an investment summit told BBC’s Allan Kasujja that had Africa been prepared enough, the foreign powers wouldn’t have attacked and killed former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
“The African countries shouldn’t have allowed western countries to attack Libya. We should have intervened. We tried diplomatically but we could have also intervened Militarily,” Museveni angrily said.
He added: “Africa could have intervened and taught those people a lesson.”
He regrets Gaddafi’s death as s failure of the Africans to protect their own son.
“Libya was an African country it was attacked by foreign powers so we should have intervened.
And absolutely we can stop them, those foreign powers. And that was the first failure.”
On why Museveni and his counterparts didn’t protect Gaddafi, he explained that:
“Africa didn’t fight for Libya because it was a like surprise attack. We couldn’t believe it. Even me I couldn’t believe that someone would be so stupid to attack an African country in that way. We were not prepared and we have not had time we are always scattered here and there but potential is there. If Africa wants to chase the invaders we can them. We chased and defeated the Portuguese, we defeated the boers they were backed by all sorts of foreigners, the potential is there but its not used.”
He said: “I fought Muammar Gaddafi two times, in 1972 because he was supporting Amin, I fought him in 1979 because he was supporting Amin.
Gaddafi had his own issues but the way they handled it isn’t the way to handle it.
When he intervened in Chad some people opposed him, when he intervened in Uganda we defeated him then we dialogued. Actually we had become very good friends with Gaddafi.
There is a way we were handling him but these foreigners came and caused much chaos.
It a weakness of wanting to go to headmasters instead of using our own brains to resolve this issue. “