Joseph Kabuleta has cut a métier in the realm of ranting, majoring in denigrating those that he thinks are the cause of his misery. Reading through his weekly rants, you get a feeling that they are a sum total of a scowled soul. Those that have interacted with Kabuleta for long, paint a picture of a man who exalts personal psyche while debasing others. In the world of work, there are hierarchies that define roles and responsibilities, leaders lead and the led follow leaders, it is called order. However, if the led choose to transpose roles, it turns into anarchy. It should be pointed out, however, that leadership can be enriched by ideas from the led through civil means that cascade through the ranks, but not by rants and vitriol.
Kabuleta has worked in a number of places, how has he left those places? The grapevine has it that in all these places, his departure has always been a welcome relief to his colleagues. At a personal level, he has had unstable relationships throughout his life, he himself confessed on television one time about his failure to sustain a relationship. What does this say about his character? If you can’t relate with your soulmates and you are an eyesore to your workmates or business partners, then if you are not a psychopath, psychologists need to coin a word for that crank mindset.
Kabuleta’s obsession with the first family borders on a witch-hunt rather than an expression of intellectual discourse. In one of his weird rants, he stated that oil is being exported in disguised form. When experts engaged him in an intellectual discourse whether his illusionary paroxysm makes business sense to the imaginary exporter, he fizzled like a meteor. That shows intellectual dishonesty. If you can’t sustain a job and you keep jumping from one to the other, it is an expression of mental insecurity. To sustain a job or at least switch jobs on a high, depicts the mental prowess of a person.
So, to malign a person who has consistently held the same job for decades is a travesty of common sense. He attacks Robert Kabushenga for his stay at the helm of the New vision, attacks Cedric Babu of UBC, and he eviscerates the character of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, a military general who earned his accolades. What is interesting is that these are his generation and contemporaries and their achievements form the bedrock of his rants. He thinks that they should share in his failures and misery. It takes more than mere rants on social media to achieve their feat.
Kabuleta has tried so hard to keep afloat in the media for a long time, in print, radio, television and now social media with no traceable impact. This is because, in mainstream media, you are subjected to order, the content is analyzed by both the consumers and the bosses, the moment you fall short of the mark, the exit door remains the only option. That is what defines a business and from that simple principle, Kabuleta has always been found excess baggage worth offloading in all his job sojourn.
After failing in a competitive business world, the only option left was a spiritual venture. The sublime shift from the business realm to the spiritual arena is not accidental, it is a function of self-evaluation after a losing streak in the job market that requires acumen and reason. In the spiritual world, no questions are asked by the devotees. The pastor only relays whatever “vision” God has given him. No one questions the pastor how, where and when he meets his God. This is an easy route for Kabuleta. Issues of faith are akin to issues of love, they are both issues of the psyche, if you are not part of the equation, just consider yourself quadratic. Kabuleta found a soft landing where he can’t be challenged.
And there is a special place reserved for Lt Gen Muhoozi in his rants mindset. It seems like it is one of the spiritual assignments that must be executed religiously. Muhoozi has never come out to say he wants to be president of Uganda, but even if he nurses the idea, it’s a birthright like any Ugandan. Muhoozi is a serving military officer, he serves an institution with a well-defined code of conduct, to refer to him as dull and lifeless because he is not visible on the political platform is like measuring the intelligence of a fish by how fast it can climb a tree.
These are two exclusive entities, it would have been fair to fault General Muhoozi if his abilities in the military are questionable, but to accuse him of not being politically active is a knee jerk reaction. Who knew that Gen Mugisha Muntu would make a fine politician he is today when he was still Army commander? As a pastor, Kabuleta should have read, ECC:3 to realize that time is critical in all that we do. Everything has its time, maybe at an appropriate time, Muhoozi will rise to the occasion and Kabuleta will be his challenger.
Whenever you see people of your generation succeed where you have failed, it is only fair to pick their brains instead of gloating. Kabushenga, Muhoozi, Babu have earned their accolades. Can he tell the world what went wrong in all the places he has worked? If it were that his rants are about politics and the fear that Muhoozi may ascend to power, there was no need to delve in social issues like his birthday jig.
All the other people he has disparaged are in the business world and not politics, does that mean all successful people in the different fields are a replica of Muhoozi? It seems Muhoozi’s undoing is the fact that he is a president’s son, did he have a choice or a hand in who his father would be? It can’t be a crime that he is not a son of Kabuleta’s father, maybe he would have been Kabuleta’s brother and would be wallowing in negative energy as a family enterprise.
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