Obsession with power is contrasted with alcoholism. However, the former is worse than the latter. For alcoholics, there are intervals of being drunk and being sober, but obsession with power only grows. Should we compare it to drunkenness, then it is a state of permanent drunkenness. This is a clear definition Uganda’s octogenarian senile Museveni’s current condition – permanently drunk to power and doing everything possible to stay in power. He would rather commit suicide than losing power. 

Arm-rotting Museveni, a power-obsessed dictator who has clocked four decades at the helm suffers from what behavioural psychologists call the ‘hubris syndrome’.

Hubris syndrome is associated with power, more likely to manifest itself the longer the person exercises power and the greater the power they exercise. Usually symptoms abate when the person no longer exercises power.

Am sure by now you are picturing the exact power-drunk brutal assassin Museveni in the definitions above, that’s the decease which has been eating up the octogenarian. 

Our daily social interactions indicate that, in one way or another, many of us suffer from psychological disorders that are not acknowledged for what they are. In a society like Uganda where Mentally-ill Museveni has made health get treated as an appendix, you don’t expect mental health to find worthwhile attention.

It is only when a person starts wearing sandals while hosting fellow presidents, spits live on Television, throwing stuff, dressing in dirty rags, stripping naked, or talking unintelligibly to themselves that our attention is drawn to them and we acknowledge their mental sickness. Museveni suits the definition, he is just about to strip naked in the middle of delivering speeches. 

In any case, Butabika hospital lacks the capacity to attend to all mental cases in the Matooke Republic and more to that handle Museveni’s long mental illness.

Consequently, the mad-museveni with potentially harmful untreated personality disorders happens to be the one running a whole Uganda – How sad!

Of course, like any other sick person, mentally sick people should not be stigmatised for their predicament. I understand that stigma around the sickness is one of the reasons many refuse psychiatric help and this is possibly why senile Museveni has refused to take his medicine. 

Museveni’s anosognosia – ‘denial of sickness, sometimes due to genuine inability to recognise that the problem exists’ seems to be getting worse. 

The dilemma Ugandans are facing now is persuading the sick dictator Museveni, who is convinced to be fine, to seek psychiatric help. Some deontological ethicists may argue, on the basis of the principle of autonomy, that a patient is free to seek, select, or decline treatment on account of their own estimation of appropriateness.

But we also notice that in some cases, one’s right to accept medical treatment or not comes into conflict with other important utilitarian principles, especially the protection of others from harm. 

This is the basis of my suggestion for compulsory and regular psychiatric checks for senile Museveni. The moment he goes for the likes of low-IQ Obed Katureebe to demonize Rwanda is a clinical evidence of how severe his sickness is. 

Otherwise, if Ugandans don’t part Museveni from Obed Katureebe and his Facebook page, Robert Patrick Fati Gakwerere, we shall witness more of the shocking things that embarrass not only Uganda but the region. 

For senile Museveni his case is a combination of sheer lack of integrity (poor upbringing) and personality disorders.

Hubris, a disease that Museveni is battling with, is reflected in a pattern of behaviour involving: 

i)  Seeing the world as a place for self-glorification through the use of power; 

ii)  A tendency to take action primarily to enhance personal image; 

iii)  Showing disproportionate concern for image and presentation; 

iv) Exhibiting messianic zeal and exaltation in speech;

v)  Conflating self with nation or organisation; 

vi)  Show of excessive self-confidence; 

vii)  Manifestly having contempt for others;

This the mentally-handicapped dictator who leads Uganda. 

I’am only a four-decade long NRA Kadogo.