If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door...

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Just like Yoweri Museveni says “Power is never given, it is taken”, we sometimes miss to seize opportunities even when they buzz past our eyes. Did we perhaps miss the moment we were offered to, once and for all, rein in rogue preachers and quasi-religious outfits? We accept that Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab and Boko Haram misinterpret the pure words of Allah and His Prophet, radicalise and slaughter innocents in the name of God. But we turn a blind eye (no pun intended) and are tone deaf to the belligerence, unmitigated greed and daylight theft perpetrated daily in the name of the same God.

Granted, that the political class conveniently forgot about certain minimum qualifications for one to become a cleric when they needed prayers, but got scared when the preachers threatened to lynch them at the ballot box, and made a hasty retreat.