President Yoweri Museveni once spoke about a very fundamental issue (to the extent that I sometimes wish I would not mention it, because many young people still do not understand the meaning of “deep states”).He said (I quote him as he said):“When the Libya crisis began, the African Union (AU), together with our Chairperson who is here today, this gentleman here, formed a small committee from among ourselves. In fact, we were six members. I was one of them.The African Union gave that committee the mandate to go and seek a solution to the Libya crisis. At that time, I was unable to go, but these distinguished leaders here—this one here (the Chairperson), Jacob Zuma, and others—although I was not physically among them, I instructed my minister to be part of the delegation—boarded a plane and immediately began their journey to Libya to mediate.However, while they were still in the air, they received a communication from NATO instructing them to turn back. Fortunately, the person directly involved in that incident (the Chairperson) is present here. If I am lying, let him say so, because I did not invite him here; he is the one who invited me.African Presidents, on an African mission, on African soil, were ordered by NATO to return to their respective countries, on the grounds that NATO had not granted them permission to land in Libya.In Kiswahili, such an act is called ‘disrespect.’ This was disrespect. Your Presidents—six of them, including the Chairperson of the African Union—were ordered by NATO to return. It was not just one person; because if it had been Museveni alone, you might have had something to say.Six African leaders, distinguished African leaders, were ordered to return immediately to their own territory.As a result, those people did not listen to us, they went ahead and killed Gaddafi, and now look at Libya—it has remained in ruins to this day.”—End of quote.