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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa
When the boot of government is on your neck,it doesn't matter if it's left or right. Today is Buganda and Besigye, tomorrow is some one else.
Thursday 30 June 2011
LIBYAN REBELS VOW TO HELP DEPOSE MUSEVENI FOR SABOTAGING THEIR CAUSE
A senior official of The Libyan Interim National Council has warned African leaders who are frustrating their efforts to liberate their country that those countries shall face heavy repercussions in the near future.Talking to AL Arabiya TV, the head of the military affairs of the transition OMAR AL-HARIRI singled out Ugandan President YOWERI MUSEVENI for being the brain behind the African Union disguised attemps to retain Gaddaffi in Power.Mr. Al-Hariri warned that those countries that had made finacial committments with the Gadaffi regime must be prepared to surrender such economic interest that he said were the property of Libyan people.Asked if he would help see some of these leaders be deposed like Gadaffi, Omar siad that he could not rule out helping to depose such bad leaders from wielding power on the African continent.
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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa
When the boot of government is on your neck,it doesn't matter if it's left or right. Today is Buganda and Besigye, tomorrow is some one else.
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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa
When the boot of government is on your neck,it doesn't matter if it's left or right. Today is Buganda and Besigye, tomorrow is some one else.
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The roles and potentials of renewable energy in less-developed economies
Increasing the renewable energy share in national energy mix remains one of the major energy policy goals across many economies. This paper assesses the roles and potentials of renewable energy sources in less-developed economies while citing Nepal as an example. Renewable energy has a significant role to play in the electrification of rural areas in developing economies and contribute towards sustainable development. Realizing full potentials of renewable, however, requires addressing both the associated demand-side and supply–side constraints. Innovative subsidies and tax incentives, adequate entrepreneurial support, strengthening institutional arrangement and promoting local community-based organizations such as the cooperatives are the necessary factors in promoting the green technologies in countries like Nepal. International factors such as large scale investment and adequate technology transfer are equally crucial to create a rapid spread and increase affordability of decentralized renewable energy technologies in less-developed economies.
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Principal characteristics of Bahororo people
A teacher determines the popularity of a topic by the number of questions asked, comments made and clarifications sought during and after the class. I have written over four hundred articles on Uganda and other states in the Great Lakes region. The article on Bahororo has been the most popular in terms of questions asked, clarifications sought and comments made. Some readers including Ahmed Katerega have asked me to write more on the subject. My focus has been and hopefully will continue to be about the behavior and not the individuals as such. Since Bahororo have been in power for 25 years try and compare what I am writing with what you are observing on the ground and let us compare notes as and when appropriate. I come from Rujumbura where Bantu/Bairu people have interacted with Nilotic Bahororo people for 210 years – since 1800.
Let me make one clarification at this juncture. Not all people of Rujumbura County are Bahororo. This Bahororo designation was a colonial administrative convenience as there were many tribal designations. Since the chief at that time was a Muhororo (Makobore), he just told British officials that all his subjects were Bahororo. This designation has remained in force since independence because Bahororo have remained in charge and are not keen to change it. On the contrary they are keen to retain it as restoration of Mpororo kingdom has resurfaced. Accordingly even Bakiga people who arrived in Rujumbura since the 1950s are officially referred to as Bahororo {The Report of the Uganda Constitutional Commission: Analysis and Recommendations on page 72 1993} which has caused a lot of confusion. In Bufumbira the colonial designation of Banyarwanda was changed to Bafumbira). Here are some principal characteristics of Bahororo people.
1. Bahororo people are Nilotic Batutsi from Rwanda who fled to Rujumbura about 90 years after the short-lived Mpororo kingdom (covering northern Rwanda and southwest Uganda mostly in present-day Ntungamo district) had collapsed and Bahima under Bahinda ruling clan drove them out. The people in the areas occupied by Bahima became Bairu (not Bahororo as some people have continued to claim {Jean-Pierre Chretien 2006}). Thus, Bahororo behavior is similar to that of Batutsi in Rwanda which was feudal, based on lords and serfs (masters and servants).
2. Bahororo people stick together wherever they are in Rwanda or Uganda etc. Kagame (rumored to be a Muhororo) and other Bahororo refugees (when Mpororo kingdom disintegrated some Bahororo returned to Rwanda) supported Museveni during the guerrilla war. Museveni in turn supported Bahororo refugees and other Rwandese to return to Rwanda by force in 1994.
3. Bahororo have maintained their Nilotic ethnic identity (their ancestors who were Nilotic Luo-speakers entered Uganda from southern Sudan) by men marrying only in their ethnic group because they do not want to be penetrated and their secrets about dominating others revealed. However, they let their women largely from lower social classes marry prominent non-Bahororo men. The main purpose of such marriages is political (disguised as love) to penetrate these men and discover what they are plotting against Bahororo domination. To achieve this goal any non-Muhororo man who marries a Muhororo woman must forsake his ancestral roots and become ‘tutsified’ while at the same time he is not allowed in the inner circles of Bahororo. The in-laws are there basically to do work that Bahororo men do not like to do but take credit when good results are realized.
4. With help of historians, Museveni has identified all Bahororo wherever they are located – in or outside Uganda. Because Bahororo adopt local names and local languages it is difficult to know them. When Museveni makes appointments from say eastern, northern or Buganda regions he may actually be appointing Bahororo or Batutsi who register as Baganda, Itesot, Banyankole or Langi. That is why it is important in the interest of national security to know the history of Ugandans holding important jobs especially in strategic or sensitive ministries, other public institutions and private sector.
5. Bahororo believe very strongly in the use of political and military force in collaboration with foreign powers. In Rujumbura Makobore collaborated with Arab slave traders who used European weapons to defeat Makobore’s enemies. In return Makobore captured defeated people and sold them into slavery ( Bethwell A. Ogot 1976). In Ankole Nuwa Mbaguta collaborated with British colonial officials who in turn appointed him the first Enganzi (prime minister) over the objections of Omugabe (king) Kahaya. Prince Igumira of Bahinda clan who was the leader but considered not as collaborative as Mbaguta was exiled to Kisumu in Kenya to remove trouble for Mbaguta. As we all know, Museveni has worked closely with western powers since the guerrilla war.
6. Bahororo will be your ‘friends’ provided you remain subservient and do their dirty work. The moment you challenge them for leadership positions at any level you will be destroyed in no time if you are slow to react. They believe in solving a problem first and deal with consequences later. When Bahororo bring you back after you have gone on your knees and begged them, then you must clearly understand your subservient position in relation to them. Bahororo do not have a ‘win-win’ concept, theirs is a zero-sum game. Museveni formed a government of national unity at the start of his presidency because he did not have a good base. Once he consolidated, he disbanded the unity government.
7. Bahororo are extremely good at making promises but equally extremely good at breaking them or twisting them that they lose the original meaning. Baganda and Catholics that negotiated with Museveni during the bush war should let us know whether or not Museveni has implemented in full what was promised.
8. Bahororo are very good at dividing up people and planting spies at family, tribe and ethnic levels etc. When Bahororo have a grievance against you, they will never attack you directly. Instead they will find a brother or in-law or neighbor to do a thorough job for them. They can create outrageous accusations to discredit you and sell them to their representatives who will hound you until you submit, leave the area or fight back like all brave people do.
9. Bahororo still believe they have the power to punish you even for the simplest human mistake you make when they feel like it. Thus canning workers or abusing them in public is common.
10. Therefore, people like Bahororo who use fire have to be fought with fire. Bahororo have figured it out that Ugandans are generally peace-loving people and do not like conflicts. That is why Bahororo have perfected the instruments of intimidation, repression and torture. That is why whenever Museveni senses a challenge he wears his military uniform and make his eyes protrude to scare the audience because he knows that Ugandans are afraid of soldiers. To beat Museveni you have to put on some form of military uniform (not these democratic elections!) then he will know that he is confronting someone who can actually defeat him. We have to learn to sacrifice in order to be respected by Bahororo – men and women! If we are not prepared for that, then we should not complain when Museveni declares Uganda a kingdom with himself as the first hereditary Muhororo king or when he incorporates Uganda into a Tutsi Empire he is vigorously pursuing or when he forces us into the East African political federation and Uganda is flooded by East Africans mostly from Rwanda taking land at our children’s expense. Now that you know the choice is yours!
ERIC KASHAMBUZI
UAH Forumist
Let me make one clarification at this juncture. Not all people of Rujumbura County are Bahororo. This Bahororo designation was a colonial administrative convenience as there were many tribal designations. Since the chief at that time was a Muhororo (Makobore), he just told British officials that all his subjects were Bahororo. This designation has remained in force since independence because Bahororo have remained in charge and are not keen to change it. On the contrary they are keen to retain it as restoration of Mpororo kingdom has resurfaced. Accordingly even Bakiga people who arrived in Rujumbura since the 1950s are officially referred to as Bahororo {The Report of the Uganda Constitutional Commission: Analysis and Recommendations on page 72 1993} which has caused a lot of confusion. In Bufumbira the colonial designation of Banyarwanda was changed to Bafumbira). Here are some principal characteristics of Bahororo people.
1. Bahororo people are Nilotic Batutsi from Rwanda who fled to Rujumbura about 90 years after the short-lived Mpororo kingdom (covering northern Rwanda and southwest Uganda mostly in present-day Ntungamo district) had collapsed and Bahima under Bahinda ruling clan drove them out. The people in the areas occupied by Bahima became Bairu (not Bahororo as some people have continued to claim {Jean-Pierre Chretien 2006}). Thus, Bahororo behavior is similar to that of Batutsi in Rwanda which was feudal, based on lords and serfs (masters and servants).
2. Bahororo people stick together wherever they are in Rwanda or Uganda etc. Kagame (rumored to be a Muhororo) and other Bahororo refugees (when Mpororo kingdom disintegrated some Bahororo returned to Rwanda) supported Museveni during the guerrilla war. Museveni in turn supported Bahororo refugees and other Rwandese to return to Rwanda by force in 1994.
3. Bahororo have maintained their Nilotic ethnic identity (their ancestors who were Nilotic Luo-speakers entered Uganda from southern Sudan) by men marrying only in their ethnic group because they do not want to be penetrated and their secrets about dominating others revealed. However, they let their women largely from lower social classes marry prominent non-Bahororo men. The main purpose of such marriages is political (disguised as love) to penetrate these men and discover what they are plotting against Bahororo domination. To achieve this goal any non-Muhororo man who marries a Muhororo woman must forsake his ancestral roots and become ‘tutsified’ while at the same time he is not allowed in the inner circles of Bahororo. The in-laws are there basically to do work that Bahororo men do not like to do but take credit when good results are realized.
4. With help of historians, Museveni has identified all Bahororo wherever they are located – in or outside Uganda. Because Bahororo adopt local names and local languages it is difficult to know them. When Museveni makes appointments from say eastern, northern or Buganda regions he may actually be appointing Bahororo or Batutsi who register as Baganda, Itesot, Banyankole or Langi. That is why it is important in the interest of national security to know the history of Ugandans holding important jobs especially in strategic or sensitive ministries, other public institutions and private sector.
5. Bahororo believe very strongly in the use of political and military force in collaboration with foreign powers. In Rujumbura Makobore collaborated with Arab slave traders who used European weapons to defeat Makobore’s enemies. In return Makobore captured defeated people and sold them into slavery ( Bethwell A. Ogot 1976). In Ankole Nuwa Mbaguta collaborated with British colonial officials who in turn appointed him the first Enganzi (prime minister) over the objections of Omugabe (king) Kahaya. Prince Igumira of Bahinda clan who was the leader but considered not as collaborative as Mbaguta was exiled to Kisumu in Kenya to remove trouble for Mbaguta. As we all know, Museveni has worked closely with western powers since the guerrilla war.
6. Bahororo will be your ‘friends’ provided you remain subservient and do their dirty work. The moment you challenge them for leadership positions at any level you will be destroyed in no time if you are slow to react. They believe in solving a problem first and deal with consequences later. When Bahororo bring you back after you have gone on your knees and begged them, then you must clearly understand your subservient position in relation to them. Bahororo do not have a ‘win-win’ concept, theirs is a zero-sum game. Museveni formed a government of national unity at the start of his presidency because he did not have a good base. Once he consolidated, he disbanded the unity government.
7. Bahororo are extremely good at making promises but equally extremely good at breaking them or twisting them that they lose the original meaning. Baganda and Catholics that negotiated with Museveni during the bush war should let us know whether or not Museveni has implemented in full what was promised.
8. Bahororo are very good at dividing up people and planting spies at family, tribe and ethnic levels etc. When Bahororo have a grievance against you, they will never attack you directly. Instead they will find a brother or in-law or neighbor to do a thorough job for them. They can create outrageous accusations to discredit you and sell them to their representatives who will hound you until you submit, leave the area or fight back like all brave people do.
9. Bahororo still believe they have the power to punish you even for the simplest human mistake you make when they feel like it. Thus canning workers or abusing them in public is common.
10. Therefore, people like Bahororo who use fire have to be fought with fire. Bahororo have figured it out that Ugandans are generally peace-loving people and do not like conflicts. That is why Bahororo have perfected the instruments of intimidation, repression and torture. That is why whenever Museveni senses a challenge he wears his military uniform and make his eyes protrude to scare the audience because he knows that Ugandans are afraid of soldiers. To beat Museveni you have to put on some form of military uniform (not these democratic elections!) then he will know that he is confronting someone who can actually defeat him. We have to learn to sacrifice in order to be respected by Bahororo – men and women! If we are not prepared for that, then we should not complain when Museveni declares Uganda a kingdom with himself as the first hereditary Muhororo king or when he incorporates Uganda into a Tutsi Empire he is vigorously pursuing or when he forces us into the East African political federation and Uganda is flooded by East Africans mostly from Rwanda taking land at our children’s expense. Now that you know the choice is yours!
ERIC KASHAMBUZI
UAH Forumist
Nina Mbabazi defends his father’s Oil Involvement
I am not sure whether this debate is making sense but from my perspective; The chronology of events were as follows;
NRM supporter at UAH
- Tullow oil entered Ugandan oil scene and is represented by Elly Karuhanga
- Heritage oil entered Ugandan oil scene and I have no clue who their Ugandan representive is.
- Heritage signed a contract with Tullow to give Tullow first option to buy their oil fields if they had problems which they eventually had having failed to raise the money to continue past oil exploration.
- Heritage offers their oil fields to Tullow who give a very low bid according to them.
- Heritage oil offered their oil fields to many buyers of which two of them where Quaddafi and ENI
- M7 directly negotiated with ENI to come to Uganda to continue where Heritage left off.
- ENI offered Heritage a higher bid than Tullow and Heritage asked Tullow to match.
- ENI is Italian but their procurement manager at that time was Jeff Kamuntu.
- Tullow went to London and tried to get British newspapers to write about corruption in oil because of the entry of ENI. Some papers did oblige.
- ENI came to Uganda and M7 hosted them and they had discussions at State House which I am not privy to but Amama Mbabazi was in the meeting. He makes mention of it in his press release
- Tullow through Elly Karuhanga flew to CHOGM in Trinidad and Tobago in November 2009 and secured an appointment with assistance from Hon Kutesa to meet the President and present their case.
- Elly Karuhanga ranted about Mbabazi having recieved a bribe from ENI and was trying to secure the oil fields for himself to which the President responded, that Mbabazi had nothing to do with ENI. It was he who had invited them.
- Elly Karuhanga having failed to get rid of ENI then embarked on a donor campaign with Tullow to discredit Amama Mbabazi and blackmail the donors on oil. Through all of this, Hillary Onek is being harrassed by many people to sign deals which he refuses. One of the people allegedly pressuring him is his own PS Kabagambe. Onek has a degree in this field and so knows his stuff.
- Enter a fourth company (Nigerian) which URA absolutely had no interest in even doing a background check. The Nigerians allege that they had connections high up but it didn’t work.
- ENI is called by the Tullow Ugandan shareholders and asked to offer them a stake if they are to work.
- ENI refuses as they felt that they needed nobody since they were invited by the President and therefore need not bribe anyone.
- ENI weighs the political risk of working in Uganda and opts out.
- Uganda government embarks on finding serious people who want to refine oil in Uganda not in Kenya as Tullow was suggesting
- President meets CNOOC the Chinese oil and gas company and invites them to Uganda.
- Tullow is given a tax schedule by URA which they refuse to pay
- M7 says he has had enough of people who don’t pay and insists that if they don’t pay they can leave.
- CNOOC pays the guarantee that government requires to the Ministry of Finance
- Tullow, CNOOC and Total enter into partnership
NRM supporter at UAH
Britain put Museveni into power, it must take him out
Britain through its citizens put Museveni into power. Tiny Rowlands funded the guerrilla war and facilitated Museveni’s travel. William Pike has led the media and publicity work for Museveni since the guerrilla war days. Linda Chalker a trusted former minister in Thatcher’s government was the first foreign dignitary to meet Museveni as president and has remained a very close adviser since then.
Paul Collier has been the chief foreign macroeconomist that constructed structural adjustment program (SAP) based on Thatcherism – get socialism and state out of Uganda’s economy; focus on inflation at the expense of employment; discipline trade unions and facilitate labor flexibility to hire and fire at will and pay low wages; and privatize all public enterprises so that laissez faire capitalism and invisible hand of market forces drive Uganda’s economy and society. Structural adjustment program has been implemented by British economists in the powerful ministry of finance and central Bank. The Department for International Development (DFID) has also been active in Uganda’s economy.
Museveni came into power during the Conservative government. The Labor government extended support. “The new British Labor government has decided that it ‘will not press for multiparty reform in Uganda’”(Journal of Democracy April 1998). With this blessing, Museveni ruled the country his corrupt and sectarian ways and destroyed opposition parties so that by the time multiparty politics was allowed he had consolidated his hold on power militarily, economically and politically.
Museveni was imposed on Ugandans by western powers led by British interests during the Conservative government in Britain. Ugandans have never liked Museveni and that is why he has rigged every election since 1996. The Conservative government in Britain should take Museveni out of power in order to maintain good relations between the two countries and the two peoples. Museveni has turned out to be the worst leader in Uganda since 1894 for the following illustrative reasons.
1. Museveni has destroyed the good work that British colonial government left behind at independence in 1962. Britain decided – thanks to the tireless work of S. Simpson, Director of Agriculture from 1911 to 1929 – to keep Uganda land for Uganda peasants and native agriculture. Museveni is dishing out Uganda land to foreigners and enticing peasants to abandon agriculture and drift into urban areas where they will get worse off. British authorities developed fisheries for the sole purpose of providing affordable source of protein to low income Uganda families.
Museveni has turned fisheries into an export commodity to earn foreign currency for the rich thereby depriving Ugandans a valuable source of protein which has resulted in serious under-nutrition. Britain started industries to transform Uganda’s economic structure; add value to Uganda commodities and provide jobs. Museveni through a reckless policy of trade liberalization is killing the industries. For example cheap imports including used clothes and powdered milk have destroyed textile and dairy industries as well as forward and backward economic and social linkages. British colonial policies protected the environment in rural and urban areas. Wetlands/swamps, steep slopes and water catchment areas were protected to minimize soil erosion and water runoff and to keep local climates from getting warmer, among other things. Nobody was allowed to build in drainage channels in urban area to avoid floods. Museveni has changed all these arrangements. Wetlands have been drained and steep slopes opened up to development. The result is urban flooding especially in Kampala and environmental degradation throughout the country. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that if corrective measures are not taken immediately, Uganda could become a desert within 100 years. No concrete action has been taken yet. And construction has continued in Kampala’s drainage channels as if Museveni has not seen the floods.
2. In the mistaken belief that if you divide up the country into tiny units (so-called decentralization) you will automatically improve delivery of services Museveni has divided the country into over 100 economically unviable districts along almost tribal lines. As a result Uganda is more divided than at any time in its history and economically the districts are regressing because they lack adequate funds and qualified human capacity.
3. The quality of education and healthcare built during the 1960s has been destroyed by Museveni government. Consequently, Uganda has produced mostly functionally illiterate graduates at all levels that are unemployable. As a result, skilled jobs are being taken by foreigners. Poor health care has resulted in rising infant mortality (a measure of a country’s standard of living) and maternal mortality.
4. Reckless encouragement of food exports at the expense of food for domestic consumption has resulted in some 10 million Ugandans going to bed hungry or eating non-nutritious cassava and maize/corn. Eating too much cassava and corn without adequate nutrient supplements has resulted in mental abnormalities including insanity. Under-nourished women are producing many underweight infants with permanent physical and mental disabilities. Children are dropping out of school in large part because they are hungry in a country that produces surplus food that is sold on international markets to earn foreign currency to cater to the needs of the rich.
5. Focusing on inflation control has resulted in high interest rates (to reduce money in circulation) that have discouraged borrowing and investment in labor intensive activities by small and medium enterprises. Consequently over 80 percent of Uganda’s youth are unemployed.
6. The economic growth and trickle down mechanism model has failed to distribute the benefits of economic growth averaging 6 percent per annum. Accordingly 20 percent in the top income bracket earn over 50 percent of Uganda’s income while 20 percent of Ugandans have got poorer. Consequently Uganda has not attained the general standard of living enjoyed in 1970. The diseases of poverty such as jiggers, scabies, trachoma, pneumonia, malaria and under-nutrition are spreading rapidly to all parts of the country. Because of these adverse developments, Uganda was not able to present a national MDGs report at the MDGs Summit of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2010 and President Museveni skipped the MDGs Summit.
7. Museveni has increasingly become autocratic governing Uganda at gun point and presiding over a failed state. These conclusions have been arrived at through careful assessment of Uganda’s political economy since 1986 when Museveni became president with a helping hand from Britain. Museveni has been described in a credible international magazine as one of the worst dictators.
For these reasons, Museveni must go and Britain should help him exit Uganda’s presidency in early 2011 since it helped him enter into it.
Eric Kashambuzi
UAH forumist in New York
Paul Collier has been the chief foreign macroeconomist that constructed structural adjustment program (SAP) based on Thatcherism – get socialism and state out of Uganda’s economy; focus on inflation at the expense of employment; discipline trade unions and facilitate labor flexibility to hire and fire at will and pay low wages; and privatize all public enterprises so that laissez faire capitalism and invisible hand of market forces drive Uganda’s economy and society. Structural adjustment program has been implemented by British economists in the powerful ministry of finance and central Bank. The Department for International Development (DFID) has also been active in Uganda’s economy.
Museveni came into power during the Conservative government. The Labor government extended support. “The new British Labor government has decided that it ‘will not press for multiparty reform in Uganda’”(Journal of Democracy April 1998). With this blessing, Museveni ruled the country his corrupt and sectarian ways and destroyed opposition parties so that by the time multiparty politics was allowed he had consolidated his hold on power militarily, economically and politically.
Museveni was imposed on Ugandans by western powers led by British interests during the Conservative government in Britain. Ugandans have never liked Museveni and that is why he has rigged every election since 1996. The Conservative government in Britain should take Museveni out of power in order to maintain good relations between the two countries and the two peoples. Museveni has turned out to be the worst leader in Uganda since 1894 for the following illustrative reasons.
1. Museveni has destroyed the good work that British colonial government left behind at independence in 1962. Britain decided – thanks to the tireless work of S. Simpson, Director of Agriculture from 1911 to 1929 – to keep Uganda land for Uganda peasants and native agriculture. Museveni is dishing out Uganda land to foreigners and enticing peasants to abandon agriculture and drift into urban areas where they will get worse off. British authorities developed fisheries for the sole purpose of providing affordable source of protein to low income Uganda families.
Museveni has turned fisheries into an export commodity to earn foreign currency for the rich thereby depriving Ugandans a valuable source of protein which has resulted in serious under-nutrition. Britain started industries to transform Uganda’s economic structure; add value to Uganda commodities and provide jobs. Museveni through a reckless policy of trade liberalization is killing the industries. For example cheap imports including used clothes and powdered milk have destroyed textile and dairy industries as well as forward and backward economic and social linkages. British colonial policies protected the environment in rural and urban areas. Wetlands/swamps, steep slopes and water catchment areas were protected to minimize soil erosion and water runoff and to keep local climates from getting warmer, among other things. Nobody was allowed to build in drainage channels in urban area to avoid floods. Museveni has changed all these arrangements. Wetlands have been drained and steep slopes opened up to development. The result is urban flooding especially in Kampala and environmental degradation throughout the country. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that if corrective measures are not taken immediately, Uganda could become a desert within 100 years. No concrete action has been taken yet. And construction has continued in Kampala’s drainage channels as if Museveni has not seen the floods.
2. In the mistaken belief that if you divide up the country into tiny units (so-called decentralization) you will automatically improve delivery of services Museveni has divided the country into over 100 economically unviable districts along almost tribal lines. As a result Uganda is more divided than at any time in its history and economically the districts are regressing because they lack adequate funds and qualified human capacity.
3. The quality of education and healthcare built during the 1960s has been destroyed by Museveni government. Consequently, Uganda has produced mostly functionally illiterate graduates at all levels that are unemployable. As a result, skilled jobs are being taken by foreigners. Poor health care has resulted in rising infant mortality (a measure of a country’s standard of living) and maternal mortality.
4. Reckless encouragement of food exports at the expense of food for domestic consumption has resulted in some 10 million Ugandans going to bed hungry or eating non-nutritious cassava and maize/corn. Eating too much cassava and corn without adequate nutrient supplements has resulted in mental abnormalities including insanity. Under-nourished women are producing many underweight infants with permanent physical and mental disabilities. Children are dropping out of school in large part because they are hungry in a country that produces surplus food that is sold on international markets to earn foreign currency to cater to the needs of the rich.
5. Focusing on inflation control has resulted in high interest rates (to reduce money in circulation) that have discouraged borrowing and investment in labor intensive activities by small and medium enterprises. Consequently over 80 percent of Uganda’s youth are unemployed.
6. The economic growth and trickle down mechanism model has failed to distribute the benefits of economic growth averaging 6 percent per annum. Accordingly 20 percent in the top income bracket earn over 50 percent of Uganda’s income while 20 percent of Ugandans have got poorer. Consequently Uganda has not attained the general standard of living enjoyed in 1970. The diseases of poverty such as jiggers, scabies, trachoma, pneumonia, malaria and under-nutrition are spreading rapidly to all parts of the country. Because of these adverse developments, Uganda was not able to present a national MDGs report at the MDGs Summit of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2010 and President Museveni skipped the MDGs Summit.
7. Museveni has increasingly become autocratic governing Uganda at gun point and presiding over a failed state. These conclusions have been arrived at through careful assessment of Uganda’s political economy since 1986 when Museveni became president with a helping hand from Britain. Museveni has been described in a credible international magazine as one of the worst dictators.
For these reasons, Museveni must go and Britain should help him exit Uganda’s presidency in early 2011 since it helped him enter into it.
Eric Kashambuzi
UAH forumist in New York
How do you deal with Museveni who thinks he owns Uganda?
In his heart and mind, Museveni is convinced that he fought a five year guerrilla war and captured power. He used that power to purchase Uganda, the people and developments on it. His behavior is likened to someone who works for five years, earns an income that he uses to purchase a piece of land with a free hold title. That land becomes his property permanently and he does what he wants with it and the people settled as well as developments on it. He consults when he wants but the final decision is his. Those members of the family and relatives that have different ideas are either marginalized or thrown out. Finally he decides who should succeed him. Museveni’s conviction that he owns Uganda and everything on it can be deduced from his utterances such as he killed an animal and will not let someone else feast on the meat; he found oil (the oil exploration began during Obote II government in 1985) and none will benefit from it except him, his family, relatives and friends. He has also said that a revolutionary cannot be chased out of the house like a chicken thief.
When he came to power he decided that those in exile except a few relatives and friends should stay there, work hard and remit earnings to help in Uganda’s development. He has since encouraged those Ugandans at home that can compete on the international labor market to work outside Uganda. This decision has created a shortage of skills that has necessitated hiring very expensive (largely ignorant about Uganda’s history and culture) expatriates to fill the gap. Consequently, Uganda has become a destination of foreign workers from many parts of the world.
The hiring, promotions and assignment of Ugandans are done apparently on individual merit which has turned out to be a method for hiring Museveni’s family members, relatives, in-laws and friends or those that can advance Museveni’s personal interests – with very little, if at all, relevance to education and experience.
Museveni (who is government) unlike any other leader in the world – past and present – decided to privatize Uganda’s economy and hand it over to foreigners including British Asians who repossessed their assets acquired during colonial days. He de-nationalized enterprises and handed them back to former colonial owners turning Uganda into a British neo-colony. He rejected advice to undertake a comprehensive assessment of public enterprises before deciding which ones to privatize, eliminate or retain. This quotation summarizes the rush:
“It has been decided [by the country’s owner] to begin divestment immediately, and to deal with any problems as they arise, rather than to delay the privatization program until all the constraints have been resolved. Privatization in Uganda has come to stay”(V. V. Ramanadham 1993).
Museveni has decided he has no money for primary school lunch but he has enough funds to help with funeral expenses. What a way to set priorities! No wonder Ugandans think Museveni is a foreigner because a true Ugandan would not come up with an idea like this, at least not so directly.
Museveni has decided he wants to divide the country into districts beyond recognition. In 1967 Uganda had 18 districts. Amin increased them to 38. Museveni has so far created over one hundred and he is promising more after the election. He knows he will be re-elected at gun point if need be because none can take over his territory unless he says so.
Museveni is pushing Uganda into the East African economic integration and political federation because it will contribute to the realization of his Tutsi empire dream (ultimately to cover Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and DRC as he announced in 1997). Therefore he does not care how the rest of Ugandans feel. He is openly preparing his son to succeed him when he becomes head of the federation government planned for 2012.
He has built a powerful security system (defense, police and intelligence) to hunt down and crush any dissent. What is even more disturbing is that the donors are going along. They just make announcements of disapproval that have no enforcement mechanism.
During the preparation for this month’s presidential, parliamentary and local elections Museveni has used huge funds (the government has announced it is broke), state infrastructure and institutions including security forces to his advantage. We have a voter register with more registered voters in excess of those eligible to vote. The campaign is taking place in a playing field that has disproportionately advantaged Museveni and his NRM.
Clearly, the use of democratic means has not worked to unseat Museveni. When you consider a clean voter register and a level playing field as pillars of free and fair elections you can conclude that February 18, 2011 elections have already been rigged by Museveni and his team. According to reports, Museveni agents are busy buying voters. His electoral commission (Museveni refused an independent commission) compiled a voters’ register that has more voters than those eligible to vote.
We are appealing to the international observers to base their recommendations on the entire electoral process from voter registration, to campaigning to casting and counting ballots and to the announcement of results. The yardstick for assessing and announcing results should be ‘free and fair elections’ and not on such expressions as ‘given the prevailing circumstances’. Since the 1980 elections all international observer announcements have been based on ‘given the prevailing circumstances’ not on ‘free and fair elections’. This ‘prevailing circumstances’ yardstick has favored the party in power, undermining the credibility and impartiality of observers.
Appealing to the Supreme Court will be a waste of time given its record of reaching a decision on election results. If this election turns out to be another sham, Ugandans should think seriously about the value of holding elections every five years because they have legitimized illegal regimes.
ERIC KASHAMBUZI
When he came to power he decided that those in exile except a few relatives and friends should stay there, work hard and remit earnings to help in Uganda’s development. He has since encouraged those Ugandans at home that can compete on the international labor market to work outside Uganda. This decision has created a shortage of skills that has necessitated hiring very expensive (largely ignorant about Uganda’s history and culture) expatriates to fill the gap. Consequently, Uganda has become a destination of foreign workers from many parts of the world.
The hiring, promotions and assignment of Ugandans are done apparently on individual merit which has turned out to be a method for hiring Museveni’s family members, relatives, in-laws and friends or those that can advance Museveni’s personal interests – with very little, if at all, relevance to education and experience.
Museveni (who is government) unlike any other leader in the world – past and present – decided to privatize Uganda’s economy and hand it over to foreigners including British Asians who repossessed their assets acquired during colonial days. He de-nationalized enterprises and handed them back to former colonial owners turning Uganda into a British neo-colony. He rejected advice to undertake a comprehensive assessment of public enterprises before deciding which ones to privatize, eliminate or retain. This quotation summarizes the rush:
“It has been decided [by the country’s owner] to begin divestment immediately, and to deal with any problems as they arise, rather than to delay the privatization program until all the constraints have been resolved. Privatization in Uganda has come to stay”(V. V. Ramanadham 1993).
Museveni has decided he has no money for primary school lunch but he has enough funds to help with funeral expenses. What a way to set priorities! No wonder Ugandans think Museveni is a foreigner because a true Ugandan would not come up with an idea like this, at least not so directly.
Museveni has decided he wants to divide the country into districts beyond recognition. In 1967 Uganda had 18 districts. Amin increased them to 38. Museveni has so far created over one hundred and he is promising more after the election. He knows he will be re-elected at gun point if need be because none can take over his territory unless he says so.
Museveni is pushing Uganda into the East African economic integration and political federation because it will contribute to the realization of his Tutsi empire dream (ultimately to cover Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and DRC as he announced in 1997). Therefore he does not care how the rest of Ugandans feel. He is openly preparing his son to succeed him when he becomes head of the federation government planned for 2012.
He has built a powerful security system (defense, police and intelligence) to hunt down and crush any dissent. What is even more disturbing is that the donors are going along. They just make announcements of disapproval that have no enforcement mechanism.
During the preparation for this month’s presidential, parliamentary and local elections Museveni has used huge funds (the government has announced it is broke), state infrastructure and institutions including security forces to his advantage. We have a voter register with more registered voters in excess of those eligible to vote. The campaign is taking place in a playing field that has disproportionately advantaged Museveni and his NRM.
Clearly, the use of democratic means has not worked to unseat Museveni. When you consider a clean voter register and a level playing field as pillars of free and fair elections you can conclude that February 18, 2011 elections have already been rigged by Museveni and his team. According to reports, Museveni agents are busy buying voters. His electoral commission (Museveni refused an independent commission) compiled a voters’ register that has more voters than those eligible to vote.
We are appealing to the international observers to base their recommendations on the entire electoral process from voter registration, to campaigning to casting and counting ballots and to the announcement of results. The yardstick for assessing and announcing results should be ‘free and fair elections’ and not on such expressions as ‘given the prevailing circumstances’. Since the 1980 elections all international observer announcements have been based on ‘given the prevailing circumstances’ not on ‘free and fair elections’. This ‘prevailing circumstances’ yardstick has favored the party in power, undermining the credibility and impartiality of observers.
Appealing to the Supreme Court will be a waste of time given its record of reaching a decision on election results. If this election turns out to be another sham, Ugandans should think seriously about the value of holding elections every five years because they have legitimized illegal regimes.
ERIC KASHAMBUZI
THE USE OF THE GUN IS A THING OF THE PAST IN REMOVING DICTATORIAL REGIMES
In recent years various dictatorships have collapsed or stumbled when confronted by defiant, mobilised people. Often seen as firmly entrenched and impregnable, some of these dictatorships proved unable to withstand the concerted political, economic and social defiance of the people.
Since 1980 dictatorships have collapsed before the predominantly nonviolent defiance of people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Slovenia, Mali, Bolivia, Egypt and Tunisia.
The population has often been atomised unable to work together to achieve freedom hence a weak population lacking self confidence and incapable of resistance. People are often too terrified to think seriously of public resistance. In any case, what would be the use? Instead they face suffering without purpose and a future without hope.
What is to be done in such circumstances? The obvious possibilities seem useless. Constitutional and legal barriers, judicial decisions and public opinion are normally ignored by dictators. Understandably reacting to the brutalities, torture, disappearances and killings, people often have concluded that only violence can end a dictatorship. Angry victims have sometimes organised to fight the brutal dictators with whatever violent and military capacity they could muster, despite the odds being against them. These people have fought bravely at great cost in suffering and lives. Their accomplishments have sometimes been remarkable, but they rarely have won freedom. Violent rebellions can trigger brutal repression that frequently leaves the populace more helpless than before.
Whatever the merits of the violent option, however one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. The dictators are equipped to apply violence overwhelmingly. The dictators almost always have superiority in military hardware, ammunition, transportation and the size of military forces.
When conventional military rebellion is recognized as unrealistic, some dissidents then favour guerrilla warfare. However, guerrilla warfare rarely if ever benefits the oppressed population. Guerrilla warfare is no obvious solution particularly given the very strong tendency toward immense casualties among one’s people. Guerrilla struggles often last a very long time. Civilian populations are often displaced by the ruling government with immense human suffering and social dislocation. If the guerrillas finally succeed, the resulting regime is often more dictatorial than its predecessor due to the centralising impact of the expanded military forces and the weakening or destruction of the society’s independent groups and institutions during the struggle.
Coup d’etat against a dictatorship might appear to be relatively one of the easiest and quickest ways to remove a particular repugnant regime. Most importantly it leaves in place the existing mal-distribution of power between the population and the elite in control of the government and its military forces.
The answer lies in one fact. It is no use relying on the Government………You must only rely upon your own determination…Help yourselves by standing together…strengthen those amongst yourselves who are weak….band yourselves together, organise yourselves……..and you must win…
Against a strong self-reliant force disciplined, and courageous the dictatorship will eventually crumble.
THE “MONKEY MASTER” FABLE
A fourteenth century Chinese parable by Liu-ji, outlines this neglected understanding of political power:
In the feudal state of Chu an old man survived by keeping monkeys in his service. The people of Chu called him “ju gong” (monkey master).
Each morning, the old man would assemble the monkeys in his courtyard, and order the eldest one to lead the others to the mountains to gather fruits from bushes and trees. It was the rule that each monkey had to give one-tenth of his collection to the old man. Those who failed to do so would be ruthlessly flogged. All the monkeys suffered bitterly but dared not complain. One day, a small monkey asked the other monkeys: “Did the old man plant all the fruits and bushes?” The others said: “No, they grew naturally.” The small monkey further asked: “Can’t we take the fruits without the old man’s permission?” The others replied: “Yes, we all can.” The small monkey continued: “Then why should we depend on the old man: why must we all serve him?”
Before the small monkey was able to finish his statement, all the monkeys suddenly became enlightened and awakened.
On the same night, watching that the old man had fallen asleep, the monkeys tore down all the barricades of the stockade in which they were confined, and destroyed the stockade entirely. They also took the fruits the old man had in storage, brought all with them to the woods, and never returned. The old man died of starvation.
Yu-li-zi says,”some men in the world rule their people by tricks and not by righteous principles. Aren’t they just like the monkey master? They are not aware of their muddle-headedness. As soon as their people become enlightened, their tricks no longer work.”
Moses KiwanukaLondon
Tyranny is Museveni and Museveni is tyranny
By Nathan Iron Emory
2nd May 2011: Tyranny has no time for people’s suffering. Tyrants mistrust people. They prefer to see their people in poverty throughout. They use their security organs as vessels of terror.
A tyrannical regime spends a lot of time building dangerous organs of repression to perpetually make war upon their subjects, driving them out of cities and out of their homes, intentionally making the subjects paupers in their own country, dispersing them into exile, ceaselessly arresting political opponents and their supporters, torturing and detaining them on tramped-up charges, disallowing basic freedoms, the right to life, economic benefits, social management and harmony to the people.
This is exactly what Museveni’s National Resistance Movement [NRM] is. The brutality of the NRM’s security personnel (ISO, Police, Military Police, UPDF etc) while dispersing peaceful protests must remind Ugandans that virtually all revolutions have arisen as result of wrongful application of powers/institutions and brutal abuse of fundamental people’s rights. In this case, the brutality of General Yoweri Museveni and his regime is unlikely to escape the same fate. It is a matter of time!
Ugandans have been forced to hate Museveni’s NRM regime because of its ruthlessness, intolerance, and primitive policies of governance. The people have been forced into a tight corner. The horrible events happening in Uganda today clearly show that Ugandans are likely to seek unorthodox means to end their suffering.
Museveni‘s organs of terror shall be brought to account one day. Elaborate surveys have revealed that the majority of Ugandans have endured tyranny throughout the 25 years of NRM misrule. Ugandans have been subjected to forced rule by minority characters and egoists who equal themselves to demi-gods.
Our countrymen and women are groaning beneath immense oppression; oppression by an old self-styled General whose personality is charged with lust for power; whose overriding impetus is to grab wealth so as to deprive his political opponents of income. Over the last 25 years, a few things have become very clear to Ugandans and the international community. And they are:
Corruption is endemic within NRM circles. Inequity is openly practiced within government departments. The public sector is in a sorry state. The majority of Ugandan youth are unemployed. Nepotism has positioned itself in every sector of public service; thus making Uganda a monarchy in all but name. Meritocracy went through the window over a decade ago.
The “Walk-to-Work” campaign called to protest against the high cost of living in Uganda demonstrates boldly that “The Pearl of Africa” shall not endure servitude forever. The protest is a strong message to the tyrant and his boot lickers that Uganda as a country SHALL NOT pass in unending succession from father to son, master to master etc. Uganda SHALL NOT be the heritage of oppressors.
We can clearly see that every day, Ugandans are braving Museveni’s beatings, bullets and teargas. They are determined to free their motherland of dictatorship, impunity, and bad governance. Ugandans appear to have resolved NOT to shrink. They now seem prepared to face any danger if that is what it will take to liberate their country.
With this design of mind quickly and popularly developing among Ugandans, Museveni’s tyranny will be destroyed and freedom for all regained. The glory of democracy shall never again be defiled and the sword of terror shall be put to rest. Never again shall Uganda be controlled by one man vision. Democracy shall thrive; the law shall hold its course and justice shall prevail for all.
This achievement shall be acclaimed from Bold Stroke taken by patriotic Ugandans to grasp the spirit to manage their own affairs without duress.
kiddepal@yahoo.co.uk
2nd May 2011: Tyranny has no time for people’s suffering. Tyrants mistrust people. They prefer to see their people in poverty throughout. They use their security organs as vessels of terror.
A tyrannical regime spends a lot of time building dangerous organs of repression to perpetually make war upon their subjects, driving them out of cities and out of their homes, intentionally making the subjects paupers in their own country, dispersing them into exile, ceaselessly arresting political opponents and their supporters, torturing and detaining them on tramped-up charges, disallowing basic freedoms, the right to life, economic benefits, social management and harmony to the people.
This is exactly what Museveni’s National Resistance Movement [NRM] is. The brutality of the NRM’s security personnel (ISO, Police, Military Police, UPDF etc) while dispersing peaceful protests must remind Ugandans that virtually all revolutions have arisen as result of wrongful application of powers/institutions and brutal abuse of fundamental people’s rights. In this case, the brutality of General Yoweri Museveni and his regime is unlikely to escape the same fate. It is a matter of time!
Ugandans have been forced to hate Museveni’s NRM regime because of its ruthlessness, intolerance, and primitive policies of governance. The people have been forced into a tight corner. The horrible events happening in Uganda today clearly show that Ugandans are likely to seek unorthodox means to end their suffering.
Museveni‘s organs of terror shall be brought to account one day. Elaborate surveys have revealed that the majority of Ugandans have endured tyranny throughout the 25 years of NRM misrule. Ugandans have been subjected to forced rule by minority characters and egoists who equal themselves to demi-gods.
Our countrymen and women are groaning beneath immense oppression; oppression by an old self-styled General whose personality is charged with lust for power; whose overriding impetus is to grab wealth so as to deprive his political opponents of income. Over the last 25 years, a few things have become very clear to Ugandans and the international community. And they are:
- It is deep in the minds of many Ugandans that for General Yoweri Museveni, “Force is a Mania.”
- All organs of oppression established by the NRM regime are serving to maintain General Yoweri Museveni’s hold to power.
- Museveni has committed every inhuman crime at his pleasure, performed undemocratic actions, dealt out illegal punishments at all levels of his command with impunity.
- It is now clear to all Ugandans that tyranny is General Yoweri Museveni and Museveni is tyranny itself. By him, tyrannical power is upheld; by him and him alone, the seeds of tyranny continue to be scattered.
- He has maintained garrisons of intimidation and brutality to persecute his political opponents and dissenting citizens who meditate resistance.
- He has brutally handled innocent demonstrators thus infringing upon all basic rights of Ugandans. Constant arrests, detention, and maltreatment of his political rivals in safe houses, military establishments, and in Luzira prison; all bespeak of the wantonness of the NRM regime.
Corruption is endemic within NRM circles. Inequity is openly practiced within government departments. The public sector is in a sorry state. The majority of Ugandan youth are unemployed. Nepotism has positioned itself in every sector of public service; thus making Uganda a monarchy in all but name. Meritocracy went through the window over a decade ago.
The “Walk-to-Work” campaign called to protest against the high cost of living in Uganda demonstrates boldly that “The Pearl of Africa” shall not endure servitude forever. The protest is a strong message to the tyrant and his boot lickers that Uganda as a country SHALL NOT pass in unending succession from father to son, master to master etc. Uganda SHALL NOT be the heritage of oppressors.
We can clearly see that every day, Ugandans are braving Museveni’s beatings, bullets and teargas. They are determined to free their motherland of dictatorship, impunity, and bad governance. Ugandans appear to have resolved NOT to shrink. They now seem prepared to face any danger if that is what it will take to liberate their country.
With this design of mind quickly and popularly developing among Ugandans, Museveni’s tyranny will be destroyed and freedom for all regained. The glory of democracy shall never again be defiled and the sword of terror shall be put to rest. Never again shall Uganda be controlled by one man vision. Democracy shall thrive; the law shall hold its course and justice shall prevail for all.
This achievement shall be acclaimed from Bold Stroke taken by patriotic Ugandans to grasp the spirit to manage their own affairs without duress.
kiddepal@yahoo.co.uk
LETTER TO NINA MBABAZI FROM DREW DEMBE
By Drew Ddembe
Dear Nina,
Since wading into the murky waters of the tribal debate, I have had lots of inboxes. One of them will be the subject of my letter today. Its about the issue of "personalised scholarships" that appear to favour students from one region. The most famous of these of course is the presidential scholarships that have no known public criteria and nobody appears to know where the queue is!
Among my inboxes was this from a lady who is an insider and well connected to your government. You may even know her but I will withold her name given she did not allow me to use it.
Essentially she said of one lady, a cabinet member that, "the scholarships to India were given to her by Indian government when she visited once. They gave her scholarships of 4 girls a year so that is her program." This reference was to a minster receiving 4 scholarships from a foreign government and handing them out as personal property in this case to a daughter in law. The son was a beneficiary of a previous scholarship. No wonder there are so many kids from western Ugandan studying India, China and Malaysia. I always thought they were paying for themselves kumbe they are using their public offices for personal gain! as you can see the implication here is that a serving cabinet member or government official can receive scholarships from a foreign government and treat them as personal property to be dished out at his or her personal whim without conflict of interest. You know I have said in the past that this government would not recognise a conflict of interest if it fell on their heads. I always thought the Ministry for Ethics was useless but now I have got even more proof.
This lady went on to inform me that "I also do scholarships but because I went out and looked for them. As a matter of fact, because of working with China a lot, they first suggested to me that they would give me a scholarship and I asked if my brother would take it, then I asked for more and they gave me 5 a year which my mum took over and totally threw me out. ......Those are individually sourced. I am talking about government sourcing scholarships on their own and putting in a pool."
Now am starting to get relly worried! Seriously don't you see a conlict of interest here? That some one who like you is very well connected to one of the most powerful men in the land receives scholarships as personal gifts from a foreign government we are well aware is very interested in influencing powerful people in Africa? Does the NRM have a code of conduct for public officials? Doesnt the leadership code cover gifts to serving officials of government?I will of course relate this to the recent debate about nepotism and tribalism in Uganda. I know that debate is on fire but we shall stay away from the more controversial elements and deal with this issue.
This revelation explains a lot. All those young Bahima and other kids from the west who appear to have an inexhaustible supply of scholarships that no one else has ever had of or knows where to queue for! Do we really live in the same country?
Imagine one group has the opportunity to use their offices to solicit favours and benefits from foreign governments which they can then channel to their relatives as they wish! Multiply that by 25 years and you can see where the inbalances come from. Extend that to skewed and flawed recruitment practices fraught with graft and nepotism and you will understand why we now have such a big problem with all of the resentment against westerners and Bahima. Jobs that are not advertised and scholarships that are not advertised or available to all. Can you imagine some girl from Buwekula (don;t even know where that is but it sounds interesting) ever accessing such state patronage? For some of us who had to pay for our degrees both undergrad and post grad because we didnt know where the queue was, it is galling and annoying! No wonder there is so much resentment among Ugandans. And then I wonder where some of you in this government get the chutzpah to claim that some of us are not "patriotic" when it is obvious you guys are eating alone -for 25 years!
Below is my detaieled response to her;
Ee are going to have to discuss the issue of scholarships further. I think that its innappropriate for a foreign government to "give" scholarships to an individual. It is also innappropriate for the individual working in an official capacity representing their employer to "receive" personal gifts from a foreign government. It is a well recognised form of corruption where foreign governments and companies attempt to influence government officials. Obviously this government does not train its officials regarding corruption and how to deal with foreign governments! This is one form of corruption.
An example of say a government operative who is likely to influence decisions involving a foreign government or foreign company accepting gifts from the foreign government or company of a material nature does influence their integrity. This can only happen in a third world country.
I can tell you that where I work, all gifts that come to one during their employ, belong to the employer and have to be declared. So I cannot receive a gift from a client or a company particularly if it supplies goods to my employer or if I am in a position to influence the decisions of my employer in procurement. This is a blanket rule!
A colleague of mine received a lottery ticket from a client. It won 3 million dollars. He could not claim it and had to turn it over to the hospital. Both the clients family and his own family were of course unhappy!
Internal codes of conduct if they do exist need to be reviewed with regards to these scholarships. Cretainly the leadership code needs to be re examined if it says noting about this issue for its a matter of national security as well as important in the fight against corruption.
These "gifts" are not innocious and are given out with ulterior motives to officials in a position to influence strategic and business dealings with a foreign government or company. In your case your closeness to the seat of power, your future potential makes you a target of foreign governments. I can bet that the Chinese have got a dossier on you and are actively interested in influencing you now and in the future.
The correct way to do so would be to "receive" the scholarships on behalf of government and hand them over to the central scholarships committee to be advertised and distributed on merit.
That law should be within the leadership code. I have never read it in full but if it was well drafted there should be some limitation or control on what kind of relationship government officials can have with foreign governments.
We have a whole ministry for ethics that again should have already dealt with this as should have the government itself given that it has for 25 years claimed to have a war against corruption.
While you can give the scholarships to your youth group again that is not in the spirit of equitable access. Its in part why we are having this debate about the national cake and how its distributed.
If we accept the conventional wisdom that western Uganda has got the bulk of government positions and managers in key government companies and organisations, then that means that western Uganda has the largest number of people with access to these kinds of unconventional gifts.
If like yourself they give them to their mothers who advertise within their clan and send all of the kids who have failed their high school, abroad on these scholarships, you can see how the rest of the country can see a pattern. Multiply that by 25 years and you will then understand why others will be fighting to dislodge you from power. Because after 25 years priviledge starts to make the government look like your family. I know what my mother would do with such a scholarship if I gave them to her. If your mother is anything like my mother who has educated tens to hundreds of her relatives with her own money, you can bet they will have all won the lottery. She looks out for her nieces and nephews as well as many in her community. I doubt that she will be inviting those in Arua unrelated to her to partake. After all she is not the government.
Extend this argument further and say these governments or companies come into the country to do business which is the Chinese and Indians primary motive. They understand graft very well these chinese and Indians. They will offer you directorships, shares as well as ask you to "assist" them find suitable employees. They know you are going to bring your relatives but that is a cost they have already factored into their maths. They want you to favour them. To use your influence and connections in their favour. To get access to contracts and resources or simply leverage to be used at some future date.
In 25 years, all business public and private starts to look like an extension of your clan and village!
These are the things that westerners are accused of but because they all consider such "gifts" given to them as personal gifts, they shrug it off.
These are not personal gifts as long as they are given to one in office or because they are close to someone in office. In many countries that take these things seriously, the employee of a lottery company or their close relatives cannot be allowed to cash in on a lottery. Everyone with any sort of potential to influence the outcome has got to distance themselves from any form of dealing that could be construed or misconstrued to heve been influenced by these gifts. And government officials cannot accept material gifts from officials of foreign governments particularly if they are in a position to influence policy and decisions!
The other problem of course with these gifts is that they threaten national security. Government officials pass on official secrets and insider information when they have extensive and close potentially exploitable relationships with foreign governments or businesses.
I hope that you will bring this issue to the powers who have declared that useless war against corruption. They actually need to read their laws and enforce them or close loopholes where they exist. Surely 25 years is enough to do that!
Dear Nina,
Since wading into the murky waters of the tribal debate, I have had lots of inboxes. One of them will be the subject of my letter today. Its about the issue of "personalised scholarships" that appear to favour students from one region. The most famous of these of course is the presidential scholarships that have no known public criteria and nobody appears to know where the queue is!
Among my inboxes was this from a lady who is an insider and well connected to your government. You may even know her but I will withold her name given she did not allow me to use it.
Essentially she said of one lady, a cabinet member that, "the scholarships to India were given to her by Indian government when she visited once. They gave her scholarships of 4 girls a year so that is her program." This reference was to a minster receiving 4 scholarships from a foreign government and handing them out as personal property in this case to a daughter in law. The son was a beneficiary of a previous scholarship. No wonder there are so many kids from western Ugandan studying India, China and Malaysia. I always thought they were paying for themselves kumbe they are using their public offices for personal gain! as you can see the implication here is that a serving cabinet member or government official can receive scholarships from a foreign government and treat them as personal property to be dished out at his or her personal whim without conflict of interest. You know I have said in the past that this government would not recognise a conflict of interest if it fell on their heads. I always thought the Ministry for Ethics was useless but now I have got even more proof.
This lady went on to inform me that "I also do scholarships but because I went out and looked for them. As a matter of fact, because of working with China a lot, they first suggested to me that they would give me a scholarship and I asked if my brother would take it, then I asked for more and they gave me 5 a year which my mum took over and totally threw me out. ......Those are individually sourced. I am talking about government sourcing scholarships on their own and putting in a pool."
Now am starting to get relly worried! Seriously don't you see a conlict of interest here? That some one who like you is very well connected to one of the most powerful men in the land receives scholarships as personal gifts from a foreign government we are well aware is very interested in influencing powerful people in Africa? Does the NRM have a code of conduct for public officials? Doesnt the leadership code cover gifts to serving officials of government?I will of course relate this to the recent debate about nepotism and tribalism in Uganda. I know that debate is on fire but we shall stay away from the more controversial elements and deal with this issue.
This revelation explains a lot. All those young Bahima and other kids from the west who appear to have an inexhaustible supply of scholarships that no one else has ever had of or knows where to queue for! Do we really live in the same country?
Imagine one group has the opportunity to use their offices to solicit favours and benefits from foreign governments which they can then channel to their relatives as they wish! Multiply that by 25 years and you can see where the inbalances come from. Extend that to skewed and flawed recruitment practices fraught with graft and nepotism and you will understand why we now have such a big problem with all of the resentment against westerners and Bahima. Jobs that are not advertised and scholarships that are not advertised or available to all. Can you imagine some girl from Buwekula (don;t even know where that is but it sounds interesting) ever accessing such state patronage? For some of us who had to pay for our degrees both undergrad and post grad because we didnt know where the queue was, it is galling and annoying! No wonder there is so much resentment among Ugandans. And then I wonder where some of you in this government get the chutzpah to claim that some of us are not "patriotic" when it is obvious you guys are eating alone -for 25 years!
Below is my detaieled response to her;
Ee are going to have to discuss the issue of scholarships further. I think that its innappropriate for a foreign government to "give" scholarships to an individual. It is also innappropriate for the individual working in an official capacity representing their employer to "receive" personal gifts from a foreign government. It is a well recognised form of corruption where foreign governments and companies attempt to influence government officials. Obviously this government does not train its officials regarding corruption and how to deal with foreign governments! This is one form of corruption.
An example of say a government operative who is likely to influence decisions involving a foreign government or foreign company accepting gifts from the foreign government or company of a material nature does influence their integrity. This can only happen in a third world country.
I can tell you that where I work, all gifts that come to one during their employ, belong to the employer and have to be declared. So I cannot receive a gift from a client or a company particularly if it supplies goods to my employer or if I am in a position to influence the decisions of my employer in procurement. This is a blanket rule!
A colleague of mine received a lottery ticket from a client. It won 3 million dollars. He could not claim it and had to turn it over to the hospital. Both the clients family and his own family were of course unhappy!
Internal codes of conduct if they do exist need to be reviewed with regards to these scholarships. Cretainly the leadership code needs to be re examined if it says noting about this issue for its a matter of national security as well as important in the fight against corruption.
These "gifts" are not innocious and are given out with ulterior motives to officials in a position to influence strategic and business dealings with a foreign government or company. In your case your closeness to the seat of power, your future potential makes you a target of foreign governments. I can bet that the Chinese have got a dossier on you and are actively interested in influencing you now and in the future.
The correct way to do so would be to "receive" the scholarships on behalf of government and hand them over to the central scholarships committee to be advertised and distributed on merit.
That law should be within the leadership code. I have never read it in full but if it was well drafted there should be some limitation or control on what kind of relationship government officials can have with foreign governments.
We have a whole ministry for ethics that again should have already dealt with this as should have the government itself given that it has for 25 years claimed to have a war against corruption.
While you can give the scholarships to your youth group again that is not in the spirit of equitable access. Its in part why we are having this debate about the national cake and how its distributed.
If we accept the conventional wisdom that western Uganda has got the bulk of government positions and managers in key government companies and organisations, then that means that western Uganda has the largest number of people with access to these kinds of unconventional gifts.
If like yourself they give them to their mothers who advertise within their clan and send all of the kids who have failed their high school, abroad on these scholarships, you can see how the rest of the country can see a pattern. Multiply that by 25 years and you will then understand why others will be fighting to dislodge you from power. Because after 25 years priviledge starts to make the government look like your family. I know what my mother would do with such a scholarship if I gave them to her. If your mother is anything like my mother who has educated tens to hundreds of her relatives with her own money, you can bet they will have all won the lottery. She looks out for her nieces and nephews as well as many in her community. I doubt that she will be inviting those in Arua unrelated to her to partake. After all she is not the government.
Extend this argument further and say these governments or companies come into the country to do business which is the Chinese and Indians primary motive. They understand graft very well these chinese and Indians. They will offer you directorships, shares as well as ask you to "assist" them find suitable employees. They know you are going to bring your relatives but that is a cost they have already factored into their maths. They want you to favour them. To use your influence and connections in their favour. To get access to contracts and resources or simply leverage to be used at some future date.
In 25 years, all business public and private starts to look like an extension of your clan and village!
These are the things that westerners are accused of but because they all consider such "gifts" given to them as personal gifts, they shrug it off.
These are not personal gifts as long as they are given to one in office or because they are close to someone in office. In many countries that take these things seriously, the employee of a lottery company or their close relatives cannot be allowed to cash in on a lottery. Everyone with any sort of potential to influence the outcome has got to distance themselves from any form of dealing that could be construed or misconstrued to heve been influenced by these gifts. And government officials cannot accept material gifts from officials of foreign governments particularly if they are in a position to influence policy and decisions!
The other problem of course with these gifts is that they threaten national security. Government officials pass on official secrets and insider information when they have extensive and close potentially exploitable relationships with foreign governments or businesses.
I hope that you will bring this issue to the powers who have declared that useless war against corruption. They actually need to read their laws and enforce them or close loopholes where they exist. Surely 25 years is enough to do that!
This is what it looks like after Museveni has had his ways with you!
Ssebaggala has been pimped like all of them! This is a look of a man who has just been de-toothed. The president chewed him and spat him out...
Ah well, you win some you loose some! Get up dust yourself and hope the Kiboko squads will give you a job..
K
derek Nyero aka. ladujah
Salim Saleh Donates 50,000 acres of land in Northern Uganda to Bangladeshi
The former general metamorphosed into a businessman, Salim Saleh, the brother of President Yoweri Museveni, is implementing the policy of establishing large agricultural farms in the north of the country, that he had suggested when he was an advisor to the presidency.
The first time round, in June 2003, he devised a Security & Production Programme intending to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel movement mainly by expanding commercial agriculture in the north of the country.
Today, his company Divinity Union Ltd has reportedly secured 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of land in order to propose it to Bangladeshi investors.
Another of his companies, Sobertra, is for its part making the zone viable by building roads. To be sure, the Bangladesh Africa Business Forum (BABF), which was recently formed and is headed by Abdul Matlub Ahmad, the chairman of the Nitol-Niloy Group, has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ugandan authorities to grow rice in Uganda, 80% of which will be exported.
Furthermore, under the terms of this MOU, Bangladeshi farmers will be authorised to establish in Uganda to develop commercial agriculture on the 10,000 hectare concession that Nito-Niloy has just been attributed.
This programme is to be ratified when President Museveni travels to Bangladesh in June.
http://www.africaintelligence.com/ION/business-circles/2011/06/04/salim-saleh-is-very-single-minded,90478833-ART
The first time round, in June 2003, he devised a Security & Production Programme intending to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel movement mainly by expanding commercial agriculture in the north of the country.
Today, his company Divinity Union Ltd has reportedly secured 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of land in order to propose it to Bangladeshi investors.
Another of his companies, Sobertra, is for its part making the zone viable by building roads. To be sure, the Bangladesh Africa Business Forum (BABF), which was recently formed and is headed by Abdul Matlub Ahmad, the chairman of the Nitol-Niloy Group, has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ugandan authorities to grow rice in Uganda, 80% of which will be exported.
Furthermore, under the terms of this MOU, Bangladeshi farmers will be authorised to establish in Uganda to develop commercial agriculture on the 10,000 hectare concession that Nito-Niloy has just been attributed.
This programme is to be ratified when President Museveni travels to Bangladesh in June.
http://www.africaintelligence.com/ION/business-circles/2011/06/04/salim-saleh-is-very-single-minded,90478833-ART
Sam Kutesa's Son In Law Wins Lucrative Contract To Supply Oil To Uganda
A Ugandan company well connected in political circles has beaten out Shell for a deal to supply oil products to the Jinja tank farm. It will probably restore the facility, too.
After a competition lasting several weeks, the Ugandan concern Kenlloyd Logistics Ltd has won the contract to supply the Jinja tank farm (with its capacity of 30 million litres) and it is likely to restore it as well. The contract doesn’t involve privatizing the tank farm, which will remain wholly owned by the government
Kenlloyd is well connected in political circles since it is managed and 65% owned by Albert Muganga, son-in-law of Uganda’s foreign minister, Samuel Kutesa. It won the contract in a fight against Shell Uganda and another Ugandan firm, Hared Petroleum.
Officials at the energy ministry in Kampala told Africa Energy Intelligence Shell came to grief because of legal issues while Hared didn’t get past the technical part of the tender.
When contacted byAEI, Shell Uganda’s boss, Ivan Kyayonka, challenged the decision but said the company wouldn’t go to court over it.
The deal is highly important to Uganda. During the period of political turmoil in Kenya in 2008, Uganda’s economy suffered because of a lack of storage capacity in the country.
But before the tanks are filled with oil products they need to be rehabilitated. That task has fallen to Tamoil, which is due to also build an oil pipeline between Eldoret and Kampala. The energy ministry claims Kenlloyd and Tamoil will work together to restore the tanks, but the investment potential and uncertain situation of Libyan companies like Tamoil (AEI 652) makes it more than likely the firm will be showed aside, to Kenlloyd’s advantage.
Kenlloyd previously won the contract to supply Jinja but Parliament cancelled the deal because it hadn’t been put out to tender by the minister at the time, Daudi Migereko, who is now lands minister.
http://www.africaintelligence.com/AEM/oil/2011/06/08/local-firm-pips-shell-at-the-post,90553725-ART
After a competition lasting several weeks, the Ugandan concern Kenlloyd Logistics Ltd has won the contract to supply the Jinja tank farm (with its capacity of 30 million litres) and it is likely to restore it as well. The contract doesn’t involve privatizing the tank farm, which will remain wholly owned by the government
Kenlloyd is well connected in political circles since it is managed and 65% owned by Albert Muganga, son-in-law of Uganda’s foreign minister, Samuel Kutesa. It won the contract in a fight against Shell Uganda and another Ugandan firm, Hared Petroleum.
Officials at the energy ministry in Kampala told Africa Energy Intelligence Shell came to grief because of legal issues while Hared didn’t get past the technical part of the tender.
When contacted byAEI, Shell Uganda’s boss, Ivan Kyayonka, challenged the decision but said the company wouldn’t go to court over it.
The deal is highly important to Uganda. During the period of political turmoil in Kenya in 2008, Uganda’s economy suffered because of a lack of storage capacity in the country.
But before the tanks are filled with oil products they need to be rehabilitated. That task has fallen to Tamoil, which is due to also build an oil pipeline between Eldoret and Kampala. The energy ministry claims Kenlloyd and Tamoil will work together to restore the tanks, but the investment potential and uncertain situation of Libyan companies like Tamoil (AEI 652) makes it more than likely the firm will be showed aside, to Kenlloyd’s advantage.
Kenlloyd previously won the contract to supply Jinja but Parliament cancelled the deal because it hadn’t been put out to tender by the minister at the time, Daudi Migereko, who is now lands minister.
http://www.africaintelligence.com/AEM/oil/2011/06/08/local-firm-pips-shell-at-the-post,90553725-ART
.And They Are Still Laughing!
For so many years, like all of you suffering fellow Ugandans we had watched in silence our evolving, deepening wretchedness. With every hit that sent us down almost crying in pain; a dead relative or friend that should not have died; a dead hero of our country that was compromised; a young graduate roaming the streets of Kampala, jobless, penniless and hungry; an innocent citizen framed and convicted either to lose >legally=, land, a business, a licence, EVEN A LIFE. . . that which the rich and powerful decided to take, or simply to settle old scores; etc., We saw the cause before us and it was always the same. Growing confident, growing in size, growing rich, powerful and brazen. It was always the same faces of the same people and we wondered how many of our fellow indigenous Ugandans recognised them the way we did. They are the Musevenis= who now own Uganda lock, stock and barrel. And since the 18th of February this year, they believe they are to own YOUR FREEDOM and YOUR SOUL.
So, although until then we agonised in silence we felt challenged to write. Our hope was that little by little we could analyse our plight together; using the great opportunity that technology today has made so much possible. So we wrote one then two small pieces; to stimulate a serious debate on several issues. The overwhelming response we see is encouraging. But it has also exposed how much has gone wrong within our body politic thanks to Musevenism. It is precisely what he set out to achieve, it is succeeding. AND HE AND HIS CLAN ARE LAUGHING.
Fellow Ugandans, let us re‑focus on our duty to ourselves and address our problems starting from the roots. We know that for every example we will give you, you can each give at least 20. So this better be just a beginning; at the end of which road we shall have not only found a way to respond to whatever Museveni and his clan are doing to us but we shall have the means to get rid of their entire system, lock stock and barrel. But it is going to be a long road.
Over the last four weeks we are sure there have been many of you quietly hoping that the bulletin according to Smart Musolin could be right; not because we are like Museveni wishing ill of others, that Salim Saleh was really dead. Far from it; Ugandans are/were hoping that at long last seeing the implosion, the fracture lines in a system that has ground relentlessly into submission every opportunity, every hope and our very existence. But to Museveni and his clan it may all be a game with particularly sinister intentions. AND THEY ARE LAUGHING.
Ask yourself, is it the first time they have played us for fools? Of course not.
They wore Obote's military uniforms and massacred innocents in the Luwero Triangle; they wanted you to hate Obote enough to support a radical system they wanted to introduce into a peace loving country: ORGANISED VIOLENCE. We fell for it. . .they were killing us; us the very people they needed to create this organised violence that would get them the power their numbers would never have done in a million years.
They knew from the experiences of Rwanda and Burundi that they would never muster the numbers nor a legitimate cause and programme to win any election so they chose ORGANISED VIOLENCE to get them what no Election could.
As they massacred our people in the Luwero Triangle the Chakamchaka plus the uniform was doing the trick. You ended up believing that 'Obote and Those Northerners' were decimating you. They got us to hate our own fellow Ugandans as an investment for the future as we will point out. We can hear you say that Obote and their UPC brethren had proven to posterity that The Northerners were our enemies. But Daudi Ochieng, Martin Aliker, etc, were also Northerners. Besides, Museveni and his Clan were Obote's own dependable force in The General Service Unit and the most vocal political force. But they never wanted you in the Luwero Triangle to remember this. So once they got you to believe that they were fighting for you. . .you had fallen into their trap. THEY LAUGHED SOME MORE..
Then they lined up along the roadside the skulls of our murdered brothers and sisters; to invoke empathy for the cause; but whose cause? Theirs of course! They took pictures of your brothers and sisters' skulls so that you can spread the gospel. But whose gospel? Theirs of course! Out of it more of us joined them in The Luwero Triangle. International Media and Agencies were hoodwinked into spreading their propaganda. They knew that we had all fallen for it. . .AND THEY LAUGHED SOME MORE.
Wearing Obote's uniforms they targeted families with children. One wave of them slaughtered Mums and Dads with total brutality STATE RESEARCH BUREAU STYLE right in front of the kids so they never stop hating The Northerners, then another wave of scantily clad guerrillas would rush in guns blazing, some of the first wave would fall as if killed by the new heroes; they would get up and walk away after the terrified kids are collected to be taken to their new godfather YOWERI MUSEVENI. They are indoctrinated Marxist style how to hate, who to hate and how to destroy him/them. AND THE GODFATHER AND HIS CLAN GO ON LAUGHING.
They wore Obote's military uniforms and massacred innocents in the Luwero Triangle; they wanted you to hate Obote enough to support a radical system they wanted to introduce into a peace loving country: ORGANISED VIOLENCE. We fell for it. . .they were killing us; us the very people they needed to create this organised violence that would get them the power their numbers would never have done in a million years.
They knew from the experiences of Rwanda and Burundi that they would never muster the numbers nor a legitimate cause and programme to win any election so they chose ORGANISED VIOLENCE to get them what no Election could.
As they massacred our people in the Luwero Triangle the Chakamchaka plus the uniform was doing the trick. You ended up believing that 'Obote and Those Northerners' were decimating you. They got us to hate our own fellow Ugandans as an investment for the future as we will point out. We can hear you say that Obote and their UPC brethren had proven to posterity that The Northerners were our enemies. But Daudi Ochieng, Martin Aliker, etc, were also Northerners. Besides, Museveni and his Clan were Obote's own dependable force in The General Service Unit and the most vocal political force. But they never wanted you in the Luwero Triangle to remember this. So once they got you to believe that they were fighting for you. . .you had fallen into their trap. THEY LAUGHED SOME MORE..
Then they lined up along the roadside the skulls of our murdered brothers and sisters; to invoke empathy for the cause; but whose cause? Theirs of course! They took pictures of your brothers and sisters' skulls so that you can spread the gospel. But whose gospel? Theirs of course! Out of it more of us joined them in The Luwero Triangle. International Media and Agencies were hoodwinked into spreading their propaganda. They knew that we had all fallen for it. . .AND THEY LAUGHED SOME MORE.
Wearing Obote's uniforms they targeted families with children. One wave of them slaughtered Mums and Dads with total brutality STATE RESEARCH BUREAU STYLE right in front of the kids so they never stop hating The Northerners, then another wave of scantily clad guerrillas would rush in guns blazing, some of the first wave would fall as if killed by the new heroes; they would get up and walk away after the terrified kids are collected to be taken to their new godfather YOWERI MUSEVENI. They are indoctrinated Marxist style how to hate, who to hate and how to destroy him/them. AND THE GODFATHER AND HIS CLAN GO ON LAUGHING.
Yet from the very start, when the first wave of massacre in the Luwero Triangle started, some of us, you and me, suspected that there were discrepancies in the stories. That we were being killed by these guerrillas and not the Obotes. But instead of going back to our roots, to examine the way our ancestors examined any given strange phenomenon, otherwise they would not have established the rich heritages all indigenous Ugandans enjoyed before the advent of aliens, white or black, we chose to ignore that route. WE chose to listen to the Chakamchaka. Or we kept saying to ourselves "wait before you tackle that problem, at least these guys. . Museveni and his Clan will help us get rid of These Northerners first". And then what? Others chose to whisper MUKAAMA, because chakamchaka had let it known that "IF YOU ARE CAUGHT REVEALING SUCH SECRETS OF THE LUWERO TRIANGLE, YOUR PENALTY IS INSTANT DEATH" And there were examples enough to pose a deterrent even when it was known that it was the godfather himself that laid this law of this jungle and often executed it himself. And once you or any other fellow Ugandan chose to remain silent to this DECEPTION FOLLOWED BY SUCH CRIME‑KILLING FELLOW UGANDANS FOR A CAUSE OR CAUSES THAT HAD NEVER BEEN CORRECTLY DEFINED, EXAMINED BY OUR CAUCUS OF ELDERS OR SANCTIONED AS A POLICY FOR A DEFINED PROGRAMME OF OUR WELLBEING, then we had automatically surrendered our RIGHT TO SAY NO TO MUSEVENI AND HIS CLANSMEN. LUWERO TRIANGLE WAS THE FINAL TESTING GROUND FOR OUR TRUE RESISTANCE TO THESE ALIEN FORCES OF DESTRUCTION. From then on THEY HAVE NEVER STOPPED LAUGHING AT US.
We can see you fellow Ugandans saying to each other: "What the hell is Freddie Mwesigwa expected to achieve with this? Of course we know all these 'things', but they are all in the past. . .time to move on. Let us talk about corruption or the wastage of state resources on the huge Parliament and the purchase of fighter jets. At least those are current and relevant". Wrong, dear citizens of Uganda. Let us challenge you to examine any other aspect of our predicament the way we have simply scratched the tip of LUWERO TRIANGLE CONSPIRACY. Don't duck the chance to show that you are awake to the TRUE REALITY OF YOUR PLIGHT. Otherwise Yoweri Museveni will do what he has done for generations, and then recently, to the Email we sent to you to cajole you into re‑examining your course for the future. He got busy. . .no, he got his propaganda machinery to pretend that it were you responding to our Email, but instead , to deflect the thinking to other topics he wants you to stay glued to even if they were never going to improve. Corruption? The man and his Clan have fleeced Uganda better than Mubarak; Gaddafi etc, have ever managed together. But you can talk and twitter all you like; he is going to continue fleecing as he wants. His mate Tumusime Mutebire can resign now. . .yesterday, if he was genuinely concerned about our financial plight. But he will not because there is still OIL AND URANIUM AND GOLD TO STILL PLUNDER TOGETHER.
We can see you fellow Ugandans saying to each other: "What the hell is Freddie Mwesigwa expected to achieve with this? Of course we know all these 'things', but they are all in the past. . .time to move on. Let us talk about corruption or the wastage of state resources on the huge Parliament and the purchase of fighter jets. At least those are current and relevant". Wrong, dear citizens of Uganda. Let us challenge you to examine any other aspect of our predicament the way we have simply scratched the tip of LUWERO TRIANGLE CONSPIRACY. Don't duck the chance to show that you are awake to the TRUE REALITY OF YOUR PLIGHT. Otherwise Yoweri Museveni will do what he has done for generations, and then recently, to the Email we sent to you to cajole you into re‑examining your course for the future. He got busy. . .no, he got his propaganda machinery to pretend that it were you responding to our Email, but instead , to deflect the thinking to other topics he wants you to stay glued to even if they were never going to improve. Corruption? The man and his Clan have fleeced Uganda better than Mubarak; Gaddafi etc, have ever managed together. But you can talk and twitter all you like; he is going to continue fleecing as he wants. His mate Tumusime Mutebire can resign now. . .yesterday, if he was genuinely concerned about our financial plight. But he will not because there is still OIL AND URANIUM AND GOLD TO STILL PLUNDER TOGETHER.
If you want something current and we invite everyone who has first hand information to enlighten us all, where is GENERAL CALEB AKANDWANAHO TODAY? Is he in The West Nile? From where he is alleged to be supervising the final plunder of the state of Uganda. Whether he is dead or alive it is inconsequential, but ask yourself:
1). How did he come about all the land he is/was sitting on in West Nile? Someone please enlighten us!
2). How did the two brothers end up with unlimited access to HECTARE UPON HECTARE OF ACHOLI and LANGI LAND. Operation Scorched Earth, please someone? Internally Displaced Camps, please someone?
3). The mass killings, which are so current there will be at least fifty indigenous Karamojong dead before we finish this Email to you; all over Karamoja under the supervision of his wife Janet and his son Muhoozi. Don't hold back please someone?
4).And now that they are on the threshold of permanent assimilation of our Territory, WITH ALL THE OIL FROM JUST WEST OF CALEB AKANDWANAHO'S REACH‑LAKE ALBERT and a little South at BUDIBUJO, WHICH THEY ALREADY OWN ANYWAY, THEY CAN ESTABLISH THE PERMANENT HEADQUATERS TO DO WHATEVER THEIR LONG RANGE PROGRAMME DEMANDS. You the citizens of Uganda will have even seen them establish, at your expense, THE NECESSARY PIPELINE TO TAKE THEIR EXPLOITS DIRECT TO THE INDIAN OCEAN. SUDAN and THE DINKAS can be ANNEXED just exactly the way ALL OF EASTERN CONGO CAN BE ANNEXED, which is why despite knowing that our borders with the DRCongo runs halfway down the Lake, they can develop THEIR OIL PROGRAMME AS IF THEY ALREADY KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE THEIR TERRITORY. You dear Ugandans will help them with your lives TO INVADE THE CONGO YET AGAIN. You are like the fodder that sustains the MUSEVENI ULTIMATE DESIGN ON SUPREME POWER of THE GREAT LAKES REGION.
Perhaps now you realise why Museveni and his Clansmen actually played this CYNICAL LIE on all of us? Because they SUCCESSFULLY GOT YOU PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH TO THINK THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH ARE YOUR ENEMIES. THAT YOU CAN SHUT YOUR EYES AND YOUR EARS, WHILE HE SLAUGHTERS THEM AND DISPOSSESSES THEM. And this PROGRAMME was CONCEIVED IN THE LUWERO TRIANGLE. You still think we are addressing old best forgotten issues? Wrong! MUSEVENI AND HIS CLANSMEN ARE LAUGHING VERY LOUDLY TODAY!
We are challenging you for our own good and sanity, to reveal without fear or favour all we can share between us not as a broken people, but as a force awakening to a reality of WHATEVER HAS GONE WRONG AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO RECLAIM OUR LAND, OUR HERITAGE AND OUR PRIDE.
1). How did he come about all the land he is/was sitting on in West Nile? Someone please enlighten us!
2). How did the two brothers end up with unlimited access to HECTARE UPON HECTARE OF ACHOLI and LANGI LAND. Operation Scorched Earth, please someone? Internally Displaced Camps, please someone?
3). The mass killings, which are so current there will be at least fifty indigenous Karamojong dead before we finish this Email to you; all over Karamoja under the supervision of his wife Janet and his son Muhoozi. Don't hold back please someone?
4).And now that they are on the threshold of permanent assimilation of our Territory, WITH ALL THE OIL FROM JUST WEST OF CALEB AKANDWANAHO'S REACH‑LAKE ALBERT and a little South at BUDIBUJO, WHICH THEY ALREADY OWN ANYWAY, THEY CAN ESTABLISH THE PERMANENT HEADQUATERS TO DO WHATEVER THEIR LONG RANGE PROGRAMME DEMANDS. You the citizens of Uganda will have even seen them establish, at your expense, THE NECESSARY PIPELINE TO TAKE THEIR EXPLOITS DIRECT TO THE INDIAN OCEAN. SUDAN and THE DINKAS can be ANNEXED just exactly the way ALL OF EASTERN CONGO CAN BE ANNEXED, which is why despite knowing that our borders with the DRCongo runs halfway down the Lake, they can develop THEIR OIL PROGRAMME AS IF THEY ALREADY KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE THEIR TERRITORY. You dear Ugandans will help them with your lives TO INVADE THE CONGO YET AGAIN. You are like the fodder that sustains the MUSEVENI ULTIMATE DESIGN ON SUPREME POWER of THE GREAT LAKES REGION.
Perhaps now you realise why Museveni and his Clansmen actually played this CYNICAL LIE on all of us? Because they SUCCESSFULLY GOT YOU PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH TO THINK THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH ARE YOUR ENEMIES. THAT YOU CAN SHUT YOUR EYES AND YOUR EARS, WHILE HE SLAUGHTERS THEM AND DISPOSSESSES THEM. And this PROGRAMME was CONCEIVED IN THE LUWERO TRIANGLE. You still think we are addressing old best forgotten issues? Wrong! MUSEVENI AND HIS CLANSMEN ARE LAUGHING VERY LOUDLY TODAY!
We are challenging you for our own good and sanity, to reveal without fear or favour all we can share between us not as a broken people, but as a force awakening to a reality of WHATEVER HAS GONE WRONG AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO RECLAIM OUR LAND, OUR HERITAGE AND OUR PRIDE.
Now, (a). See how he did deceive all Baganda to believe that Mulwanyamuli had any good to do for Buganda when he was serving Museveni's Agenda from day one until now when we hear he has masqueraded his way into London lately, still serving the same lie. Don't hold back again, dear friends otherwise MUSEVENI'S LAUGHTER GOES ON.
(b). Inter Party Coalition? Museveni successfully infiltrated every Organisation that had claimed to be in the opposition. So he controlled every step, every division that took place. It the end you know that there was no credible opposition. He bought everyone that mattered, and then he proceeded to buy every voter he could irrespective of damage to the finances of the land. Mr Mutebire where were you when he raided the Bank of Uganda Vaults? Someone knows more about this, please let us read it.
(c). Museveni created the biggest cabinet on the African Continent, ever. This on top of the biggest Parliament per capita, ever. If they have no accommodation enough and have to "rent space" from mercenaries like Sudhir and company, a member of The Billionaire's Club then the Tax Payer is in for a clobbering. Someone knows more and we need this dossier to work out our strategies for survival of our Nation State. So, please don't hold back the way we did in the Luwero Triangle. Whatever followed was never about us Ugandans. It was all for Museveni and his Clansmen; let's have it now.
(d). Then having abused our intelligence with this huge Parliament, he got Irene Muloni a Roman Catholic Lady appointed Minister of Energy to imagine herself better placed than all the Professor Lules and The Kisekkas and the Bukenyas, probably encouraged her to throw this MAMMOTH PARTY, (just as he has done with Rebecca Kadaga with the Basoga) to which the guest list OBVIOUSLY PREPARED BY MUSEVENI had to include FOR FINAL HUMILIATION even THE TOP CLERGY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. . . TO CELEBRATE! To celebrate WHOSE ULTIMATE SUCCESS? Not the Roman Catholic Church whose Clergy now appear VERY CHEAP OPPORTUNISTS, given that they have presided over services for the last 25 years, which services have increasingly attracted and overfilled Churches all over Uganda by POORER, MORE MISERABLE, SICKER AND DESPERATE MEMBERS OF INDIGENOUS CITIZENS, because they were all physically, mentally and psychologically suffering from MUSEVENISM. All the Newspapers, the Social Networks, the messages by phone (not in Uganda because ours is a POLICE STATE) but Internationally must have filtered through to our REVERED CLERGY enough to realise that THE DRINKS THAT FLOWED and THE FOOD THEY ATE would pass through the system as if they never were. And what would remain the next morning WOULD BE THEIR CONSCIENCES; AND WITHIN THEM THE FEELINGS OF BETRAYAL OF THEIR FLOCK who must have seen their pictures with dismay; as if all the preceding weeks of demonstrations were just a mirage, an illusion and a trick designed to do to the populace the very same betrayal that was done to Ugandans in the Luwero Triangle. ON THAT NIGHT OF THAT BIG WELL REPORTED FEAST MUSEVENI AND HIS CLANSMEN, MUST HAVE HAD AN EVEN GREATER CELEBRATION. THEY COULD NOT HAVE STOPPED LAUGHING!(b). Inter Party Coalition? Museveni successfully infiltrated every Organisation that had claimed to be in the opposition. So he controlled every step, every division that took place. It the end you know that there was no credible opposition. He bought everyone that mattered, and then he proceeded to buy every voter he could irrespective of damage to the finances of the land. Mr Mutebire where were you when he raided the Bank of Uganda Vaults? Someone knows more about this, please let us read it.
(c). Museveni created the biggest cabinet on the African Continent, ever. This on top of the biggest Parliament per capita, ever. If they have no accommodation enough and have to "rent space" from mercenaries like Sudhir and company, a member of The Billionaire's Club then the Tax Payer is in for a clobbering. Someone knows more and we need this dossier to work out our strategies for survival of our Nation State. So, please don't hold back the way we did in the Luwero Triangle. Whatever followed was never about us Ugandans. It was all for Museveni and his Clansmen; let's have it now.
Now we throw this challenge to you. Come up with well researched revelations about our plight. Be bold enough to share them with us. Someone has tried for more than thirty years to destroy your spirit. But we doubt he has succeeded otherwise he would not be sending Delegations after Delegations upcountry to subdue us, abroad to spy on many of you, in Churches, at weddings, at funerals, amongst the Boda Bodas, the market places etc, etc..
ONE DAY WE MUST DO ALL THE LAUGHING BUT IT WILL TAKE COURAGE, DETERMINATION AND A LOT OF SMART PLANNING So, Watch this space!
Freddie Mwesigwa
Why did the presence of Halliburton in Uganda go un noticed?
Now that’s called Raw Power! Ugandans should be very afraid of this marriage between NRM and Halliburtn!
A colleague drew my attention to this report on Halliburton’s corrupt operation in Nigeria!
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http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=106370
What happened to Besigye made me give up on Uganda Politics
Uganda’s politics sucks. You read all the nonsense and utter nonsense and you really wonder if you should respond to it or to focus on other things. I was embarassed by what happened to Kiiza Besigye in Uganda. Worst of all, I was embrassed and hurt by what I read on UAH forum as people were responding to what was going on.
I realised that Uganda and Ugandans are simillar. Uganda as a country is backward and its people are backward. Not even education can change the way Ugandans think and act. The only thing that will change Uganda and the people of Uganda into developed, well informed, respectiful, caring and an admirable ecology is EVOLUTION.
Ugandans have not evolved so much from the stage of Early Man. That is why you see people like Mulindwa and Isaac thanking M7 for killing protesters and beating up Kiiza Besigye. The state of their brains is still very much like the early man.
Have you ever wondered why almost the country thinks and acts like its president? Atleast the Germans showed a different perspective from that of Hitler after the 2nd world war. They introduced democracy, good government, accountability, reconcilliation, etc. They even hosted the Summer Olympics in 1972 which were successful apart from the terrorist attacks against the Isrealie sportsment by the Palestinian fighters in Barlin.
But look at Uganda, almost more than 47 after independence and people are extremely blinkard, bitter, naive, angry, hateful, barbaric, spiteful, uncaring, corrupt and irresponsible.
Now, sometimes I question myself if it is worth debating with them or sit there and read their writings whenever I get the time.
HARBERT BUHANGA
Letter to President Museveni of Uganda
Monday, 20 July 2009. Your Excellency
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
President, Republic of Uganda.
Your Excellency, this letter is specifically aimed at calling upon your attention on the height of ongoing violence in Uganda.
The dramatic political violence by your government
Many political and peace observers believe you came into Uganda because it was relatively safe compared to Rwanda/Burundi. It was peaceful; stable and economically progressive, and you enjoyed the fruits of being brought up in that peaceful environment. Immigrant or refuges that come to Uganda or any country initially face hurdles in settling but normally overcome it as your family did.
2. Uganda Is a Sad Story
Recently most regions within Uganda have seen extensive rise in sophisticated political violence which you never saw or experienced during your youthful years. This deliberate violence has created huge mistrust between your regime and the citizens of Uganda. Frankly speaking there has not been a democratic government in Uganda since Dr. Milton Obote seized power in 1966. Uganda is still under an authoritarian regime in the guise of a big Government. Yet from the outset people would think that Uganda’s intelligence network is good enough and well-equipped to handle any violence in Uganda. There is the misconception that Uganda can go non stop for any war within the “East African Great Lakes Region”. This efficient and experienced intelligence agency has failed to handle and stabilize the ongoing politically orchestrated violence; the opposite is happening as we get continued political violence.
Many external observers now believe political mistrust between people and government is the main cause of the current crime wave that appears to be spreading from one region to another. There are daily cases of abductions and killings that are taking place across the country. For instance all around city suburbs women, young and old are being targeted abducted and raped and killed on day by day basis. One is forced to ask the compelling question; “where is the Uganda government attention to all this controllable misconduct”? Does the President reside in Uganda? What does the Speaker of Parliament; the Prime Minister and the Members of Parliament, especially the Lady representing Ruhaama North Constituency, have to say about these crimes? It does appear as if the whole regime if is off sick; there does not seem to be any accountability.
Your Excellency, you are a man who deserves the highest form of respect within the field of military intelligence, and you are one of the most experienced and intelligent Presidents that Uganda has ever had. From as early as 1960 and right up to the present day, you have been involved in military intelligence. Many Ugandans are now beginning to wonder whether this expertise is really beneficial as the government over which you preside cannot bring to a stop or prevent such crude crimes.
Mr. President, I would like to voice another question which is on the lips of most vulnerable Ugandans who no longer feel they are protected by your regime. Alarming numbers of young women from a distance of only five miles away from your Nakasero home have lost lives, at Kawempe and Nansana city suburbs. How would you respond if Joseph Kony turned up at one of these towns and raped and murdered the citizens as the situation now stands. Would you trust your National intelligence network to handle this pressing matter immediately? Would your so called Government not warn the poor citizens of the dangers in these localities? Or would you label your intelligence a failure? Or would you just promote them to higher positions of responsibility and spread them to Uganda embassies around the world as it so often happens? Continued early morning abductions and the ritual killing children are taking place even now when I am writing to you!
You hear as everybody else does, that many citizens are “hit brutally on the head with heavy metal objects and left dead in many parts of the country”. That nature of crime is common place in every area of Uganda and it no longer makes national news. In fact it is business as usual in the eyes of your respective Ministers! Is Honorable Kirunda Kivejinja still Minister for Internal Affairs, or is he on permanent leave from this post? How about other security Ministers and what is their understanding of security matters?
What was witnessed in Luwero Triangle during the bush war, and in Acholi; Teso, Karamoja and Kasese, and Mbarara now has taken deep roots specifically in Buganda Kingdom. I believe in one Nation, our Country Uganda, as you also do Mr. President, so let us forget tribal politics.
Tribal politics is a disease worse than cancer in that it destroys our people’s senses. It is a disease once again, killing Uganda citizens like in all the preceding regimes, of which you have at certain times taken part and of course as you preach to the world, prompted you to take arms and fight to restore “democracy in Uganda”. Which democracy if I may ask again? Tribal politics should have ceased with Dr. Milton Obote. You were around when this beautiful Country was torn apart by tribal violence, which you have bragged that by and large, was the prime reason for you to resort to arms to rescue Ugandans from anarchy and the love of gun power. One wonders what was your actual intention for waging the bush war. Was it sadism as you appear to like it when people die of poverty and brutality? Why does carnage follow wherever you intervene? I would be surprised if all you ever wanted was not just the chance to have a go.
‘Obote’s charismatic charm could not allow him to look beyond his nose’, and he died regretting the deadly acts he did to sections of Ugandan populace. I am afraid you are sailing in the same direction and your legacy will not be different from Obote’s total failure. Today you are viewed not only by Ugandans but worldwide, as a foresighted man simply because of the decision initially you took against Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada. Mr. President, let me be the last one to raise my fears for you, for what many citizens observe as a precursor of your predecessor’s brutal regimes that dismantled traditional leadership in Uganda.
Cultural Institutions (for) Democracy
Many Ugandans went to schools and were at one point or another had treatment in hospitals that once belonged to cultural leadership. It is lamentable that during your Presidency, all Ugandans particularly yourself should have refrained from this tribal danger and root ourselves into real democracy as one Nation, Uganda. The political situation under your leadership has reached a point where the vast majority Ugandan, especially the Traditional Leadership, are scared for their lives and you do not seem to notice or care what is going on across the country. Since you became the absolute ruler of Uganda, setting on fire of cultural institutions and private properties has gone out of control. Hence, intentionally, you have created depressed societies in Uganda. Political citizenship standing against tribe seems to be escalating political violence in a very systematic way with your sole backing. That is total reverse to 1800 AD, tribal conflicts whereby, Baganda and Banyoro and Acholi, used not to have anything better to do so they engaged each other in tribal wars, which you definitely hear and enjoy watching wherever it unfolds every single day.
(That Is Dramatic Violence to Be Precise)
You may not deny having a strong motive in the whole tribal saga, because you are doing nothing apart from entertaining historic conflicts. Summing-up this disturbing matter, something is lacking here; effective responsible leadership!
Historic Conflicts
Many Ugandans have been completely unaware of the histrionic names such as (Bafuuriki).!! The waters you disturbed in Bunyoro region have not calm down yet, and, the victors from Bunyoro, Buluuli, Bugerere, Teso and Karamoja and Acholi and Teso, are yet to be seen. For a quarter of a Century, you have clung on Ugandans heads it has made all the people of the regions of Uganda, become more curious of the need to return to;
“Uganda Historical Provincial Block Leadership”
For instance: Uganda government begun in hasty bankruptcy. It has no properties to house and run all government work; therefore, it hired properties belonging to Buganda Kingdom. Milton Obote 2nd president of Uganda after King Edward Muteesa II, on realizing that he could not fulfill his government’s commitment to pay all due fees in rent arrears, he decided to abolish traditional leadership and confiscate all traditional institutions.
25 years ago, to-day, on YK.Museveni, coming to power you promised to fulfill all earlier governments commitments by paying all due fees in rent arrears. Have you yourself, fulfilled that commitment yet? From, 1962-2011, it’s almost 5 decades, governments promising to hone our nation to betterment. Is that how nations are built by sticking on telling lies to the citizens?
Mr. President, encourage all Uganda communities to develop their respective regions as Buganda region did before and stop using tribes and regions for personal selfish political interests and threats. Bearing it deeply in your mind that, you do not own Uganda, as your personal asset! But only rule it and for awhile. Uganda is free for all, so every region has got sole potential to develop and protect itself from your bred segregation.
Mr. President, can you honestly say that you can notice any difference between the atrocities caused by Joseph Kony, (LRA) and by the intelligence thugs that are leading to kill the innocent people ruthlessly across our country?
According to Uganda government news reports, 70, people were killed between February, 2009 and July, 2009, in Masaka, Rakai, Lyantonde, and Sembabule Districts, by hitting them on heads and necks with iron bars, while many are being found with necks cut off. Plus 80 innocent Karamajongo people killed in-front of cameras at Karamoja District, by a division of your armed forces so they can raid herds of their cattle, freely. The number of those suffered injuries were not reported and their fate unknown. So, is it policy of your regime, to shoot and kill the citizens, without arrest? If, it is not you, to encourage it, who is behind and responsible for killing people so cheaply without state intervention, if at all there is a Government in Uganda? Don’t you feel ashamed to tell every Mother and Father in Uganda that Joseph Kony is the one killing their loved ones, even in city areas? How many of those killers have been charged with murder cases, and already sentenced? If a state cannot protect her citizens, what is its viability? Is it not high time you accept like many other Ugandans have done that you are hanging on a failed state?
In a damning Justice report also released (August 2009) indicate 76.3% of cases that go to court, Nationwide, remain unresolved. But you can afford to fly utmost expensive Jets, by African standards!! Don’t you realize that lack of resources can hinder the quality of justices in Uganda, to-day? Why was it not like that in the 1960′s, when you were young?
Who Is Behind Cult Invasion
The majority Uganda citizens, cannot help thinking this is a well planned long strategy by some of your army Generals who have grabbed the citizens lands recently. Before the new and old boy network of youthful army Generals turned into a wealthy class of generals and City tycoons, this systematic type of cult activities were not known around and it is linked to two sections of our society.
(1) The greedy people, are being encouraged by a section of top wealthy people, who promise them hundred thousands of money to go and kill persons and supply them as body parts to a gang of criminals involved in cult activities and the one’s running human body parts business. Surprisingly, for a number of occasions you have been heard talking about this rotten matter, you do not oppose cult activities and the crimes it bears! This section is composed of gangs of people with military background. Some of whom were thrown out of the army and the one’s deserted it. Who have continued to live a dangerous life without psyche-care, whatsoever?
(2) There is a group of wealthy city tycoons who have obtained a lot of money that they do not know what to do with it. They got money through deception and hope to keep it by engaging in devilish cult activities. That section involves some foreign criminal gangs. How can you, an assumed modern man, tolerate devilish cult missions in Uganda, a business of the would be only illiterate.
You have informed Ugandans that during your Presidency, that a mere section of Ugandans have become so rich. While that section consists of city tycoons linked to the deadly cult centers reported to involve in brutal slaughter activities of the people you lead. Reference: {Kanungu Inferno} Your government did not take any trouble to know or totally ignored what was going inside Joseph Kibwetere’s cult, so are many others. I, therefore, cannot help wondering if your office (has) got hands on the statistics of the total number of cults in Uganda and their permanent members.
Don’t you believe the whole saga need to be investigated in order to restore the people’s peace of mind? You still remember very well that this cult danger dates back even before Joseph Kibwetere’s cult, set ablaze many unknown people in Western region. Professor. Yusufu Kironde Lule, former President of Uganda died after had raised fears about it. For such deadly implications, you should be worried because this cult invasion is helping to spread so much brutality to the vulnerable people. Let us encourage our people to study more rather than supporting stupidity. Ugandans will not be safe until all cult activities are barred. In public interest, if you are really serious man you would do one example for once;
(A) Hours of curfew should be imposed on all (Masabo) Imitated traditional healer’s Shrines and all traditional healers performing at night.
(B) Anyone caught disregarding the new order should face the firing squad as Idi Amin Dada, did to the city robbers.
It is common knowledge at every corner of the Country that every cult murder case of this nature involves money, a tycoon and a greedy person and foreigner business people. Evidence is prevalently available that thugs abduct children and sell them to murderers
for less than 100, Pounds!! www.observer.news/uganda: 2,500 children go missing in Jan-April, 2009. www.bukede newspaper: Sut, 04/12/2010. Further confirmed reports are in that a man. Joseph Ssegawa was advanced with Shs.100.000, in Uganda currency to hunt for his ex-girlfriend, Regina Nakayiza he slaughtered at a price, equivalent to, 30, Pounds starling worth, in order to get rich.
Newvision.co.ug/news: 21/12/2010. Iron Bar Thugs Kill Six In Mukono. Among them is 20-year old student girl, Violet Nalubwama. A student of Kampala University, killed on
1st, December, 2010.
MS. Sylvia Namutebi (Maama Fiina) She was concerned that some of your ex-soldiers are among groups in the act of abducting and killing people to supply the human body parts business, a hot cake in Kampala City, today. www.Bukedd newspaper. February, 26-2009-27/07/2010. A Uganda Parliamentary committee, led by Gabriel Opio. Confirmed reports that some medical professionals in hospitals also involved in such develish acts. And MP. Isha Otto (Oyama South) agreed to such reports. www.bukedde newspaper. Tuesday 27, July 2010.
Now, you can realize how dangerous it is tribal segregation policies can induced a section of the public to own exorbitant sums of money while the rest of the citizen’s hands are tied up in abject poverty and brutality. Is it not absurd though, for a leader of a Country, to (gesture) at a Republic in fractions of people? What does Republican means to you? No doubt, poverty and stupidity are two important issues and major degrading element City tycoons have taken advantage of the poor to accelerate this situation. That section of wealthy class have a goal yet the majority poor does not have a clue what is going around them in secret.
The whole situation in Uganda, to be frank with you, does not need childish decisions, it is a serious national criminal war, and need only tough stance like the following:
A court of government of the Republic of Tanzania, it was reported, on 24,October 2008, by Allafrica.com/news: A man Gets 60 Years for Rape and Robbery. The Singida Resident Magistrate’s Court convicted Samson Samuel a 26-year old to 60 years in jail. If the Tanzanian Court can do this, why can’t the Uganda Courts do it? (Lack of govt regulations fuels cult activities in Uganda: By Denis Mutabazi. www.monitor online/10/09/2008.
“Bw’ova Ku Byange Genda Ku Wa Ngatto!
Dead silent Complacency. Surprisingly, out of the total number of Members of Parliament only one MP; Mathias Nsubuga [Bukoto South] has raised the abduction matter to the house of Parliament. Whereas MP. Mr. Latif Ssebaggala (Kawempe North) where a lot of abduction and raping and killing of women and children have taken our nation with overwhelming surprise, are dead quite on this danger. When will all Members of Parliament come out in open to defend the vulnerable people by securing maximum security to all the citizens within their constituencies? If Parliament takes a lead, Government will act:
Regional Security Commission of Inquiry
Parliament is supposed to debate National issues and policy and Parliament is also meant to decide on the best way of implementing these policies. MP. Mr.Elias Lukwaago, Kampala Central, pointed out a finger to the current Parliament and said that its a rubber stamp. For deadly acts that does not happen in Rwanda or Tanzania, are major topics at every breakfast table in our Country, Uganda. However, Uganda Parliament is failing her citizens because the vast majority Member’s of Parliament, are currently not showing enough interest in defending the Country’s most vulnerable citizens. Yet all MP’s enjoy pocketing, Shs:14.5m, par month without sparing any minutes to listen to vulnerable people. I hope that all Members of Parliament including yourself, Mr. YK Museveni, President, of Uganda, that will find logic in setting-up an urgent regional public security commission of inquiry to loot out those most stupid crime acts.
To be able to fully understand the height of misery inflicted on parents in this Nation,Uganda, i suggest that you ask Honorable, MP. Mukono North, Mrs. Betty Nambooze Bakireeke to make a public announcement on all Radio/TV, stations, of Uganda and appeal to everyone that has lost a relative in the on-going crime waves to assemble at Mandela Nambole stadium, that is and i hope, when you will gain glimpse of understanding the pain parents and relatives are suffering. Suffering from the terrible loss of their loved ones, and personal trauma that compounds a lasting fear of losing what is left with them. Further reports spreading-out again show that this area, Mukono North Constituency, in the last four months has lost more than 20 citizens all in murder cases since Betty Nambooze Bakireeke, worn that seat. When one perishes to-day, there is little hope the next one will not fallow next day! Your negligence of security for individual lives created an impossible situation to live in Uganda.
Yourself, in conjunction with some of your tribal army generals you have sung louder one song , terrorists, rebels and bandits for now more than 25 years, since you became Uganda’s ruler. Again political observers point a finger at you that you do set-up certain bandit units to trap the fed-up citizens in case they utter a single word of criticism against your administration. Thus, prisons are full to capacity of people whom you are quite aware were caught up in your planned traps and the state can hardly produce any credible evidence in the Courts of law to convict them. Many assumed innocent prisoners are left to starve without food and hardly provided with medical-care.
Uganda High Court Judge. Benjamin Kabiito, denied bail to 23 Men, Buganda suspects after one year in jail. www.monitor news.com/ 09-09-2010.
To continue to torment the Monarchy of Buganda, you set-up the trap between, 10-12, September, 2009, and your security operatives shot and killed 30 persons and 70, totally innocent persons were sent to prison without any human feeling from the trapper, the State of Kampala. We argue you to reconsider government decision with regard to sending selected ethnic groups of people to prisons without trial is most likely to sparking more conflicts.
Conflicts Made Out Of Political Propaganda
Do you think you will ever win the conflicts made out of political propaganda? Don’t you see, people get fed up to hear the same song every day that people get wiser and need change? Some people are aware, that for quite a long time, it has remained a prime task of your intelligence network, to create enmity among political parties leaders and their followers in order for you to weaken them and hang on power at all costs, like Mobutu Sese Seko, did. Suppose you were on the opposition bench in Zimbabwean Parliament, could you tolerate Mugabe’s political mode? Then, why don’t you welcome politics of peace, vacuous and change and eliminate institutionalized corruption?
Institutionalized Corruption
The Uganda Police force it is alleged is one of the most corrupt institutions in the Country. Police commanders and intelligence chiefs in areas where sophisticated killings are taking place are dominated by people from one tribal regime. You can see the jump in serious crimes, tribal tendencies have created! Above all, is that not sectarian of his Presidency, to put only people of one region, Western region, in control of (the) entire security key jobs? Can’t you see, that this imbalance of responsibility that is a major factor to criminal negligence you uttered about when all, 20 young under age children at Budo Junior school girls perished in school fire. Have all the parent whose children were innocently set on fire, have had a fair trail? If the State police cannot handle criminal cases satisfactorily, where are you leading Uganda?
Once again, i will refer you to Mr. Vincent Nuwagaba’s recent report on Uganda tribal Police atrocities. As if that was not enough to spread anxiety among the general public, on Sunday, 25/04/2010. Daily Monitor newspaper, and the entire Uganda media reported promotion of 31 Police Officers which now leaves no doubt, whatsoever, once again, quite clear how you are totally determined to create: sole tribe Police force. How many Police Officers from other regions were promoted on this long list? Can’t you see, that is another tribal crusade? And another big mistake!
The delightful job that tribal Police force does to certify you with regard to such wide ranging human rights violations and abuse, once they collect the dead bodies and issue recorded case numbers, that is the end of the matter, job accomplished!! The Nation can only blame this Police force, when you inform the public the main causes of institutionalized corruption stinking out in all Government Departments.
Security Advisers:
Some of your security advisers are well known out spoken Military Generals. It sounds weird as the men make scandalous comments on people’s lands, and expect the victims of land evictions to gain interest from them to trust and protect the public with its properties already on tiptoes to be deprived of the only asset they own. A few names are among the listed Generals, implicated as land grabbers. All in all, national security needs a committee of trustworthy individuals comprising all the regions in our Country to represent all Uganda communities.
To-day, the people of Uganda, have more doubts about your national security advisers, than at any other time before. Such as Major Kakooza Mutale and your press secretary. The behavior of such individuals are not professional at all, to represent public interests.
I was appointed to destroy newspapers, says Nagenda in News Headlines.
www.daily monitor newspaper. Saturday, 22/12/2007, and i quote: Mr.Jonh Nagenda, senior presidential adviser on media and public relations said he was happy to do an assignment that required the closure of newspapers that the government considers critical. Speaking as chief guest at the 2nd annual Golden Pen Journalism Awards in Kampala, on Wednesday; Mr. John Nagenda, said he had fulfilled his job by closing down the Daily Monitor several times and getting some of its managers transferred. And senior presidential security adviser, Maj.Gen. Tinyefunza, has gone public calling upon the poor to attack prominent land owners,. Immediate results indicates, your most senior advisers create confusion with intent. And blood is spilling over in the Country due to military’s interference in land matters. Whose fault that would be? Is it not the Military ruler and his Generals?
Open Criticism Helps
Mr. President. You have told all critics of yours on political violence and tumult that are retarded. But you may note, among your strongest critics are some astute citizens of Uganda: Such as, Mzee Boniface Byanyima one time your principle guardian and his family. Dr. Joseph Oloka Onyango, MP.Haji Hussein Kyanjo, Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, Prof. GW.Kanyeihamba and Fr. Gaetano Batanyenda and Rt. Rev. Edward Muhima and Rv.Fr. Carlos Rodriguez so many others. Since all these names mentioned does not belong to one area block, you have to be more careful what you utter out in public. I assure you, non of us, your strongest critics are mad. Once again, look at these names above, and note that criticism of you comes from across all the regions of Uganda. And the utmost criticism of yours derived from Western region, your home area. Does that offer you something to take in?
“Are their criticisms really not valid?“
(A) As you disregard your critics above, how about particularly, that respectful lady, needless to mention her name. MP, for Ruhaama County. Note: The Ruhaama MP, accused some (NRM) leaders of using blackmail as a political weapon to undermine one another. (I am tired of ( NRM) intrigue) She observed: www.observer.ug/news/ Wednesday, 28 January, 2009. What do you make of this statement, is this bad criticism too?
(B) Fr. Batanyenda wrote;
Honorable Members, although you lost the inner voice [conscience] and all ethical ethos of patriotism and good leadership and got yourself entangled in the maze of political favor and gourmandism, i remind you that you have an ethical and constitutional obligation to protect lives of the people in Uganda and their property. Unless you become politically and socially philanthropic and public-spirited you will land our country into an abyss of disintegration, hatred and chaos. http://www.monitor.co.ug/ 20-07-2009. What more would you like to hear?
(C) Capt. Guma Gumisiriza (Ibanda North) In the same meeting said. Mr.President, you should reactivate the intelligence system, both military and civil. Instead of painting a rosy picture. We need to get reliable information from the ground. You should ensure reliable information reaches you!!
Again, can’t you see there is regional concern in this point? All formidable names quoted here represents vast views of people from the regions they belong to, areas worst affected. Relaying on false information does a lot of harm and damage to you and to your entire leadership, Mr. President.
(D) My Story:
Former, Buganda Kingdom: Katikkiro Joseph Ssemogerere, recently in an article, www.ugandaobserver newspaper: Dated: Sunday 12 July, 2009. Written by Ssemuju Ibrahim Nganda.
I told him that i was sorry for him because he probably did not have intelligence officers (to write home about) i told him that if they (intelligence officers) actually wrote the things he was telling me, then they were totally misleading him and might one day lead him into trouble because such things did not exist anywhere.
Intelligence Branders Causing Divisiveness in Political Elitism
Mr. President, i will not go for names here, but you know what lays in store for the Acholi political Elites. Have you now come across the intelligence branders which are simply causing huge gaps and more mistrust among Ugandans? For your information, further reports tell of the youth gangs based in England, USA and South Africa, that your regime spoils on a lot of Uganda tax payer’s money simply, to feed you with empty lies!!
”The empty tin that sounds most”.
Do you really believe the work done for you in those Nations is worthy a penny? The Observer newspaper.com/ug: 06/09/2007, referred to it as a clique of petty crooks.
Mulwanyammuli, disclosed someone invidious being isolated himself from the Country’s civil society that you know longer welcome counsel from the wise-people. Wise man’s counsel means people will always differ on certain issues. One person cannot be always right on all matters. You may, as well recall, Mr. Mulwanyammuli Semogerere, he is not the first one to get worried for you. Justice. GW.Kanyeihamba, too, warned so, numberless times. Once again, you would borrow this new leaf and heed advice from your burning critics. Please do not take criticism for blame. Uganda, now have to change, so must your politics, you need to act upon your conscience, for a safe Uganda. Someone among the names mentioned here asked you, “What is partisan politics?” you did not respond to him!
Politics Of Common Sense
What does Ugandans want to see from this change? Uganda, citizens want politics based on common-sense. When Rv. Fr. Dr. Lawrence Kanyike, wrote that, (Develop Your Areas Like Buganda Did and NRM Govt has no conscience of guilt, 20/06/2008. www.monitor newspaper/ug: Ugandans felt lazy to ask him what it means individually? Today, exactly the same massage Dr.Olara Otunnu, is preaching to all politicians who abandon their native regions and people and immigrate to Buganda region. Who is supposed to take care of their regions and to develop them? There is supposed to be work and money in every area of Uganda. Call it what may, development!
Currency Is A Wide Mirror
Here i am not illustrating on political democracy. Its a simple hint on East African regional economic development. The looming East African federation. Whereby, Rwanda and Tanzania economies appear to be more stable and fast developing than that of Uganda’s? Stability of national currency is a wider mirror we look into every single day to weigh stability of the economy. Tanzania, currency has been stable since the last 25 years on, you have been ruling Uganda.!! You studied economics in Dar es Salaam, and you have failed our Country to apply the experience you acquired from there. In essence, you learned nothing to developing nations. Your ideology is awash apart from other East African great lakes region leaders who’s views suggest contrarily, that developing the people is the main ingredient to developing Nations. You have spent quarter a Century worth of development attacking and killing people, in this East African region.
Poor Planning And Concentration Of People
There is unfair concentrations of so many Ugandans in Buganda region alone. That is cheap politics you offer, by supporting such moves to allow too many people to be dumped on too many heads already. Where do you think Buganda inhabitants should go? Let us be positive on this matter. It is a long time failure, of all Uganda regimes to redress the proportional distribution of national resources and opportunities to every region. Uganda politicians repeat the same pitfalls at every Government. Northern region benefited less from Obote’s era. Obote was obsessed with Busenyi, Ankole, you very well remember it.
The Nubians had their day at Amin’s helm. Still got nothing out of his pockets. Instead of building a modern Town and beautiful residential area at Bombo, major interest was on army barracks only. Museveni, too, is fallowing into Milton Obote’s footsteps, with an edge to develope only a section of already wealthy Westerners. There is one important matter here, for Ugandans to rec-corn about. Time does not forget to arrive. Time will tell!
Proportional Opportunity And Responsibility
All regional leaders need take charge of Regional Security and Development. That’s how it used to be, long ago. In the old good days, there was no need for security intelligence to go to Rwakitura or from Entebe, President’s office, to arrest a person. You remember too, when you were young, nothing like that was allowed to happen. That was regional Police work” All our regions catered for security for local areas. There was no Government Minister, allowed to leave office to go and settle pieces of plots of land disputes, like it appears in your administration. On Tuesday 27 July, 2010: All Uganda Medea: reported your government Minister. Mr.Vincent Nyanzi, being involved in the land wrangles of, 5016, Acres of Land allowed by himself to be purchase at a throw away price of, Sh.5.000.000/= of which case left 1000, poor local communities stranded with no where to go. Next move will see government Ministers taking over traffic wardens off the streets!
For a long while, there has been silent complacency from all top government officials and the whole opposition parties about the on going evil crimes across our Country.
A government Minister, has demonstrated how life in Uganda, to-day, no longer have any value. Even Ministers minds are keen on chasing only for wealth. Mr. President, where were you then, during the so called old good days? Now that you can hardly learn at all from history? All the episodes we witness with laughter to-day, could sum-up, as your total government failure. Proportional Opportunity and Responsibility, (POAR) as suggested herein, is a secure strategy that can drive all Ugandans to fairness and Justice, and start respecting each other. The spirit, like removing the City of Kampala from Buganda region, is unthinkable a matter. Buganda is an entity democracy that raised her own City, how can the state steal from the same State? Once, Mbarara, becomes a City, tomorrow, would you allow it to belong to Buganda Kingdom? This poor gesture alone confirms you look at Uganda, not as one Nation. Buganda and any other region is capable of electing a City bigger and better than Kampala itself. Stop standing in Buganda’s way, so that you look at Buganda and other regions progress alike. I am afraid, your intentions are no more than raising castles in the air. First of all, “You are Mr. Big Waste” Museveni to stake 65bn/= for the general elections in 2011: 28/06/2009, The Oserver newspaper.com/Ug: Ugandan leader to get second jet. Uganda controversially spent $35m, on a private jet for Yoweri Museveni in 2000 while seeking debt relief from the international Monetary Fund (IMF) Stop wasting national resources on a section of people of one region and redistribute the opportunities available squarely to all the regions and narrow the gap between rich and poor and learned and illiteracy? This regime has totally failed to do anything to help the poor, and has broaden this gap. It will need somebody else, to remove this huge poverty gap. Buganda region had the systematic developing structures before the British (Bazuungu), arrived here in Uganda. That system was dismantled by Milton Obote, without informing the nation what was wrong with it.
Re-introduce the system and it will make wonders for our nation again. Decentralization system has failed too, and will not work because the entire Uganda populous are not confident enough will eliminate poverty. Of course, it has spread more poverty and hopefulness for the people your government found with land have been made destitute s by the same government claiming to make them better off.
Traditional Leaders Have Been In Existence Before Colonization:
Traditional leadership, developed the lives especially the poor poor than modern government, of to-day. Therefore, they should be respected and their positions kept intact. Mr. President, when you listen to people now and focus at the reaction you received around the Country, following your muddy letter to the Monarchy, Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi ll, in public view, it was total reverse from what you ever expected. Let me quote for you only a single matter from your cherished subordinate and former Cabinet Member of national resistant movement, NRM, and Minister (on) different regimes.
Mr. J. Bidandi Ssali. He rather cautioned you on tribal politics while he wrote to you.
Bidandi: Cautioned Museveni on Tribalism:
It seems to me the emotion reflected in your reported statement about Buganda, the Kabaka and the Baganda as a tribal entity has subdued logic and objectivity thus blocking reflection and reason.
No one would like to remind you matters that put you off balance. Anyone who has lost a son or daughter, a relative or far away friend, from such intended crime waves. Have got constitutional responsibility to wake you up, from your cozy slumber. People will not forgive you if our people continue to die whilst on taking Oath, you vowed to safeguard all citizens of Uganda with their properties and assumed fullest responsibility for all their lives.
The King of Buganda as singled out by Mr. Bidandi Ssali’s letter, is now loosing thousands of his native people through tribal inflicted dangerous politics and Government segregation policies for instance, the massive land eviction of the poor communities from Buganda to enrich your tribal army generals. Killings fabricated through your love of political violence. Buganda’s political history is the basis of Uganda’s major political and economic progress you are enjoying even today.
Hence, the people of Buganda, have got friends in all parts of Uganda, therefore, they will not stand alone in segregation. Buganda, you remember was only until recently, the super Kingdom in whole, Uganda. No doubt, Buganda has got deep roots in all Provinces of Uganda. Mind you: your Government is slaying Buganda’s friends. If you ignored Bidandi Ssali’s letter, by the time he wrote it, please be wise, to revisit it again and again.
The letter of advice you ignore is a letter of a Wise-man and a highly valued a politician. You can hardly get free and true advice from your tribal empire. “Lubaale Wa Nnyoko”
Remember once again, the time you used to consent with Mr. Joseph Ssemogerere, in conjunction with local security and intelligence fabricated matters. Then you were able to solve the would be complicated situations with a single telephone call. Today, you confuse the citizens of Uganda. All the wonders, you aim at without public consent, have turned into more difficult situations for our Nation and your Presidency. Your initial approach towards tribal wars made you to fail totally, hence, failed to win Kony from confrontation. Once the public lose hope and trust in politicians, never will they trust again.
Late. DR. Milton Obote, is a living example, peace loving Baganda never went back to him!! Even yourself could not trust Milton Obote, again after falling out with you? You will never restore political trust once it has split!! It is very interesting to hear saying that, NRM, unlike other political parties grooms the youth while (DPP) simply frays. Within hours, Mr. Samuel Lubega, a democratic groomed by the Democratic People’s Party, (DPP) plus other members on his campaigning team were innocently attacked by your Militarized Police and thrown in Police custody three times, within one month. Why do you create panic when you are sure no one can defeat you, come National Presidential election, 2011.
Buganda Kingdom’s young promising politician are now seen as government targeted opponents. Because they are attacked more often than any other groups on the campaigning trails. Mr. Mathias Mpuuga a former Member of Buganda Kingdom, Lukiiko, was shot in the leg by a person known as a security operative. How will you interpret such actions before the eyes of peace defenders to side with you when everyone competing with you in the presidential race becomes an evil beast before your eyes?
Mr. President, please take a moment again and examine the level and depth of national tragedies since you become President of this Country, Uganda. Many will agree with me, that there has been no difference between your regime and all previous regimes after 1966. And by all odds, you will have to stay on power after the looming elections, 2011. Many people will be forced to run away from Uganda, if the situation stays currently as it is where the vast majority citizens are antagonizing with inner heart tears. But not everyone will leave this Country cowardly, i promise only one thing to you. I will do compile statics on every crime committed due to lousiness of your security personnel and present it before the next working government. Uganda citizens have slept on political violence now, for so long a time, are badly in need of peaceful but permanent solutions for ever.
National Tragedies:
1. Rose Namuludde, a Mandela college school student, was abducted on her way home, raped and left killed. http://www.bukedde/news\ 16-07-2009.
2. Alice Namutebi 25, years old. A Makerere University graduate, resident at Nansana suburb left home at 6.00.am to go to work in the city center, before she boarded a tax she was hit at her neck with an iron bar and died instantly on Thursday 02 July, 2009.
3. Another University. Kampala Uni, Sseeta Mukono area, lost a 2nd year student while walking to study at 6 am. Within 6 minutes of leaving her home she was hit on head with a metal bar, and died instantly. Such crimes are daily occurrences across the Country. Unfortunately, falls on deaf ears.
4. Emmanuel Kironde, a 6 years old boy, of Nakibizzi, Jinja Road, was abducted on Thursday 16, July 2009, and found Friday with head cut off. How do we know that boy would not become Uganda President in Future?
www.bukedde.co.ug/news\ 19-07-2009. The list is longest, covering all regions in Uganda.
Record Breaking Acid Victims
On Tuesday 9th,September 2008, the recorded numbers of Acid victims totaled, 327. I have particularly watched this situation two years, down the line, this type of crime has only exacerbated. Still Members of Parliament act as if they do not know this disfigurement danger to the public.
Why should the citizens of Uganda be exposed to such dangers, without any single word from the so called government and the entire opposition political parties? New numbers to-day, must be in the legions of thousands!
(Brutal stories are powering in everyday).
Plea for International Assistance
Finally, Mr. President, now that there is fragile hopes from your (Regime) to provide even minimal security, locally. Some areas in Uganda need to be widely investigated and put under Biological control” For more focus on this danger, your government officer was caught in Great Britain, purchasing Bio-Chemical Agents and put behind bars. For what principle purpose should the Uganda government be compelled to look for lethal agents? It does not only worry Ugandans, also all East African leaders near you. However, I am obliged to start a campaign on behalf of all Ugandans to start looking for the international forensic crime experts to come and assist Uganda Police, until all mystery surrounding those atrocities are solved. Now that, Dr. Olara Otunnu, is back to Uganda, with his long experience in foreign relations hopefully, he might have a clue on finding assistance to solving the hard crimes now threatening many ares of our mother country, Uganda.
The British Mornach while openning the Commonwealth Summit {CHOGM} in Uganda, November, 23, 2007, called on the leaders of Commonwealth Community to focus on the challenges facing the youth. Since, that day, President Y.K.Museveni, does not know the vast number of youth being killed during this short period of time.Queen opens the Chogm, calls for mutual respect. www.monitor.com/Friday, November 23,2007.
Thank you so much, Mr. President.
Concerned Citizen Of Uganda.
cc:
1. The British Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II. Head Of The Commonwealth Of Nations.
2. Pope Benedict XVI.
3. King. Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Kabaka Of Buganda.
4. King.Barnabas Dlamini Muswati III. King of Swaziland.
5. Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
6. Archbishop. Dr. John Sentamu. (Sentamu calls for war to topple Mugabe) Monitor online:Africa news. 08/12/2008.
7. The President of the Republic of Tanzania.Dr.Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.
8. Mr.Jerry Lanier, Washington Ambassador to Uganda.
9. Mr. Michael Mansfield, QC.
10. (SPUC) email: political@spuc.org.uk
11. Ingrid Turinawe. Chairperson of Women for Peace.Uganda.
12. Dr.Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka.Under-Secretary-General. (UN) Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT)
13. Prof. Eric Kashambuzi.
14. Secretary General of Amnesty International.
15. UPC President. Dr.Orala Otunnu.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
President, Republic of Uganda.
Uganda Political On Going Violence
Your Excellency, this letter is specifically aimed at calling upon your attention on the height of ongoing violence in Uganda.
The dramatic political violence by your government
Many political and peace observers believe you came into Uganda because it was relatively safe compared to Rwanda/Burundi. It was peaceful; stable and economically progressive, and you enjoyed the fruits of being brought up in that peaceful environment. Immigrant or refuges that come to Uganda or any country initially face hurdles in settling but normally overcome it as your family did.
2. Uganda Is a Sad Story
Recently most regions within Uganda have seen extensive rise in sophisticated political violence which you never saw or experienced during your youthful years. This deliberate violence has created huge mistrust between your regime and the citizens of Uganda. Frankly speaking there has not been a democratic government in Uganda since Dr. Milton Obote seized power in 1966. Uganda is still under an authoritarian regime in the guise of a big Government. Yet from the outset people would think that Uganda’s intelligence network is good enough and well-equipped to handle any violence in Uganda. There is the misconception that Uganda can go non stop for any war within the “East African Great Lakes Region”. This efficient and experienced intelligence agency has failed to handle and stabilize the ongoing politically orchestrated violence; the opposite is happening as we get continued political violence.
Many external observers now believe political mistrust between people and government is the main cause of the current crime wave that appears to be spreading from one region to another. There are daily cases of abductions and killings that are taking place across the country. For instance all around city suburbs women, young and old are being targeted abducted and raped and killed on day by day basis. One is forced to ask the compelling question; “where is the Uganda government attention to all this controllable misconduct”? Does the President reside in Uganda? What does the Speaker of Parliament; the Prime Minister and the Members of Parliament, especially the Lady representing Ruhaama North Constituency, have to say about these crimes? It does appear as if the whole regime if is off sick; there does not seem to be any accountability.
Your Excellency, you are a man who deserves the highest form of respect within the field of military intelligence, and you are one of the most experienced and intelligent Presidents that Uganda has ever had. From as early as 1960 and right up to the present day, you have been involved in military intelligence. Many Ugandans are now beginning to wonder whether this expertise is really beneficial as the government over which you preside cannot bring to a stop or prevent such crude crimes.
Mr. President, I would like to voice another question which is on the lips of most vulnerable Ugandans who no longer feel they are protected by your regime. Alarming numbers of young women from a distance of only five miles away from your Nakasero home have lost lives, at Kawempe and Nansana city suburbs. How would you respond if Joseph Kony turned up at one of these towns and raped and murdered the citizens as the situation now stands. Would you trust your National intelligence network to handle this pressing matter immediately? Would your so called Government not warn the poor citizens of the dangers in these localities? Or would you label your intelligence a failure? Or would you just promote them to higher positions of responsibility and spread them to Uganda embassies around the world as it so often happens? Continued early morning abductions and the ritual killing children are taking place even now when I am writing to you!
You hear as everybody else does, that many citizens are “hit brutally on the head with heavy metal objects and left dead in many parts of the country”. That nature of crime is common place in every area of Uganda and it no longer makes national news. In fact it is business as usual in the eyes of your respective Ministers! Is Honorable Kirunda Kivejinja still Minister for Internal Affairs, or is he on permanent leave from this post? How about other security Ministers and what is their understanding of security matters?
What was witnessed in Luwero Triangle during the bush war, and in Acholi; Teso, Karamoja and Kasese, and Mbarara now has taken deep roots specifically in Buganda Kingdom. I believe in one Nation, our Country Uganda, as you also do Mr. President, so let us forget tribal politics.
Tribal politics is a disease worse than cancer in that it destroys our people’s senses. It is a disease once again, killing Uganda citizens like in all the preceding regimes, of which you have at certain times taken part and of course as you preach to the world, prompted you to take arms and fight to restore “democracy in Uganda”. Which democracy if I may ask again? Tribal politics should have ceased with Dr. Milton Obote. You were around when this beautiful Country was torn apart by tribal violence, which you have bragged that by and large, was the prime reason for you to resort to arms to rescue Ugandans from anarchy and the love of gun power. One wonders what was your actual intention for waging the bush war. Was it sadism as you appear to like it when people die of poverty and brutality? Why does carnage follow wherever you intervene? I would be surprised if all you ever wanted was not just the chance to have a go.
‘Obote’s charismatic charm could not allow him to look beyond his nose’, and he died regretting the deadly acts he did to sections of Ugandan populace. I am afraid you are sailing in the same direction and your legacy will not be different from Obote’s total failure. Today you are viewed not only by Ugandans but worldwide, as a foresighted man simply because of the decision initially you took against Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada. Mr. President, let me be the last one to raise my fears for you, for what many citizens observe as a precursor of your predecessor’s brutal regimes that dismantled traditional leadership in Uganda.
Cultural Institutions (for) Democracy
Many Ugandans went to schools and were at one point or another had treatment in hospitals that once belonged to cultural leadership. It is lamentable that during your Presidency, all Ugandans particularly yourself should have refrained from this tribal danger and root ourselves into real democracy as one Nation, Uganda. The political situation under your leadership has reached a point where the vast majority Ugandan, especially the Traditional Leadership, are scared for their lives and you do not seem to notice or care what is going on across the country. Since you became the absolute ruler of Uganda, setting on fire of cultural institutions and private properties has gone out of control. Hence, intentionally, you have created depressed societies in Uganda. Political citizenship standing against tribe seems to be escalating political violence in a very systematic way with your sole backing. That is total reverse to 1800 AD, tribal conflicts whereby, Baganda and Banyoro and Acholi, used not to have anything better to do so they engaged each other in tribal wars, which you definitely hear and enjoy watching wherever it unfolds every single day.
(That Is Dramatic Violence to Be Precise)
You may not deny having a strong motive in the whole tribal saga, because you are doing nothing apart from entertaining historic conflicts. Summing-up this disturbing matter, something is lacking here; effective responsible leadership!
Historic Conflicts
Many Ugandans have been completely unaware of the histrionic names such as (Bafuuriki).!! The waters you disturbed in Bunyoro region have not calm down yet, and, the victors from Bunyoro, Buluuli, Bugerere, Teso and Karamoja and Acholi and Teso, are yet to be seen. For a quarter of a Century, you have clung on Ugandans heads it has made all the people of the regions of Uganda, become more curious of the need to return to;
“Uganda Historical Provincial Block Leadership”
For instance: Uganda government begun in hasty bankruptcy. It has no properties to house and run all government work; therefore, it hired properties belonging to Buganda Kingdom. Milton Obote 2nd president of Uganda after King Edward Muteesa II, on realizing that he could not fulfill his government’s commitment to pay all due fees in rent arrears, he decided to abolish traditional leadership and confiscate all traditional institutions.
25 years ago, to-day, on YK.Museveni, coming to power you promised to fulfill all earlier governments commitments by paying all due fees in rent arrears. Have you yourself, fulfilled that commitment yet? From, 1962-2011, it’s almost 5 decades, governments promising to hone our nation to betterment. Is that how nations are built by sticking on telling lies to the citizens?
Mr. President, encourage all Uganda communities to develop their respective regions as Buganda region did before and stop using tribes and regions for personal selfish political interests and threats. Bearing it deeply in your mind that, you do not own Uganda, as your personal asset! But only rule it and for awhile. Uganda is free for all, so every region has got sole potential to develop and protect itself from your bred segregation.
Mr. President, can you honestly say that you can notice any difference between the atrocities caused by Joseph Kony, (LRA) and by the intelligence thugs that are leading to kill the innocent people ruthlessly across our country?
According to Uganda government news reports, 70, people were killed between February, 2009 and July, 2009, in Masaka, Rakai, Lyantonde, and Sembabule Districts, by hitting them on heads and necks with iron bars, while many are being found with necks cut off. Plus 80 innocent Karamajongo people killed in-front of cameras at Karamoja District, by a division of your armed forces so they can raid herds of their cattle, freely. The number of those suffered injuries were not reported and their fate unknown. So, is it policy of your regime, to shoot and kill the citizens, without arrest? If, it is not you, to encourage it, who is behind and responsible for killing people so cheaply without state intervention, if at all there is a Government in Uganda? Don’t you feel ashamed to tell every Mother and Father in Uganda that Joseph Kony is the one killing their loved ones, even in city areas? How many of those killers have been charged with murder cases, and already sentenced? If a state cannot protect her citizens, what is its viability? Is it not high time you accept like many other Ugandans have done that you are hanging on a failed state?
In a damning Justice report also released (August 2009) indicate 76.3% of cases that go to court, Nationwide, remain unresolved. But you can afford to fly utmost expensive Jets, by African standards!! Don’t you realize that lack of resources can hinder the quality of justices in Uganda, to-day? Why was it not like that in the 1960′s, when you were young?
Who Is Behind Cult Invasion
The majority Uganda citizens, cannot help thinking this is a well planned long strategy by some of your army Generals who have grabbed the citizens lands recently. Before the new and old boy network of youthful army Generals turned into a wealthy class of generals and City tycoons, this systematic type of cult activities were not known around and it is linked to two sections of our society.
(1) The greedy people, are being encouraged by a section of top wealthy people, who promise them hundred thousands of money to go and kill persons and supply them as body parts to a gang of criminals involved in cult activities and the one’s running human body parts business. Surprisingly, for a number of occasions you have been heard talking about this rotten matter, you do not oppose cult activities and the crimes it bears! This section is composed of gangs of people with military background. Some of whom were thrown out of the army and the one’s deserted it. Who have continued to live a dangerous life without psyche-care, whatsoever?
(2) There is a group of wealthy city tycoons who have obtained a lot of money that they do not know what to do with it. They got money through deception and hope to keep it by engaging in devilish cult activities. That section involves some foreign criminal gangs. How can you, an assumed modern man, tolerate devilish cult missions in Uganda, a business of the would be only illiterate.
You have informed Ugandans that during your Presidency, that a mere section of Ugandans have become so rich. While that section consists of city tycoons linked to the deadly cult centers reported to involve in brutal slaughter activities of the people you lead. Reference: {Kanungu Inferno} Your government did not take any trouble to know or totally ignored what was going inside Joseph Kibwetere’s cult, so are many others. I, therefore, cannot help wondering if your office (has) got hands on the statistics of the total number of cults in Uganda and their permanent members.
Don’t you believe the whole saga need to be investigated in order to restore the people’s peace of mind? You still remember very well that this cult danger dates back even before Joseph Kibwetere’s cult, set ablaze many unknown people in Western region. Professor. Yusufu Kironde Lule, former President of Uganda died after had raised fears about it. For such deadly implications, you should be worried because this cult invasion is helping to spread so much brutality to the vulnerable people. Let us encourage our people to study more rather than supporting stupidity. Ugandans will not be safe until all cult activities are barred. In public interest, if you are really serious man you would do one example for once;
(A) Hours of curfew should be imposed on all (Masabo) Imitated traditional healer’s Shrines and all traditional healers performing at night.
(B) Anyone caught disregarding the new order should face the firing squad as Idi Amin Dada, did to the city robbers.
It is common knowledge at every corner of the Country that every cult murder case of this nature involves money, a tycoon and a greedy person and foreigner business people. Evidence is prevalently available that thugs abduct children and sell them to murderers
for less than 100, Pounds!! www.observer.news/uganda: 2,500 children go missing in Jan-April, 2009. www.bukede newspaper: Sut, 04/12/2010. Further confirmed reports are in that a man. Joseph Ssegawa was advanced with Shs.100.000, in Uganda currency to hunt for his ex-girlfriend, Regina Nakayiza he slaughtered at a price, equivalent to, 30, Pounds starling worth, in order to get rich.
Newvision.co.ug/news: 21/12/2010. Iron Bar Thugs Kill Six In Mukono. Among them is 20-year old student girl, Violet Nalubwama. A student of Kampala University, killed on
1st, December, 2010.
MS. Sylvia Namutebi (Maama Fiina) She was concerned that some of your ex-soldiers are among groups in the act of abducting and killing people to supply the human body parts business, a hot cake in Kampala City, today. www.Bukedd newspaper. February, 26-2009-27/07/2010. A Uganda Parliamentary committee, led by Gabriel Opio. Confirmed reports that some medical professionals in hospitals also involved in such develish acts. And MP. Isha Otto (Oyama South) agreed to such reports. www.bukedde newspaper. Tuesday 27, July 2010.
Now, you can realize how dangerous it is tribal segregation policies can induced a section of the public to own exorbitant sums of money while the rest of the citizen’s hands are tied up in abject poverty and brutality. Is it not absurd though, for a leader of a Country, to (gesture) at a Republic in fractions of people? What does Republican means to you? No doubt, poverty and stupidity are two important issues and major degrading element City tycoons have taken advantage of the poor to accelerate this situation. That section of wealthy class have a goal yet the majority poor does not have a clue what is going around them in secret.
The whole situation in Uganda, to be frank with you, does not need childish decisions, it is a serious national criminal war, and need only tough stance like the following:
A court of government of the Republic of Tanzania, it was reported, on 24,October 2008, by Allafrica.com/news: A man Gets 60 Years for Rape and Robbery. The Singida Resident Magistrate’s Court convicted Samson Samuel a 26-year old to 60 years in jail. If the Tanzanian Court can do this, why can’t the Uganda Courts do it? (Lack of govt regulations fuels cult activities in Uganda: By Denis Mutabazi. www.monitor online/10/09/2008.
“Bw’ova Ku Byange Genda Ku Wa Ngatto!
Dead silent Complacency. Surprisingly, out of the total number of Members of Parliament only one MP; Mathias Nsubuga [Bukoto South] has raised the abduction matter to the house of Parliament. Whereas MP. Mr. Latif Ssebaggala (Kawempe North) where a lot of abduction and raping and killing of women and children have taken our nation with overwhelming surprise, are dead quite on this danger. When will all Members of Parliament come out in open to defend the vulnerable people by securing maximum security to all the citizens within their constituencies? If Parliament takes a lead, Government will act:
Regional Security Commission of Inquiry
Parliament is supposed to debate National issues and policy and Parliament is also meant to decide on the best way of implementing these policies. MP. Mr.Elias Lukwaago, Kampala Central, pointed out a finger to the current Parliament and said that its a rubber stamp. For deadly acts that does not happen in Rwanda or Tanzania, are major topics at every breakfast table in our Country, Uganda. However, Uganda Parliament is failing her citizens because the vast majority Member’s of Parliament, are currently not showing enough interest in defending the Country’s most vulnerable citizens. Yet all MP’s enjoy pocketing, Shs:14.5m, par month without sparing any minutes to listen to vulnerable people. I hope that all Members of Parliament including yourself, Mr. YK Museveni, President, of Uganda, that will find logic in setting-up an urgent regional public security commission of inquiry to loot out those most stupid crime acts.
To be able to fully understand the height of misery inflicted on parents in this Nation,Uganda, i suggest that you ask Honorable, MP. Mukono North, Mrs. Betty Nambooze Bakireeke to make a public announcement on all Radio/TV, stations, of Uganda and appeal to everyone that has lost a relative in the on-going crime waves to assemble at Mandela Nambole stadium, that is and i hope, when you will gain glimpse of understanding the pain parents and relatives are suffering. Suffering from the terrible loss of their loved ones, and personal trauma that compounds a lasting fear of losing what is left with them. Further reports spreading-out again show that this area, Mukono North Constituency, in the last four months has lost more than 20 citizens all in murder cases since Betty Nambooze Bakireeke, worn that seat. When one perishes to-day, there is little hope the next one will not fallow next day! Your negligence of security for individual lives created an impossible situation to live in Uganda.
Yourself, in conjunction with some of your tribal army generals you have sung louder one song , terrorists, rebels and bandits for now more than 25 years, since you became Uganda’s ruler. Again political observers point a finger at you that you do set-up certain bandit units to trap the fed-up citizens in case they utter a single word of criticism against your administration. Thus, prisons are full to capacity of people whom you are quite aware were caught up in your planned traps and the state can hardly produce any credible evidence in the Courts of law to convict them. Many assumed innocent prisoners are left to starve without food and hardly provided with medical-care.
Uganda High Court Judge. Benjamin Kabiito, denied bail to 23 Men, Buganda suspects after one year in jail. www.monitor news.com/ 09-09-2010.
To continue to torment the Monarchy of Buganda, you set-up the trap between, 10-12, September, 2009, and your security operatives shot and killed 30 persons and 70, totally innocent persons were sent to prison without any human feeling from the trapper, the State of Kampala. We argue you to reconsider government decision with regard to sending selected ethnic groups of people to prisons without trial is most likely to sparking more conflicts.
Conflicts Made Out Of Political Propaganda
Do you think you will ever win the conflicts made out of political propaganda? Don’t you see, people get fed up to hear the same song every day that people get wiser and need change? Some people are aware, that for quite a long time, it has remained a prime task of your intelligence network, to create enmity among political parties leaders and their followers in order for you to weaken them and hang on power at all costs, like Mobutu Sese Seko, did. Suppose you were on the opposition bench in Zimbabwean Parliament, could you tolerate Mugabe’s political mode? Then, why don’t you welcome politics of peace, vacuous and change and eliminate institutionalized corruption?
Institutionalized Corruption
The Uganda Police force it is alleged is one of the most corrupt institutions in the Country. Police commanders and intelligence chiefs in areas where sophisticated killings are taking place are dominated by people from one tribal regime. You can see the jump in serious crimes, tribal tendencies have created! Above all, is that not sectarian of his Presidency, to put only people of one region, Western region, in control of (the) entire security key jobs? Can’t you see, that this imbalance of responsibility that is a major factor to criminal negligence you uttered about when all, 20 young under age children at Budo Junior school girls perished in school fire. Have all the parent whose children were innocently set on fire, have had a fair trail? If the State police cannot handle criminal cases satisfactorily, where are you leading Uganda?
Once again, i will refer you to Mr. Vincent Nuwagaba’s recent report on Uganda tribal Police atrocities. As if that was not enough to spread anxiety among the general public, on Sunday, 25/04/2010. Daily Monitor newspaper, and the entire Uganda media reported promotion of 31 Police Officers which now leaves no doubt, whatsoever, once again, quite clear how you are totally determined to create: sole tribe Police force. How many Police Officers from other regions were promoted on this long list? Can’t you see, that is another tribal crusade? And another big mistake!
The delightful job that tribal Police force does to certify you with regard to such wide ranging human rights violations and abuse, once they collect the dead bodies and issue recorded case numbers, that is the end of the matter, job accomplished!! The Nation can only blame this Police force, when you inform the public the main causes of institutionalized corruption stinking out in all Government Departments.
Security Advisers:
Some of your security advisers are well known out spoken Military Generals. It sounds weird as the men make scandalous comments on people’s lands, and expect the victims of land evictions to gain interest from them to trust and protect the public with its properties already on tiptoes to be deprived of the only asset they own. A few names are among the listed Generals, implicated as land grabbers. All in all, national security needs a committee of trustworthy individuals comprising all the regions in our Country to represent all Uganda communities.
To-day, the people of Uganda, have more doubts about your national security advisers, than at any other time before. Such as Major Kakooza Mutale and your press secretary. The behavior of such individuals are not professional at all, to represent public interests.
I was appointed to destroy newspapers, says Nagenda in News Headlines.
www.daily monitor newspaper. Saturday, 22/12/2007, and i quote: Mr.Jonh Nagenda, senior presidential adviser on media and public relations said he was happy to do an assignment that required the closure of newspapers that the government considers critical. Speaking as chief guest at the 2nd annual Golden Pen Journalism Awards in Kampala, on Wednesday; Mr. John Nagenda, said he had fulfilled his job by closing down the Daily Monitor several times and getting some of its managers transferred. And senior presidential security adviser, Maj.Gen. Tinyefunza, has gone public calling upon the poor to attack prominent land owners,. Immediate results indicates, your most senior advisers create confusion with intent. And blood is spilling over in the Country due to military’s interference in land matters. Whose fault that would be? Is it not the Military ruler and his Generals?
Open Criticism Helps
Mr. President. You have told all critics of yours on political violence and tumult that are retarded. But you may note, among your strongest critics are some astute citizens of Uganda: Such as, Mzee Boniface Byanyima one time your principle guardian and his family. Dr. Joseph Oloka Onyango, MP.Haji Hussein Kyanjo, Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, Prof. GW.Kanyeihamba and Fr. Gaetano Batanyenda and Rt. Rev. Edward Muhima and Rv.Fr. Carlos Rodriguez so many others. Since all these names mentioned does not belong to one area block, you have to be more careful what you utter out in public. I assure you, non of us, your strongest critics are mad. Once again, look at these names above, and note that criticism of you comes from across all the regions of Uganda. And the utmost criticism of yours derived from Western region, your home area. Does that offer you something to take in?
“Are their criticisms really not valid?“
(A) As you disregard your critics above, how about particularly, that respectful lady, needless to mention her name. MP, for Ruhaama County. Note: The Ruhaama MP, accused some (NRM) leaders of using blackmail as a political weapon to undermine one another. (I am tired of ( NRM) intrigue) She observed: www.observer.ug/news/ Wednesday, 28 January, 2009. What do you make of this statement, is this bad criticism too?
(B) Fr. Batanyenda wrote;
Honorable Members, although you lost the inner voice [conscience] and all ethical ethos of patriotism and good leadership and got yourself entangled in the maze of political favor and gourmandism, i remind you that you have an ethical and constitutional obligation to protect lives of the people in Uganda and their property. Unless you become politically and socially philanthropic and public-spirited you will land our country into an abyss of disintegration, hatred and chaos. http://www.monitor.co.ug/ 20-07-2009. What more would you like to hear?
(C) Capt. Guma Gumisiriza (Ibanda North) In the same meeting said. Mr.President, you should reactivate the intelligence system, both military and civil. Instead of painting a rosy picture. We need to get reliable information from the ground. You should ensure reliable information reaches you!!
Again, can’t you see there is regional concern in this point? All formidable names quoted here represents vast views of people from the regions they belong to, areas worst affected. Relaying on false information does a lot of harm and damage to you and to your entire leadership, Mr. President.
(D) My Story:
Former, Buganda Kingdom: Katikkiro Joseph Ssemogerere, recently in an article, www.ugandaobserver newspaper: Dated: Sunday 12 July, 2009. Written by Ssemuju Ibrahim Nganda.
I told him that i was sorry for him because he probably did not have intelligence officers (to write home about) i told him that if they (intelligence officers) actually wrote the things he was telling me, then they were totally misleading him and might one day lead him into trouble because such things did not exist anywhere.
Intelligence Branders Causing Divisiveness in Political Elitism
Mr. President, i will not go for names here, but you know what lays in store for the Acholi political Elites. Have you now come across the intelligence branders which are simply causing huge gaps and more mistrust among Ugandans? For your information, further reports tell of the youth gangs based in England, USA and South Africa, that your regime spoils on a lot of Uganda tax payer’s money simply, to feed you with empty lies!!
”The empty tin that sounds most”.
Do you really believe the work done for you in those Nations is worthy a penny? The Observer newspaper.com/ug: 06/09/2007, referred to it as a clique of petty crooks.
Mulwanyammuli, disclosed someone invidious being isolated himself from the Country’s civil society that you know longer welcome counsel from the wise-people. Wise man’s counsel means people will always differ on certain issues. One person cannot be always right on all matters. You may, as well recall, Mr. Mulwanyammuli Semogerere, he is not the first one to get worried for you. Justice. GW.Kanyeihamba, too, warned so, numberless times. Once again, you would borrow this new leaf and heed advice from your burning critics. Please do not take criticism for blame. Uganda, now have to change, so must your politics, you need to act upon your conscience, for a safe Uganda. Someone among the names mentioned here asked you, “What is partisan politics?” you did not respond to him!
Politics Of Common Sense
What does Ugandans want to see from this change? Uganda, citizens want politics based on common-sense. When Rv. Fr. Dr. Lawrence Kanyike, wrote that, (Develop Your Areas Like Buganda Did and NRM Govt has no conscience of guilt, 20/06/2008. www.monitor newspaper/ug: Ugandans felt lazy to ask him what it means individually? Today, exactly the same massage Dr.Olara Otunnu, is preaching to all politicians who abandon their native regions and people and immigrate to Buganda region. Who is supposed to take care of their regions and to develop them? There is supposed to be work and money in every area of Uganda. Call it what may, development!
Currency Is A Wide Mirror
Here i am not illustrating on political democracy. Its a simple hint on East African regional economic development. The looming East African federation. Whereby, Rwanda and Tanzania economies appear to be more stable and fast developing than that of Uganda’s? Stability of national currency is a wider mirror we look into every single day to weigh stability of the economy. Tanzania, currency has been stable since the last 25 years on, you have been ruling Uganda.!! You studied economics in Dar es Salaam, and you have failed our Country to apply the experience you acquired from there. In essence, you learned nothing to developing nations. Your ideology is awash apart from other East African great lakes region leaders who’s views suggest contrarily, that developing the people is the main ingredient to developing Nations. You have spent quarter a Century worth of development attacking and killing people, in this East African region.
Poor Planning And Concentration Of People
There is unfair concentrations of so many Ugandans in Buganda region alone. That is cheap politics you offer, by supporting such moves to allow too many people to be dumped on too many heads already. Where do you think Buganda inhabitants should go? Let us be positive on this matter. It is a long time failure, of all Uganda regimes to redress the proportional distribution of national resources and opportunities to every region. Uganda politicians repeat the same pitfalls at every Government. Northern region benefited less from Obote’s era. Obote was obsessed with Busenyi, Ankole, you very well remember it.
The Nubians had their day at Amin’s helm. Still got nothing out of his pockets. Instead of building a modern Town and beautiful residential area at Bombo, major interest was on army barracks only. Museveni, too, is fallowing into Milton Obote’s footsteps, with an edge to develope only a section of already wealthy Westerners. There is one important matter here, for Ugandans to rec-corn about. Time does not forget to arrive. Time will tell!
Proportional Opportunity And Responsibility
All regional leaders need take charge of Regional Security and Development. That’s how it used to be, long ago. In the old good days, there was no need for security intelligence to go to Rwakitura or from Entebe, President’s office, to arrest a person. You remember too, when you were young, nothing like that was allowed to happen. That was regional Police work” All our regions catered for security for local areas. There was no Government Minister, allowed to leave office to go and settle pieces of plots of land disputes, like it appears in your administration. On Tuesday 27 July, 2010: All Uganda Medea: reported your government Minister. Mr.Vincent Nyanzi, being involved in the land wrangles of, 5016, Acres of Land allowed by himself to be purchase at a throw away price of, Sh.5.000.000/= of which case left 1000, poor local communities stranded with no where to go. Next move will see government Ministers taking over traffic wardens off the streets!
For a long while, there has been silent complacency from all top government officials and the whole opposition parties about the on going evil crimes across our Country.
A government Minister, has demonstrated how life in Uganda, to-day, no longer have any value. Even Ministers minds are keen on chasing only for wealth. Mr. President, where were you then, during the so called old good days? Now that you can hardly learn at all from history? All the episodes we witness with laughter to-day, could sum-up, as your total government failure. Proportional Opportunity and Responsibility, (POAR) as suggested herein, is a secure strategy that can drive all Ugandans to fairness and Justice, and start respecting each other. The spirit, like removing the City of Kampala from Buganda region, is unthinkable a matter. Buganda is an entity democracy that raised her own City, how can the state steal from the same State? Once, Mbarara, becomes a City, tomorrow, would you allow it to belong to Buganda Kingdom? This poor gesture alone confirms you look at Uganda, not as one Nation. Buganda and any other region is capable of electing a City bigger and better than Kampala itself. Stop standing in Buganda’s way, so that you look at Buganda and other regions progress alike. I am afraid, your intentions are no more than raising castles in the air. First of all, “You are Mr. Big Waste” Museveni to stake 65bn/= for the general elections in 2011: 28/06/2009, The Oserver newspaper.com/Ug: Ugandan leader to get second jet. Uganda controversially spent $35m, on a private jet for Yoweri Museveni in 2000 while seeking debt relief from the international Monetary Fund (IMF) Stop wasting national resources on a section of people of one region and redistribute the opportunities available squarely to all the regions and narrow the gap between rich and poor and learned and illiteracy? This regime has totally failed to do anything to help the poor, and has broaden this gap. It will need somebody else, to remove this huge poverty gap. Buganda region had the systematic developing structures before the British (Bazuungu), arrived here in Uganda. That system was dismantled by Milton Obote, without informing the nation what was wrong with it.
Re-introduce the system and it will make wonders for our nation again. Decentralization system has failed too, and will not work because the entire Uganda populous are not confident enough will eliminate poverty. Of course, it has spread more poverty and hopefulness for the people your government found with land have been made destitute s by the same government claiming to make them better off.
Traditional Leaders Have Been In Existence Before Colonization:
Traditional leadership, developed the lives especially the poor poor than modern government, of to-day. Therefore, they should be respected and their positions kept intact. Mr. President, when you listen to people now and focus at the reaction you received around the Country, following your muddy letter to the Monarchy, Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi ll, in public view, it was total reverse from what you ever expected. Let me quote for you only a single matter from your cherished subordinate and former Cabinet Member of national resistant movement, NRM, and Minister (on) different regimes.
Mr. J. Bidandi Ssali. He rather cautioned you on tribal politics while he wrote to you.
Bidandi: Cautioned Museveni on Tribalism:
It seems to me the emotion reflected in your reported statement about Buganda, the Kabaka and the Baganda as a tribal entity has subdued logic and objectivity thus blocking reflection and reason.
No one would like to remind you matters that put you off balance. Anyone who has lost a son or daughter, a relative or far away friend, from such intended crime waves. Have got constitutional responsibility to wake you up, from your cozy slumber. People will not forgive you if our people continue to die whilst on taking Oath, you vowed to safeguard all citizens of Uganda with their properties and assumed fullest responsibility for all their lives.
The King of Buganda as singled out by Mr. Bidandi Ssali’s letter, is now loosing thousands of his native people through tribal inflicted dangerous politics and Government segregation policies for instance, the massive land eviction of the poor communities from Buganda to enrich your tribal army generals. Killings fabricated through your love of political violence. Buganda’s political history is the basis of Uganda’s major political and economic progress you are enjoying even today.
Hence, the people of Buganda, have got friends in all parts of Uganda, therefore, they will not stand alone in segregation. Buganda, you remember was only until recently, the super Kingdom in whole, Uganda. No doubt, Buganda has got deep roots in all Provinces of Uganda. Mind you: your Government is slaying Buganda’s friends. If you ignored Bidandi Ssali’s letter, by the time he wrote it, please be wise, to revisit it again and again.
The letter of advice you ignore is a letter of a Wise-man and a highly valued a politician. You can hardly get free and true advice from your tribal empire. “Lubaale Wa Nnyoko”
Remember once again, the time you used to consent with Mr. Joseph Ssemogerere, in conjunction with local security and intelligence fabricated matters. Then you were able to solve the would be complicated situations with a single telephone call. Today, you confuse the citizens of Uganda. All the wonders, you aim at without public consent, have turned into more difficult situations for our Nation and your Presidency. Your initial approach towards tribal wars made you to fail totally, hence, failed to win Kony from confrontation. Once the public lose hope and trust in politicians, never will they trust again.
Late. DR. Milton Obote, is a living example, peace loving Baganda never went back to him!! Even yourself could not trust Milton Obote, again after falling out with you? You will never restore political trust once it has split!! It is very interesting to hear saying that, NRM, unlike other political parties grooms the youth while (DPP) simply frays. Within hours, Mr. Samuel Lubega, a democratic groomed by the Democratic People’s Party, (DPP) plus other members on his campaigning team were innocently attacked by your Militarized Police and thrown in Police custody three times, within one month. Why do you create panic when you are sure no one can defeat you, come National Presidential election, 2011.
Buganda Kingdom’s young promising politician are now seen as government targeted opponents. Because they are attacked more often than any other groups on the campaigning trails. Mr. Mathias Mpuuga a former Member of Buganda Kingdom, Lukiiko, was shot in the leg by a person known as a security operative. How will you interpret such actions before the eyes of peace defenders to side with you when everyone competing with you in the presidential race becomes an evil beast before your eyes?
Mr. President, please take a moment again and examine the level and depth of national tragedies since you become President of this Country, Uganda. Many will agree with me, that there has been no difference between your regime and all previous regimes after 1966. And by all odds, you will have to stay on power after the looming elections, 2011. Many people will be forced to run away from Uganda, if the situation stays currently as it is where the vast majority citizens are antagonizing with inner heart tears. But not everyone will leave this Country cowardly, i promise only one thing to you. I will do compile statics on every crime committed due to lousiness of your security personnel and present it before the next working government. Uganda citizens have slept on political violence now, for so long a time, are badly in need of peaceful but permanent solutions for ever.
National Tragedies:
1. Rose Namuludde, a Mandela college school student, was abducted on her way home, raped and left killed. http://www.bukedde/news\ 16-07-2009.
2. Alice Namutebi 25, years old. A Makerere University graduate, resident at Nansana suburb left home at 6.00.am to go to work in the city center, before she boarded a tax she was hit at her neck with an iron bar and died instantly on Thursday 02 July, 2009.
3. Another University. Kampala Uni, Sseeta Mukono area, lost a 2nd year student while walking to study at 6 am. Within 6 minutes of leaving her home she was hit on head with a metal bar, and died instantly. Such crimes are daily occurrences across the Country. Unfortunately, falls on deaf ears.
4. Emmanuel Kironde, a 6 years old boy, of Nakibizzi, Jinja Road, was abducted on Thursday 16, July 2009, and found Friday with head cut off. How do we know that boy would not become Uganda President in Future?
www.bukedde.co.ug/news\ 19-07-2009. The list is longest, covering all regions in Uganda.
Record Breaking Acid Victims
On Tuesday 9th,September 2008, the recorded numbers of Acid victims totaled, 327. I have particularly watched this situation two years, down the line, this type of crime has only exacerbated. Still Members of Parliament act as if they do not know this disfigurement danger to the public.
Why should the citizens of Uganda be exposed to such dangers, without any single word from the so called government and the entire opposition political parties? New numbers to-day, must be in the legions of thousands!
(Brutal stories are powering in everyday).
Plea for International Assistance
Finally, Mr. President, now that there is fragile hopes from your (Regime) to provide even minimal security, locally. Some areas in Uganda need to be widely investigated and put under Biological control” For more focus on this danger, your government officer was caught in Great Britain, purchasing Bio-Chemical Agents and put behind bars. For what principle purpose should the Uganda government be compelled to look for lethal agents? It does not only worry Ugandans, also all East African leaders near you. However, I am obliged to start a campaign on behalf of all Ugandans to start looking for the international forensic crime experts to come and assist Uganda Police, until all mystery surrounding those atrocities are solved. Now that, Dr. Olara Otunnu, is back to Uganda, with his long experience in foreign relations hopefully, he might have a clue on finding assistance to solving the hard crimes now threatening many ares of our mother country, Uganda.
The British Mornach while openning the Commonwealth Summit {CHOGM} in Uganda, November, 23, 2007, called on the leaders of Commonwealth Community to focus on the challenges facing the youth. Since, that day, President Y.K.Museveni, does not know the vast number of youth being killed during this short period of time.Queen opens the Chogm, calls for mutual respect. www.monitor.com/Friday, November 23,2007.
Thank you so much, Mr. President.
Concerned Citizen Of Uganda.
cc:
1. The British Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II. Head Of The Commonwealth Of Nations.
2. Pope Benedict XVI.
3. King. Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Kabaka Of Buganda.
4. King.Barnabas Dlamini Muswati III. King of Swaziland.
5. Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
6. Archbishop. Dr. John Sentamu. (Sentamu calls for war to topple Mugabe) Monitor online:Africa news. 08/12/2008.
7. The President of the Republic of Tanzania.Dr.Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.
8. Mr.Jerry Lanier, Washington Ambassador to Uganda.
9. Mr. Michael Mansfield, QC.
10. (SPUC) email: political@spuc.org.uk
11. Ingrid Turinawe. Chairperson of Women for Peace.Uganda.
12. Dr.Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka.Under-Secretary-General. (UN) Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT)
13. Prof. Eric Kashambuzi.
14. Secretary General of Amnesty International.
15. UPC President. Dr.Orala Otunnu.
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