REMEMBERING LUCKY DUBE

I dont believe he was simply killed because of his car. If you look at Lucky Dube's lyrics and the message in his music, and then take a look at the similarities to any other person who has told us we are equal, to live together in peace and harmony u will understand the reason for his assasination. Unfortunatly history keeps repeating itself and all light is (as silently and hushed down as possible) being put to darkness. Rest in peace Dube

Without Buganda, Uganda is useless to me. As simple as that

Hello Ugandans,

It is my right to choose what is best for me. I have never benefited from this arrangement called Uganda.  Uganda has never given me anything apart from a passport. I'm soon going to post my Uganda passport to Rwabyomere. After all I'm not using it. That is the only thing of yours that I have ever had.  All you have offered to me and my tribe is violence, hatred, Ganda-phobia and robbery. My relationship with Uganda is clearly defined in the conditions which we signed in 1962.

You robbed Buganda's house and turned it into your embassy, you occupied our palaces after 1966, you robbed everything that our grandparents worked for, and above all, you committed naked rapes against our people holding them at AK47-point. Tell me why I should be proud of being a Ugandan? Forming this thing called Uganda was as a result of naked-rapes and other grotesque violation of our rights and dignity. You use the Lubiri as a rape and torture centre.

If you are going to sell this thing called Uganda to me, you need to find another selling point and that is federal Simple.

What is more important to me and my fellow Baganda? Is it the artificial identity called Uganda or my natural identity of being a Muganda? If you use AK47 to force me into Uganda and then undermine my natural identity, do you think that you will succeed in keeping me captive?

 If Museveni dare abolish Buganda, undermine our identity, Kabaka and culture, believe me, you will have to kill us all if you are to succeed. This is the biggest mistake which Mengo did. We should not have joined this arrangement called Uganda because we have different cultures and values with the people that we joined. They do not have the same cultures and traditions as us. And such, you do not understand what we stand for. The earlier Uganda adopts a federal system of government the better. Otherwise, we might very soon see another wave of people asking us "Wapi Njia Ya Nakapiripiti"

RICHARD MUKASA
LONDON

Current Justice Minister,Otafiire, Should release the contents of the CIVHR report

Dear Ugandans,

A lot of atrocities have been committed against Ugandans since independence and this subject is dominating almost all debates among Ugandans on a daily basis. From Milton Obote(1 and 11), Iddil Amin to Museveni, Ugandans have been unjustifiably killed and we continue to endlessly point fingers at each other up to now. The real problem is that we have never had a real truth and reconciliation commission to help put certain questions to bed. More so, it would have helped if the current Uganda government had released the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights perpetrated from 1961 until 1986. The Commission’s role was to inquire into “the causes and circumstances” surrounding mass murders, arbitrary arrests, the role of law enforcement agents and the state security agencies, and discrimination which occurred during that time.

Justice Arthur Haggai Okelo Oder.

The commission was chaired by Justice Oder and it was also supposed to suggest various ways in which we were to make sure that such human rights violations did not happen again in our country. Nevertheless, going by what has happened so far since 1986, it looks like we shall need another commission for the period NRM have been in power. Apart from Oder, the other five commissioners were: John Nagenda(NRM),Dr. Edward Khiddu-Makubuya (now NRM),Dr. Jack Luyombya(NRM and he was in the bush with M7),John Kawanga( Neutral but I guess he is now NRM),Joan Kakwenzire( Women advocate and historian). I think the current Vice president, Edward Ssekandi, was also part of the commission.

I believe that Dr. Makubuya was not affiliated with any political party in 1986. He valued his Yale academic credentials so much then that he did not feel the need to join anything that might taint his good name. Remember, he had got a 1st class degree in Law at MUK before he went to Yale on a scholarship. He was just lecturing at Makerere University at that time, but he later joined the NRM after the findings of the commission. Mukubuya also later became the Minister of Education and Sport in Museveni government. I don’t know what he is up to now since the cabinet reshuffles this year.

Others like Naggenda John and Luyombya were later given heroes medals by the Museveni government. John Nagenda and Joan Kakwenzire later also became one of the many of Museveni’s special advisors (‘’NKUSIBIDE AWO KASITA NKUSASULA’’ meaning ‘’I have tied you there, after all, I pay you’’). Naggenda has also been keeping himself busy with his regular Newvision columns but I wonder what he exactly does in terms of being productive to the nation at the moment.Oder died of cancer in 2006 and he was among those judges that agreed with Besigye that the 2006 elections had been rigged.

So, I doubt whether any of these people can help us access the contents of that report. They have all been given positions that don’t allow them to say anything bad against the govt. But the guys in the media should help us please to dig the contents of this report.

The then Minister of Justice, Mulenga, who appointed the Commission in 1986, promised that the government would not bury the findings of the Commission. So, we can still push the current minister of justice, Kahinda Otafire, to release the report to the media. Ugandans deserve to know what is in that report. I believe that the Uganda Human Rights Commission have got a copy at their offices but I wonder how the rest of Uganda can access it. I’m sure it has got a lot of revealing information that could be interesting to read, and also help us find a way forward. The Danish embassy has also got a copy because they sponsored some of the commission’s work. But it’s up to us to demand that the government releases the official copy of this commission. However, I sometimes wonder why the current Opposition MPs do not pick on these issues and raise them in parliament. Ugandans deserve to read what was put in this report.

The report was tabled in October 1994 but I’m sure it’s one of those time and resource wasting projects governments in Africa don’t take seriously. As a result, we are all in darkness about some things that happened in our country’s history. I understand that Museveni’s heart is/was not in this commission. He introduced the Amnesty Commission before the 1986 ‘’Truth and Reconciliation’’ commission had finished their job. The commission lacked both political support and adequate funding.

Some people have been asking me why Muslim leaders are not bothered with finding out the atrocities that happened to fellow Muslims in the past but this is not true. Muslims are also searching for answers just like any other Ugandan. Muslims have been kind of disorganized and divided since independence such that it has been difficult to bring them together to discuss matters of importance to their community, but they have started sorting this out slowly.

Muslims have been killed under different regimes but it is very difficult to gather all this information together to bring it into the public domain. All Uganda’s leaders, apart from Iddil Amin, have been dividing and using Muslims to achieve their own political aims, but with more organization and unity, Muslims will eventually put a stop to this nonsense.

For instance, there were some Muslims killed in Bushenyi district and president Museveni mentions this in his book (Sowing the Mustard Seed) on page 113. Museveni said that there were killed by fellow villagers who had been incited by someone whose identity was known. Museveni does not mention the name of the villager in his book though he gives this as one of the examples why Godfrey Binaisa had to be dislodged from power.
Imaam Iddi Kasozi also presented a paper at the Uganda Muslim Youth Assembly (UMYA) in 2008 and he talked about human rights and the murder of Muslims in Ankole and Arua. We saved the contents of this paper on the link below if anybody wishes to read it:
http://ugandamuslims.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/human-right-in-uganda-the-fate-of-the-1979-muslim-massacres-in-arua-and-ankole-paper-presented-at-umya-ramadhan-seminar-2008/

I wish more Muslims present this data to us such that we keep it on records instead of dying with all this knowledge. The Torch Newspaper has also been conducting weekly interviews among the Muslim elders in Uganda to help us gather information here and there. I don’t know if they have stopped doing this as I have not seen any more interviews posted to us for a while, but I reckon they were doing a good job, and they should be supported.
Byebyo ebyange
--

Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba
United Kingdom

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http://twitter.com/#!/semuwemba
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Policy Interventions to Address Health Impacts Associated with Air Pollution, Unsafe Water Supply and Sanitation, and Hazardous Chemicals

The purpose of the paper is to review the recent empirical literature relating to the quantification and valuation of the human health impacts of air pollution, hazardous chemicals, and unsafe water and sanitation, and their use in cost-benefit analysis, as an input to environmental policy decision-making. For each of these three environmental hazards, the nature and range of these health impacts are identified. The extent to which these impacts can, and have been, quantified and valued in monetary terms, is described.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/37/39/48281068.pdf 

Who still listens to Andrew Mwenda? A Nation and I, Apparently.

It is easy to scoff at Independent boss Andrew Mwenda, once a celebrated Museveni gadfly, who these days sounds more and more like an apologist slowly making his way to a full all reconciliation with the government he once rabidly criticised.

In the Capital FM Andrew Mwenda Minute every week day 7:45am, Mwenda can be heard more often than not defending a position taken by government on a ‘hot topic.’ In my listening minutes, I have heard Mwenda argue that our social security fund (NSSF) is being run alright and it is a big mistake for its investment projects to be subject to public scrutiny and question. I have heard him argue that what Uganda really needs is a strong, determined, ruthless Big Man who can impose order and development instead of always wasting time and money bribing opinion leaders and Members of Parliament to push through projects that are ‘developmental for the whole country.’

I have heard Mwenda, this once famed advocate for justice, fairness, the poorest of the poor and those who have no voice of their own that can be heard reach vitriolic levels of demanding that these same people can be kicked out of estates originally built for low income earners like ...estate. His argument being that Uganda can get nowhere with those riff-raff impending the development of those areas-let us first build a stable middle class and then we can take care of the poor.

A journalist by training, by passion, by calling, I have heard Andrew Mwenda decry, on the Capital FM Andrew Mwenda Minute the state of the media in Uganda today. In his arguments, heavily laced with venom, rubbish all in the media today (except maybe for himself) as poor imitations of the original glorious luminaries like Charles Onyango-Obbo and Conrad Nkutu. Saying the current editors and journalists that man the stations in media houses are, “poorly read, irresponsible, cheap popularity seekers,” who do not have the mental capacity to fully appreciate the import of the matters they are writing and reporting on. He has gone on to argue that they are so poor, most if not all of them, are still paying rent and busy enriching landlords, that is why they are deluded and bitter.

Andrew Mwenda is hard to listen to these days.

But a whole nation is listening. This is Capital FM, and many, countless millions of listeners are probably listening to this Andrew Mwenda for the first time. The only Mwenda they know.

That is my biggest fear. That the ‘best’ minds, the ones that originally listened to the Mwenda of KFM during the Andrew Mwenda Show are tuning out. They are so easily writing off Mwenda as a sell out, a Judas Iscariot, and they are better things to do than pay attention to this Basil Bataringaya who because his mother is black and he is brown, rabidly denies her.

I urge you not to tune out. I urge you even more not to sit back with folded hands and leave Mwenda be with his opinions unchallenged. This is the most remarkable public transformation of a mind we may yet ever see in our lifetime from selfless to selfish, degree by gradual degree and it is important to document all the stages of decay. The Mwenda of 2001 unable to recognise the Mwenda of 2011, just as once Mwenda used to drive the Museveni of 2001 to distraction reminding him of the Museveni of 1986.

A whole nation is listening to Andrew Mwenda, oh what a sweet tongue he has, don’t let his be the only voice.

--
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.

Diaspora Finally Allowed to Vote in Cameroon

Congratulation from African Views Organization! The Cameroon’s parliament has passed a law  allowing Cameroonians in the Diaspora to participate and vote in this year’s presidential election which takes place in October.Following this important development, the Cameroonian Ambassador to the Netherlands, her Excellency Mrs. Odette Melono has immediately begun taken practical measures to assure a very smooth registration and the coordination of a successful voting exercise in the Netherlands. Read more: http://www.africanviews.org/index.php/discourse-and-debates/diaspora-finally-allowed-to-vote-in-cameroon.html

Janet Kataaha Museveni’s My Life Journey

There was a time when I hated President Museveni and the NRM government, in my angry teenage years, the helpless years when I understood better than I ever will again how much of my future had been robbed of me because of his and his government’s mismanagement of Uganda. Sometimes willful, sometimes as a result of being in a situation where they were guessing as much as my parents themselves were gambling on anything to provide a tin roof over our heads, sweet potatoes and beans for supper. 

Yoweri Museveni and first son Muhoozi in Moshi, Tanzania

Then I grew up. 

In a school education system, always one PTA meeting ahead of what was to become the UPE disaster, encouraged not to dream big (“Dreams don’t an empty stomach fill”) but to plan realistically (“If you must write, then become a university professor and write on the side”). Promised all the while that life in 1990s Uganda, threshold entering into the 2000s was the best Ugandans had had in a very long time and I should be a little grateful at least to what Museveni and this regime was doing. Had my father not been in prison in the terrible 1980s, in a death cell where each evening, at cruel random a guard black as night, drugged and smoking, would come and pick a prisoner (sometimes more than one) to maim, torture and kill for thrills, in the detention compound? & all the prisoners could hear the terrified shrieks becoming animal pain of a man they had known, rubbed fingers with, in the communal Red Cross posho bowl, dying, his cries would never let them sleep or forget. 

Be grateful for Museveni! All that did not happen now-in the 1990s and early 2000s. 

Then why did I continue to intuit, from my own life, somehow I was being robbed? That the future I thought I deserved would not be the future I would get? Did it all begin in primary school SST classes, 30 minutes before delighted yelling runs to the break time school canteen for kabalagala breakfasts, tongue burning porridge in green Mukwano & Nice mugs, when I would sense how much this SST teacher longed for the lesson not to end, her beautiful natural Afro the natural-est bush of hair I had ever seen on a woman-the trouser stained school burser with a cane in hand impatiently waiting for her outside our classroom, to lead her to his dank office that was the money pit? Was this when I began to sense the truths below appearances that disguise and encourage illusions that all is well? Don’t ask too much, be grateful. What’s wrong with you?

 

Did it begin in secondary school, before Google search & the world wide web, Saturday afternoons in a vast library large as some village churches I have known, missing lunch, afternoon sports runs (boys cheering boys, ‘rugger’ nicknames, Rhino friends), reading and reading-intoxicated! Anything reading! So many books, wonderful books! Would there be time enough? Unclassified, untrained reading, natural tastes following, books undivided-no Western Literature, no Eastern (Asian) thought, no ‘new’ African canon, Australians and New Zealanders not defiled yet by the English sneer of ‘outback’ people-just reading! Discovering new worlds. Worlds with possibilities, literary, social, political worlds that began to make me ask-if all this knowledge is so precious, why is the government not making it more widely available at this quality? Reading! Learning adults can be wrong, parents can be tyrannical, you do not have to worship your leaders. To make a change, you have to first learn to change yourself. Be the living example, not just the talking one. As for your enemy, or those who oppose you, the best resistance is not exile, know them better than they know themselves. Library lessons, all for a boy who was not more than 16.

I began to understand. 

Books can become dangerous things. Information more so. 

Whoever controls these, controls your perceptions. For the longest time at least. 

So I began to read. To want to know more. About the man who has ruled Uganda ever since I could ‘understand’ and look around and try to find my own place in Uganda. I wanted to know more about him. Then the more I heard, read and knew, I wanted to know more too about those who were supposed to be closest to Museveni. 

I stopped sneering at the cascade of ‘ghost’ written books by Uganda’s first family. I read.

I’m still reading. 

I will read Janet Kataaha Museveni’s My Life Journey. Like I have read President Museveni’s own autobiography Sowing the Mustard Seed, all those years ago. 

Museveni family photo

I will read Janet Kataaha Museveni’s My Life Journey, not for historical truth. But her truth. 

There are many questions I do not think she would dare address, though we whisper rumours of the truths in them. Like is it true that her marriage with President Museveni has been estranged for more than a decade? What does she have to say about the rumours that President Museveni has never been sexually faithful to her? That he has fathered very many children outside their marriage, before he became President and that after becoming President that has only escalated. Is first son Kainerugaaba Muhoozi really her son or as some rumour mills have claimed the son of another woman, a certain Kajubi, whose death has never been explained properly or publicly acknowledged. Were Janet and Museveni ever even formally married or have they been cohabiting all these years? 

Then there are questions beyond the personal. Questions that have an effect on how Uganda as a nation is run. We have always heard rumours that Janet herself suffers from depression. That actually sometimes ‘she is not herself’ and has to be restrained. There are claims that she herself is not all that faithful to Museveni, is an infamously controlling mother who has personally determined which man each of her daughters married and continues to dictate her children’s home affairs. Any truth in those claims? 

I do not expect to find some of those concerns addressed in My Life’s Journey. They are questions out there that will only one day be answered by history writers, and archival searches in many countries from Uganda to Tanzania to Sweden and then some. 

But I want to know how Janet Kataaha Museveni sees herself. So I will be reading My Life’s Journey. 



--
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.

I Used To Hate President Museveni

Museveni campaigning under UPM 1980

Once, I hated President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. I loathed the man. Blamed him for everything that is wrong in Uganda.  I believed it was because of him that I will probably never live to my full potential in our Uganda. Have already been stunted. That I will never be able to accomplish all the things I can accomplish and the little that I will be able to achieve, it will be through overcoming overwhelming hurdles. 

I believed all the spewing rants I used to listen to on all the bimeza on the FM radio stations that detailed in depressing detail the latest corruption scandal by yet the same cabinet minister. Or President’s in-law. Or the wife of one of his 1980-1986 bush war comrades. Or the son/daughter of a long dead comrade who done him a favour in the 1970s when he was a new graduate from Dar-es-Salaam university and was learning to navigate the byzantine civil service bureaucracy. 

I even reached a point of such depths where I began to believe that Museveni could not be a real Ugandan. Yes, those hurling insults of he came from Rwanda, he must have Rwandese blood, must be true. How could a Ugandan, a person who claimed to love Uganda let things get so bad? How could a Ugandan at heart let our referral hospitals go so much, claiming there was no money, so that I could no longer even get a free piriton or headex tablet in a hospital? How could a Ugandan at heart claim there was no money, no money so much so that not only were there no more working street lights but no road in the dictionary definition of it anymore? How could a President of Uganda proudly claim that title, ask to be called his Excellency when I could see with my own eyes, lived through the harrowing experience, of where a family could hold hands before going to bed on an empty stomach because they could no longer afford the food on the stalls in the market-it was for export? 

I hated him. I hated him because with all the hate I thought it was possible to hate until I knew what it means to have a heart full of black hate, going down Joseph Conrad’s dark river. 

Then one day, I just didn’t hate him anymore. Without taking a bribe, without getting a juicy-where-can-I-eat from job, without being shut up in any safe house-I just woke up one day, and I did not hate President Museveni. I did not want to puke in disgust when one of his Ministers or spokespeople came on the radio, came on the TV, with justifications of the latest absurdity in Uganda so heartless you had to wonder how that Minister or spokesperson reconciled it with themselves. I just was...not indifferent...not caring...not resigned...I just did not hate him anymore. Or his government. 

It was a plateau of understanding you reach when, dumped, you accept. 

Herbert Ssegujja does a perfect M7 imitation

It was not until I had reached this level that I began to see President Y.K. Museveni in a new light. To see him, I believe, for the man he is. For the supreme artist he is. To understand something Museveni imitator and comedian Herbert Ssegujja had tried to explain to me, when I was interviewing him, that Museveni is, “Knows what he is doing and why he is doing it,” that is why he admired him so much and had dedicated all his spare time to learning his every mannerism, his every tick, his every body and speech movements. 

I was one of the least surprised when during the Tulinawe Music Concert, President Museveni delved into that now famous, “Do you want another rap” performance. Because that is what it was-a performance. Because that is what it was, a performance. Being a leader is a performance and Museveni knows his Ugandans. That is why he has led us so long, 24 years and still counting.  He understands the kind of show Ugandans need. Like a good performer, he knows before his audience knows what they need. 

Look back, think, tell me if each year for the last 24, has not had its own choreographed diverting drama and you did not relish each. Even as you bemoaned, cursed, wept-were you not entertained? 

I have been.

--
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.

Global Banking and International Business Cycles

This paper incorporates a global bank into a two-country business cycle model. The bank collects deposits from households and makes loans to entrepreneurs, in both countries. It has to finance a fraction of loans using equity. The authors investigate how such a bank capital requirement affects the international transmission of productivity and loan default shocks. Three findings emerge. First, the bank's capital requirement has little effect on the international transmission of productivity shocks. Second, the contribution of loan default shocks to business cycle fluctuations is negligible under normal economic conditions. Third, an exceptionally large loan loss originating in one country induces a sizeable and simultaneous decline in economic activity in both countries. The results thus suggest that global banks may have played an important role in the international transmission of the crisis. http://dallasfed.org/institute/wpapers/2011/0072.pdf  

Masaka Declaration, 2011 Against UPC's Olara Otunu

MASAKA DECLARATION

                                                                                                                                    Contact: 0752 404 745
                                                                                                                       SATURDAY/24^TH/JULY/2011
TO:
ANNUAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE MEMBERS (ADC)
NATIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS (NC)
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

RE: NOTICE OF IMPEACHMENT

We as members of the Uganda Peoples Congress, gathered this 24^th day of July 2011 in Masaka District comprising of members from Masaka, Sembabule, Rakai and Lyantonde Districts do hereby resolve to exercise the powers vested in us under the 1970 Constitution of the Party  Article 7 subsection 6,
“The President shall relinquish office on being ... third majority of the Annual Delegates Conference. The motion for the resolution must be signed by at least one-half of the members of the National Council.”

The following are the grounds under which we as members of the Party seek to bring forth a motion to move a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in the Party President Dr. Olara Otunnu;

1.     BOYCOTTING THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS:
Not voting for the Party and himself in the just concluded 2011 General Elections. Being the custodian of the Party his actions dented the performance of the Party in the Local Government Elections that were held on the 22/Feb/2011 and 2rd/March/2011 simultaneously. The electorate perceived it, that UPC was for a boycott and therefore no need to vote for the Party flag bearers/candidates, not forgetting that his actions amounted to not voting for the UPC Parliamentary Candidates.

2.     THE PARTY MANIFESTO 2011 AND CANDIDATES FUNDING:
He led the Party into the 2011 General Elections without a Manifesto, not only did the Party President stop at that he went ahead to fool the members by calling for “the launch of the manifesto in Jinja Kakindu Stadium,” a function in which he launched air, however in the middle of the campaign he came up with a campaign manifesto without printing enough copies besides being heavily funded. The Party President exhibited the highest level of deceit against the principle of sincerity in political leadership , when he promised all Party flag bearers at Parliamentary and Local Government Five (LC5) levels to finance their campaigns worth Two Million Shillings, to this day nothing substantive to this promise has been realised. 

3.     THE 1985 COUP AND DR. OLARA OTUNNU:
On his return in the country he, the Party President persistently kept lying to the members of the Party that in 1985 when the Okello-Okello Junta over threw the then Uganda Peoples Congress Government, that he (the Party President) consulted with the then former UPC Party President Dr. Apollo Milton Obote(RIP) who gave him Clearance to join the junta, which isn’t true. He (Dr. Olara Otunnu) was simply part and parcel of the coup. In this vain Dr. Olara Otunnu revoked his membership in the Party. A simple apology would have salvaged him however having consistently and persistently denied his participation amounts to deceit. This has left us wondering whether his actions in 2011 are designed to also undermine the Party?  

4.      CONTRADICTORY POLITICAL POLICIES:
 One year since his election the Party President has been forming loose political alliances which in one way or another can’t project the image of the Party for example: National Social Movement, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE)/Blue Book Project and currently Free Uganda Now. These “political vector moves” without consolidating one policy at a time depicts a failure to derive at a common political policy for the Party. WE CAN’T AS A PARTY CONTINUE WITH THAT. 

5.     DOCTRINE OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTION:
Mismanaging of the just concluded Party Grass-root Elections and conducting them in a manner which lacked transparency and openness in western Uganda. In this light the Party President went against his conscience which saw him launch Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) which demands for democratic principles to be followed to the dot. We want to reiterate here that the party president lacks moral instinct for a free and fair democratic practices and that explain why he was privy to the 1985 coup despite election then being at the corner.

6.     NAMBOOLE PROMISES:
Failure to reconcile the Party and thus causing many defections of UPC members to other Parties, party structures are still lacking at large in Buganda and Western Uganda. This is contrary to his Victory speech delivered   at Namboole.  Poor performance of the Party in the just concluded 2011 General Elections; thus in his tenure the Party has been reduced to a sub-region.

Withstanding to the above mentioned reasons I hereby do call the house, here gathered to adopt the MASAKA DECLARATION and henceforth move a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in the Party President Dr. Olara Otunnu.

The MASAKA DECLARATION as adopted shall be distributed and circulated to all the above mentioned organs of the Party country wide seeking to enforce the resolution.

KIGONGO BEN BAKKABULINDI

CHAIRPERSON ELECT CENTRAL REGION

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE

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