Way forward for Uganda is controversial

June 29, 2009 at 10:53 pm (POLITICS, PRESIDENCY)
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Last week someone sent me an email reminding me that it was Heroes day in the Republic of Uganda. It came at a time when I was writing another article on the way forward for our great republic. With this in mind I have decided to write about both issues in this article.
I read the President’s address in Hoima on the subject of Heroes with kin interest and great concern as for over a month the Besigye and Museveni camps where throwing mad at each other on who contributed more or less in the bush war.
 
This gave me questions; who is a Hero? Does he/she have to be a member of the Ruling Government?
 
From the time the white man stepped onto the Ugandan soil, many people have contributed to the well being of Uganda. King Kabalaga, Kabaka Mwanga, Nuwa Mbogo, Sir Apollo Kagwa, Semei Kakungulu, Musazi, Kabaka Mutesa, Obote, Ben Kiwanuka, Idd Amini, Yusuf Lule, Binaisa, Prof Nabudele, Tito Okello, Lutwa and Museveni have all made a contribution to the country. Whether the individual was poor in his position as a leader, he has put a mark on the history of the country.
 
In Britain, whether it is a Conservative or Labour government, Churchill, Oliver Cornwell, even King Henry the 8th who has gone in the histroy of Britain as one of the worst leaders, is always celebrated. Actually this year new coins are being issued in remembrance of the rule of Henry the 8th. Its the contributions of these people that have made our Republic a melting pot which makes us a unique country.
 
The Government should not cherry pick who is a hero and who is not. We should not have this mad throwing by the Museveni camp and Besigye in defining who is a hero and who is not. Heroes of the country should not be only those who can fire a gun. We all contribute to the well being of the country in different ways.There are Nurses, Teachers, Police officer around the country who play a part in making the machine we call Uganda run.These are the everyday heroes of the Republic of Uganda, we should always appreciate what they do.
 
Now turning to the other issue I was planning to write about. What’s the way forward for the Republic? It will be 47 years in four mouths since we obtained independence from the British. Uganda like life, is a project and like any other project we must evaluate its success and failure. Of the 47 years, 23 years have been under one leadership; that of Museveni and the rest is divided between Obote, Mutesa, Amin, Lule, Binaisa, Paul Muwanga, Tito Okello and Lutwa.
 
After 47 years we should now stop blaming the west for our failures. On the 09th October 1962 we told the British we can govern ourselves. Have we managed to do so? The British left us with one dam, Rail network, Tarmacked Roads (1809km), an airport and airline, a national health service which was based on one introduced by the labour party in Britain over 60years ago,an education system which was the pride of Africa, Transport system (UTC), Housing finance system which brought countries like Singapore to Uganda to study it so they could copy it in their own countries plus other properly running Government systems. The par capita income in 1962 was about $3 a day, today it’s about $1.25 a day.
 
What is left after 47 years down the road? Let’s start with the dam, yes it is still functional but it’s capacity can not service the population as it was meant for about 10 million people of the day. Britain has no dams but it has enough energy to keep them going for the next 50 years. Our energy policy has failed. Just a month of infighting in kenya brought the country to a stand still. The rail network does not exist. I am so much attached to the rail system because my own father worked with the East African Railways. Tarmacked roads are Just 2076 kms which mean since 1962 we have only increases it by about 200km. The airport still exists but its capacity can not copy with the increased google generation who are tavelling the world everyday.

We have no regional airports which could reduce the burden on Entebbe. When the American president visited, all the airport was cut off to everyone else travelling. This is an economic problem. As for the Health service, Hospitals are in a sad state that a daughter of the president can not give bath in these hospitals..I was in mbale hospital, children with different disease share the same bed. No medicine, you have to buy it form private drug stores which are owned by doctors on Government pay. I will be told that there is an increase in private medical care and those who can afford to obtain medical care abroad can do so. This i just about 3% of the population of Uganda. My grand mam in Namalogo in mbale can not afford this.As for education, Makerere has dropped in the world rankings. Even with the introduction of UPE, the standards have dropped so low that competition on the world stage will always be a problem for our students. As for the housing finance, it is still in existance but it has not helped the local person to get on to the property ladder. The cooperative societies which were the backbone of the country’s economy were delt a final blow by the introduction of liberalisation by the then Minister of Cooperative the late James Wapakabulo.
Cooperatives also hold a special place in my life as my father after leaving the East African Railways, worked for Bugisu Cooperative Union for 27 years before he retired in 1997.We have failed so much that we did not know part of our country ( Migingo Island) until recently. Actually my advise to the people of Migingo is to proclaim independence from both Uganda and Kenya. If the two countries’ claim for this island comes after over 40 years since both countries got independence, it means this island has not received any help from both countries.
They have been living without the help of both countries, which means they can still live without it, and hence independence is the only way forward.
 
So why have we failed to improve on what was left behind by the British? It’s simple, for so long we have continued to recycle the leadership. We have used the same people to ran the country; “we have had Obote, Amin, Lule, Binaisa,Obote, Tito, Museveni and people like Bidandi, Mayanja Nkanji, Semogerere to mention but a few”. All these came from that band of people who were in the independence struggles. They feel it’s their right to rule us as they took part in the independence struggles. This has created a situation where no new ideas come in and the country is held hostage by these so called independence heroes.
Leaders keep on thinking inside the box rather than outside the box. In the end it has created high corruption and hence faillure to improve the situation in the Republic.
What’s the way forward? My way forward is controversial but it’s the only solution for the Republic. Sometime back someone wrote; for Uganda to move forward, Iddi Amini, Obote, and Museveni should leave the political scene of the country. I do agree, and I also add that those who have been on the country’s political system since the independence days should leave the stage to pave way for new ideas. The world has changed, we are now living in the google, youtube, twitter, facebook, generation. Competition is global, we have to compete with other countries and thinking outside the box will be the only solution.
Let us have fresh ideas. Political parties should be democratic. This idea of Maria Obote becoming the leader of UPC just because she was the wife of the late leader is not democracy. She even goes ahead to sack someone because he is opposed to her son taking over the party. This is the problem with the parties in Uganda, they are undemocratic and their roles is to purely oppose and provide no solutions.
Whatever side of the divide you are, Museveni has contributed to the country, this must be acknowledged by the opposition. After acknowledging that, then tell the people where he has failed and then give them solutions. The middle class has increased, it needs better service such as roads, rail, planes, security, housing and proper business environment.
The government has failed on that, so the opposition should be looking at how to help this class of people plus the rural poor who are looking for medication, education and good transport network to transport the produces to the market. This should be the battle ground for the 2011 presidentail polls not personalities.
My idea is controversial, but it’s the best way forward for the republic.
For God and my country.
Laman Napio Masaba
One World Consultants
London

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Kampala Bill is not fair to Buganda and the rest of Ugandans

June 29, 2009 at 10:36 pm (Geography, KINGDOMS, Land matters, POLITICS, Uncategorized)
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Fellow Ugandans,
 
 I cannot imagine going to Mbarara or Gulu and taking over such perimeters without expected push back. President Museveni and his administration have become a very strange bed fellow when it comes to Buganda property, not only land but other revenue generating properties that seem to have been targeted to render defunct or non functional the cash cows for Buganda. In essence housing the capital of Uganda has been a nightmare for the tribe.
If the administration wanted to annex cities of regions from the previous 10 districts, then it ought to have done it across the board, take Jinja, Mbarara, Gulu and many other towns as a fair legislative move. Singling out Buganda things, simply because it is the capital has brought such unpopularity to the NRM/O both at home and abroad among seriously concerned Baganda.
 My friend Kiyonga the political strategist has to be thinking beyond one presidency for his party! Having such unfair unilateral moves that target and impoverish Buganda cannot be a good thing for his party’s future. Incidentally the Baganda seem to have lost out disproportionately, in terms of economics, environment and lives wasted.  
In the eyes of political forecasters this mounts to political party suicide given the projected future census of Buganda. Simply thinking that “generations would have changed and the ills will be long forgoten” is a myopic strategy. Had the folks in UPC been more foresighted during their reign, they would be enjoying incredible popularity today. Besides, why legislate on something that will definitely be reversed in the future?
Writing legislation to take so much out of Buganda alone is not only blatantly unfair it is discriminatory.
Look, Buganda/Baganda aided the Museveni administration to get in power, and it/they have paid the ultimate price. Buganda lost most of it’s ability to raise revenue take for instance, the Electricity project wich seems to have been designed without regard to Bugandan investors, who owned the old Owen falls dam. The adminstration did not have a plan or good will to replace Buganda’s investment with any other viable or similar revenue generating project. The Baganda like the Indians also had staked carefully their own revenue generating strategies and taking them away without adequate remuneration afforded to Indians is what’s put them at odds with the administration.
Even the Bristish who colonized us longer, did not take as much away from Buganda as has president Museveni and his administration. Here in Boston,echoes of disenchantment for the NRM/O party are heard from even those that are not following these debates closely. 
I often say to my NRM/O friends in the USA that rescuing the NRM/O name in our towns is more difficult, because, people here see the party as the one that has taken on a very selfish posture to impoverish Baganda by overtly disenfranchising them at every turn. It will take a concerted effort to get back in the good graces of many Baganda, who have of late acquired this complex spline from irreparable suffrage. Laughing it away is unwise, un stately and indeed sadist to say the least. I hope the president will be able to look Bostonians in the eyes when he comes in September and empirically convince them that this ain’t so!
 
 
Tendo
Ugandan in Boston

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witchcraft is but a euphemism for rubbish

June 28, 2009 at 4:19 pm (Africa, CULTURE, RELIGION, Social issues)
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Dr Muwanga-Zaake,

 1/6 You seem not to be sure whether to condemn or to condone so-called witchcraft.  And by the way, witchcraft is but a euphemism for rubbish. Why? Even when you peer into the kit bag of a “witch doctor”, all you see there is absolute rubbish: scales of a pangolin, snail shells, teeth of a hyena, porcupine spines, claws of a crab, cow dung of a leopard, skull of a victim of kwarshiorkor and all such manner of zoological collectibles. Gasiya peke yake!

 2/6  The basic fact is that, where man’s capacity to comprehend and/or tame the forces of nature suddenly ends, the belief in the supernatural immediately begins.  As man increases his mastery of nature, his belief in the supernatural diminishes.

 3/6  Belief in the supernatural is packaged in all sorts of ways.  All of them belong to the domain of superstition.  They range from what we call religions, including your Chrisitianity , to your so-called witchcraft.  In terms of man’s ability to cope with the forces of nature, Christianity and witchcraft lie on the same continuum: only varying degrees of superstitious content.  So, apposing Christianity with witchcraft is neither here nor there.  They are first cousins.  The difference is that, one has been divested of as much superstition as possible.

 4/6  And by the way, what do you mean by an “African belief”?  Do you mean belief in the occult?  Witchcraft and other forms of crude superstition are a characteristic of society that is backward, like Uganda is now.  There is nothing African about superstition.  Between the 13th and 19th centuries as many as 1 million people were executed in Europe for the crime of witchcraft. I am sure you have heard about the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-1662.  You may also have heard about the trials of “witches” in the German hinterland of Rothenburg in the same period, going on even as recently as 1750.  In that town, as many as 400 “witches” were executed in one day during that time. In the USA , you may have heard about the witch hunts in Salem and Massachusetts . In England, the last person to suffer death for so-called wtichcraft was in 1684, although there is a case of a lady living in Hertfordshire village of Walkern, a few miles North of London, who narrowly survived death as recently as 1712 after being accused of being a witch….I think her name was Jane Wenham…she was saved by the intervention of Queen Anne….and so on….Note that the major victims were always women, particularly the poor and largely the widows, and trials were not only in religious courts, but also in secular ones.

 5/6 So, do not be racist or biased in other way you as you look at human superstition.  Whenever and whereever the level of science and technology is abysmal, witchcraft and religion come in to fill the gap.  There is nothing African about it, and we should not base on Africa ’s current backwardness to infer that manifestations of backwardness are a preserve of Africans only.  The irony with you Professor is that, you then go a head to base on Africa ’s current predicament to weave up some strange notion of your African Nationalism…or what ever one may call it.

 6/6 But, but, but, now how about you the Professor of Chemistry who then goes ahead to assert that, “The record of African spiritual leaders healing and successfully praying for rain are obliterated or never perpetuated.”? You as a scientist should be in the forefront of demystifying superstitions and dispelling such fallacies as “rain-making”, but here you are telling us about the so-called African spiritual leaders.  You Professor of all people, know the hydrologic cycle; you know the Bergeron Process of how rain forms and falls; you know that, the only way man can induce rain is by CCNs or cloud condensation nuclei.  You studied those facts in Chemistry and got a PhD, you teach them, and then you come here at UAH to tell us that, sijui, “African spiritual” this and that, should be perpetuated!  Does PhD mean “Pure head Damage”? How doesn’t someone rule you people for 50 years non-stop? How, how? That when some scary-looking self-important old chap in need of dentures in some village in Bulemezi throws cowries in the air, spits to the west, puffs to the North, walks to the road junction on his hands and slaughters a white hen facing south….then the rain will turn up! Professor Muwanga-Zaake want that to be perpetuated!  That is the myth that a 21st century Professor of chemistry wants to perpetuate, in the name of African nationalism.  Now, don’t you really see where Africa ’s problems lie?

 Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick

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Do you believe in witchcraft?

June 28, 2009 at 4:15 pm (Africa, CULTURE, Social issues)
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messages on witchcraft are outright unbalanced? Some people focus on witchcraft – but is it more heinous than burying people alive, by, I presume, religious people? So, possibly, another important question is ‘ Has religion affected some of these people?’. Obviously, the murders believed in witchcraft although their religious backgrounds are not clearly stated.

what qualifies as witchcraft

Although I have been accused of being pedantic on this forum, I think we have a problem in defining a witch. It appears to me as though anybody with powers, which cannot be scientifically proven or which are not acceptable in the Christian doctrine, to cause havoc is a witch, especially in Africa where religions local belief systems to establish themselves. The record of African spiritual leaders healing and successfully praying for rain are obliterated or never perpetuated. Indeed, we have been assimilated into despising our beliefs as backward or witchcraft.

There are double standards applied in Africa. An African belief is subjected to scientific proof, otherwise it is backward or witchcraft. A biblical or foreign belief is never subjected to scientific proof. So we are told – Jesus walked on water, changed water into wine, fed millions with merely 5 loaves, etc. but we are not allowed to question these acts on the basis of science. I have no problem in believing the miracles Jesus demonstrated. However, for example, let us note that there is no scientific explanation for walking on water without sinking other than a belief in supernatural being.


Havoc is reported in enforcing religions, including Christianity for example. Would Samson who prayed until a whole building killed people where he was apprehended qualify as a witch? Or should we include biblical personalities (Moses is one) who prayed for the suffering of the Egyptians until the Jews were allowed to go back to their land.

The topic of witchcraft is indeed a can of worms, albeit an unfair one, which is selectively applied to any belief that is not Christian or non scientific. Ultimately, I think the question is unfair in perpetuating a complex that renders every happening, which neither Christianity nor science approves, as witchcraft. I.e., the question presumes a belief in Christianity and science as the only acceptable spiritual and knowledge systems.

Dr.Johnnie Muwanga-Zake

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The Way Forward for Uganda

June 28, 2009 at 4:08 pm (2009 -2011 elections, POLITICS, PRESIDENCY)
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Fellow Ugandns,

I believe that all Ugandans are focused towards the 2011 elections, with much anticipation for eventual everlasting peace in our country. While many think that the change of government from the governing NRM/O to another party will bring peace to Uganda, others think that a mere change of the governing party will not bring peace.
As I contemplate the possibility of peace and stability, I am one of those who donot believe that a mere change of the governing party alone will ensure peace and stability.The entire populace is confused. Many have turned to the Church, Mosque and other places of worship as a refuge to the seemingly never-ending troubles of our Mother Land. I am told that even President Yoweri K. Museveni has become a Born – Again Christian.
By turning to God’s Congregation as a place of confort, I remembered what I saw in my childhood that turned the peoples’ mentality to a positive one, for sometime.
About June, 1964 a less known organisation known as The Jehovah’ Witnesses had announced that on that particular day the World would end. In our township of Kilembe the Churches, the Mosque and other places of worship were full beyond capacity. The World was supposed to end at 14.00 Hrs. We were told that a strong wind would blow everything off the face of the earth, except the ‘’saved ones” and those who confessed their sins before the time of the end. Every slight wind passing by would bring tremendous fear. 14.00 Hrs came and passed. So were the subsequent hours. Shortly before midnight, my mother told us, the children to go to bed, saying that God must have changed His mind. The whole area was quiet, except the prayers that could be heard faintly from time to time. After that day, the entire community became so harmonious. Well, the harmony was short lived.Two years later, 1966 the news came that the Prime Minister of Uganda, Apollo Milton Obote had ordered the army to attack the Palace of the Kabaka of Buganda, who at the time was the President of Uganda. Since that time Uganda has experienced violence with short intervals, as the governments changed.
After many years of violence in our country, the Church, the Mosque and other places of worship have become the refuge to the millions of people, many of whom wish that the Creator would soon intervene. No wonder, the Pastors, Moalim, Sheiks and Gospel musicians are busy consoling the populace.
Let us refrain from acts of intimidation and thoughtless threats. Let us encourage dialogue among the politicians and political parties for the good of our country. The fact is that the entire country is suffering, despite the argument that some areas have suffered and continue to suffer more than others. Even those who seem happy are infact scared for their lives. Peace is lacking in the entire populace and the violence exhibited in the name of ”National Security”, is in reality an act of fear for change, in self defence.
I hear in some quarters that President Museveni has imposed himself on the people and that he wants to rule for life. In other quarters I hear that President Museveni is tired of the presidency and that he is forced into it to protect those who may face the Law for atrocities committed before and during the NRM/O administration, should he step down.
With all these arguments mentioned above, I ask the question; Will the mere change of government, from NRM/O to another party bring peace? Is there any party really capable of defeating the NRM/O in the forthcoming elections? The NRM/O continues to prove that they are invincible, come the 2011 elections. I note lack of unity in all opposition parties. It seems that the opposition is trying to form a ”Unity of Convenience”, simply to defeat the ruling party in the forthcoming elections. Have we all forgotten what happened when we united for convenience, simply to drive Idi amin and his regime out of power? The violence we have experienced since the fall of Amin, is a result of that ”Unity of Convenience”.
The best way out of our despondency I believe, is that the fund which should be used to administer the 2011 elections, be used instead to establish the Trurh and Reconciliation Commission. After the establishment of the T.R.Commission and its deliberations, Uganda will have a fresh beginning filled with hope for prosperity and harmony, for the good of our Nation. Unless we find a way to put the past behind us, Uganda will never be peaceful.
BJ. Rubin.

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Should teens be given contraceptive advice?

June 20, 2009 at 1:27 am (Parenting and sex, Social issues)
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The question posed is only a tip of the icebug.  The bigger question is:  Should we as parents talk to or teach our children, especially teenagers about being sexually active? And contraceptives become part of this question and/or answer.
  
Seriously, this is a topic many of our great grand parents and possibly parents never had to worry about.  For example in my culture, the measure for a young girl to have involvement with a man was when she had her first period.  Then the parents and relatives would know she can rear children and got her a husband.  Sex outside marriage was unheard of then.
Then came the missionaries.  They opened up schools first for only boys.  Then when the boys were men and ready to marry, they had to marry illiterate girls/wives.  Then they extended the schooling and opened up schools for girls as well. My mother went to some of the schools but did not stay long before the pressure to get married was imposed on her in the culture.  My father on the other hand went very far because boys were not inhibited like girls.
When my mother had us, her creed in my family and my father’s was education, education, education and learning for life.  As farmers we invested everything earned into education.  There was no free education then.  No one talked to any of us about being sexually active or not.  We all knew however that to stay in school, boy or girl especially girl YOU HAD TO ABSTAIN and focus on the education your parents are paying for.
  
Realistically, young people ages 15 to 24 already have the urge to be sexually involved; some even earlier.  Yet the pressure to stay in school, go to college and be able to be earning adults is on them as well.
If this was an ideal world, I would love to tell my 15 year old to abstain; 24 year old to abstain till you get a job and find MR. OR MISS RIGHT, but that may not do either of us any good.
 
I strongly believe that Mothers and Fathers, should teach the children first the importance of education by sending them to school and instisting on super grades.  Then as they grow before age 15 talk about the attraction between girls and boys and let them know it is normal part of growing up but——————– with school and future carrier they are better of abstaining.  Then they are guaranteed two things no reproduction and the responsibility that follows and putting a stop to career dreams.  Then, the parents can also add, if you absolutely have to be active let us know, so we can give you some help like contraceptives.
But they need to know, that the contraceptives are not safe. Sometimes one can use them and still get pregnant.  Again the best deal is abstainance.  Both girls and boys need to know that they cannot keep having sex with everyone they date.  Just how many partners will they sleep with before they say I do?  They also need to know the deseases involved when people get sexually active.  You would even show them pictures if YOU can find them.  For girls contraceptives could interfere with child bearing at a later age.  A girl having sex at age 15  or even earlier, while the body is still growing add on the chemicals/contraceptives; it could affect their ability to reproduce down the line–could become infertile [off course the pharmacuticals will never tell them this]  You the parent must bring it up.  There is also a possibility of having children with defects.  I have watched American women who have children late in life have children with all kinds of syndromes.  No one will tell them it could be the contraceptives they have been on for years.  It is my guess work.  On the contrary I have seen girls dropping out of school and having children early.  The children are healthy unless the teen used street drugs, but the teenage mother is ignorant/illiterate, and has to go back to school to provide a future for the child and herself.  Prez Obama wants many of them back in skilled schools because they are on welfare burdening the taxpayer for so long and making more babies to have a bigger check.
 
Basically, my people, there are no easy answers to this question, but the longer you the father and the mother can manage to impress upon your son or daughter to abstain the better off they will focus on their future.  If they have to get involved, knowing the risks first hand from you the mother, the father is phenomenal.  Forewarned is forearmed.  It helps with morals as well.  If a young man or woman gets active so early, in life just how many people would they have taken in secret before they say I do?  And what is the guarantee that they will be faithful to one man or one woman having gotten used to advanturing so early in life with all types?
Well, well! Snap out of it!  Who said parenting is easy? Get on it and do your best, dear father, dear  mother.  It is still doable.  YOU are doing it and no one expects YOU to be perfect.  Just do your best, starting today.
 
Have the best weekend ever!  If YOU are a father, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY THIS WEEKEND! We appreciate what you are doing, raising your children for tomorrow’s Uganda.
Assumpta Mary Kintu
Ugandan in USA

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Why there was no Muslims in Obote’s 1983 Cabinet

June 16, 2009 at 11:56 pm (1980 elections, Obote and UPC)
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In the year 1983, there was no Muslim in Obote’s cabinet as Ntege Lubwama, the former Minister of Tourism and the only Muslim, survived narrowly being killed by Oyote Ojok and Rwakasisi at his Komamboga home. Ali Ssennyonga was Chief of Protocol at President’s Office, despite the duwas he was praying for Wakombozi in Tanzania in 1979. There was no Muslim in Obote’s cabinet in 1983 and no efforts were made to have one at all. Oyite Ojok had in 1980 vowed never to have a Muslim in cabinet simply because Amin was a Muslim. Obote attempted to include Ntege Lubwama and that was why Rwakasisi and Oyite Ojok plotted to kill him and Rwakasisi seized Ntege’s portifolio of Tourism and Wild Life. Oboteists were putting blame on Muslims for the 1971 coup whereas the coup was master minded by American C.I.A,British M15, Israeli Mossad and Southern Sudanese Anyanya, none of those were Muslims.

 Muslims on Masaka Axis were protected because of the pre-colonial Buganda nation other than Oyite Ojok. Baganda and Bannabuddu in particular could differentiate Idi Amin’s men be Nubians or Sudanese who were massacring them, 70 in number (not hundreds and thousands), from ordinary Baganda Muslims who used to frequent Mauledi ceremonies to eat pilaawo, and dance mataali. Among those Baganda leaders were Paulo Muwanga, Samwiri Mugwisa and Israel Mayengo, who were the civic leaders in areas occupied by Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles. But for Banyankore, especially UPCs like Edward Rurangaranga and Yowasi Makaaru, they were seeing Muslims as alien Baganda, and could not differentiate between Nubians and Southern Sudanese from Baganda and Banyankore Muslims. Moreover, they wanted to grab their land which they took and a conflict will remain until Muslims are given back their land, or are paid. West Nile massacres took place between 1980 and 1982 when FRONASA was in Luwero Triangle. It was done by Acholi and Lango militia.

 As TPDF was crossing Pakwach bridge, Yusuf Lule directed them never to hand over the sub region to UNLA. This was kept by even Godfrey Binaisa. It changed when muwanga was in charge. Oyite Ojok and Bazilio deployed there an Acholi militia which started massacring people, the worst being Ombaci massacre. Ask Ben Bella Ilakut from UCU who accompanied the then Premier Eric Otema Alimadi.

Obote inherited Muslim support from Uganda National Congress(UNC). But after the 1971 coup, he started usimg Muslims as political condoms.The Example being Badru Wegulo who is a spent force.

 Ahmed Katerega

UAH forumist and NewVision Journalist

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FDC,NRM,DP,PPP & and other parties are all the same

June 16, 2009 at 10:46 pm (POLITICS)

1/6  All of Uganda’s office-seeking political factions are exactly the same but always struggling to be different.  They struggle to be different by basing on their historical fortunes (and misfortunes), the communal/ethnoreligious biases of leading members and such other non-achievement (i.e., ascriptive) criteria.
 
2/6  Even the most disinterested scan through the 36 or so fractious political factions in Uganda reveals that they all have at their helm members of the rent-seeking non-productive middle class (call it the meddle class).  Shame on all 36 of them for not realizing what they really are and saving the poor Ugandan the burden which they all are.
 
3/6  The reality is that, political parties are, and have always been structures for articulating and aggregating group interests in socieities that have undergone vertical differentiation, into classes: industrialists, finaciers, landowners, merchants, wage labourers.  Tell me: which of the 36 petty factions in Uganda is a grouping for labourers, or industrialists, or merchants, or financiers.  Tell me.
 
4/6  By virtue of being a mediaeval, preindustrial society, your Uganda is still only horizontally differentiated.  Lack of imagination has canalised us into mechanically imposing on ourselves vertical structures when our orientation is still horizontal: castes, lineages, clans, ebyaffe, ethnicities and all those ascriptive clusters.  That is how the majority of our population is still organised; that majority called peasants whose proportion is as large as when the currently developed nations were still in the middle ages.
 
5/6  To pretend to transact our politics through the medium of structures that are suited for vertically stratified societies when we are horizontally differentiated is like forcing Kalitusi to grow like lumonde.  It either withers away or becomes a disastrous weed as it tries to conform to the undulating terrain of a horizontally differentiated reality, negotiating around one clan, and then one religious, then left over a family of pseudonotables, then right over  one ethinicty and then ebyaffe and so on.  Does Uganda have the time for that nonsense?
 
6/6  In Uganda’s case, let me ask, is it pluralism or factionalism?  I do not know what quinine one can concoct to whip our pseudoelite into shape.  They need to be taught a les…….

Otto Patrick

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Let all Ugandans pay taxes

June 16, 2009 at 10:29 pm (Finance, POLITICS)
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The clarion call for the American war of independence was “No representation, no taxation”.  That is the very dictum that is being turned on its head in Uganda when populism blinkers the political elite into abolishing poll tax.  Paternalistic abolition of tax is an automatic dissolution of civil society.  Once a population is lulled into not paying tax, it is automatically unsubscribed from membership to civil society. 

 Our political elite can now easily proclaim: “No taxation, no representation”.  Indeed, this is what we see as an extreme case in countries that are completely devoid of a fiscal contract between the masses and the elite, particularly those that depend on oil for revenue.  In Bahrain and Qatar, income tax is 0%, there is Zero parliament.  Parliament is the venue for parley.  If you do not bankroll me, what parley, or bargain do I have to exercise with you?

 That is when even the notion of “accountability” which some people deploy becomes a mere bumper sticker and tedious cliche.  Simply a sterile jargon.  Accountability is a reciprocal process.  It is a two way process.  I am accountable to you if you owe me a living.  If I depend on aid or oil, I am unlike an elite that depends on excise duties, export duties, import duties, income taxes and all other forms of revenue that create symbiosis between productive populations and the political class.

 Institutions per se will not help Uganda. Ugandans must have a stake in their country. How can they become effective stakeholders? You and I argue that through some form of direct taxation.  That may not be popular but is the best way.

 Today, the very few taxpayers in Uganda are well facilitated. They are actually happy.  Those who do not pay direct taxes are also happy so who is going to fight for what us-the elite-treasure.

 I am watching the situation in Iran with interest.  Things may boil over in that Persian country.

 But the folks in the media who are always urging the opposition to unite should re-think their message. Instead they should urge Ugandans to embrace direct taxation if they expect to make progress. From my angle, a country or people who do not pay taxes cannot aspire for great things including democratization, decent health care services, housing, social services, education, and yes accountability, running water, police services etc.

 Institutions can only be the icing on the cake.  The cake is taxation: the nuts and bolts of democracy. 

 

WBK and Otto

UAH forumists

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Laws in Kenya may work in Uganda

June 12, 2009 at 4:34 pm (Africa, POLITICS)
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L_Cpl Otto:

Yes, the law can work in Uganda. remember that Kenyans also had or went through what Ugandans are going through: feelings of entitlement.  I had been ordered out by then but I learned that Kenyan actually fought kifuba over FORD KENYA. Raila Odinga, yes that one felt entitled to led it after the demise of his father Mzee Jaramogi Odinga.  The Luhyas said no and fought over it.  I understand the situation was so bad-Mr Moi could care less-that many suffered multiple injuries.

Defeated, democratically-not enough delegates to back him-Raila left to left to hijack another parry then called NDP.  From there he made a deal with Mr Moi, joined KANU and cabinet until Mr Moi pulled a fast one on all the pretenders when he three his weight behind Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and famously reminded the pretenders that KANU had its owners.

When YKM told off those pestering him to name his successor that none of the current pretenders have what it takes, he reminded me of Mr Moi, blunt and politically incorrect, a trait both share. They also do not drink chaanga and of course like mbessha too much.

It took the courage of the woman from Gichugu, Hon Martha Karua to reign in the political parties.  Forced by law, most parties had no choice but embrace internal democracy.  Those that thought that she was joking were caught off guard and are now in limbo. Needless to say political parties are not private entities.

But it is not just me obsessed with Kenya.  Kenyans now rule the top echelons of the corporate sector in Uganda and even Vice Chancellors.  Why is that the case?

However,I agree with your thesis. Taxes are what we pay for civilization.  In other words, if Ugandans want democracy they should pay taxes. Now do Ugandans pays taxes?  No.

NRMO was smart. It broke the bond you cite by abolishing pol taxes.  Ugandans used to take pride in paying taxes. They used to gather before DCs and chiefs to be assessed or relieved of the budren. Not anymore.

Bottom line : a country of perennial tax evaders like Uganda cannot enjoy the type of democracy the elite crave for.

It is is inverse of the cry: no taxation without representation that sparked tea the famous Boston tea parties.

No taxes, no democracy babe. Taxes are what buy-force-democracy.

Now do you think the majority see it the way you put it in your thesis?  Obviously not.  Scam the editorials pages and you will see them complaining about taxes today and then tomorrow about lack of democratic space. Hello.

I know you folks are fed up with me referring to Kenya but just bear with me.  Under Mr Moi, Kenyans were not paying taxes as much. Enter Mr Kibaki who declared that the era for tax evaders was over and all of a sudden KRA is minting billions. In Ugandan super crooks like Sudhir are day  in day out fighting URA about one form of taxe or another. And then the crooks have the audacity to complain of lack of security. If the Ugandan police has no web page, or functioning patrol cars, cars it can only buy if allocated more money, money which only be raised through taxation, how can it deliver?

Instead of the opposition telling donors to cut AID, they should be telling Ugandans to pay taxes. Yap. is that likely? Nope.

Many in UAH and blame the peasants that they have prioritized sleep over democracy. Hello.  As as long as they pay no taxes, no more strikes and for the young folks, it was strikes “Obwedimo” against taxes, a Ugandan version of no taxation without representation pioneered by the late Mr Eriabu Kamya which forced changes on Bazungu.

Abolishing poll taxes has had only negative effects. Men drinking from mourning is one of them. In the past, before one paid his or her poll tax, they would be on guard and working hard to pay before the chiefs pounced. Not anymore.

Think about it, we the elite are doing the wrong thing.  What we should be calling for is more not less taxation if we genuinely treasure democratizaition in Uganda.  some Ugandan singer sang that “essay come say go”.  Ugandans want it essay, no taxes yet somehow hope aginst all odds that lack of taxation will translate into democracy. Wrong.

Ugandans should reflect on Oliver Wendel Holmes’ dictum: taxes are what people for civilization. You can define civilization any way you want.

WBK

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Laws in Kenya may not work in Uganda

June 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm (Africa, POLITICS)
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Dear UAH
Let me take you back to that Kenyan bill on intra-party democracy…you know that one one forumist called Kjijomanyi in USA has threatened to whip Uganda’s legislators with.  It reminded me of his argument almost to the effect that, the organisational doctrine of the Kenya military is an OSFA…”One Size Fits All”…now, it is organisational doctrine of office seeking political groupings (is it “Parties”?).

What I believe is, that laws are moulded by the politico-economic realities that inform their formulation.  It may not be prudent to hope that, a law propounded in Kenya can be workable here in Uganda:

1/11 In my layman’s view, laws are qualitative expressions of the concrete realities that dictate their formulation.  When you transpose Kenyan legislation onto Uganda, all you will be doing is to dress up a porcupine in a Kanzu.  You are better off crafting a special attire that is tailored to the spikes of the porcupine.  Those spikes simply will shred the Kanzu.
2/11 I am reminded here of the political transitions in all three East African countries in the first decade of the 2000s.  Even a cursory glance at those transitions will tell you a huge story of what is possible in terms of democracy in Uganda, and how the question of economics comes into play….you know the old addage that “Politics is concentrated economics”…that is, politics are the qualitative expression, or the distillate of socioeconomic realities.  You can distil War Gin (Waragi) from Foot and Mouth Drink (Banana Beer) but not from milk.
3/11 In the early 2000s, Kenya depended on donor aid only to the tune of 5%, Tanzania, 33% while Uganda did so to the tune of 53%.  Those figures are a reflection of the robustness of the “fiscal contract” in the three countries…just forget about Thomas Hobbes’ nebulous and intellectually indolent “social contract” which pseudoliberals love to bandy about.  The nuts and bolts of the contract between political elites and their constituents is the fiscal imperative: tax, the subscription fee for membership to civil society.
4/11 Now, back to Uganda and her sisters, and the robustness of the fiscal contract.  What we see happening in Kenya in 2002 was a long-reigning President attempting to have the constituion – the supreme law – ammended so as to secure for himself another term in office.  That failed miserably.  What followed then in Kenya was the incumbent president was never brought back to office, but neither was the ruling party.  Kenya: President loses out, his party loses out, fiscal bond: 95%.
5/11 In Tanzania you have the highly institutionalised CCM, Mr Mkapa served his two terms from 1995, you could not even hear of a dreamer’s hint of a third term.  He stood down, eventually relinquishing the leadership of the CCM to his successor.  But even then, the party was returned in power.  Tanzania: President stands down, party remains in power, fiscal bond: 67%
6/11 In Uganda, the constitution was ammended to allow the incumbent to stand for a third term, he remained the head of the ruling party, and he remained in power.  Uganda: Constitution is ammended, president stays put, party is returned in power, fiscal bond: 47%.
7/11 Here is my hypothesis:  The level of democratic responsiveness of a political elite of any one country is inversely proportional to the extent of aid dependency of the country in question. Put differently, The level of democratic responsiveness of a political elite of any one country is  directly proportional to the extent to which the country in question relies on locally-generated revenue. The point here is, democracy is not just good manners.  Let me define it as “Democracy is the tight corner in which revenue-thirsty political elites find themselves when they are forced to rely on their own populations to function”. Forget about the hot air of si jui, rule of the people for the people blah, blah….By the way, on ammending constitutions to get third terms, recall that General Obasanjo had to even fly to Kampala to consult on how he could force through his 3rd term.  That consultation did not help: his people vetoed him.  Nigeria depends on aid only to the tune of 0.01%

8/11 Worse still, Uganda is even lacking in the level of democratic pressure that it can bring to bear on the political elite.  As you know, Uganda has the lowest median age in the world: 14.9 years.  We have the youngest population in the world, likewise, we have the least number of voters.  According to democratic theory, electoral politics only begins to make sense when 75% of the population can cast their vote.  That 75% tells also another story: when those many people can vote, it means also you have more adults, you have more potential tax payers/workers and you can therefore have a strong fiscal bond between the elite and the population.

9/11 In Uganda, only 40% of the population are of voting age, you have no quorum: bottomline, electoral politics in Uganda is a mockery; it is a slap in the face of liberal democracy and every time Uganda holds any form of election, that reality is always there for all to see.  There is no social basis for liberal democracy in Uganda.  That 40% also means you have less employable people, and less tax payers.  As you know, Uganda also has the highest dependency ratio in the world:- 100:111.  Since you even have the lowest number of people above the age of 65% in the world, it means that all your dependants are babies, nappy wearers.

10/11 Kenya is urbanised to the tune of 26%, Uganda: 12%.  Kenya’s median age is 18.6%…many more workers, many more tax payers, many more bargainers for political concessions.  Recall what it took to quell mass demonstrations recently: armed polic in combat, with live ammunition.  In Uganda: Kiboko squad…just whip them off the streets like the rowdy toddlers that they are.

11/11 So, three things for you to consider before you orthopaedically impose Kenyan law on Uganda.  One, context; secondly, context and third but not least and always easy to forget, context.

Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick

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PLURALISM OR FACTIONALISM?

June 10, 2009 at 10:54 pm (POLITICS)
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Dear Ugandans,
 
I have been tuned in with bemusement, to the debate on Kyandondo North, and which faction (or is it ‘party’) stabbed the other(s) in the back during the petty struggle to position one of their own for sharing the spoils..  The acronyms that keep coming  up include the following:  UPC, DP, PPP, NRMO, CP, JEEMA, FDC, JF, UGP, NDF (plus Vicks Kingo!) and on and on…probably heading for the 623 of the evening of Mobutu’s Zaire , when that country was the most vibrant multiparty democracy in the world. 
 
But the question is, where does factionalism end and where does pluralism begin? When one looks at the random harvest of Uganda’s political elite, all one sees are individuals that are exactly the same, but struggling to be different.  They struggle to differ because of the narrowness of the ‘panya’ that leads to the coveted throne where some ruling clique of the day dishes out patronage, lubricated mostly unearned income that is tossed at us in form of aid. 
 
Let us take a closer look at Uganda ’s demographics.  We are just over 30 million.  Of that, about 27 million, i.e., 90% are peasants.  Let us take another country like France in the past.  In 1789 on the eve of that country’s revolution, the French were 25 million and of that, 23 million i.e., 90% were peasants.  Yes, one could argue that, that was France , and the year was 1789.. In other words: different locales, different epochs. But in socio-historical terms, Uganda 2008 = France 1789: 90% peasants and that tells a huge story about our capabilities across the board.
 
But of course you know that when France had the same proportion of peasants like we do now, they did not have political parties. Is it because the French were blind to the virtues of pluralism, and we, Uganda are cleverer? Is it a historical accident that when the earlier modernisers had similar demographics like Uganda ’s now they were ruled by monarchs (Mono: single person; archs: rulers)? And I am not a monarchist please….but, with our 90% peasants, the rest being – let us be honest – a lumpen bourgeoisie, a functional liberal democracy seems to be a negative dream in Uganda, as the purposeless jostling between and within our factions clearly demonstrates. 
 
Attempting to cheat social development will not take us anywhere, because the gravity of our social reality seems to always push us towards our historical station: mediaevalism: 20, 30, 40 yrs in power like the Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Shoguns and Tudors did in their days!

Historically, political parties have always emerged as structures for forming and conveying group interests in VERTICALLY DIFFERENTIATED SOCIETIES whose structure is the outcome of the transformation engendered by the industrial and agricultural revolutions.  In societies where political parties emerge, wage labourers at the base, bureaucratic elites in the middle and merchants, owners of capital, financiers, industrialists and land at the top (I am reminded here that, 70% of the land in Britain is owned by 0.7% of the population).  In that kind of set up, a labourer in a factory will not give a damn about the ethnicity of a factory manager.  What the wage labourer wants is a decent minimum wage, low income tax and acceptable working conditions.  The head of his trade union can be any religion or lineage, as long as he is vocal enough to squeeze maximum benefits from the factory owner. 
 
In those societies, political parties are nothing but the committees that manage the interests of those classes..  For example in Britain which colonised us, the interests of the top third are taken care of by the Conservatives, those of the middle third by the Liberal Democrats (the fence sitters) and those of the bottom third are managed by the Labour Party.  Tell us: whose class interests do UPC or DP or PPP or NRM or CP or JEEMA or FDC or JF or UGP or NDF etc manage?   Whose interests does Nzaana, Semuwemba, Ochieno, Wambuga, Nsubuga part I, Nsubuga Part II, Nsubuga, Adhola and…..er, L/Cpl Otto represent? Do we speak for wage labourers, landlords, financiers or what? Which class do we speak for?
 
Uganda now is a society that is HORIZONTALLY DIFFERENTIATED. The only groups known to the predominant ‘class’ (the 90% peasants) in Uganda are ethnicities, clans, sub clans, lineages, families, castes etc. The consciousness of the 10% (or even less) pseudo elite (one of whom you and I are) is false consciousness arising from what we see across the fence in the global north.

Now; people, when you impose the structures of interest aggregation and articulation of vertically differentiated polities onto horizontally differentiated countries like Uganda, IT IS AS IF YOU ARE FORCING A PAWPAW TREE TO GROW LIKE A PUMPKIN.  That tree will either die off outright, or become a disastrous weed as it struggles to conform to alien territory: the undulating contours of that horizontal plane of pre-industrialism.  The fact is that, political parties are not merely creatures of, but are an upshot of industrialism.  We are not there.  What political dispensation propelled the industrial, vertically differentiated polities to liberalism? It was not multipartyism!  
 
Just like a pawpaw tree cannot grow like a pumpkin, or kalitusi can not grow like lumonde, liberal democracy cannot thrive in our mediaeval-like conditions.  We may need to go back to the drawing board!…..Look at what other preindustrial countries had to do to create the infrastructure for liberal democracy.

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Political Parties in uganda( 2007)

June 10, 2009 at 10:50 pm (2009 -2011 elections, POLITICS)
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Name , Date of Registration,   Promoters/Address
1. Action Party [AP] ,15.12.2004, Ocheger Nelson
P. O. Box 8401 , Kampala
2. Activist Party ,22.10.2007, Ssebugwao Muyingo / Bampigga Stephen
P. O. Box 224780 Mengo, Kampala
3. Bridge Party [BP],13.10.2005,Kasule Med Leon / Opoka Jane
Plot 6 Cement Corporation Building
P. O. Box 31252 Kampala
4. Congress Service Volunteers Organisation (COSEVO), 10.09.2007,Saddam Bisase / Moussa Mudiba
P. O. Box 22061 Kampala
5. Conservative Party [CP], 22.03.2005,Mubiru Ali / John Ken Lukyamuzi / Dr. Nyeko
P. O. Box 5145 & 1604,
Kampala 
6. Democratic Party [DP], 13.07.2005, Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere / Ssebaana Kizito/Dr. Ebil Otto
Plot 3 William Street
P. O. Box 7098 Kampala
Tel: 041232704
7. Farmers’ Party of Uganda [FPU] ,28.12.2004,Bombokka Nsiko / Lubega Shafiq
Plot 54, Naguru Drive ,
P. O. Box 33243 Kampala
8. Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] ,16.12.2004,Jason Ntaro / Alice Alaso
Plot 9, Entebbe Rd, Najjanankumbi,
P. O. Box 26928 Kampala
www.fdcuganda.org
9. Forum for Integrity in Leadership [FIL], 13.04.2004,Emmanuel Tumusiime/Enos Gerard Nabudere
Plot 48B, Ntinda II Rd Naguru,
P. O. Box 7606, Kampala
10. Justice Forum [JEEMA], 22.03.2005, Hussein Kyanjo Silman
P. O. Box 3999 Kampala
11. Liberal Democratic Transparency [LDT], 15.02.2005,Ssempebwa Hood / Mukasa Zaidi
2nd Floor, Room 21 Sunset Arcade , Wilson Road ,
P. O. Box 33235 Kampala
12. Movement for Democratic Change [MDC], 28.07.2004,Mutiibwa Johnson / Robert Kityo
Balintuma Road, Nakulabye,
P. O. Box 70952 , Kampala
13. Movement Volunteer Mobilisers Organization [MVMO],22.03.2005,Nyabwongo Apollo Oyo
P. O. Box 28640 Kampala
14. National Convention for Democracy {NCD], 28.12.2004,Degaulle Kawuma / William Kagimu
Plot 86 Jjunju Road
P. O. Box 25351 Kampala
15. National Peasants’ Party [NPP], 20.04.2004,Ssegujja Wamala Erias / Wanaba Luqman
Plot 123, Katwe Rd, Sapoba Hse,
P. O. Box 20692, Kampala
16. National People’s Organization [ NAPO ] ,28.12.2004,Jjagwe Abdul / Proscovia Chebet
Namugera Building, Mirim Rd Ndejje (Off Entebbe Rd)
P. O. Box 25645 Kampala Email: napouganda@yahoo.com
17. National Redemption Party [NRP], 14.12.2005,Bizimungu Charles / Cosma Kateeba,
P. O. Box 27947 Kampala
18. National Resistance Movement [NRM] ,30.10.2003, Musa Kigongo / Amama Mbabazi
Plot 10 Kyadondo Rd.
P. O. Box 7778 ,
Kampala
www.nrm.ug
19. National Unity, Reconciliation and Development [NURP], 28.12.2004,Sekabembe Patrick / George Odoch
Plot 79 , Buganda Rd.
P. O. Box 10107 , Kampala
20. National Youth Revolutionary Organisation [NYRO], 28.07.2006,Moses Kankiriho / Ssewanyana Hussein
P. O. Box 8254 Kampala
Tel: 0485 22554
21. New Order Democracy [NOD], 13.10.2005,Epajjar Ojulu Stephen
Kyebando, Bukoto Rd ,
Semwogerere Zone, Bukoto I Parish
P. O. Box 11652 , Kampala
22. People’s Development Party (PDP), 10.09.2007,Dr. Abed Bwanika / Nathan Kabunga / Isaac Baliruno
Makerere Hill Rd. Relief Bldg(Opp. LDC)
P. O. Box 25765 Kampala
23. People’s Independent Party [PIP], 07.04.2004, Yahaya Kamulegeya / Ssalongo T. Ssenoga
Plot 30, Luwum Street ,
P. O. Box 5350 , Kampala
24. People’s Progressive Party [PPP] ,07.04.2004,Jaberi Bidandi Ssali / Joseph Kakooza
Plot 6, Commercial Street, Luzira,
P. O. Box 9252, Kampala
Tel 0414 505178
25. People’s United Movement [PUM], 07.10.2005,Ogemba Shadrack / Sam Ssewagudde
P. O. Box 72605 Kampala
26. Popular People’s Democracy [PPD] ,19.07.2005,Webster Lukwiya
P. O. Box 24206 , Kampala
27. Progressive Alliance Party [PAP], 13.04.2005,Kibirige Bernard
P. O. Box 33770 Kampala
28. Reform Party [RP] ,22.03.2005,Ndyomugyenyi Robert / George Byamukama / Katabazi H.
Water House, 2nd Floor, Plot 688,
Entebbe Rd. Kampala
29. Republican Women and Youth Party [RWYP], 20.04.2004,Stella Nambuya / Jackson Mulumba
Plot 12, Johnson Street
P. O. Box 7590 Kampala
30. Social Democratic Party[SDP] ,01.04.2005,Farouk Ntege/Henry Lubowa
Plot 63, Mutesa I Rd Katwe
P. O. Box 21782 Kampala
www.sdu.africacentral.net
31. Society for Peace and Development [SPD] ,06.02.2006,Harshim Mwenyi / Deograteous Matovu,
P. O. Box 27126 Kampala or
P. O. Box 795 Mbale
32. Uganda Economic Party [UEP] ,15.12.2004,Watentena James
Plot 14 William Street ,
Kirumira Towers ,
P. O. Box 374 , Mukono
33. Uganda Mandate Party [UMP], 22.03.2005,Mulunga Wanjala W. / Amos Kisambira
P. O. Box 63 Tororo
34. Uganda Patriotic Movement [UPM], 18.04.2005,Lubega Byayi / Bukenya Miridah
Busabala Home Clinic
P.O. Box 2083 Kampala
35. Uganda People’s Congress [UPC] ,22.03.2005, Miria Kalule Obote / Peter Walubiri
Uganda House Plot 10 Kampala Rd.
P. O. Box 9206 Kampala
www.upcparty.net
36. Uganda People’s Party [UPP], 22.03.2005,Sulaiman Masaba / John Ssenkumba
Plot 6, Entebbe Road .
P. O. Box 11009 Kampala

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Why Museveni will win the 2011 elections

June 10, 2009 at 4:53 pm (2009 -2011 elections, POLITICS, PRESIDENCY)
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Dear UAH,
You ask to be educated on why FDC, UPC, DP, CP, indeed all the opposition parties combined, are a spent force.  Yes, the opposition, combined, are a spent force because, they are politically short sighted. They are led by, immature politicians. Yet they are facing an accomplished group of politicians in the names of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, NRM who have spent their time, indeed many years, studyuing the abc of politics.
On the other hand opposition politicians are politically immature people who have no ability to know how to plan to win an election. While the opposition plans their political strategy on the spot, Museveni plans his strategy many years in advance.
As a result, the 2011 Presidential and general elections are already won by the NRM/Movement party. This is so for the following reasons;
President Mseven and his NRM machinery possess 100 tricks to employ to win the 2011 presidential and general elections. So far they have employed only about three of these, the most lethal trick is,
INTIMIDATION AND CREATION OF FEAR IN THE POPULATION.
This weapon alone secures the NRM 50 percent of the election even before voting begins. Hence by the time the opposition goes into an election they are already 50 per cent behind.
POLITICAL PATRONAGE
 This is another lethal weapon NRM uses.The NRM machinery has activated this weapon from the day they got Government machinery in their hands in 1986. Today virtually all District Admninistrations from top to bottom, are in NRM hands.  Those district administrators who are anti-NRM cannot openly express their feelings. They are scred  stiff.Hence, the District machinery , plus all the over 200 RDCs, are all already positioned to firstly persuade voters, and if persuation fails, to create fear amongst the electorate and to dupe them with some benefits.
NRM HAS THE FINANCIAL MUSCLE.
There is a saying in the USA which goes, When President  J.  F.  Kannedy was campaigning for he presidentcy a reporter asked him, What is the most important thing a politician aspiring to win an election must have, he answered, ‘MONEY’.
Question No 2, WHAT IS THE MOST INFLUENCTIAL WEAPON IN POLITICS, he answered , ‘MONEY.’
Question3, ,WHAT WILL YOU DO TO WIN THE ELECTION, he said, I MUST HAVE MONEY.
Now, my dear Ugandans, you are answered; THE FDC, DP, UPC, CP, are already a spent force, they are already defeated in the 2011 presidenti and general elections UNLESSS THEY CAN FIND A SOLUTION TO THE ABOVE WEAPONS  AND TRICKS WHICH THE NRM HAS IN ABUNDANCE.
No doubt the three weopns, INTIMIDATION, FEAR, DISHONEST USE OF POLITICAL PATRONAGE, MONEY, violate people’s human rights. If we were living under a Government that strictly follows the rule of law and order, NRM leadership should be prosecuted in a court of law for abuse of office  which in some cocuntries is punishable by death.
Henry Ford Miirima

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Background checks in Uganda

June 3, 2009 at 9:10 pm (Social issues, security)
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Ugandans,
1/11 This question of background checks is related to many other questions that we have debated here, including that of the tribulations of Uganda Police, the ubiquity of violence in Ugandan society, and broader questions related to our general capabilities across the board.  Even when you look closely at the debate on political participation, the autocratic propensties of leadership/political elites at every level of society (not just in the state, a point we often refuse to acknowledge), the question of the capabilities of a pre-industrial, mediaeval society always catch up with us.
2/11 Now, background checks: what are these? What do they entail?  Me, myself, Corporal Otto: I was born in a banana plantation at the back of our kitchen.  My illiterate grandmother was the midwife.  My dining table, the placenta, for the 9 month intrauterine phase of my life was eaten by our dog, Popi.  There are no records anywhere in Uganda that I was ever born.  In places where they carry out background checks, things start from there: you are born in a hospital, your DNA is harvested, your blood group is established, bottom line, you get onto some database.  You are registered with a general practitioner in places where there is a national health system, and every ailment you get is placed somehwere on a database.
3/11 You will go to school and this is compulsory, lest your parents end up in jail, and that means you will end up on the national educational system database.  You will be mistreated by your booze-loving Mzee and end up on the vulnerable children’s database.  Your parents will be entitled to child benefits, that will place you on the revenue services database.  Your parents may get you a passport, and you will end up on the Home Affairs database.  Every trip you make abroad will be logged somewhere, right from your infancy.  And they will automatically have your finger prints.
4/11 As soon as you clock 16 years, you will see a card coming through the post, telling you that you have a social security number (SSN) or national insurance (NI) number depending on the country.  Because all your correspondence comes to you by post, it means that your physical address is known, by post code or zipcode.  You don’t live at “ekikkilira, kumpi nekiyinja, noyita kumuyembe, kumpi nakavule”.  No! If you are Otto, yours will be, 117 Coffin Grove; Death side, Warwickshire; CV40 10QT; United Kingdom (thanx Mr John Nsubuga).  In other words, you are on some one’s radar.
5/11 As you advance in your education, you will be entitled to a student’s loan.  You will open a bank account where monthly instalments of the loan will be deposited.  Every time, and whereever you draw cash, and where ever you do shopping, that is logged somewhere on a database.  You will take bus/train rides using a students swipe card.  Where ever you swipe it, someone knows already which city or town you are visiting.  You will own a mobile phone, and not pay-as-you-go, but contractual.  Whenever and where ever you make or receive a call, that is logged somewhere by GPS.
6/11 You will have a login to use the computers in your local library or your campus.  When ever you use those computers, that is logged somewhere.  You will have an email address.  What ever you do with that address and whenever you log in, that is captured somewhere.  Some camera will even have already recorded some of your biomentrics like the character of your iris…without your knowledge.
7/11 If you live in a country like Britain, which has 1 CCTV for every 13 members of the population, the highest CCTV density in the world, everywhere you walk, you are advised to smile, because you are on camera, being recorded somewhere.  If you acquire a driving permit, you are already on the database of the agency that licences drivers and vehicle owners, by address etc.

8/11 In other words, where ever you are, you are leaving a massive electronic footprint, and that is the real content of your “back ground” in that “back ground check” that you are wondering about in the Ugandan context.  In countries where individuals have such a huge electronic footprint, by the time police come to you to arrest you, you know they have their data: you just ask with a smile, for the handcuffs to be put on your wrists, because in your heart, you know they have the data: wamenikamata, bankutte, bangemye!

9/11 The other day we were talking about safe houses and torture and so on.  Where people undergo subtle surveillance like I have tried to describe above, there is not torture.  It is not because of democracy, as some of us argue here simplistically, it is because you do not have to whip some one to get information from him.  You have it by just one push of the button.  In Uganda, you lack that background information, whether on criminals, prospective judges ( I heard of a Senior Justice Kalanda who was found to have used some one else’s papers to advance his education), MPs, presidents, let alone military recruits.

10/11 So, let us get real and understand what makes things work or fail to work, instead of spending all our time ridiculing ourselves, wishing that we were like others, and generally cursing the dark without ever lighting any candle.

11/11 The lack of such infrastructure as I describe above accounts for such proverbs as “Ente endhirugavu enakuleta”, in other words, I can’t catch you now but when darkness sets in, you will come back to roost……I think that is Lusoga, your language.  In other settings, whether it is shining or not, they will get you.  Why?

Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick

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How the 2009 Namugongo Martyrs Day went

June 3, 2009 at 8:40 pm (POLITICS, RELIGION)
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Summary: THE 123rd anniversary of the execution of the workers/pages at Mwanga’s Court took place at the two shrines as is always the case. On the Cathoric side, it was hosted by KABALE Dioscese while on the Protestant side, it was Mukono Dioscese in charge.
1/4. Traditionally, there is no change in routine save for the language of the songs, which will be Alur when Nebbi is in chrge and Ruchiga , as today, when Kabale is in chrge, with a colouring og Kichiga dance by Mbabazi of Temangalo fame with his tormentor Banyanzakyi jining him to stamp the ground (Hmmmm).
2/4. DIFFERENT APPROACHES: While at the Anglican site [further to the East of the Catholic site] the occasion is marked with sorrow and the Martyrs; anthem [BEEWAYO...] is the song to be heard (the Namirembe Boys’ Choir not missing), there is full choir and the event is highly choriographed, even as a “harvest presents” occasion.
3/4. The debate on wheather these boys were matryrs or traitors of K ing and Country contiunes to be discussed in the press on this occasion. Colour was added last year or so when the Mukajanga lineage went to namirember and delivered a “letter of apology” to Bp. Ssekade for their “grand-fathers’ attrocities”. But today, in the opposite vain, the care-taker of Mukajanga’s grave took tourists around with new bark-cloth desplayed above the body in the mausoleum [Hmmmm]. “He was a great “OMUMBOOWA” (Royal Guard)” the tourists were told. (Confusing like two people seeing the same cow, one says it is white while the other says it is black. This is the World).
4/4. Other notable things on today’s occasion:
  • M7 was present. In his address, he paraphrased the Kabaka who, in a recent speech, called for his people to “talk less and work more“.
  • For the first time may be in 10 years [from1999 when Besigye wrote his anti-establishment letter], M7 and the Colonel sat in the same tent and to the surprise on many, Dr. KB did not march out, this time around (he has done so not once, e.g. at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Mbale). He sat side-by-side with Ssebana Kizito, the DP suprimo: (will they unite from now hence-forward??).
  • Ms SARA EPERU of FDC and another were put in Police custody for distributing FDC “martyrs sympathy cards”.
  • 100 pick-pockets and petty thieves were apprehended.
  • In Tooro, at ythe birth-place of one of the martyrs, people gathered and went into inexplicable trances (un-catholic like, one would think).
  • The “kasikyi” (eve) of martyrs’ day was celebrated on the streets of Namugongo, Kireka, Kiira and Kyaliwajala settlements/towns and other surrounding areas such that, during the day most of the pilgrims, even those from Kenya, Rwanda and Sudan who HAD FOOTED FOR WEEKS TO PARTICIPATE, slept/dozed the ceremony out. Business boomed, especially in meat-snacks {roast} and in drinks. That is NAMUGONGO on Martyrs’ day for you.

Christopher Muwanga,

Nakasero,

Kampala.

3.6.09.

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How the Opposition lost to Sematimba

June 1, 2009 at 1:22 pm (2009 -2011 elections, POLITICS)
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Mr. Muwanga and fellow UAH,

I was there in Kampala during these campaigns and I was very disappointed with the opposition myself. They were so fragmented and therefore produced fragmented results. DP and FDC need to calm down, sit on the same table and discuss the future. DP has got to join the inter party Cooperation because I’m sure that even donors will find it difficult to finance them independently.

  1. Sematimba would have won this election with a bigger majority if he had stood as an independent. I don’t think his pronouncing himself as NRM will help him in the long run if he is to remain contesting in Kampala. Urban centres are pro-opposition all over the world. This was just a one off.
  2. Sematimba said that he joined NRM in 1994 and that he only stood as an independent during Mayoral elections in Kampala because NRM had already fronted Mr. Kyambadde as their candidate. This alone shows someone with an element of indiscipline because he could not barge in for the sake of the party. Probably Kyambade would have won the mayoral race against Sebaggala if Sematimba had not stood as an independent. Sematimba said that he was in Dubai on Business and started admiring the way Arabs had built their city and that’s when he rushed back home to run as a mayor.
  3. Some people did not vote for Sematimba because he was looked at as a snob. I listened to him on radio CBS when he was being hosted by Medi Nsereko Sebuliba. He kept telling people that he is a very rich man and that he handles the same budget in his line of businesses as the Lubaga Division budget. He said that those running against him aren’t as rich as him. He boastfully called them all names under the sun depicting some one with less money. What confused me was when he said, at the same time, that he had decided to run on NRM ticket because ‘they are the one with money’. This means that the rich Sematimba is capable of joining any side with cash.
  4. Among some of his achievements he mentioned while being hosted on CBS fm was the introduction of Valentine’s Day in Uganda. I could not believe my ears that some one would use this to get votes and few in the opposition and religious circles challenged him. The fact is that the disadvantages of Valentine’s Day outweigh the advantages and we would have lived without this day. It is like some one saying that he introduced ‘sex’ day or prostitution in Uganda and we need to vote this person in a position of responsibility. Yes, I like Sema as a person but this was very cheap from him.

On the other hand, the opposition did not help themselves at all and I pray that this is the last time DP and FDC are fighting in public because it irritated a lot of voters:

  1. The opposition candidates kept campaigning while dressed in suits and heavy wears while Sematimba was only using T-shirts and light clothing. The opposition should know that Kampala is not a village where somebody needs to put on a suit all the time while looking for votes. Honestly, it’s so hot in Kampala and I don’t know how these guys managed to dress like this throughout the campaigns. The opposition should learn simple tactics of connecting with the voters.
  2. DP and FDC kept calling each other names in public and it put off a lot of people. I guess those are the ones who decided to stay at home on the voting day
  3. MP Kamya was another one that is more of a menace to the opposition than she realises. She is on FM radio political programs almost 3 times a week and her words towards FDC,Joyce Sebugwawo and Besigye are not helpful. We only know that she is playing politics but her politics is so childish and divisional. However, I listened to her when she was being hosted on either Capital FM or KFM and she talked sense about the PGB soldier who shot people dead at the bar before he shot himself. I think she was on this program with MP brother Hussein Kyanjo, UPDF spokesperson and other MPs.
  4. The opposition need to mobilise election funds jointly and need to have a joint candidate in all elections in future. The opposition did not have enough money throughout this campaign and this was evidenced on the size and the number of campaign posters they used. Sematimba’s posters looked bigger and more beautiful everywhere I went. I even tried to go in places which we call ‘BUSOKOLO SOKOLO’ like the junction at Namungona main stage. I went deep down there but Sematimba was everywhere and the rest looked like small babies on their posters. Sematimba looked like a smiling SALONGO with a baby face. Sematimba’s face was everywhere in Kampala and on the outskirts.
  5. For God’s sake,NRM had 7 people who contested against Sematimba within the party but they managed to agree on one. Why shouldn’t the opposition do the same in all elections?

Byebyo banange

Abbey.K.Semuwemba

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Why the opposition lost to Sematimba in Lubaga

June 1, 2009 at 1:16 pm (2009 -2011 elections, POLITICS)
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On the just concluded by-elections of Lubaga Division (constituency), a lot must have been talked.Out of a regestered 130,000 voters:

1. 17 000 voted the opposition candiates.

2. 15,000 voted the fomr N.America base diaspola ’ssenga’ (sex-therapist on CBS)  turned pentecostal pastor of the NRM.This means that the turn-out was 25% of th electorate, which constitutes a MASSIVE BOYCOTT.This means that ssematimba was elected with an 11.5% vote.

1/10. Summary: Every body must fight for principled UNITY, even “of opposites” as they used to teach in philosophy classes.
The DP-FDC rift should not be looked at in clear-cut terms or as a “black-and-white” issue. Why? They have worked together before.
2/10. Iexamples are not few: In the Buyikwe by-election, FDC campaigned for the DP candidate. The young doctor won easily. To trounce the NRM so called “living encyclopaedia” in Bugweri, DP did not put up a candidate.  katuntu went through, causing NRM shem – for a whole deputy PM to loose in his own area.
What is the problem today then?:
3/10. The not so simple answer is “personalitioes” and ‘personalisation of Politics’ and some “poplitical hangover” with  some people.
That is why you have situations where, for example, in the last election,  ”Seeya” Ssebagala had to distance himself from DP and ride on the then “besighye factor” [muna-magye y'esobola muna-magye munne - i.e. a soldier (M7) can only be managed by a fellow soldier] – which may have fizzled out now. That is, he read the peoples’ mood and mind better. So did Ms Nabila who even had her party [Social Democratic] but decided to ride on the mentioned factor when it lasted.
4/10. Come places like Lubaga division: The mood and mind of the people were clear for everybody to see. “You either join togethr or we shall not vote”. DP’s bringing in the husband of the late Chair did not help matters: it split the DP core-vote catchment area, to the extent that the Doctor shephard at Lubaga DID NOT support the DP candidate, Mr. Makumbi. He supported, instead, Mr. Ssendikadiwa, a regular perishoner!/member of the Liety.
5/10. Before the media hype by the FM radios and the pentecostal/NRM avalanche swept in, Owek. Joyce Ssebugwaawo was the ’soul’ candidate [in most peoples' minds]. After all, had she not been elected fron the RC’s starting 1987 up to the District council before she left to concentrate on Mmengo issues, after the coronation in ‘93? [Owek. is short for "owekitibwa" - a tittle for high officials at Mmengo, especially ministers. Alomost like "Honourable".]
6/10. BUT, but, but: DP considered this Lubaga the ‘cradle’ of the Party and even Owek. an ‘outsider’. The turn of the tide agaist Owek. Joyce Ssebugwaawo is what alarmed the rest of the opposition leaders. The Results were/would be inevitable. The “Man” Ken {Kennedy} Lukyamuzi, President of the Conservative Party cried at the rallies and FM radios almost daily ” People, INITE!!! You are gifting the NRM with an unpopular oition again”. His permanent call fell on the deaf ears of the opposition leaders. Calls for compromise meetings were ignored. the situation became so bad that even the FDC leader predicted the minority NRM’s  victory at one rally, which may also have contributed to the boycott.
7/10. Confusing the electorate: Another of the main causes of the confusion and subsequent boycott was the ‘anti-Joyce’ rhetoric of Beti’s “Federal Alliance”. The tiff between the two ladies Joyce and Beti within FDC board-rooms spilled into Lubaga politics. One voter [first name Francis, a Ssebugwaawo supporter asked, "If the Federal Alliance is for Buganda, how come they are decampaigning Owek. Joyce? I am giving my vote to Owek. but there is no chance with this 'fratricide'. It's bad" he concluded. His wife, like many potential opposition voters thus stayed at home.
8/10. So, were "Ssenga" [sextherapist] SEMAT’s votes genuine? Well, he got 11% of the whole voter-roll and that is not something to sing home about. In the last three days, the state macinery came in, in addition to the other preachers and hired youth brigades. Even though some good votes were ‘manufactured’ at Kyadondo road {NRM hqrs}, the media and poster and newspaper advert-campain were so massive that he had to get some votes. In fact, the per-capita cost of Ssematimba’s vote was, may be, 20 times higher than that of all opposition candidates put together.
So, the 11% was not bad, considering the presidential and ministerial ‘man-hours’ invested. The fact though remains, the cost in monetary terms was not justified by the fewer votes he picked, even in view of the wide-boycott.
9/10. Way foward: If the opposition are to have any go at the state next time , they must:
    • Stop being driven by the past: “this is our area’, “this is our nationality”, etc. The NRM uses state resourecs to enter through such flimsy divisions.
    • UNITE. Nothing need be added here. stop egos and selfishness. Indeed, does a house divided aginst itself stand?

10/10. Otherwise, the Uganda citizen-voter will continue to be betrayed by the  the so called ‘political elite’ in Party leaderships. The Lubaga spectacle, like those before it, is an indictiment of the political leaders, for failure to guide the people properly and fo being slfish. The leaders are lucky to escape with a boycott this time around. Next time they may be stoned for failing to do the obvious.

“Cry, the beloved Country” – as Allan paton would put it in our stuation today [like he did in the case of 40's/50's South aAfrica].

Christopher Muwanga,

Nakasero,

Kampala.

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Namirembe gets Kityo as the new Bishop

June 1, 2009 at 12:45 pm (RELIGION)
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It is 12:00 O’clock (East Africa Time)EAT, 31st May in the year of our Lord, 2009.Greetings fom Uganda. The sun is shinning, inter-sparced by rain, as usual. the credit cruch is bitting as the “kyeyo funds’ seem to have dried up and the financial year of the GoU is at and end, living on borrowed {called supplementary] funding.

  • The 3-in-one  sevice at this ‘ancient’ wonder of architecture has been going on since 9:00 AM. Things like the pesentation, the oaths, the Minutes of the House of Bishops, The ‘examination’ [a touch interrogation], are over. It is now the consecration. His Grace   the Archbishop of the province of Uganda announces:“I hereby declare that Bishop Luwulira Kityo Wiberforce has been duly connsecrated a BISHOP”.
  • But wait, Namirembe does not have a Bishop yet. Becoming a bishop as at this moment, does not give you authority over East and Central Africa’s oldesct Diocese. So, So, more things follow:
    • The Mandate is read by the provincial Chancellor
    • The New Bishop Luwalira reads the Promises.
    • Then followed the investiture and presentation of the symbols of Office:
      • The Archbishop delivered the Episcopal ring.
      • the Pectoral Cross
      • The Stole
      • The Coper
      • the Metre
      • and finally: THE PASTORAL STAFF. This, presented by the Archbishop on behalf of the people of the Diocese of Namirembe is the symbolof Authority, of a good shephard like Jesus was – to uphold him and sustain him as he carries it in His name.
    • The ENTHRONEMENT:
      • After all this, actual enthronement took place. The Archbishop declared,at 12:30 Hrs EAT.
        • “We, Henry, by the devine mercy of the Almighty God, do hereby declare Bishop Luwulira Kityo Wilberforce, Bishop of Namirembe Diocese…”
      • The the Heavens broke loose and shouting, ululations and “Tukutendereze Yeesu..” could probably be heard all over the 7 hills of Kampala.
      • The elders od the Church then took their new Bishop to the THRONE.
    • Charge: the new Bishop then read his CHARGE [manifesto in Politics] where he promised to, among other things, fight child sacrifices, corruption, land grabbing , “..it is time the big men stopped robbing the poor of their land..” whereby the TV cameras focussed on Amama Mbabazi (of the Temangalo fame)who was sitting next to his boss. He asked that parents be allowed to provide for food in UPE/USE schools “a hungry child is an annoyed individual” [under UPE, no charges of any sort are allowed, even for food, which causes many to dop out.[M7, in reply, promised to consider a waiver on this].
    • 2:30 PM Hon Ms Beti Kamya is invited to introduce political leaders. She starts with M7 and the Hon. minister for Karamoja. She is proud to say her grand-dad Andrea Kamya was the first catichest in Ankole Kingdom and that her dad’s protrait hangs in the Bishop’s office next door [he was diocesan treasurer in Amini's time, at Namirembe]. She then likened her self to  the Biblical woman who touched the garment of Jesus after suffering from ‘a blood hamorrage’ for years and she asked to be allowed to say some thing. She asked M7 for “federo“. She had fogotten to recognise the presence of DP suprimo Ssebaana Kizito and was reminded and did later.
    • Next spoke the Katikoro od Buganda and finally the BIG man himself, who pledged a vehicle for the new Bishop [as usual]. he said Kamya’s question cannot be discussed at this fora. “We discussed this thing (federo) in the Bush and since we came to power…”
    • 3:20 PM. Two stanzas of the National Anthem are sang [as a rule when the President is present, otherwise one is the norm], followed by 3 of late Rev. Pollycarp Kakooza’s 1950’s “Ekitibwa kya Buganda..”.
  • The ceremony in this former hqrs of the E.African church ended with a pubic fest at the grounds of Mmngo School (1897]. M7 and his entourage drove off with their mobile kitchen, hospital and this time around mainly dishuised security, though the gun nests could bee seen around as were the army filed kitchen and serving areas to the wers of kampala.
  • The Archbishops of Kenya, South Sudan, Rwanda, Dallas, were present or represented.

The Building: Namirembe is old but still an imposing structure. First build in 1893 by the then Buganda’s the Chief  architect  Nicodem Sebwato, in ancient ganda syle of reed-arches and slanting thatch, it was destroyed by fire, termites, lightening, etc] and rebuilt  final to the current form, from the Architectural drawings of Gerald Gelford Pite. Sir Apollo Kagwa, Ssekiboobo [Provincial Governor Kyaggwe] Ham Mukasa, and even the King, Sir Daudi Chwa, took direct part in the building process.. but, from 1915, it now needs repair and the New Bishop has his plate full on this one. May God bless him in his new office.

I did not see President Obote of the UPC but one can find out, and revert with an answer, either from the organising Commitee at St. Paul’s, or directly from her friends at Impala  Avenue, Kololo House [matrimonial home [a Sh. 300,000/= storeyed flat offered as a gift by an Indian, in 1963 after their marriage (the Obote's ONLY property in Kampala, one  hears). [in his book, "Crisis of confidence"-the NRM supremo KK (Kirunda Kivedindha) calls this Obote's first {and only?} case of corruption --Hmmmm]. [Obotes’s cascate ’rested’ there from Zambia}.

P/S: The Nkima clan were present in FORCE.

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Christopher Muwanga,

Nakasero,

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