I think the most accurate point of reference for assessing the the extent to which the NRA relied on Luwero for manning is not January 1986, but December 1984/January 1985 when the transition from guerrilla to conventional operations was effected, with the opening of the Western front. At that point of expanding the zone of operations to beyond Luwero, anything up to 70% of the membership of the NRA may have been Baganda. Note that there were also other Buganda-based rebel groups like Fedemo and UFM. The important point is not that they were under NRA command, but that they were also ranged against the UPC government. In anycase, they all ended up in NRA eventually. Note that the “Western” component of the NRA shot up from early 1985, when the Luwero phase was finished.
A glimpse of composition of NRA in luwero
November 13, 2009 at 1:51 pm (1980 elections, Obote and UPC, UPDF and Iddil Amin)
Tags: L/Cpl (rtd) Otto Patrick
Ugandans should join either NRM or FDC and forget old parties
November 4, 2009 at 1:06 pm (1980 elections, 2009 -2011 elections, Obote and UPC, POLITICS)
Tags: Ahmed Katerega
Dear Ugandans at heart,
Amin was personally close to Maama Miria Obote and it was one of the reasons why she was not hurt during and after the coup until she escaped to Tanzania. Obote and Amin were close friends when one was Prime Minister and President and the other was Deputy Army Commander, Army Chief of Staff.
Since 1966, removal of Obote government was justified so by 1971 it was over due. But had Obote handled Amin well, probably nothing may have happened.
As for Besigye and Museveni, there is no doubt that they have their own personal grievances, which other people from South West exploited to ensure that the power base does not shift to Buganda or else where. l will not be party to those who want President Museveni to be succeeded by his clansman Kizza Besigye.
Surat Yasin in the Quran says that The Almighty God causes things to happen and they do so. So NRM , like any other, which had a beginning, will have an end. But the end of NRM will be the beginning of another Movement from inside NRM. You better join in or its extension FDC not PRA or PPP. The earlier the better
If one claims that Obote, Amin, Binaisa, Muwanga, Okello and Museveni were UPCs, and that only Ben Kiwanuka and Yusuf Lule were DPs, and that changes have been UPC infighting, and that many from other parties have not benefited from those changes, can you accept it?
The 1971 coup, brought in new UPC leaders including Idi Amin , Wannume Kibedi, Henrty Kyemba, Huseein Malera, Isac Maliyamungu, Paul Etiang, Edward Rugumayo, Abu Mayanja, Apollo Kironde, William Naburi, and many others. The 1979 change brought in Godfrey Binaisa, Edward Rugumayo, Paulo Muwanga, Yoweri Museveni, and many others. 1980 elections brought back Milton Obote, Paulo Muwanga ,Otema Almadi, Peter Otai and many others. 1985 coup brought in Tito Okello ,Wilson Toko, Paul Muawanga, Abraham Waliggo etc…1986 change brought in Yoweri Museveni, Samson Kisekka (he had crossed from KY to UPC and later UPM), Stanislas Okurut and others.
Other parties were on the periphery. Like the short lived term of Ben Kiwanuka as Chief Justice, the same was with Wako Wambuzi under UNLF. Yusuf Lule for only 68 days, Paulo Ssemogerere as Internal and later Foreign minister under Okellos and Museveni etc….
Hence, in case FDC had defeated NRM in 2001 and 2006, that would have been a change within NRM unlike in 1996 if Ssemogerere had won, or if JEEMA’s Mayanja Kibirige had won in 1996 and 2001.
Therefore either Ugandans join NRM directly as l see those in press reports, or you join its extension in FDC or PPP, you will be left out. Don’t be tempted to join rebel activities “tojja kumalako.”
Ahmed Katerega
UAH forumist/ Journalist
Uganda cabinets since independence
September 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm (History, Obote and UPC, PRESIDENCY)
Tags: mulindwa Edward
1. OBOTE I & II GOVERNMENTS
1.1 LIST OF MINISTERS UNDER OBOTE (1962-1971 AND 1980-1985)
NAME ETHNICITY REGION RELIGION
Apollo Milton Obote Lango Northern Protestant
Grace S. Ibingira Munyankore Western Protestant
Amos K. Sempa Muganda Central Protestant
J.T. Simpson English
Cuthbert J. Obwangor Iteso Eastern Catholic
John K. Babiiha Mutoro Western Catholic
Dr. E. B. Lumu Muganda Central Catholic
Mathias M. Ngobi Musoga Eastern Catholic
Felix K. Onama Madi Northern Catholic
John W. Lwamafa Mukiga Western Protestant
Dr. J.S. Zake Muganda Central Protestant
Balak K. Kirya Mugwere Eastern Protestant
Lawrence Kalule Settala Muganda Central Catholic
Adoko Nekyon Lango Northern Muslim
N.M. Patel Indian
Jehoash S. Mayanja Nkangi Muganda Central Protestant
Alex A. Ojera Acholi Northern Catholic
Basil K. Bataringaya Munyankore Western Catholic
William W. Kalema Muganda Central Protestant
Lameck Lubowa Muganda Central Protestant
George B. Magezi Munyoro Western Protestant
Sam. N. Odaka Musamia Eastern Protestant
Max L. Choudry Karamoja Eastern Catholic
John B. Kakonge Munyoro Western Protestant
C.B. Katiti Munyankore Western Protestant
Shaban K. Nkutu Musoga Eastern Muslim
James S. Ochola Japadhola Eastern Protestant
J.M. Okae Lango Northern Protestant
Joshua N. Wakholi Mugishu Eastern Protestant
Dr. E. Babumba Muganda Central Protestant
E. Y. Lakidi Acholi Northern Protestant
Obote II administration (excluding those that served under Obote I already)
Paulo Muwanga Muganda Central Protestant
Erifasi Otema Alimadi Acholi Northern Protestant
Samuel Mugwisa Muganda Central Protestant
Dr. John J. Otim Acholi Northern Catholic
Joel M. Aliro Omara Lango Northern Protestant
Dr. James M. Rwanyarare Mukiga Western Protestant
Yona Kanyomozi Muhororo Western Protestant
Prof. Isaac N. Ojok Lango Northern Catholic
Dr. Ezra R. Nkwasibwe Mukiga Western Protestant
Dr. Adonia Tiberondwa Munyankore Western Protestant
Dr. David O. Anyoti Iteso Eastern Protestant
Dr. John M. L. Kirunda Musoga Eastern Protestant
Stephen O.Ariko Iteso Eastern Protestant
Anthony Butele Lugbara Northern Catholic
Abraham P. Waligo Muganda Central Protestant
Akena POjok Acholi Northern Protestant
Sam Tewungwa Musoga Eastern Protestant
Peter Masette-Kuuya Mugisu Eastern Protestant
Wilson Okwenje Musamia Eastern Protestant
Yosamu Mugenyi Munyoro Western Protestant
Muhammed N.Lubwama Muganda Central Muslim
Dr. Moses T. Apiliga Madi Northern Catholic
Abner Nagwale Mugisu Eastern Protestant
Shafiq Arain Indian Muslim
1.2 List of Ministers of State/ deputy Minister under Obote 91962-1971 and 1980-1985) (Excluding those who served as full ministers)
Name Ethnicity Region Religion
Obote I Administration
K.K. Karegyesa Muhororo Western Protestant
S. K Masembe-Kabali Muganda Central Catholic
Mrs. F. Lubega Muganda Central Catholic
Patrick Munyagwa-Nsibirwa Muganda Central Protestant
E.B Bwambale Mukonjo Western Protestant
V.K. Rwamwaro Mutoro Western Catholic
S.E. Isiagi Iteso Eastern Protestant
S.K. Okurut Iteso Eastern Catholic
S.W. Uringi Alur Northern Protestant
Alexander Y. Lobidra Madi Northern Catholic
A.K. Balinda Mutoro Western Catholic
Obote II administration (excluding those that served under Obote I already)
Chris Rwakasis Munyankore Western Protestant
Albert Picho Owiny Jonam (West Nile) Northern Protestant
Henry Makmot Lango Northern Protestant
Peter Otai Iteso Eastern Protestant
Edward Rurangaranga Munyankore Western Protestant
W. A. Osinde Wangwor Japadhola Eastern Catholic
Dr. Patrick Rubaihayo Munyankore Western Protestant
I.O. Okwakol Iteso Eastern Protestant
Anthony O. Olanya-Olenge Acholi Northern Protestant
Dr. Philemon Mateke Mufumbira Western Protestant
Mrs. Theresa Odongo-Oduka Lango Northern Catholic
Ronald Bandanyanya Lugbara Northern Protestant
Matia Kisembo Bunyoro Western Catholic
Col. Willaim Omaria Iteso Eastern Protestant
Henry Tungakwo Mutoro Western Catholic
Ben Etonu Iteso Eastern Catholic
Patrick Mwondha Musoga Eastern Protestant
Amon Bazira Mukonjo Western Protestant
Jacob Akol Karamajong Northern Protestant
2. Amin Government (1971-1979)
2.1 List of ministers under Amin (1971-1979)
Name Ethnicity Region religion
Maj. Gen. Idi Amin Kakwa Northern Muslim
Emmanuel B. Wakhweya Bugisu Eastern Protestant
Apollo Kironde Muganda Central Protestant
Lt. Col. Ernest A. Obitre Gama Lugbara Northern Protestant
Joshua Wanume Kibedi Musoga Eastern Protestant
Charles Oboth Ofumbi Japadhola Eastern Protestant
A.V. Ovunji Alur Northern Catholic
Fabian. L Okware Iteso Eastern Catholic
William B. Banage Mutoro Western Protestant
Wison Oreyma Acholi Northern Protestant
Abu Mayanja Muganda Central Muslim
Dr. J.M. Gessa Mugwere Eastern Protestant
Justus M. Byagagaire Mukiga Western Protestant
Peter. J. Nkambo Mugerwa Muganda Central Protestant
Edward B. Rugumayo Mutoro Western Protestant
Mustapha Adrisi Lugbara Northern Muslim
Smutts Guweddeko Muganda Central Protestant
Juma A. Oris Madi Northern Muslim
Moses Ali Madi Northern Muslim
Rapheal Nshekanabo Mukiga Western Catholic
Mustapha Ramathan Nubian Northern Muslim
Noah Mohammed Alur Northern Muslim
Dusman Sabuni Nubian Northern Muslim
John D. Onaah Lugbara Northern Protestant
Edward L. Athiyo Karamajong Northern Protestant
Samuel Lukakamwa Musoga Eastern Protestant
M.L. Obadao Iteso Eastern Protestant
Francis Nyagweso Samia Eastern Catholic
Barnabas Kili Lugbara Northern Catholic
Henry Kyemba Musoga Eastern Protestant
Levi Katagyira Munyankore Western Protestant
Godfrey S. Lule Muganda Central Protestant
I.K. Kabanda Muganda Central Muslim
W. Ali Fadhul Nubian Northern Muslim
Yusuf Gowon Kakwa Northern Muslim
Junba Masagazi Muganda Central Muslim
Farouk Minawa Nubian Northern Muslim
Emilio Mondo Madi Northern Catholic
Ibrahim Garandi Musoga Eastern Muslim
Ismail Sebi Lugbara Northern Muslim
Bakhiti Alur Northern Muslim
Paul O. Etiang Iteso Eastern Protestant
Mary Astles Senkatuka Muganda Central Protestant
M.B. Matovu Muganda Central Catholic
Hussein Marijan Nubian Northern Muslim
Moses S. Kiingi Muganda Central Protestant
Wilson Lutara Acholi Northern Protestant
Willaim Naburi Karamajong Northern Protestant
J.M. Zikusoka Musoga Eastern Protestant
Yekosofati Engura Lango Northern Protestant
Wilson Oryema Acholi Northern Protestant
Abu Mayanja Muganda Central Muslim
Dr. J.M Gessa Mugwere Eastern Protestant
Justus M. Byagagaire Mukiga Western Protestant
Peter J. Nkambo Mugerwa Muganda Central Protestant
Edward B. Rugumayo Mutoro Western Protestant
Mustapha Adrisi Lugbara Northern Muslim
Smutts Guweddeko Muganda Central Protestant
Juma A. Oris Madi Northern Muslim
Moses Ali Madi Northern Muslim
Raphael Nshekanabo Mukiga Western Catholic
Mustapha Ramathan Nubian Northern Muslim
Noah Mohammed Alur Northern Muslim
Dusman Sabuni Nubian Northern Muslim
John D. Onaah Lugbara Northern Protestant
Edward L. Athiyo Karamajong Northern Protestant
Samuel Lukakamwa Musoga Eastern Protestant
M.L. Obado Iteso Eastern Protestant
Francis Nyangweso Samia Eastern Catholic
Barnabas Kili Lugbara Northern Catholic
Henry Kyemba Musoga Eastern Catholic
Levi Katagyira Munyankore Western Protestant
Godfrey S. Lule Muganda Central Protestant
I.K. Kabanda Muganda Central Muslim
W. Ali Fadhul Nubian Northern Muslim
Yusuf Gowon Kakwa Northern Muslim
Junba Masagazi Muganda Central Muslim
Farouk Minawa Nubian Northern Muslim
Emilio Mondo Madi Northern Catholic
Ibrahim Garandi Musoga Eastern Muslim
Ismail Sebi Lugbara Northern Muslim
Bakhiti Alur Northern Muslim
Paul O. Etiang Iteso Eastern Protestant
Mary Astles Senkatuka Muganda Central Protestant
M.B. Matovu Muganda Central Catholic
Hussein Marijan Nubian Northern Muslim
3. UNLF GOVERNMENT
3.1 List of ministers under UNLF government (1979-1980)
(Excluding all those who served under the Obote, Amin and Museveni
government)
Name Ethnicity Religion Region
Yusuf K. Lule Muganda Central Protestant
Tito Okello Acholi Northern Catholic
David Oyite Ojok Lango Northern Protestant
Andrew Adimola Acholi Northern Catholic
J. Dungu Muganda Central Catholic
A. Byararuha Munyankore Western Protestant
A. Wandira Iteso Eastern Protestant
Arnold Bisase Muganda Central Protestant
Dan Nabudere Mugisu Eastern Protestant
Godfrey Binaisa Muganda Central Protestant
Jack Ssentongo Muganda Central Catholic
Anthony Ocaya Acholi Northern Catholic
H.S. Nsubuga Muganda Central Protestant
Pancras Kaboha Mutoro Western Catholic
Yoweri Kyersimira Musoga Eastern Protestant
James Obua-Otua Lango Northern Protestant
Zeddi Maruru Munyankore Western Protestant
Lawrence Sebalu Muganda Central Catholic
Sam Tewungwa Musoga Eastern Protestant
Masette Kuuya Mugisu Eastern Protestant
Obonyo Acholi Northern Catholic
Ntege Lubwama Muganda Central Muslim
3.2 List of ministers of state/deputy ministers UNLF governments (1979-1980)(excluding those who served as full ministers)
Name Ethnicity Region Religion
Andrew Kayiira Muganda Central Catholic
Samwiri Karugire Munyankore Western Protestant
P. Senabulya Muganda Central Catholic
Raphael Bitamazire Mutoro Western Catholic
Christopher Okoth Japadhola Eastern Catholic
4. MUSEVENI GOVERNMENT
4.1 List of ministers under Museveni (1986-2008)
Name Ethnicity Region Religion
Yoweri K.Museveni Munyankore Western Protestant
Haji M. Kigongo Muganda Central Muslim
Dr. S.B. Kisekka Muganda Central Protestant
Dr. Crispus Kiyonga Mukonjo Western Protestant
Robert Kitariko Mukiga Western Catholic
Dr. Shem Masaba Mugisu Eastern Catholic
Dr. G. Kanyeihamba Mukiga Western Protestant
S.K. Okurut Iteso Eastern Protestant
J. Ssebana Kizito Muganda Central Protestant
J.S. Mayanja Nkangi Muganda Central Protestant
Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda Mukiga Western Protestant
Abu K. Mayanja Muganda Central Muslim
Jaberi Bidandi Ssali Muganda Central Muslim
Joseph Okune Lango Northern Catholic
Paul K. Ssemwogere Muganda Central Catholic
James Wapakabulo Mugisu Eastern Protestant
Dr. E. Kakonge Munyoro Western Protestant
Prof. S. Tumwine Munyankore Western Protestant
Ben Okello Luwum Acholi Northern Protestant
B. Chango Macho Musamia Eastern Protestant
Prof. Y. Kyesimira Musoga Eastern Protestant
David Kibirango Muganda Central Catholic
Ibrahim Mukiibi Muganda Central Muslim
A. Kirunda Kivejinja Musoga Eastern Muslim
Prof. P. Mulema Muganda Central Catholic
Moses Ali Madi Northern Muslim
Joseph Mulenga Mufumbira/Munyarwanda Western Catholic
D. Kigozi Muganda Central Protestant
Anthony Butele Lugbara Northern Catholic
Tom Rubale Mutoro Western Protestant
Dr. Alex Ofumbi Japadhola Eastern Catholic
Eriya Kategaya Munyankore Western Protestant
Mrs. V. Ssekitoleko Musoga Eastern Protestant
Prof. George Mondo Kagonyera Mukiga Western Protestant
Paul Etyang Iteso Eastern Protestant
Amanya Mushega Munyankore Western Protestant
Z. Kaheru Munyoro Western Protestant
Kintu Musoke Musoga Eastern Protestant
Richard Kaijuka Munyankore Western Protestant
Moses Kintu Muganda Central Muslim
Dr. E.T. Adriko Lugbara Northern Protestant
Henry Kajura Munyoro Western Protestant
Sam Sebagereka Muganda Central Protestant
Sam Njuba Muganda Central Protestant
Adoko Nekyon Lango Northern Muslim
Cosmas Adyebo Lango Northern Catholic
Dr. James Makumbi Muganda Central Protestant
Dr. Speciosa Wandera Kazibwe Musoga Eastern Catholic
Ateker Ejalu Iteso Eastern Protestant
Gerald Ssendawula Muganda Central Catholic
Tom Butime Mutoro Western Catholic
Francis Ayume Kakwa Northern Protestant
Janat. B. Mukwaya Muganda Central Muslim
Prof. Apollo Nsibambi Muganda Central Protestant
John Nasasira Munyankore Western Protestant
Bart Katureebe Munyankore Western Catholic
Basoga Nsadhu Musoga Eastern Protestant
Wilson M. Mukasa Muganda Central Protestant
Kweronda Ruhemba Munyankore Western Protestant
Betty Okwir Acholi Northern Catholic
Prof. Edward K. Makubuya Muganda Central Protestant
Syda Bbumba Muganda Central Muslim
Miria Matembe Munyankore Western Protestant
Rebecca Kadaga Alitwala Musoga Eastern Protestant
Dr. Gilbert Bukenya Muganda Central Catholic
Amama Mbambazi Mukiga Western Protestant
Jim Muhwezi Muhororo Western Protestant
Zoe B. Bakoko Lugbara Northern Catholic
Col. Kahinda Otafiire Munyankore Western Catholic
Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere Munyankore Western Catholic
Beatrice Wabudeya Mugisu Eastern Catholic
Sam Kutesa Munyankore Western Protestant
Dr. Ezra Suruma Mukiga Western Protestant
Namirembe Bitamazire Muganda Central Catholic
Daudi Migereko Musoga Eastern Protestant
Adolf Mwesige Mutoro Western Protestant
Kabakumba Labwoni Masiko Munyoro Western Protestant
Hilary Onek Acholi Northern Catholic
Dr. Stephen Malinga Iteso Eastern Protestant
Daniel Omara Atubo Lango Northern Protestant
Maria Mutagamba Muganda Central Catholic
Dr. Mulira Mukasa Muganda Central Protestant
Dorothy Hyuha Mugwere Eastern Protestant
4.2 List of ministers of state/deputy ministers under Museveni (1986-2008)(excluding those who served as full ministers)
Name Ethnicity Region Religion
Balaki K. Kirya Mugwere Eastern Protestant
A. Aliat
Dr. Ronald Bata Madi Northern Catholic
Mrs. Betty Bigombe Acholi Northern Catholic
Mrs. Gertrude Njuba Muganda Central Protestant
A. Kafumbe Mukasa Muganda Central Muslim
William Nyakatura Mutoro Western Catholic
John Ntimba Munyankore Western Catholic
Dr. J. Batwala Musoga Eastern Protestant
J. Maumbe Mukwana Mugisu Eastern Protestant
Kiiza Basigye Muhororo Western Protestant
Yafesi Sabiti Munyankore Central Protestant
R. Ekinu Iteso Eastern Catholic
Mrs. Byekwaso Lubega Muganda Central Catholic
David Tinyefunza Munyankore Central Protestant
Fred Rwigyema Munyarwanda Western Catholic
Agard Didi Madi Northern Catholic
Stephen Kavuma Muganda Central Protestant
Henry Kyemba Musoga Eastern Protestant
Dr. Francis Aporu Okol Iteso Eastern Catholic
Dr. Oteng Lango Northern Catholic
Israel Kayonde Munyarwanda Western Protestant
Charles Alai Acholi Northern Catholic
S. Kiingi Muganda Central Protestant
Peter Akure Lango Northern Protestant
Mrs. Joyce Mpanga Muganda Central Protestant
Salim Bachou Jonam Northern Muslim
Mutebi Mulwanira Muganda Central Catholic
Dr. S. Chebrot Sabiny Eastern Catholic
Mrs. F.K. Nkurukenda Munyoro Western Catholic
A. Kiiza Amooti Munyoro Western Catholic
Isoke Baguma Munyoro Western Catholic
David Pulkol Karamajong Northern Catholic
Matthew Rukikaire Muhororo Western Protestant
Rhoda Kalema Muganda Central Protestant
John Kawanga Muganda Central Catholic
Prof. William Nadiope Musoga Eastern Protestant
C. Karusoke Mutoro Western Catholic
Deo Rwabiita Munyankore Western Catholic
Ojok OBwangamoi Acholi Northern Catholic
Gerald Sendaula Muganda Central Catholic
Besweri Mulondo Muganda Central Protestant
Peter Lokeris Karamajong Northern Catholic
Med Kaggwa Muganda Central Muslim
Col. Abukar Jeje Odongo Iteso Eastern Muslim
Dr. Israel Sebunya Kibirige Muganda Central Catholic
Dr. Kezimbira Miyingo Muganda Central Catholic
Owiny Dollo Chigamoy Acholi Northern Catholic
Dr. Martin Aliker Acholi Northern Protestant
Yafesi Otim Omara Karamajong Northern
Tomas S. Kiryapawo Mugwere Eastern Catholic
Dr. Abel Rwendeire Mukiga Western Catholic
Francis E. Babu Muganda Central Catholic
Philip Byaruhanga Munyoro Western Catholic
Matiya B. Isoke Munyoro Western Catholic
Col. William Omaria Iteso Eastern Protestant
Jovina A. Akaki Lango Northern Catholic
Andreula Awuzu Lugbara Northern Catholic
Jane Francis Kuka Sabiny Eastern Catholic
Mavenjana Akumu Alur Northern Catholic
Sylvester W. Wasieba Mugisu Easter Catholic
Emmanuel Kirenga Muganda Central Catholic
Omwonyo Ojwok Karamajong Northern Catholic
Ruth Nankabirwa Sentamu Muganda Central Catholic
Dr. Alfred Mubanda Muganda Central Protestant
Vincent Nyanzi Muganda Central Protestant
Manzi Tumubweine Mukiga Western Protestant
Gabriel Opio Musamia Eastern Protestant
Alfred O. Ogaba Acholi Northern Catholic
Fred Mukisa Musamia Eastern Catholic
Dr. Fabius Byaruhanga Mutagwenda(Munyankore) Western Catholic
Sarah. S Namusoke Muganda Central Protestant
Betty Okullu Akech Acholi Northern Catholic
Dr. Philemon Mateke Mufumbira Western Protestant
Mary N. Kakembo Muganda Central Protestant
Florence Nayiga Muganda Central Protestant
Grace Okello Iteso Eastern Catholic
Benigna Mukiibi Munyoro Western Catholic
Michael W. Kafabusa Mugisu Eastern Catholic
Max Omeda Iteso Eastern Catholic
Felix Okot Ogong Lango Northern Catholic
Tim Lwanga Muganda Central Protestant
Christine A. Aporu Iteso Eastern Catholic
Rukutana Mwesigwa Munyankore Western Protestant
Isaac Musumba Musoga Eastern Muslim
Prof. Peter Kasenene Munyankore Western Catholic
Henry Oryem Okello Acholi Northern Protestant
Mary R. Mugyeni Munyankore Western Protestant
Mike Mukula Iteso Eastern Protestant
Richard Nduhuura Munyankore Western Protestant
Sam Bitangaro Mufumbira Western Protestant
Henry Obbo Japadhola Eastern Catholic
Alex Kamugisha Muhororo Western Catholic
Kamanda Bataringaya Mwamba Western Catholic
Okumu Ringa Aloysius Alur Northern Catholic
Hope Mwesigye Mukiga Western Protestant
Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka Muganda Central Catholic
James Nsaba Buturo Mufumbira Western Protestant
Nshimmye Sebutulo Munyarwanda Central Catholic
Jennifer Namuyangu Mugwere Easter Protestant
Beatrice Z. Magoola Musoga Eastern Protestant
Nyombi Thembo Muganda Central protestant
Simon Mayende Samia Eastern Protestant
Charles Bakkabulindi Muganda Central catholic
Igema Nabeta Musoga Eastern Protestant
James Baba Kakwa Northern Catholic
Musa Ecweru Iteso Eastern Protestant
David Wakikona Mugisu Eastern Catholic
Aston kajara Mutoro Western Catholic
Prisca B. Mbaguta Sezi Muhororo Western Catholic
Caleb Akadwanaho Munyankore Western Protestant
Kagimu Kiwanuka Muganda Central Catholic
Fred Omach Alur Northern Catholic
Rukiya Chekamondo Kulany Sabiny Eastern Muslim
Matia Kasaija Munyoro Western Catholic
Maj. Bright Rwamirama Munyankore Western Protestant
Emmanuel O. Otaala Japadhola Eastern Catholic
Serepio Rukundo Mukiga Western Catholic
Ephraim Kamuntu Munyankore Western Protestant
Nelson Gagawala Wambuzi Musoga Eastern Protestant
Dr. Kasirivu Atwoki Munyoro Western Catholic
Urban Tibamanya Munyankore Western Catholic
Jessica Eriyo Madi Northern Catholic
Rukia Isanga Musoga Eastern Muslim
Maj. James Kinobe Muganda Central Protestant
Sulaiman Madada Muganda Central Muslim
Simon DUjanga Alur Northern Protestant
Simon Ejua Iteso Eastern Protestant
John Byabagambi Munyankore Western Catholic
Fred Ruhindi Munyankore Western Protestant
Alintuma Nsambu Muganda Central Catholic
Mulindwa Edward
Ugandan in Canada
It could take upto 2030 before UPC rules Uganda again
September 1, 2009 at 11:16 pm (Obote and UPC)
Tags: oruni Oloya
Dear all,
Although Olara Otunnu now looks to some like the “master card” that will take UPC back to power, I am convinced that it will take atleast another 20 years before UPC sees the inside of state house. Why do I say this?
The evidence is there for one to see, that UPC is now making the same classic mistake that has kept DP out of power, namely failing to challenge for power outside of its comfort zones. As a reminder, Milton Obote was able to challenge DP for power in Buganda by getting Abu Mayanja to nominate him for the UNC/UPC leadership. Further more, on gaining the leadership of his party Milton Obote relied on non northerners such as Grace Ibingira, Wilbourforce Nadiope, Mathius Ngobi, Balaki Kirya, Kalule Setala, Godfrey Binaisa, John Kakonge and many others to spread the party’s influence nationally.
Unlike Milton Obote who sought for and gained support of leaders nation-wide, Olara Otunnu is relying on politicians from the north such as John Okello Okello, Benson Obua-Ogwal, John Odit, and Omara Aliro. These politicians will only keep Olara Otunnu and UPC in the north.
Olara Otunnu has already failed the first, and most crucial test of natinal leadership,i.e, the ability to attract and surround onself with weighty party allies and friends from other regions and districts, and not just from ones own backyard so to speak. I may be judging him too early, but the early signs look very bad indeed.
Pilipo Oruni Oloya
I’m not a Museveni spy in London?
September 1, 2009 at 1:49 pm (2009 -2011 elections, History, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Pilipo Oruni Oloya
Otunnu and Gen. Tito Okello did not take part in the coup against Obote
August 27, 2009 at 1:29 am (2009 -2011 elections, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Pilipo Oruni Oloya
Dear all,
I think people who believe that Olara Otunnu took part in planning the coup against Obote will be very difficult to convince. However, the coup was actually the result of longstanding complaints by Gen. Basilio Okello. I knew Gen. Basilio very well, and I spoke with him frequently when he was the Brigade Commander of Northern Brigade, based in Gulu. I knew about the coup plan sometime in 1984. Although I did not believe that Gen. Basilio could pull it off ( I actually told him so). I talked to Gen. Basilio Okello many times before and after the coup. From what I know Mr. Olara Otunnu had absolutely nothing to do with the coup against Obote. Simmilarly Gen. Tito Okello also had nothing to do with the coup although he later became the President. Infact after the coup Gen. Basilio told me that he had at first ”house arrested” Gen. Tito Okello, for failing to take “atuah”. Atuah is swahili word meaning “ACTION or STEP” against president Obote.
According to Gen.Basilio Okello when he arrived in Kampala following the coup Gen. Tito Okello had already fled to Kenya by helicopter and was in Kakamega, western Kenya. That Gen. Tito was later persuaded to return back to Uganda by some elders. He said the (same) elders asked him to make Gen. Tito Okello the president, otherwise he should have arrested Gen. Tito Okello for failing to stop president Obote from misusing the national army and dividing the army.
Based on what know through my conversations with Gen. Basilio Okello before and after the coup of 1985 his reasons for toppling Obote were:
1. Gen. Basilo complained that President Obote was wrongly using the Army to solve political problems. He cited in particular the war against soldiers of deposed president Amin who where then waging a war on Uganda from Sudan across the border in West Nile. According to Gen. Basilio, president Obote needed to find a political solution to the West Nile insurgency but not to use the army to fight fellow Ugandans.
2. Gen. Basilio Okello believed that the political difficulties which president Obote was having with the Baganda was bad for the Acholi people, in the sense that the Acholi, through their sons who were serving in Uganda army where getting a bad name nationally and in particular with the Baganda, for fighting Obote’s political wars in Luwero. Gen.Basilio Okello was so anxious about this and always said that “time is going to come when we Acholi will pay for what we are being ordered to do by president Obote”. He urged that the Acholi should ” try everything in their power to resist getting entangled in president Obote’s political difficultiees which the former wanted to solve militarily using “sons of Acholi” soldiers.
3. One day in early 1984 Gen. Besilio Okello complained to me that “Right now the UPC have started recruting soldiers into the national army”. He said that there were about 200 recruits who were sent to Gulu army barracks by the UPC office in Gulu, however, he did not know how these people were recruited in the army and he was therefore refusing to give them army rations. The general said that he was going to “eject” the recruits out of the army barracks. It was on this same day that he told me that “Obote has to be replaced by a military council”. I asked him whether it was possible to topple president Obote and he replied very affirmatively saying “ofcourse”.
4. Gen. Basilio Okello also believed strongly that Obote rigged the 1980 election. I remember one day, in fact it was at night, when I was seated with the general in a hotel belonging to the Chairman UPC Gulu West, who was president Obote’s strongest supporter in Gulu, Gen. Basilio remarked that ” Even Museveni who is fighting in the bush, he has a cause”.
5. Gen. Basilio believed that president Obote was planning to arrest him at any time, as early as January 1984. Sometime in the year (1984) the governement cited Gen. Basilio’s name in allaged confession of Lt. Olake, who was a rebel UNLA soldier who had fled to Kenya but was subsequently captured in Nairobi and brought back to Uganda. It was alleged that Lt. Olake confessed that Gen. Basilio supplied arms to rebels fighting president Obote’s government. The general was so spooked by this incident thought that the government were going to come for him at any time. Infact he told me that he had laid his own “roadblocks” to counter any soldiers who might be sent from Kampala by president Obote to arrest him. The general later asked me to arrange a meeting with the UPC officials in Gulu so that he could explain to them that he was not supporting the rebels.( At that time I was the chairman of NUYO Gulu district, and I was also working closely with Hon.Otema Allimadi, although some people always (wrongly) accused me of being a “DP infiltrator”.) I duly arranged the meeting and it took place in the UPC Gulu East Constituency offices. The meeting was attended by the Chairman and the Secretary of UPC Gulu East Constituency, also present was my vice chairman of NUYO Gulu district. This particular man (RIP) was a very staunch UPC youth activist. During the meeting Gen. Basilio Okello said that he wanted the UPC officials to know that he was not supporting the rebels. I remember him saying ” you always see me here in Gulu if I was planning anything against the government you people would surely be the first to know about it”. The UPC chairman replied rather sarcastically that ” you are a soldier and we are civilians, there is no way we can know whether or not you are planning to topple the government”. Gen. Basilio tried to propose at this meeting that the UPC officials should arrange a meeting from the grassroots in Gulu so that he could meet with president Obote to iron out things, however the officials declined.
6. An interesting incident happened when President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia visited Uganda and went to Gulu in 1984. During the reception for president Kaunda at the presidental lodge, Gen. Basilio turned up for the occassion dressed in smart casual civilian clothes. There was a ring of people formed by plain cloth security and UPC youth activist all round were the two presidents and other guest were seated, so that one had to pass through them before going to take their seats. when Gen. Basilio Okello arrived he was detained as he tried to walk through the security ring and searched by security and UPC youth wing. The general’s pistol was removed from him and he was held up for a long while and everyone turned around to see what was happening. It was a tense and awkward situatuion and very embarassing to Gen. Basilio. At this point Hon. Apiliga who was a government minister came to Gen. Basilio’s rescue and led him away to be seated. It was later alleged by some people that Gen. Basilio had planned to kill president Obote during the reception.
7. Gen. Basilio Okello was very angry for the alleged killing of Lt. Col Peter Oboma and Lt. Apire Olok. These two were alleged rebel UNLA soldiers who had fled to Kenya and who had then allegedly come back to carry out some covert military actions in Uganda against president Obote’s governemnt and were subsequently captured. The two were later summarily executed and their bodies apparently dumped somewhere in Mabira forest. Gen. Basilio never blamed president Obote personnally for the death of the two former UNLA Acholi officers because according to him the two were killed by fellow Acholi’s who were in the army. According to the general when the two renegade officers were captured he “pleaded with their fellow Acholi captors not to kill them”. However, somehow the general held the government of Obote responsible for what he called “extra judicial killing of Acholi by the Obote governement”.
Further more the general always cited the killing of Gen.Pyerino Okoya in 1971 by unknown gun men from his residence in Gulu. Gen. Okoya’s wife (who happens to be Lango) was also killed. The killer or killers were never brought to justice. However, Gen. Basilio held the Obote (I) government responsible. This was a constant source of resentment and anger which I know for sure that Gen. Basilio felt so strongly about and which he somehow wanted to avenge.
8. As the casualties from the war with Yoweri Museveni’s then NRA rebels mounted, with several bodies being brought home nearly every other day, Gen. Basilio became so anxious that many sons of Acholi were dying for ” a meaningless war”. The General even said on one ocassion during the funeral of a slain UNLA soldier who was the son of a very prominent Acholi professor, that a way had to be found of stopping these death. According to Gen. Basilio the only way to stop Acholi from dying in a meaningless war was to topple Obote himself, if Obote will not talk to Museveni in order to end the war.
9. Gen. Basilio was against the government of president Obote for supporting the SPLA rebel group of Southern Sudan. His main arguement was that as the immediate neighbours with Sudan, any repraisal by the Sudanese government on Uganda for its support of the SPLA would foremost affect Acholi. Accordingly the general refused arms to pass through his brigade area onwards to the SPLA. He also told me of an incident involving millions of dollars which was supposed to be air dropped to the SPLA in Southern Sudan but which landed instead in Acholi area. When villagers found the money and eventually Gen. Basilio came to know about it the later sent his soldiers who collected the money. I think for sometime the general refused to release the money to the government authorities until he found assurance that Uganda government would not aid the SPLA through Acholi area again.
10. Gen. Basilio wrote a letter to president Obote just immediately before the coup in 1985, in which he told the president that he the general had henceforth stopped his soldiers from fighting against the so called former soldiers of Iddi Amin rebels based in Southern Sudan. In the letter the general argued that “When I took the oath of my army office I swore to defend the territory and the people of Uganda. The people who are in Southern Sudan whom your governement want me and my soldiers to fight are Ugandans. Therefore, as per my oath I cannot fight fellow Ugandans whom it is my duty to protect.”. The general concluded that president obote must find a political solution to his political problems since the army was now not going to be involved in fighting and killing fellow Ugandans.
As far as I know these are some of the reasons why Gen. Basilio Okello toppled the government of president Milton Obote.
Pilipo Oruni Oloya
Otunnu is a great asset for Uganda
August 24, 2009 at 1:16 pm (2009 -2011 elections, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Billie Kadameri
Guys,
I think we should not at this moment equate Otunnu’s apparent lack of crowd appeal on his arrival date, as representative of of him being a paper tigre afterall.
Let’s wait and see the kind of appeal he generates in the former and current UPC strongholds as he tours the country before making judgement.
Besides, the the guy has a well documented international stature and his return to Uganda can only be of help to the country, whether you like him, support his party or not.
I am waiting to see though, how he copes with local Acholi politicians who
had carved for themselves political influence in his absence and see how he relates to them.
I think the guy is an asset to Uganda, as an opposition politician, a mere observer or even just a private citizen.
I don’t know about Otunnu trying to cut a deal with the NRM while he was with the Military Council. I was however told by Sam Kutesa in the presence of John Nasasira, the late Wapakhabulo and John Nagenda in the presence of American journalist Elizabeth Rubin in Kampala, that Otunnu schemed with Bazilio Okello to kick out Paulo Muwanga as Executive Prime Minister of the Military Council, and the plan was for Otunnu himself to become the Executive Prime Minister of the Military Council. However because there were more DP ministers and schemers in the Military Council cabinet, and because Bazilio Okello was taking much of his advice from DP Vice President Andrew Adimola, Otunnu’s ambition to become PM was sabotaged by Kutesa and the group. He has some other salacious details of how it was done but maybe Ahmed Kateregga can ask Kutesa for the details.
As a compromise Bazilio then retained Otunnu’s other brother Dr Amii Omara Otunnu as his advisor (Special Advisor to CDF). Kutesa claims Otunnu was never happy with being denied the PM’s position which eventually went to Abraham Waliggo.But those were his words, not mine.
DP was not only the dominant party in the military, but it is a matter of public record and ‘Lord’ Andrew Adimola publicly boasted to us one time in Gulu that no cabinet appointment in the Military Council took place without his stamp of approval, literally.That is why Dr Henry Obonyo one time help acting cabinet appointments for five ministries when substantive ministers were out of the country.
The initial leaders of the military council were presumed UPC supporters but those who finally forced it depose Obote were largely DPs. You remember that Bazilio Okello was never really in good books of real UPCs in Kampala.
When the first batch of the Special Forces graduated and were marching in Kampala in late 1981, UNLA opened fire on them and there wee clashes and Lt. Col. Bazilio Okello, as Commanding Officer of 15th Batallion Kampala, justified the incident by saying he was not informed who these ’strangely dressed’ troops were. This was one of the reasons he was transfered away from Kampala. Besides, many people in government then were not amused that Bazilio used to have green mercedes, with civilian number plates.
You know how sensititive our politics was regarding the colour you use.
Tito Okello was never the planner of the 1985 coup. He simply went with the wind. When the mutineers were moving out of Gulu to march on Kampala, it was Bazilio who addressed the crowd opposite Gulu market place accompanied by DP Vice president Andrew Adimola. The DPs simply saw a perfect opportunity to hit back at UPC.
That explains why although the coup was an action informed more by inflamed ethnic passion and the dislike of Opon Acak by many junior and senior Acholi officers, one of the most pro-Obote and very senior Acholi officers, Eastern Brigade Commander Brig. George William Nyero, never joined the coup bandwagon and never featured in the junta. He now lives in Texas.
Billie Kademeri
Ugndan in Paris
With or without Obote,Uganda would have had independence
August 16, 2009 at 2:53 pm (History, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Otto Patrick
My comment is directed at those that want to make us think that AM Obote may have made the British rethink their continued stay in the country that came to be called Uganda, in probably the same sense as Frelimo or IMPLA smoked the Portuguese out of Lusophone Africa. It is harmful self-deception to portray AM Obote as a Machel, Cabral or Neto.
Rubin Byaruhanga told members of UAH that that 1961 was the year for the British to quit East Africa territories but for Uganda, pro-Protestant skulldaggery had to first come into full play: Ben Kiwanuka was not acceptable as a future leader of Uganda necessitating a shopping trip for the most clamorous protestant on the block. This was indeed after the 1961 elections which saw DP gaining 43 Legco seats while UPC 35 had a mere 35 seats.
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick
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I heard former President of Tanzania, Julius K. Nyerere (RIP) saying that Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika were supposed to be declared independent at the same time, in 1961. However, the Kenyans had not resolved their differences and that took too long for the Tanganyikans to wait. As for Uganda which was ready at any given time, there were some ”inexplicable” problems among the Ugandans that had also to be resolved. Many people say that the victory in the Ugandan Elections by the ”Catholic” Democratic Party that brought Mr. Benedicto Kiwanuka to power as Prime Minister, was in fact the cause for the delay in declaring Uganda independent. The British seemed to prefer a non Catholic and that’s why Uganda’s independence was delayed. The Tanganyikans insisted that if Kenya and Uganda were not ready, they should be given their independence. In December the same year, 1961 Tanganyika gained her Independence.
Due Respect and Recognition for the Hoisting of the Flag of the Independent Uganda is Vital for Historical purpose.
Death of Habyarimana didn’t cause the Rwanda genocide
July 10, 2009 at 11:17 pm (1980 elections, Genocides, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Rukumbura and Otto
Dear world citizens,
Sorry, President Museveni of Uganda was kept in the dark as far as the intent and date of our going home were concerned. Ask the Ugandan forces that tried to stop our guys from leaving what they met. As for the death of Habyarimana as the cause of the genocide against the Tutsis, please just read the Arusha testimonies of the designers to that genocide. You will learn as to when the pangas were bought, which was way before Habyara died and which meetings came up with the list of the Tutsis in Rwanda and how fast they can be killed. You have also to acknowledge the killings of Abagogwe that was way before the Habyarimana’s death to mention the few who were killed because of being Tutsis.
The return of Rwandans to Rwanda was in Uganda’s national interest. The Uganda People Congress (UPC)’s that are preaching pretentiously about the genocide in 1994 were the same ones subjecting those same Rwandans to ethnic cleansing in 1982-83 in South-western Uganda.
I do not know whether some UPC supporters understand clearly what they mean when they say “..what triggered the genocide was the assassination of Habyarimana..”. Do they mean that the mass murders of Tutisis and moderate Hutus would never have taken place if that plane had not been downed? Does he mean that all the previous waves of Tutsi massacres were preceded by mini-Habyarimana plane crashes? Had Tutsi and moderate Hutus been dying before or not? Were the machettes bought in anticipation for the Habyarimana plane crash?
Or for that matter, what is a “trigger”? As a corporal, I know that where there is a trigger, there is a round of ammunition with an explosive charge, there is a corking handle, there is a magazine, there is a firing chamber etc. Is it YK Museveni of Uganda that concoted the Rwandan explosive mixture? If indeed UPC supporters fully understands what they means by “trigger”, is it the same thing as the structural and historical causes of that genocide? And in crisis analysis, do we previlge triggers over structural causes? Unless we are UPCs who, when it comes to analysis, they highlight the first four letters of the word.
Why didn’t President Samora Machel’s death in a plane crash in 1987 spark off a genocide in Mozambique? Yet many of us are the same people that were constantly calling those same Rwandans names, and claiming that they were taking all the good jobs. When someone helps to find a way of getting them back where they rightfully belong, we again turn up talking the same nonsense of the Otikas, the Mulindwas and the rest of the loud-sounding-nothing horde……..just like the peasant husband who tells his wife, “do not peel the food and do not cook it but I should find it ready”.
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick and
Mr.John Rukumbura
UAH forumists
Why there was no Muslims in Obote’s 1983 Cabinet
June 16, 2009 at 11:56 pm (1980 elections, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Ahmed Katerega
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
Composition of Obote’s Uganda Army (UA)
May 28, 2009 at 11:14 am (History, Obote and UPC, military)
Tags: L/Cpl (rtd) Otto Patrick
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick
UPC fiddled with constituency boundaries in 1980 elections
May 4, 2009 at 3:00 am (1980 elections, History, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Otto Patrick
Dear Ugandans at Heart,
1/6: I am seeing UPC supporters telling you that, “…the constituency demarcations that were used in 1980 were the ones which had been designed for use in the 1971 elections..” . I wonder where they derive that perception from. What we know is, that apart from obstructing and terrosizing prospective candidates, UPC rigged the electoral process by gerrymandering: fiddling with constituency boundaries to shortchange other parties.
2/6: A meeting between representatives of all parties agreed on 126 constituencies each with a population quota of 100,000 (+/- 10,000). This would have allowed the EC a margin of 20,000 people between the maximum and minimum to manoeuvre in demarcating boundaries, i.e., between 90,000 and 110,000.
3/6 : UPC/Paulo Muwanga/KMS Kikira instead opted for an arbitrary figure of 95,000 (+/- 25,000), thus instead giving the Kikira chaired EC a margin for massive gerrymandering. UPC then got themselves the range of 70,000 to 120,000 for what runed out to be selective demarcation of constituency boundaries. Selective in that, in areas where UPC was strong, the lower range of 70,000 applied in order to give a maximum number of constituencies while in DP strongholds, the maximum range of 120,000 applied, to deny DP representation. For example, if an area with 700,000 people was a UPC stronghold, Mr Kikira demarcated it into 10 constituencies where as a DP stronghold with the same population would be demarcated into 6 constituencies, thus crippling DP right from the start.
4/6 : To illustrate this point, Kampala then with a population of 458,000 should have been demarcated into 5 constituencies with an average of 100,000. Mr Kikira instead gave Kampala 4 constituencies with 114,606 people. Likewise, Mpigi with a population of 659,225 should have been demarcated into 7 constituencies. Mr Kikira gave them 6 with 109,871 people. Those two were DP strongholds so a constituency had to be shaved off each one of them. On the contrary, Kitgum with a population fo 307,594 should have had 3 constituencies of 100,000 people. Since it was supposedly a UPC stronghold, it was given 4, each with 76,899 people. UPC carried out similar manipulation in Bushenyi, and Mbale.
5/6: May be UPC supporters from Bushenyi can help us here. The constituency of Bushenyi North is based on Bunyaruguru county which at the time had a population of 52,161. To give it the a population quota that was close to the 100,000 otpimum, the logical arrangement was to add to it nearby Kyamuhunga, and Nyabubare (a direct neighbour of Kyamuhunga). Those two were to come from Igara to give Bushenyi North a population of 103,756 which fell within the stipulated range. What UPC did was to get far-off Bitereko subcounty with no communication with Bunyaruguru because of an impenetrable forest. This reduced the population to 101,381 in UPC’c favour. Bitereko should have been in Bushenyi West with Bumbaire, Mitooma and Kabira with a total of 117,444 people but instead, UPC concoted another arrangement that retained Mitooma and Kabira, but smuggled in Shuuku and Kitagata to reduce the population by over 6,000 to 111,221 etc etc.
6/6: That fiddling was another level of rigging that UPCs want to distract us from. So, UPC supporters should not be telling us about anything to do with constituency integrity because UPC compromised it severely in order to buttress its fraud. Of course, by such brazen uyaye, they were spoiling for a fight.
Come 12 December 1980 after AM Obote and P Muwanga had sequestered themselves with the results in some house in Kololo, Abaas Balinda was declared the winner.
OTTO PATRICK
UAH forumist
The chairman of the EC in the 1980 elections was a UPC member
May 2, 2009 at 7:40 pm (1980 elections, Obote and UPC)
Tags: L/Cpl (rtd) Otto Patrick
Ugandans
1/5 It seems some UPC supporters think that the DP had legal channels of redressing their grievances because there was a Mr Ssekono in the EC to manage their compalints, and that Mr Ssekono was the Chariman of the EC and therefore a powerful individual capable of neutralising the manoeuvres of P Muwanga and AM Obote. When UPC supporters assert that Mr Ssekono was the Chairman of the EC, they are lying…as usual.
2/5 UPC supporters then makes reference to: “…we get entangled with piles of misinformation and disinformation about the election…”..I wonder which piles he is talking about. Contrary to the piles he feeding us on, Mr Ssekono was the Administrative Secretary – the big clerk of the commission. The chairman of the EC was a card-bearing UPC diehard Mr KMS Kikira who was strategiically appointed into that position as part of the implimentation of AM Obote’s plan titled “Proposals For trategy Before, During and After Elections”. AM Obote scripted this plan on 12 th August 1980. I have attached it for those that did not see it when we circulated it last year.
3/5 Recall that, on December 12 1980, handed back authority to the EC to manage the election process…this meant only announcing the results. By that time, 3 out of 7 electoral commissioners had been hounded out of their offices and they had disappeared, leaving behind 4. Mr Ssekono disappeared during the polling process. He disappeared in fear for his life after receiving threats when he refused to succumb to Mr Muwanga’s pressures to be party to rigging.
4/5 According to Mr Ssekono himself, earlier on during the polls, he had been hurriedly summoned to Obote’s home at Kololo to meet AM Obote. AM Obote told him that if he, Ssekono, interfered with the UPC’s victory he would pay with his life. AM Obote told Mr Sekono that he and the UPC had fought against Amin and they therefore had to come to power at any cost. Mr Ssekono had to abandon the exercise and flee the country. Mr Muwanga took over the powers of the commission onn Mr Kikira’s advice when it was realised that it would not be possible for the EC team to be unanimous on rigging.
5/5 Note that, the UPC were already weary of Mr Ssekono, and they had him in ther sights. In fact, on 9 December 1980, Mr Ssekono’s personal assistant was shot dead at his home in Makindye when he was invaded by 10 UNLA soldiers. So, when Mr Mulindwa keeps talking about MR Ssekono, does he really know what he is talking aabout?
Regarding the UPC candidates that stood unopposed, UPC supporters want us to forget one additional point. By virtue of Section 20 of the National Assembly (Elections) Act 1957 according to which the 1980 elections were conducted, every nomination required to be proposed, seconded and supported by at least 12 voters registered in the constituency. A voter is registered when his name is present on a register. There was no ammendment of the law by which that legal requirement was waived. Therefore, the declaration of the 8 West Nile constituencies as won by UPC “unopposed” was a case of a lame duck laying a putrid egg.
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick
Muwanga looted the Uganda embassy to finance the struggle
April 30, 2009 at 10:02 pm (History, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Joseph Kamugisha(USA)
Dear Ugandans,
Muwanga, did not loot the Embassy for self interests. The proceeds of the property selling went toward the then liberation struggle. Kind of Museveni, looting guns from Police stations, invading Banks and looting millions of cash, looting the Kaaya, farms in Luwero, in order to feed his thugs, looting local dispensaries in ruler areas and looting army uniforms, ammunition, trucks etc.
In 1971, when Idi Amin overthrew the first Obote government, the Kenyan’s and Tanzanian’s took advantage of the East African properties such as planes and other items. In return, one Ugandan sea Captain, crossed the Kenyan waters with one of the biggest EAC cargo and passenger ships into Uganda and that is all Uganda benefitted from the break up.
In 1972, what did Idi Amin do to the departed Asian properties? I need not to remind you that it took Obote, during his second return to start the compansation process of the confiscated Asian properties by Idi Amin.
During the last Iraqi war which deposed Sadam Hussein, millions of US Dollars were found piled up in different hideouts, by the US army, the money was allegedly confscicated and returned to the Iraqi government.
During the 1978/79 liberation war, the TPDF left Uganda with millions worth of property, from government and private vehicles, to watches, radio cassets and TV’s, including our beutiful women!!
Such things happen during political instabilities, war and during regime change.
Joseph Kamugisha
How powerful was Obote’s Paulo Muwanga
April 30, 2009 at 9:48 pm (History, Obote and UPC)
Tags: Katerega and senoga, semuwemba
Paulo muwanga was a powerful minister because he had earned it and he had created his own independent political portfolio unlike some people who just become MPs and then think of becoming ministers or vice presidents at the mercy of president museveni. Unlike Nsibambi(Museveni’s prime minister) and Bukenya( his VP), Muwanga had built a strong political career for himself and there is no wise president in Africa who would have kept him as his VP for such a long time:
At the time when the Ugandan in exile and Tanzanian were fighting Amin, muwanga was the administrator for Masaka and a clandestine agent for UPC and obote. Powerful obote ministers like Muwanga and Rwakasisi played a big part in the removal of Amin from power. Muwanga knew Obote inside/ out.
During moshi, muwanga was elected chairman of the military commission and this was not an accident. Museveni wanted this position himself but he was sidelined by UPC elements at Moshi conference.
Muwanga was even powerful under binaisa that when he was sent to Geneva as ambassador, he managed to challenge this in the NCC. Binaisa had to back down. Can you see prof Kiwanuka or Kinobe challenging Museveni for sending them to Dubai and DRC as ambassadors respectively? Kinobe and Kiwanuka became ministers at the mercy of president Museveni. He can do anything he wants with them whether they like it or not.
Muwanga was very influential in removing Binaisa to prepare for Obote’s return. He and oyite ojok planned this coup.
museveni met muwanga in Germany at the Koblenz military hospital where he had gone for treatment on tax payers’ money. I guess this is how Museveni came to start admiring the Germany hospitals and their facilities because the greedy UPC guys exposed it to him. I understand one of his daughters called Natasha also had her baby from Germany. Anyway, to go back to the point, Muwanga had turned against obote and was willing to work with the museveni group to get rid of Obote 2(the one who had imposed himself on Ugandans after the 1980 elections). Muwanga was at this time working with the Acholis in the army to dislodge the obote/ ogole group and it worked.
In an interview with Israel Mayengo, now Minister, Genera Duties, Office of Katikkiro, Tanzanians had refused to cross river Katonga until Muwanga was flown to Dar Es Salaam spent three days in the guest wing of State House and on the fourth day, Nyerere told him that “Ok go and sort it out with Msuguri.” Had it not Muwanga, Tanzanians would not have advanced to Kampala. Nyerere had a personal admiration on Muwanga after he resigned his parliamentary seat in favour of John Kakonge, whom Obote had almost chased out of UPC. He later became Minister of Agriculture and Muwanga became Ambassador to Egypt before Amin sent him to France where he is said to have sold “Uganda House.”
Paula Muwanga was the only Uganda’s Vice President who had a wide range of powers other than appointing and sacking ministers. He at one time said that he had powers of live and death. He released a detainee and ordered the killing of another to demonstrate those powers. Muwanga was very powerful. In Masaka there was a UPC Haji, Kateregga, who had been convicted of an offence by the Magistrate’s court. He jetted in , summoned the Chief Magistrate and the District Commissioner and ordered the release of Kateregga with immediate effect. In Masaka, he also detained his brother Kafuuma, who was a DP and Manager of Masaka Co-operative Union, and died in Masaka barracks. Muwanga was powerful, very powerful, as Vice President and Defence Minister. It is due to Obote’s weakness that Muwanga, with the Okellos, undermined Obote and caused the 1985 Saturday July 27th coup having met Ssemogerere and Museveni in Germany early that byear.
After selling the embassy contents, the fellow ‘trousered’ the proceeds and, to this day, not a commission of inquiry into that undiplomatic activity has seen the light of day. That embassy raid was in the 1970s. By 1980, Chairman of Embassy Disposals Board-cum-Vice President had graduated to pocketing votes, with precision and flying colours.
Oyite Ojok Looted more than Muwanga. The only difference is that Muwanga’s family enjoyed his loot while that of Oyite Ojok was looted by an aide, who has almost turned Mbarara municipality into a city. Thanks to Museveni who gave a tractor to one of Oyite Ojok’s widows in 1991 at Kololo Air Strip, to mark 5th anniversary of NRM/NRA victory.
Muwanga Paulo was a powerful minister under Obote(1 & 2), Moshi conference, Lule, Binaisa,… because he had built his own independent political career. There is no way Museveni would make such a person of Muwanga’s calibre his vice president or prime minister unless if he is thinking of retiring. The moment you start showing signs that you are so powerful politically; Museveni will drop you without even thinking twice. Why do you think VP bukenya is always forced to come out and make statements that show that ‘he is nothing’?
As for prof Nsibambi, he used to be a pro-federo activist and a lecturer at Makerere university, and that is where president Museveni picked him up and made him whatever he did make him. Since then, Nsibambi has been keeping a low profile and just doing his job. How can such a man be a threat to any president in anything?
The truth remains that the few Baganda ministers in Obote government who were powerful were because they had earned it. It is the same under Museveni: the powerful ones have been with Museveni since the FRONASA or bush days.
UAH forumists
Was Dr.Obote tribalist or nationalist
April 28, 2009 at 10:34 pm (History, Obote and UPC)
Tags: L/Cpl (rtd) Otto Patrick
Dear Ugandans at Heart,
The following were Obote’s words in the Uganda Herald of 24th April 1952 that might help you to show his true credentials. He, the ‘ nationalist’, was reacting to formation of the UNC. Here went AM Obote the your nationalist:
“I shall be highly obliged if you would allow me space….to express the feelings of young enlightened Semi-Hamites and Nilotes about some of the aims of the congress. Not long ago, Mr Fenner Brockway, MP came to Uganda and concentrated his activities in and around Kampala. He returned to England and gave his version of the “Unification of all tribes in Uganda”….his version is a direct negation of the established traditions of the Semi-Hamites and the Norsemen (Nilotes) and…we are worried about it. It will, therefore, be of great interest to us if the Uganda National Congress will point out exactly what they mean by the “Unification of all tribes in Uganda”….Co-operation with the government is also recommended but we Semi-Hamites and Norsemen of Uganda feel that the congress is aiming at “Self-Government in Uganda,” is hastening and thereby leaving us behind. Because of our present inability to aim so high….it must be pointed out to the congress here and now that with us [Semi-Hamites and Norsemen], the question of questions lies in education and rapid development of African Local Governments…..the height of folly [on Musaazi's part] is the apparent omission ….of a definite aim to the slogan of “immediate Local Sel-Government in Uganda”
Those are the words of AM Obote, UPC supporters claim to be the great nationalist, the father of the nation. As you can see, national self government was none of AM Obote’s business. His was African Local governments! To the Doctor, independence was IK Musaazi’s folly.
So, ……..Musazi was saying, “immediate national independence now!”, Obote was saying, “immediate tribal independence now!”….no wonder he struck a cord with “independence for Buganda now”….with all the disastrous consequences. That will do for the bit on “…discrediting genuine efforts and sacrifices of others.”
You will recall that on 3rd February 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made the declaration that, “The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”
By that time, colonial powers had settled for the fact that they had to let go of the colonies. With or without people like AM Obote, the decision had already been reached. But listen to the UPC claiming that Uganda may never have become independent without Mr Obote’s sacrifices!
UPC’s is like the opportunism of a house girl whose tenure as the yaya coincides with the growth phase of the baby when it starts standing. Such a clueless house girl then hollers on and on that if she had not sang the song, “Butengenene, omwana ayimilidde” the baby would never ever have stood!….es[ecially when the baby eventually turns out to be Obama.
Typical housegirlish opportunism is what makes them think that they had a part to play in Uganda’s reversion to the current pseudoliberalism.
Lakini UPC! They will rig anything!
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick
