[Ugnet] Weekly Observer: Museveni's win quite shameful

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Museveni's win quite shameful

I do not know what happens to some intelligent Ugandans when they ascend to positions close to the President. They proceed to lose all sense of objectivity and will say or write anything they believe sounds nice to the President’s ears.

After 20 years in power and with the assistance of widespread voting irregularities, Museveni managed to get voted back into power for a fifth term with a paltry 59%.

Now, during my school days, if you scored 59% after copying from your neighbour’s script, or smuggling notes into the examination room, you would be considered a very dull student indeed.

However, the student who passed an exam under such circumstances went to great lengths to congratulate himself for having survived that highly precarious examination!

So the likes of Hope Kivengere, Maria Karooro Okurut, Onapito Ekomoloit, Ofwono Opondo, Robert Kabushenga, John Nagenda and many other supposedly highly learned men and women have branded Museveni’s 59% win an overwhelming majority. They add that the people of Uganda have spoken.

As a result, we have seen some low-key rejoicing for a day or two, but nothing like the spontaneous outpouring of happiness one witnesses when a celebration is truly universal. What a shame!

S. Bateganya
Kampala.

 

Kigongo to bag hefty benefits

Publication date: Wednesday, 3rd May, 2006

By Joyce Namutebi and Mariam Nalunkuuma

THE former vice-chairman of the Movement, Haji Moses Kigongo, is to get hefty terminal benefits than other employees of the Movement Secretariat, Parliament heard Tuesday.

“Considering the very long service that the Rt. Hon. Kigongo has offered to the country as the second-in-command in the Movement hierarchy, the Cabinet recommended to Parliament that he be offered a life-long retirement package,” the minister without portfolio and former National Political Commissar, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, said.

Kiyonga said a Bill to this effect would be presented to this or the next Parliament.

He was responding to questions raised by John Kigyagi (Mbarara Municipality) who asked Kiyonga to inform Parliament about the fate of the organs of the Movement now that the Secretariat has been closed, in light of the fact that the Movement Act under which they were established has not been repealed.

He also wanted to know how the assets and liabilities of the Secretariat, employee contracts, arrears of gratuity and other claims from mobilisers and support staff who had taken the Secretariat to court had been handed.

Kiyonga said when the Cabinet considered winding down the Movement organs particularly the Secretariat, it took into account the people who had worked for a long time and it decided that ex-gratia payments be made to them.

“Given the dedicated and commendable work that directors and mobilisers have offered the country, Cabinet under decision CT (2005)185 offered ex-gratia payments equivalent to one month’s pay for each completed year of service,” he said.
He said Kigongo did not fall in that category.

“He has been number two and we need to do a little bit better than ex-gratia,” he said. Kigongo is now vice-chairman of the NRM party.

 

 

Global Fund lawyer wants sh350m

Publication date: Wednesday, 3rd May, 2006

GRACE Kituuma Magala

By Stephen Muwambi

GRACE Kituuma Magala, the lawyer who introduced the lucrative Global Fund deal to dfcu Bank, has filed a case seeking sh350m in commission.

Magala (left) earned more than sh1b from dfcu for introducing several businesses to the bank between 2002 and 2005. The clients included ministries, NGOs), local governments and the National Social Security Fund.

Magala’s law firm, Kituuma Magala and Company Advocates, lodged the case through Muwema-Mugerwa and Company Advocates.

This was after dfcu cancelled Magala’s brokerage contract on February 26 and rejected his demands for payment of the alleged outstanding commission.

Magala had been interrogated at the Justice James Ogoola-chaired commission of inquiry into the mismanagement of the Global Fund over the sh350m commission. Ogoola said the payments were irregular.

In the suit filed at the Commercial Court, Magala maintains that the payments were regular, citing the brokerage agreement between his firm and the bank.

He filed a December 2002 agreement as evidence. He said the bank paid him only sh295m, leaving sh63m unpaid.

His witnesses include Collins McCormack, Willie Ogule and Godfrey Lule, dfcu’s managing director, legal chief and treasury chief, respectively.

Magala said he was supposed to earn commission from the businesses he introduced to dfcu “so long as they continued to bank with the defendant (dfcu).”
Questioning the cancellation of the brokerage deal, Magala said, “The defendant (dfcu) never assigned any reason for terminating the contract.”

He added that the cancellation could not affect his commission fees for the businesses he introduced to the bank before the termination.

Magala wants court to order dfcu to pay his arrears, give an account of the income from his introduced clients, so that his commission can be calculated and have the bank continue to pay his commission.
The court’s deputy registrar, John Keitirima, last Thursday sent out summons to dfcu, giving it 15 days to file a defence.

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