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Kabonero, Since when did you become an expert on FRONASA? The Fugee - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:30 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: How come all has gone quiet? In a message dated 3/6/2004 2:21:23 PM SA Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mr Yoga Adhola, a Ugandan living in the US and a Fronasa legend, wrote a tantalising and revealing insight on Fronasa and its men. This account completely offset most of the stuff that Museveni had been feeding us on. Since then, all has gone silent. Why? Could it be that Adhola hit the nail on the head? Its obvious Mr Opali does not know who Adhola is.Fronasa legend he is not.If Mr Opali is interested we could tell him who Mr Adhola is and his record.There is therefore no reason to respond to his utterances.
ugnet_: Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin
Lisa: Mu7 and his NRA killers impossed themselves in Buganda! Kayiira was getting in the dictator's way, so the dictator (Mu7) as usual did what he does best! - Killing is what I mean. Like I've said before, Buganda is not going to act as human sacrifices for the Mu7 regime, Luweero was enough for us. If you get in Mu7's way, you know what can happen to you. Critical thinkers have never favored human sacrifices! So, you need to cut down on weed! Buganda can not afford to see another Acholi-like situation in her home. Why??- Brain Power! Survival 101; work with your enemy. Maybe you don't know what the word "enemy" means. Mu7 is Buganda's #1 enemy, Obote is a gone case! Baganda peasants are supporting the Kingdom. Have aint you heard of the "buying and selling of Buganda certificates"?? Where have been?? Why can't you catch up?? Residents of Buganda and outside buy these certificates as a way of supporting the Kingdom. Buganda together in a whole as Uganda, needs to ask for Federalism. It's the only way we can all move on to the next democratic chapter in our history. Acholi, Lango, W. Nile, Iteso need to take out these flees of LRA. The sooner the better Uganda will be off. Their situation is of dial urgencylike no other in the country. They need to start meaning business and focus. They need to do some critical thinking! They need to hurry up! They need to start! Uganda wants to move ahead with these issues checked! Zakoomu R.Lisa Toro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rehema Mukooza . Present me the evidence, that is how some of you Bagandans conieved with Museveni in Killing you own Kayirra in the name of elections were rigged! you are so blind that you only sport agoat from a far and not see an hayena at your foot !!!. The Baganda peasantry should takes control and su[pport of thier Kingdom and destiny rather than leaving it to some of this opportunists beatting thier seasonaldrums to any order of the day and claiming latter they are not part ofit. Your are squarely responsible for impossing Museveniand the NRA/Mkillers on Banganda and Ugandans with all the blood let, take responsiblility. The sooner thekingdom and the peasantry weedout these flees the sooner Buganda and Uganda will move a head. Toro - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 4:31 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Toro: Some of you including Obote have never always meant well for the future of Uganda. What is the future of Uganda?? May I ask? Obote has never worked for the future of democracy in Uganda. He banned political parties and ridged elections. I want you to be sensible enough to acknowledge that. Do not let your imagination run wild! Museveni and his NRA are thugs and murderers, any sensible person knows that. There is nothing new you are informing me about the dictator in charge today! What "future holes" am I digging by speaking the truth about Obote?? What actually do you mean by that?? Should I take the "future holes" for a future revenge against Buganda and her Kingdom?? I personaly, think that this kind of garbage you are blutting out is indeed a product of denial and lack of focus on real issues. If you knew better than you know now, you would find out who is truelly digging the future holes you are talking about. He is none other than the thug, Museveni! He has made enemies out of our neighborssurrounding Uganda and in Uganda. Blame Museveni, do not even start with me, or Buganda and her Kabaka. Now, let me teach you about some things in history and life as in general. The colonialist or imperialists came to Buganda with their big guns and shit. Buganda had no choice but to work with these armed imperialists because they possed a real, dangerous threat to our ancenstors. Survival 101; you've got to work with the enemy whether you like it or not. Buganda was not ready to sacrifice itself to be slaughtered by the colonialists, as they did to Native Americans and Zulus. There is more to life thanacting as sacrifices to invaders. This should explain to you why Buganda hosts the largest single tribe/nation in Uganda. Human sacrifices have never worked for critical thinkers! Self preservation is the only way to allow the continuity of humanity. Luweero massacres. This mad man Museveni is no different from the colonialists. You get in his way, he slaughters you without any mercy. He did the same in Luweero, were civilians were caught in between Obote's brutal forceful gov't and the NRA rebels. Obote forced the civilians to turn against the NRA rebels by killing and brutalizing them (civilians). This murderer Museveni saw the civilians as people who were getting in his way, so he ordered for their slaughter. Up to now, Luwero people want Museveni to pay for their financial losses (including blood) by financially supporting the living since the dead are already dead. Money can not pay for a life, but the
ugnet_: RE: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin
Odwe: Whatever you call the "truth" only lies in your mind. What an active imagination you've got?? I want to see the people of Acholi, Lango, W. Nile, Iteso adopt the strategies of survival. Until I see that, people are living in denial. Critical thinkers are needed! Zakoomu R.joseph odwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. MulindwaWhy do you even bother tell the truth to such fellas who have sturbonly chosen to be privy to the truth. You you what the likely response from them will be (name calling in the absence of any sound conter to the truth) may be such is already been renewed to you. j.OFrom: "Edward Mulindwa" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Ugandacom] Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote KinDate: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:41:40 -0500Buganda can never move ahead again until when Uganda gets a nationalistic president as Obote, who develops all Uganda areas equally. Does Uganda have a chance to get such a leader again today? No not on a nation which has Ssebagala as the best out there to look at. The developments in Buganda including Hospitals, Schools, job creation on and on stopped at the exit of Obote from Uganda politics. One can not help but wonder how Buganda has even failed to clear her own roads of Bulungi Bwansi, a project they would even do by their own hoes. What value is Mengo?Em - Original Message - From: Lisa Toro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 7:20 AM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Rehema Mukooza . Present me the evidence, that is how some of you Bagandans conieved with Museveni in Killing you own Kayirra in the name of elections were rigged! you are so blind that you only sport a goat from a far and not see an hayena at your foot !!! . The Baganda peasantry should takes control and su[pport of thier Kingdom and destiny rather than leaving it to some of this opportunists beatting thier seasonal drums to any order of the day and claiming latter they are not part of it. Your are squarely responsible for impossing Museveni and the NRA/M killers on Banganda and Ugandans with all the blood let, take responsiblility. The sooner the kingdom and the peasantry weed out these flees the sooner Buganda and Uganda will move a head. Toro - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 4:31 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Toro: Some of you including Obote have never always meant well for the future of Uganda. What is the future of Uganda?? May I ask? Obote has never worked for the future of democracy in Uganda. He banned political parties and ridged elections. I want you to be sensible enough to acknowledge that. Do not let your imagination run wild! Museveni and his NRA are thugs and murderers, any sensible person knows that. There is nothing new you are informing me about the dictator in charge today! What "future holes" am I digging by speaking the truth about Obote?? What actually do you mean by that?? Should I take the "future holes" for a future revenge against Buganda and her Kingdom?? I persona ly, think that this kind of garbage you are blutting out is indeed a product of denial and lack of focus on real issues. If you knew better than you know now, you would find out who is truelly digging the future holes you are talking about. He is none other than the thug, Museveni! He has made enemies out of our neighbors surrounding Uganda and in Uganda. Blame Museveni, do not even start with me, or Buganda and her Kabaka. Now, let me teach you about some things in history and life as in general. The colonialist or imperialists came to Buganda with their big guns and shit. Buganda had no choice but to work with these armed imperialists because they possed a real, dangerous threat to our ancenstors. Survival 101; you've got to work with the enemy whethe r you like it or not. Buganda was not ready to sacrifice itself to be slaughtered by the colonialists, as they did to Native Americans and Zulus. There is more to life than acting as sacrifices to invaders. This should explain to you why Buganda hosts the largest single tribe/nation in Uganda. Human sacrifices have never worked for critical thinkers! Self preservation is the only way to allow the continuity of humanity. Luweero massacres. This mad man Museveni is no different from the colonialists. You get in his way, he slaughters you without any mercy. He did the same in Luweero, were civilians were caught in between Obote's brutal forceful gov't and the NRA rebels. Obote forced the civilians to turn against the NRA rebels by killing and brutalizing them (civilians). This murderer Museveni saw the civilians as people who were getting in his way, so he ordered for their slaughter. Up to now, Luwero people want Museveni to pay for their financial losses (including blood) by financially supporting the living
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Yaobang: Whose future is Ssenyange ruinning?? Buganda's?? Is UPC planning on a revenge attack on Buganda in the future. UPC will never forget and so will Buganda. This is reason anough for Buganda to view UPC as an enemy and put her guards up! A future strategy is in place as we speak! Buganda shall never allow any genocide to happen on the mother soil ever again. Zakoomu R.Y Yaobang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J. Ssenyange, From what I'm told, you are a very smart man. Why do you spew shit like this, in support of Museveni? Museveni will die, why do you want to ruin your future with such statements?We'll forgive, but we will never forget! yFrom: "ssenya nyange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:15:40 -0500 Mulindwa, Just continue giving your vote to your man OBOTE. He will continue ruling you even in exile, by sustaining you with frequent hand outs. FORGET ABOUT OBOTE RULING BUGANDA\ UGANDA AGAIN. J. Ssenyange From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:41:40 -0500 Buganda can never move ahead again until when Uganda gets a nationalistic president as Obote, who develops all Uganda areas equally. Does Uganda have a chance to get such a leader again today? No not on a nation which has Ssebagala as the best out there to look at. The developments in Buganda including Hospitals, Schools, job creation on and on stopped at the exit of Obote from Uganda politics. One can not help but wonder how Buganda has even failed to clear her own roads of Bulungi Bwansi, a project they would even do by their own hoes. What value is Mengo? Em - Original Message - From: Lisa Toro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 7:20 AM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Rehema Mukooza . Present me the evidence, that is howsome of you Bagandans conieved with Museveni in Killing you own Kayirra in the name of elections were rigged! you are so blind that you only sport a goat from a far and not see an hayena at your foot !!! . The Baganda peasantry should takes control and su[pport of thier Kingdom and destinyrather than leaving it to some of this opportunists beatting thier seasonal drums to any order of the day and claiming latter they are not part of it. Your are squarely responsible for impossing Museveni and the NRA/M killers on Banganda and Ugandans with all the blood let, take responsiblility. The sooner the kingdom and the peasantry weed out these flees the sooner Buganda and Uganda will move a head. Toro - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 4:31 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Toro: Some of you including Obote have never always meant well for the future of Uganda.What is the future of Uganda??May I ask? Obote has never worked for the future of democracy in Uganda.He banned political parties and ridged elections.I want you to be sensible enough to acknowledge that.Do not let your imagination run wild! Museveni and his NRA are thugs and murderers, any sensible person knows that.There is nothing new you are informing me about the dictator in charge today! What "future holes" am I digging by speaking the truth about Obote??What actually do you mean by that??Should I take the "future holes" for a future revenge against Buganda and her Kingdom??I personaly, think that this kind of garbage you are blutting out is indeed a product of denial and lack of focus on real issues. If you knew better than you know now, you would find out who is truelly digging the future holes you are talking about.He is none other than the thug, Museveni!He has made enemies out of our neighbors surrounding Uganda and in Uganda.Blame Museveni, do not even start with me, or Buganda and her Kabaka. Now, let me teach you about some things in history and life as in general.The colonialist or imperialists came to Buganda with their big guns and shit.Buganda had no choice but to work with these armed imperialists because they possed a real, dangerous threat to our ancenstors. Survival 101; you've got to work with the enemy whether you like it or not.Buganda was not ready to sacrifice itself to be slaughtered by the colonialists, as they did to Native Americans and Zulus.There is more to life than acting as sacrifices to invaders.This should explain to you why Buganda hosts the largest single tribe/nation in Uganda.Human sacrifices have never worked for critical thinkers!Self preservation is the only way to allow the continuity of humanity.
ugnet_: Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin
Yaobang: King Mutebi is indeed a very smart, adoptive, survivor. He keeps it low and stays away from "politics" for he will never let himself be put on a ballot paper. He is asked to go to Rwakitura to discuss Buganda matters which have been ignored already. Nothing is new! Buganda knows her enemy, who is Mu7! Unitarism can not bring anything to the table! I agree with you that dictator Mu7 is a very crafty son-of-a-bitch who has played the game better than Obote. The dictator's craftiness is bloodily rubbing on the Northern part of Uganda in a way Uganda has never witnessed before! This son-of-a-bitch is buying our Northern ministers and MPs with cash to stay quite while their tribesmen are slaughtered night and day in the concentration camps. Our northern ministers and MPs have fully complied to work with their master (Mu7). What is the use of northern ministers, RDCs, and MPs if they can not declare the north a disaster area?? I'm sure the federal states of Acholi, Lango, W.Nile, Iteso, can stand up firm and declare themselves disaster areas. That is only and if we have federalism working in Uganda. Until the north does a great deal of critical thinking, the situation is likely to remain the same. We need to bring back federalism to Uganda! We need to start! Zakoomu R.Y Yaobang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J. Ssenyange: Dictator Museveni is a very crafty son-of-a-bitch. He invites the Kabaka to rwakitura, pays for all his expenses to come to rwakitura(central government expense), gives him the 50 cows, and then later, bang!-- he SPITS on the Kabaka: the dictator warned the Kabaka not to meddle in politics, and to leave itto "us the bakopi". Remember? He does that all the time to all the inept political opportunists who cross his path, including, unfortunately,your Mutebi II. y From: "ssenya nyange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 16:54:25 -0500 Mulindwa, By simple logic, If I know that you want to come ( visit) to my home to beg, I WILL BE VERY STUPID TO SEND YOU LIMOS AND HELICOPTORS TO TRANSPORT YOU TO MY HOME AND BACK. In other words, It would be very stupid of Mu7 to transport Kabaka by presidential helicoptors to Rwakitura if the purpose of the visit is known to be begging. Lastly, who requests for a visit? Kabaka or Mu7? J. Ssenyange -- From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 20:56:00 -0500 But why does Kabaka go to Rwakitura to beg? The very nonsense I do not respond to. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: ssenya nyange To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 6:52 PM Subject: RE: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Yaobang, How does Kabaka come into your equation? Kabaka does not beg or request for your information. Who ever wants to donate will donate freely. Who ever does not want to donate is not requested by Kabaka to donate. However, his subjects and officials can request for donations to help Kabaka's projects. His assets alone generate more revenue than the president's "official" income. The difference is that Kabaka wants to share it with his subjects unlike Mu7 who wants to "milk" his subjects without "feeding" them.Mu7 gave those cows to Kabaka as gifts just like any other Ugandan. Even non Ugandans ( e.g Bazungu) have been pictured in newspapers kneeling while donating to Kabaka ( after marrying Baganda women) as a sign of respect to the Institution of Kabakaship. All this is done to show respect to the Instituion of Kabakaship which is represented by Mutebi 11, ( not to Mutebi as a person). GET THE DIFFERENCE. Ssenyange -- From: "Y Yaobang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:17:10 + message3.txt _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines -- J Ssemakula, Unlike your Kabaka, Obote cannot be bought with 25 cows, or any other bribe! y From: "J Ssemakula" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL
ugnet_: Where bride price is but send-off gift:OLD MAN's CORNER By F.D.R.Gureme
OLD MANS CORNER By F.D.R. Gureme Where bride price is but send-off gift March 9, 2004 Bride Price (BP) is currently a hot topic. On February 20, I attended a talk, to the Fathers Union, about the Domestic Relations Bill, at the All Saints Cathedral Hall. The speaker, it turned out, was my daughter Robina, Principal State Attorney. It is not proposed that BP be discontinued or banned. It may be offered as a non-refundable gift. According to Hima custom, in Nkore and Mpororo, it is purely symbolic. Significantly, the Tutsi of Rwanda, Kisoro and Ntungamo, require only one cow. Listen! In 1930, my cousin Christopher Kafureka, son of Yeremiya Kabarime, then county chief, married Muriel Kebikaari, daugher of Erinesti Katungi, another county chief. Mr Katungi asked for ten cows: a lot at the time. The Katungis gave 20 healthy cows, some of them in-calf, as send-off gifts, Our side? Yes, in 1940, Alfred Mutashwera, lately Chief Judge of Ankole, wedded Hilda Kamatondo, Kafurekas sister. Papa Yeremiya had seemingly little avidity for cows. He wanted six. But Hilda must not depart slave-girl style. He released ten, as parting gifts. The dramatics? Usually the grooms fathers entire herd is exposed: to the selectors. The ten would almost certainly approach twenty in a few months: being heavily in calf, except those aesthetically valued. The brides side would have spied to ensure that no good cows are hidden. In case they are, selectors would demand their return, or angrily abandon the process pending return of the choicest. Former Auditor General, James Kahoza, proceeded in style, giving his daughter, Linda, to Aronda, son of Nyakairima, in April 1996. Having accepted fifteen head, he sent his selectors towards the Nyakairima herds. After the selection, his team, noting individual cows, left them where they were for collection later. At the kuhingira (send off) ceremony at the Kahozas Mutungo home, James declared that the fifteen now belonged to Linda, among other precious gifts, including a house under construction. This is not to say BP is nominal everywhere. Among the Easterners, a wife means extra labour, at any rate to the Bagwere of Pallisa: where I worked for some years. When a couple accumulated wealth, a good wife assisted her husband to get other wives, to share her work. She became kind of works supervisor: issuing assignments to the junior wives. A Mugwere friend (call him Daka) once told me he had been authorised to go to Busoga, to fetch his missing wife and children. It turned out that she had disappeared on the wedding night. Daka could not recover his BP from the parents without returning their daughter. The woman had remarried. Two sons and seven daughters later, a friend tipped Daka about where the wife was hiding. Daka finally recovered seven daughters and herded them back to Budaka to great financial advantage in BP from the seven girls. That the wife and sons refused to return home did not upset his calculation. In Gulu, as ADC, I read a letter copy, signed by the British DC, revising a case. It read something like: Although you are the natural father of the children, since you took over the wife before Okellos bride price was fully refunded, the children belong to Okello, and must be to given him. Assuming there were girls, Okello was in business! In Buganda payment was purely nominal: often comprising omutwalo gwa taaba or a bundle of tobacco; although currently, the well-to-do appear to have copied the Banyankore: delivering considerable value, including a Friesian cow, to the in-laws at introduction, When my beloved Christine (bless her soul) introduced me, her parents charged no katwalo (BP). I only provided ekanzu ya Tata, neyomuko; as well as olubugo lwa Mama nolwa Ssenga meaning suitable vestments for father, brother, mother and aunt. I secured that precious beauty and unfathomable love for Shs 280! I reciprocated it when I handed Robina over to Sam Rwakoojo in July 1992: taking no bride price, although my family and clan freely offered cows and a few millions in materials as Robinas send off gifts, some still to be fetched. How wise if other Ugandans, and our legislators, took the cue while discussing the Domestic Relations Bill! Contact: 077 401173 © 2004 The Monitor Publications Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
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Zakoomu R., Why dont you go suck on a lemon. y From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: RE:Museveni Gives ... Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 01:42:59 -0800 (PST) Yaobang: Whose future is Ssenyange ruinning??Buganda's??Is UPC planning on a revenge attack on Buganda in the future.UPC will never forget and so will Buganda.This is reason anough for Buganda to view UPC as an enemy and put her guards up!A future strategy is in place as we speak!Buganda shall never allow any genocide to happen on the mother soil ever again. Zakoomu R. Y Yaobang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: J. Ssenyange, From what I'm told, you are a very smart man. Why do you spew shit like this, in support of Museveni? Museveni will die, why do you want to ruin your future with such statements? We'll forgive, but we will never forget! y From: "ssenya nyange" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:15:40 -0500 Mulindwa, Just continue giving your vote to your man OBOTE. He will continue ruling you even in exile, by sustaining you with frequent hand outs. FORGET ABOUT OBOTE RULING BUGANDA\ UGANDA AGAIN. J. Ssenyange From: "Edward Mulindwa" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: , Subject: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:41:40 -0500 Buganda can never move ahead again until when Uganda gets a nationalistic president as Obote, who develops all Uganda areas equally. Does Uganda have a chance to get such a leader again today? No not on a nation which has Ssebagala as the best out there to look at. The developments in Buganda including Hospitals, Schools, job creation on and on stopped at the exit of Obote from Uganda politics. One can not help but wonder how Buganda has even failed to clear her own roads of Bulungi Bwansi, a project they would even do by their own hoes. What value is Mengo? Em - Original Message - From: Lisa Toro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 7:20 AM Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Rehema Mukooza . Present me the evidence, that is howsome of you Bagandans conieved with Museveni in Killing you own Kayirra in the name of elections were rigged! you are so blind that you only sport a goat from a far and not see an hayena at your foot !!! . The Baganda peasantry should takes control and su[pport of thier Kingdom and destinyrather than leaving it to some of this opportunists beatting thier seasonal drums to any order of the day and claiming latter they are not part of it. Your are squarely responsible for impossing Museveni and the NRA/M killers on Banganda and Ugandans with all the blood let, take responsiblility. The sooner the kingdom and the peasantry weed out these flees the sooner Buganda and Uganda will move a head. Toro - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 4:31 AM Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Toro: Some of you including Obote have never always meant well for the future of Uganda.What is the future of Uganda??May I ask? Obote has never worked for the future of democracy in Uganda.He banned political parties and ridged elections.I want you to be sensible enough to acknowledge that.Do not let your imagination run wild! Museveni and his NRA are thugs and murderers, any sensible person knows that.There is nothing new you are informing me about the dictator in charge today! What "future holes" am I digging by speaking the truth about Obote??What actually do you mean by that??Should I take the "future holes" for a future revenge against Buganda and her Kingdom??I personaly, think that this kind of garbage you are blutting out is indeed a product of denial and lack of focus on real issues. If you knew better than you know now, you would find out who is truelly digging the future holes you are talking about.He is none other than the thug, Museveni!He has made enemies out of our neighbors surrounding Uganda and in Uganda.Blame Museveni, do not even start with me, or Buganda and her Kabaka. Now, let me teach you about some things in history and life as in general.The colonialist or imperialists came to Buganda with their big guns and shit.Buganda had no choice but to work with these armed imperialists because they possed a real, dangerous threat to our ancenstors. Survival 101; you've got to work with the enemy whether you like it or not.Buganda was not ready to sacrifice itself to be slaughtered by the colonialists, as they did to Native Americans and
Re: ugnet_: Re: With all due respect to Kings, Queens and Royalty.
...Lisa Toro, when did you begin to care about Buganda and Kabaka? how shameless can you get in your lying? There is no way you can eulogize Obote and Kabaka with the same mouth...Obote and Kabaka are mutually exclusive. There is also no way you can love Kabaka and hate Baganda, which is what most of you UPC sycophants exhibit regularly on this forum. You have to realize that Kabaka is who he is because of Baganda, Kabaka and Baganda are one and the same, if you insult Baganda you insult Kabaka and vice versa. I don't know whether your views are of malicious intent or plain right ignorance. From: Lisa Toro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Owor [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Re: With all due respect to Kings, Queens and Royalty. Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:50:10 - Edward, Do not blame the Kabaka, he himself is in the mouth of hayena! Blame the movement Katikiro put on his heels who is doing all movement job, musevnis former roommate or friend from Dar university. The movement Katikiro has more power than the King himself!. The Kingdom is just in chaos as the whole country is. Toro - Original Message - From: Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Owor [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:27 AM Subject: ugnet_: Re: With all due respect to Kings, Queens and Royalty. And I will say Kabaka Mutebi is a man with out vision, no plan and no ethics. Only the departure of Museveni will allow us to know exactly how much harm has been done by this king on this kingdom. But again I might be wrong and you might be right. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Robert Owor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:24 AM Subject: Re: With all due respect to Kings, Queens and Royalty. With all due respect to the 52 clans of Buganda and the the Kabaka and also the the Queen of England, I think the evolution of democracy and History cannot allow a return to absolute monarchy. Kabaka Mutesa I for instance unfamiliar with any other methods of proof ordered a page to stand and be shot dead in order to ascertain whether the gun offered him by John Hannington Speke really could kill a person; as if the proof could not have been established by shooting a dog or a cow. We cannot rely therefore on the wisdom of the Kabaka or any other Monarch as if they were God. What we can do is honor our cultures with reason and pay our due respects to our monarchs. A return to absolute power by monarchs is to invite yet another french revolution in our own midst. Having said that, I think Kabaka Mutebi is a man I admire. Robert Steven Owor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/08/04 12:14 AM Which brings me to the next question, who has more support in Buganda today, Kabaka Mutebi or President Museveni? Em The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: ssenya nyange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:55 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote \ Yaobang @ Mulindwa Yaobang, Do you think the majority of Baganda ( including me ) want Kabaka Mutebi to be invited ( actually SUMMONING)?. You cannot summon a Kabaka as per tradition. Do you know why the late Ben Kiwanuka was hated by Baganda? Its because while he was a prime Minister, he summoned or invited Kabaka to meet him ( Ben) at his residence or office. Ben was a Muganda who knew it. Because Kabaka does not have powers, he is held at runsom \ gun point by Mu7. You know what happened to Dr. Kayiira, DP's Ssekweyama etc. So long as Kabaka is in Uganda with no powers, he can be summoned at any time by the ruling president. This is what we want to reverse. This is against our culture. He's is the head of all Ganda clan leaders ( Ssabataka) no matter what. Rediculing him tantamount to rediculing all the Baganda who belong to the 52 clans.Thats why want a share of political powers, NOT deligated cultural powers. Watch with your eyes, we shall be there. Ssenyange --- From: Y Yaobang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 01:32:34 + _ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE*
ugnet_: Murder Most Foul?
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ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote: EFFORTS TO MONOPOLIZE POWER - LOCAL GOVT
Excerpts from Grace S. Ibingiras 1980 book, African Upheavals Since Independence (emphasis added, unless otherwise stated) Ch. 6 Uganda: Fundamental Causes of the 1966 Revolution (pp 65 - 134) a. The UPCs Resolute Determination to Obtain and Exercise Absolute Power b. Efforts to Impose a One-Party System c. Parliamentary Battles for Reform of Electoral Law d. Monopoly and Misuse of the Security Forces e. THE MISUSE OF POLICE POWERS TO PROMOTE UPC e. Efforts to Monopolize Government Power (i) Controlling the Central Government Public Service (ii) Controlling Local Governments f. THE REVIVAL OF PRIMORDIAL FEARS subsections: This excerpt comes from Ch 6 and is the section entitled Efforts to Monopolize Government Power, which is on page 99-111. In the only portion dealing with Obotes effort to politicize the civil service, we saw his paranoia with regard to the opposion and how he resorted to technical know-who, to achieve his goals. It was also a useful ploy for him to get rid of local political stars (e.g. Abdala-Anyuru). Below is an excerpt of this gorillas efforts to dominate local governments, whishow how Obote systematically underminied federo and, ultimately his own party, by coercing local governments to join UPC. Controlling Local Government We mentioned the conflict, both intraparty (UPC) and interparty, that was beginning to build up in the local governments (or regional administrations, as they were called). With the advent of representative government in the early sixties, direct elections to the councils of these governments were fought with as much vigor and seriousness as elections to the Parliament. All poilitical parties, as they advocated and agitated for independence, heightened the significance of representative government among the masses, in local as well as central government among the masses, in local as well as central government. The winning party therefore looked forward to exercising whatevr authority the constitution granted the councils without undue interference from the center. The UPC government early in its life, nevertheless, began to take steps to ensure and tighten its control over local governments and their politics. Le us take taxation for example. The issue of assessment and payment of taxes to local governments was very important. Originally, each locality had a tax assessment committee that consisted mostly of chiefs. It should be mentioned that chiefs here were civil servants and were required to be non-partisan regarding political parties. They were therofore on the whole regarded as more impartial in assessing taxes than were politicians. But the new government law transferred these powers form the chiefs to the tax assessment committees to be consituted in accordance with written directions issued by the Minister.33 This by itself need not have been alarming as it gave the central government authority to ensure uniform and fair practices of such committees through the country. But as it turned out, only UPC party memebers were put on these assessment committees. As a result, widespread unrest and protests mushroomed over the claim that DP supporters were being unjustly required to pay higher taxes than UPC members of comparable means. The opposition leaders resisted the new committees and urged their supportes in some areas where blatant injustices had been done not to pay taxes. The government had to pass legislation in February 1963 making it a punishable offence to incite people not to pay taxes. Had the opposition DP been represented on tax assessment committees, even as minority memebers, it is highly probable that these tensions would have been avoided. But the monopoly of power and positions throught the whole local government administrations in the state was such that, although objectively the DP was substantially supported, they were never given the opportunity to participate meaningfully in the formulation or execution of policy. They were rendered second-class citizens in their own country. This policy tended to spark off conflict in addition in areas where the UPC was governing a multiethnic district -- as in Kigezi, Bukedi, Toro, and West Nile where one particularethnic group (or in alliance with another) sought to impose its hegemony on the rest, with adverse divisive results. Because the central government itself shared with the UPC the policy of monopolizing power, rather than acting as a restraining influence on local governments it actually promoted and exacerbated the practice, inasmuch as the top heirarchy in the government and the party scrambled for support throughout the lowerechelons of the party and government in the state. The Independence Constitutionhad empowered Parliament to enact legislation setting down more fully the powers and functions of the three western kingdoms and busoga. We have already discussed the main powers thus granted. But the debates that surrounded this legislation
ugnet_: Federo Highlight
What differentiates decentralization from federalism? Qs: By all indications decentralization seems to be working just fine; what is the need for federalism? What differentiates decentralization from federalism? A: The difference is the ownership of powers.Under decentralization in a unitary state, all powers are owned by the central government and can be repossessedat will by their owner - the central government in Kampala. In the struggles that competition begets when the owners of power lose, they repossess some or all of those powers.In federal systems, some powers are owned by the center and some by the provinces, states, and cantons (shared powers) that make up the federation.Therefore, unilateral repossession of powers is not possible. Given the competitive nature of intergovernmental relations, a central government in Kampala would find it difficult to resist the temptation to repossess a power it had hitherto decentralized if it found itself more or less continuously losing in the competitive struggle with more junior authorities [the districts in Uganda], a situation that cannot arise in federal states because in those states the division of powers is based on a constitutionally entrenched divided ownership of powers. The arrangement in a unitary state, which gives to the central government - the state - the ownership of all powers (responsibilities or functions) implies that the decentralization of powers is often unstable. That is not the case under federalism. http://www.federo.com/Pages/What's_New.htm FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
Re: ugnet_: How come all has gone quiet?
The Fugee: I say since the man become an ESO operative based here in Washington D.C Matek In a message dated 3/9/2004 3:24:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kabonero, Since when did you become an expert on FRONASA? The Fugee "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Humanitarian Situation Critical in Uganda
Humanitarian Situation Critical in Uganda Email This Page Print This Page InterAction (Washington, DC)March 9, 2004 Posted to the web March 9, 2004 Roger Persichino The humanitarian situation in northern Uganda is deteriorating steadily. According to the latest update from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there were 1.4 million persons displaced by the conflict in the north, including over 900,000 in the three districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader alone. These three districts, which make up the area known as Acholiland, have been hardest hit by the conflict that has pitted the Lord's Resistance Army against the government of Uganda since 1986. Against an estimated population of about 1.1 million people, it appears that over 80 percent of Acholis are displaced, a ratio without equivalent in the world. In the last year, an additional 500,000 persons were displaced in six districts adjacent to Acholiland. Two recent incidents highlight the insecurity displaced persons face each day. A camp in Lira District came under international attention when the LRA killed over 250 persons on Feb. 22. A week before, several displaced persons died in a fire in Pabbo camp in Gulu District.Camps in Acholiland are mostly made up of huts with thatched roofs, called Tukuls. Families cook inside the Tukuls, with the exhaust worsening acute respiratory infections among children. Tukuls are usually very close to each other, a consequence of the lack of site planning when the camps were erected in the mid-1990s. Waste management is a problem as latrines have to be built at the periphery of camps, where utilization rates drop as people fear insecurity; refuse pits are very unevenly distributed and inadequate.Access to water is another major issue. The safe water coverage in Gulu District camps alone is estimated at about 3.3 liters per person per day, well below the emergency threshold of 15 liters per day. The construction of water infrastructure is hampered by the rampant insecurity and by the sheer size of the displaced population. Another 630 wells are needed to meet emergency threshold levels of water supply. And maintenance problems are made more difficult because spare parts are not available for sale and household cash is used to buy food. While malaria, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections are the three most prevalent diseases among displace persons, the delivery of health services has remained very low, in spite of efforts by the Ministry of Health and other agencies. In Katakwi district, in August 2003, as camps were being erected, paracetamol - a basic painkiller - was the only medicine available and could cost as much as 25 cents a tablet. The prevalence of AIDS is presumed to be substantially higher among displaced persons in Acholiland than in Uganda, where the adult prevalence rate was estimated at 6.1 percent in 2001.In Gulu, the only accessible land is around the camps. Since crops cannot be rotated, production is too low to meet household needs. And a lack of employment opportunities has resulted in little cash circulation, limiting trade. Households are dependent on the World Food Program distributions for an estimated 40 percent of their daily consumption. Uganda has the third largest displaced population in Africa - after Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After Sudan, its conflict is the second longest running on the continent - 17 ½ years.Uganda has become one of the most difficult environments for relief delivery. In Gulu, camps can be accessed without military escort only 40 percent of the time on average, down to 20 percent for some camps. Even with military escorts, the WFP delivers food every six weeks on average. The situation is even worse in other districts. There has been no regular access to camps in Kitgum District for the last year and a half, with or without military escort. In Pader, and northern Lira districts, camps and/or displaced persons simply cannot be reached. In spite of all this Museveni's NRM says there is no disaster in Northern Matek Roger Persichino is a desk officer with Action Against Hunger - USA. Click here to visit InterAction's website "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: West Tries to Bail Out of Ugandan Meltdown
Opinion- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, March 8, 2004 CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO West Tries to Bail Out of Ugandan MeltdownThe passionate 17-year-old affair between the Kampala government and Western donors has run into troubled waters. The past two weeks have witnessed bitter exchanges, with donors pressing the government to end the bloody rebellion in the north by the rebels of the Lords Resistance Army through political negotiations. The government has in turn accused donors of abetting the war by bringing pressure on it not to increase defence expenditure. And ministers and army officers have rounded on the head of the EU delegation in Uganda, Sigurd Illing, telling him to keep his nose out of the countrys affairs, and to stop commenting on the war. This is a strange flap, because if Uganda were a company, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago. Donors, who pick up the bills for nearly 90 per cent of development expenditure, also fork out over 50 per cent of the governments recurrent expenditure. Technically, Uganda doesnt have the means to fund the war in the north from its own resources. If it chose to do so, and didnt have donor money, virtually the whole budget would go to defence, and other governments would be closed and civil servants sent home to grow yams and raise goats. However, to see this as just another case of an African leader whos turning into a despot falling out with Western donors urging him to remain on a civilised path, is to miss the point. The row in Kampala is ultimately about the terms of disengagement between the donors and the Museveni government. For many years, the position that the donors are now taking on the conflict was pushed by many voices. The donors took the view that the Musevenis governments push for a military solution was the best option, because the LRA was nothing more than a terrorist organisation, and it had no clear political agenda. The second view was that, while the LRA didnt have a political agenda and used terrorist methods, it was not too high a price to pay to talk to them to see what would be their terms for ending their rebellion. A third, more sophisticated view held that the LRA war was only a symptom of dysfunctional politics. That the one-party state of the Movement, and the governments hostility to the north, created an undercurrent of resentment for the Kampala regime which the LRA, like other rebel groups before it, exploited. It held that opening up the political space in the country would allow northern grievances to be channelled into constitutional politics. The bulk of the donor community wasnt impressed. Most took the position that with Ugandas chaotic past, there was a case to be made for keeping a lid on democracy, in order to avoid a relapse into ethnic strife. With its impressive economic growth, the country soon became a "success story" for the donors. Some accordingly developed a vested interest in an illiberal political system. They believed that a more open and quarrelsome political order would reduce Musevenis power to continue carrying out unpopular economic reforms. Today, years of repression have radicalised sections of the opposition. A government long used to uncritical support has allowed corruption to become so entrenched, it cant uproot the vice. The war in the north has gone on for so long, it has taken on a life of its own. As a strategy for re-legitimisation, Kampala now backs a return to multiparty politics. As a tactic for the personal security of its top leaders, it wants to lift term limits so that they can continue in power. Having supported the actions of the regime all these years, recent criticism by donors of the war, defence expenditure, and the bid to scrap term limits are seen by the hardliners in the Movement as an attempt to bail out and hang the government out to dry, hence the deep resentment. If the donors thought they could just turn their backs on all this and walk away, they are dead wrong. Charles Onyango-Obbo is managing editor in charge of media convergence at the Nation Media Group. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments\Views about this article Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: A Little Book Learning is a Dangerous Thing, But Too Much Kills - J. Buwembo
Opinion- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, March 8, 2004 JOACHIM BUWEMBO A Little Book Learning is a Dangerous Thing, But Too Much KillsUsually, it is at airports that you see people dragging along suitcases on wheels. This so especially in East Africa, where passenger trains are no longer popular. At the airport arrivals section, it is perfectly normal for a traveller to emerge with their wheeled luggage and head to the back of a cab, where the driver heaves the heavy case into the open trunk. The passenger then slumps into the backseat of the car, tired out, as the driver starts the engine. This is a common scene at airports, right? Well, its now also a common scene in town. You no longer need to travel 36 kilometres to Entebbe airport to see this scene. You can see it every afternoon outside any school in Kampala city. In this case, the "passengers" are small bodied, the males in shorts, the females wearing brightly coloured cotton dresses. They all wear black shoes and long stockings. Many are missing a tooth or two. They dont need to give their address to the driver who picks them up. The driver usually owns the house where the passenger is going. When your average primary school pupil steps out of the house in the morning these days, she is like a mobile bookshop. Her bag contains 10 to 20 kilos of books. It is the alarmingly lopsided gait many pupils are acquiring from carrying heavy book bags that is forcing more and more parents to buy wheeled cases for their kids. Where it all began is not hard to trace. But like all issues that are not priority, the education authorities are not about to make any studies with a view to giving guidelines on how the young ones should handle their daily burden. In the past, there used to be lockable drawers in the classrooms. That must have been when the numbers were manageable. Even in village schools, every pupil had a desk to themselves where books that were not needed over the evening would be locked away. Today, a desk with a lid that can be locked is an antique that many kids have never seen. And with an average of over 100 kids a classroom, allocating lockers to each child is physically impossible and financially untenable. So the kids have to move around with tonnes of books on a daily basis. But why not carry only the books needed for that particular day, every perplexed parent has asked their child. The answer comes promptly: you cannot tell which books will be required. Is there no timetable? In answer to that, the parent is told about the ever-changing situation in the class, where teachers switch lessons and impromptu tests are given with only a brief notice to consult ones notes. So everyone has resigned themselves to the situation of bookstores being carried on soft-boned shoulders to and from the citys hundred and one schools. The only people who are not complaining are the sellers of the large, strong schoolbags. There is a whole street devoted to selling these bags, quite close to the main taxi park. What with universal primary education, there is a bag for everybody, depending on their incomes. Invest in schoolbags and you cant go wrong. With the release of exam results around this time of year, the expected pressure on kids in the candidate classes mounts and the number of books required increases. And with millions of more kids now enrolled in primary schools to compete for the few government sponsored places in secondary school, more books become urgently required. So this year, the average bag cannot carry all the books a candidate needs. Only a wheeled case will do. Next time you drive past a school in Kampala in the evening, look out for the weary travellers tugging wheeled cases across the road to the parking lot, and please dont honk at them; they are operating under tremendous pressure. Joachim Buwembo is editor of the Sunday Vision of Kampala Comments\Views about this article Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: 'Kenyans Acquiring Ugandan Passports'
PA2 Monday, March 8, 2004-Eastafrican - Nairobi- Kenya Focus on East African Customs Union 'Kenyans Acquiring Ugandan Passports' BY A.MUTUMBA-LULE THE EAST AFRICAN Though the system of acquiring a passport passes through five stages many people have been beating it especially at the grass root. For one to acquire a passport, his/her application forms have to be certified by a respected civil servant and signed by a local council chairman in the area where he stays. Parish chiefs, before going to county chiefs (Local Council three chairmen), must endorse the forms to the resident district commissioner and then the forms are also scrutinised by the district security officers before being submitted to the immigration department. Some Congolese nationals who ran away from the eastern part of the Congo during the civil strife in the mineral rich country between 1996 and 2000, now pass off as Ugandans and some even carry Ugandan passports. At present a number of Rwandan nationals have Ugandan passports acquired when they were still in Uganda as refugees before going back to their country after the 1994 Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) take-over of government. In Uganda, like in other countries it is illegal to acquire a passport fraudulently when one is not a national. The penalty is imprisonment. Ministry of Internal Affairs officials blame the rampant acquisition of Ugandan documents by foreigners especially Kenyan and Rwandan nationals on how the colonial masters streamlined the common borders. For example on the Rwanda/Uganda border there are some houses which are divided into two by the border-line. But this is also a contemporary problem. During the border dispute between Uganda and Tanzania in the last three years, a number of families found themselves straddling the border when a redefinition was made. Dr. Kagoda said that the ways they are now discussing would make the fraudulent acquisition of Ugandan passports very hard. The wars that the country has experienced for several years till 1986 had led to a breakdown in all departments dealing with documentation. Until recently it was very easy to get a passport and that is the reason as to why many aliens were coming to Uganda to acquire passports. But the ministry of Internal Affairs has since made passports have scanned pictures. Uganda is not the only victim of passport racketeering. A number of countries are facing the same problem while Ugandan nationals themselves have been implicated in the scum themselves. Two years ago, Ugandans who had acquired South African passports and went to UK were deported to South Africa were they got stranded. Comments\Views about this article Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: African Union Can Step In to End LRA Horror
Opinion - EastAfrican - Nairobi - Kenya Monday, March 8, 2004 SHEILA SISULU African Union Can Step In to End LRA HorrorSix days a week, three times a day, a World Food Programme convoy of trucks sets out for any one of dozens of locations in northern and eastern Uganda, bringing desperately needed food to more than a million people. The journey can take several hours on atrocious roads, often impassable in the rainy season. Each convoy has a heavy military escort three armoured personnel carriers and 80 Ugandan troops. It is a massive operation, to support which WFP is asking donors to hand over some $6 million a month. The beneficiaries, however, are not the victims of drought, or any other natural disaster; if they were allowed to lead normal lives, most of them would probably not need any food aid at all. Their plight is the direct consequence of a 17-year campaign of violence and intimidation by the Ugandan rebel group, the Lords Resistance Army. Patrick was just 11 years old when the LRA rebels came to his village. They arrived at night and took him and some of his friends away with them. They travelled for miles through the bush until they crossed the border into Sudan. There they spent several weeks being trained to use weapons. Then they were sent to plunder, kill and maim. Patrick, who is now 12, was one of the lucky ones. During a clash with Ugandan troops, he was shot in the leg and left for dead by the LRA. He has since been cared for at a special centre for escaped abductees run by World Vision, receiving food from WFP. Now he wants to save lives and hopes one day to become a doctor. His story is not unusual in northern Uganda. Similar accounts could come from any one of the survivors of an estimated 30,000 children abducted by the LRA since the mid 1990s boys forced to become killers, young girls made into "campaign wives" or sex slaves. Since the first LRA attack on an army base in Gulu in 1986, rebel activity has spread right across northern and some of eastern Uganda, where the people have been subjected to repeated attacks, abductions, killings, rape, maiming and torture mostly at the hands of children. About 75 per cent of the population in the north, some 1.6 million people, have fled their homes and are now living in camps, surviving on food aid from WFP the only humanitarian agency to reach all the camps in the region. Even in the camps, they are not safe from the LRA as was so horrifically demonstrated by last months massacre of some 200 people in the Barlonyo camp north of Lira. WFP has begun distributing food to the survivors of the attack as well as providing a consignment of food to Liras district hospital for the injured. Normal life is simply not an option for the people of northern Uganda and this will not change while the LRA remains active. All WFP and other humanitarian organisations can do is to ensure that they have the basic necessities for survival. Thanks to the efforts of the humanitarian community, the inhabitants of the camps have food supplies, basic health care, water and sanitation and in some cases, limited access to education. But humanitarian intervention cannot provide solutions to conflict. That requires political action. This is a moment of opportunity. Some military successes by Ugandan military forces in recent weeks may have weakened the position of the LRA. There is also an expectation that the anticipated peace agreement in Sudan will have a positive impact on reducing the level of the crisis in northern Uganda in 2004. What is needed now is political commitment by influential leaders to find a solution. This is a chance for the African Union in particular to demonstrate that it has both the will and the authority to break through the impasse that has doomed every previous attempt to end this conflict. No one expects the worlds conflicts to end overnight. But for politicians to turn their backs on them, or pretend that they are not happening, is to flout the lofty development goals those same leaders set themselves for the new millennium at the UN General Assembly. Conversely, if the millions spent on waging those wars could instead be dedicated to improving the lives of the people affected by them, there would be a real chance of attaining those goals. Shiela Sisulu is Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. She will be visiting Uganda from March 13-19 Comments\Views about this article Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: FRENCH INVESTIGATION IMPLICATES KAGAME IN ATTACK AGAINST EX PRESIDENT
RWANDA9/3/200419:36 FRENCH INVESTIGATION IMPLICATES KAGAME IN ATTACK AGAINST EX PRESIDENT Peace/Justice,Standard The current President of Rwanda and ex leader of the rebels of RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front), Paul Kagame, allegedly ordered the attack on the aeroplane of then Rwandan Head of State Juvenal Habyarimana in April 1994, according to a report by the National Anti-terrorist Branch of the French investigative police, anticipated in todays edition of the Parisian daily newspaper Le Monde. The anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguire, who is in charge of the inquiry, took delivery of the 220-page report on 30 January, concluding the preliminary stage of investigation. On 6 April 1994, air-to-land missiles fired from the area around the airport of the capital Kigali hit and destroyed the Falcon 50 that was carrying the Rwandan President, his Burundian homologue Cyprien Ntaryamira and high-ranking leaders of the two countries. According to the newspaper, the report describes Kagame at the time head of RPF, the armed Tutsi movement that took power after the genocide in July 1994 and still controls the Rwandan government - as the principal accessory before the attack, which was organised by a dozen high-ranking RPF commanders. Le Monde reports that the investigation is based on hundreds of testimonies, dozens of rogatory letters and numerous judicial missions abroad, thanks also to the collaboration of numerous RPF dissidents, who are currently in exile in a safe place. They apparently include several members of the network commando, the clandestine structure directly under the orders of General Kagame at the time of the genocide, and which was charged with organising Habyarimanas assassination. The death of the Head of State was seen as the signal for the extremist Hutus and interahamwe militias to begin the massacres of the Tutsi minority and numerous moderate Hutus; it is calculated that hundreds of thousands of people (between 500,000 and 800,000 people according to the most common estimates) were killed. Kagame has always rejected all charges, denying his involvement, or that of the RPF, in the attack. The Head of State also contests the competence of the Parisian judges (the investigation began in 1998 upon the request of the families of the pilots of Habyarimanas Falcon, French nationals). The anti-terrorism judge Bruguire also points the finger at the UN, which allegedly partly obfuscated the investigations and retained custody of the aircrafts black box. What risks does Kagame run? None, for the time being, according to a source cited by Le Monde, who recalls the immunity enjoyed by the Rwandan President. It is now up to the Parisian prosecution to decide whether to issue international arrest warrants against a dozen high-ranking government officials in Kigali for murder in connection with terrorist activities. [LC] "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Financial Problems: Uganda Team to Travel to Angola Without Coach - BBC
Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 March, 2004, 12:28 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Uganda drop Olympic coach By Piers Edwards BBC Sport UFA chief Denis Obua presides over a financially-troubled federation Uganda are to travel to Angola for their Olympic qualifier this weekend without regular coach Charles Namakola in an attempt to cut down on costs. The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (Fufa) intends to send a squad of just 12 players and two officials owing to what a Fufa official described as 'acute financial problems'. Two goalkeepers have been named in the travelling party and the side will be coached by Jackson Mayanja, a former Uganda international who has been assistant coach of the under-23 team. Olympic standings Uganda have just one point from four matches in their group and no chance of qualifying for the tournament in Athens later this year. Fufa said it wanted to continue its commitment in the tournament despite a precarious financial situation and had decided on the cost-cutting measure. Don't be surprised if we do not travel to Angola UFA general secretary Haruna Mawanda Yet the Fufa general secretary has told BBC Sport that funds are so short that even the prospect of sending just twelve players is in danger. "We have yet to find the money to cover the costs of the twelve players," Haruna Mawanda said. "Don't be surprised if we don't travel to Angola." Mawanda revealed that the federation is hoping to find backing from private individuals and companies as a way of covering the cost of the trip. Fufa currently suffers from having no sponsor and is relying on a US $250,000 grant from football's world governing body Fifa to run its operations. Yet these funds are insufficient to cover the association's debts, and when Fufa received its first instalment from Fifa in January most of the money was used to pay off debts from 2003. Mawanda is hoping the Ugandan government can come to the rescue. "The government has a positive attitude towards supporting Ugandan football but the funding has yet to come," the general secretary explained. "We hope the government is going to give us money in the new financial year, and we're hoping for a reasonable cut." Fufa will have to wait for at least four months before discovering whether the government backs them as the Ugandan financial year runs from July to June. The amount of backing the Fufa receives will be key to Uganda's hopes of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup and Nations Cup. The Cranes have been drawn in qualiying Group 2 alongside South Africa, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Cape Verde. E-mail this to a friend Printable version Links to more African stories Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: We were beaten by State House - Ruzindana
We were beaten by State House - Ruzindana By Emmanuel N. Mugarura Elias Biryabarema March 10, 2004 PARLIAMENT - The Parliamentary Advocacy Forum, Pafo, has accused State House of engineering the chaos in Jinja last Friday. "We got information that certain State House operatives had been sent to Jinja to beat us," said Rukiga County MP, Jack Sabiiti, a member of the group. He accuses a senior member of Cabinet of co-ordinating the "thuggery" in Jinja.He said this yesterday during a Pafo press conference at Parliament after a mob of pro-government youths disrupted a workshop they had organised in Jinja. Mr RuzindanaSome Pafo members, which group mainly comprises Members of Parliament opposed to a third term for President Museveni, were assaulted in the scuffle. "We were beaten and pushed down the stairs, we were badly humiliated; they kept beating us to get out," said Ruhama MP, Augustine Ruzindana, who is also Pafo chairman. Ruzindana accused government of failure to protect people and MPs. "Where we have reached now, the democratisation process has stalled; everything is going back to zero," he said. "If 50 MPs can't be allowed to talk; if MPs can't speak, who will speak? We are in real trouble, serious trouble," he added. Ruzindana warned that the days of tolerance could be over and the public should brace itself for the worst. "The time when different views could be heard and tolerated is over; what is coming to all of us started in Jinja. You either tow the official line or you suffer," Ruzindana warned. "What you have seen is not the last, it's the beginning, a lot more is coming," he said. Pafo also accused government of trying to humiliate Mr Eriya Kategaya in Jinja."We got information that they wanted to beat and embarrass Kategaya, they mistook me for him and I was beaten," Ruzindana alleged. Pafo used the same conference to dismiss President Museveni's reference to the opposition as empty tins. "We are not empty tins. We would like to assure the public that empty tins do not attract attention of people, why then should the president bother?" asked Ruzindana. "Our methods are peaceful and we shall continue to show superior moral virtues," Ruzindana said. "That is the usual Museveni language, we shall not comment," he said. Fifteen MPs, including Maj. Gen Mugisha Muntu, of the East African Legislative Council, attended the press conference. However, the acting Presidential Press Secretary, Onapito Ekomoloit dismissed the claims as "diversionary." "Pafo is now very aware that their message is not selling and they are just trying to get at the President using all fictitious arguments," he said. "Not everyone who supports the President and NRM works in State House. It is like saying like that all Catholics are being sent by the Vatican," he argued. © 2004 The Monitor Publications Gook The strategy of the guerilla struggle was to cause maximum chaos and destruction in order to render the government of the day very unpopular Lt. Gen. Kaguta Museveni (Leader of the NRA guerilla army inLuwero)MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Clergy Appeal On North
Clergy Appeal On North Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala)March 9, 2004 Posted to the web March 9, 2004 Kampala NINETEEN religious leaders from Teso, Acholi and Lango have asked the Government to declares northern Uganda a disaster area, reports Dennis Ocwich."In light of the recent Parliament's declaration, we appeal to the Government of Uganda to declare the north a disaster zone and to ask the international community to intervene to end the war," they said in a statement. The statement, issued after a meeting in Kampala last week, reaffirms the clerics' stand that the Government must consider talking peace with the LRA rebels.They condemned the killings in the north, stating that: "To end this cycle of violence we still favour the use of peaceful dialogue, with a third party mediation." "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: UPDF Faces Suit Over Uniforms
Regional- EastAfrican - Nairobi - KenyaMonday, March 8, 2004 UPDF Faces Suit Over Uniforms By WAIRAGALA WAKABI THE EASTAFRICAN THE UGANDA People's Defence Forces (UPDF) faces a Ush1.1 billion ($565,552) lawsuit over its failure to pay Ush52 million ($26,735) for and take delivery of 5,000 pieces of ceremonial dress that it ordered for its officers two years ago. Although some officials of the Ministry of Defence, including the new Army Chief of Staff Brig. Joshua Masaba, have proposed that deductions be made from the salaries of UPDF officers to recover the money, the army's Director of Finance Major Simon Ochan is opposed to the idea. On December 11, 2003, Sempasa and Company Advocates warned the Defence and Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ministries they would sue the army on behalf of the suppliers Eladam Enterprises of Jinja in eastern Uganda. They said that, while the firm supplied shirts and trousers worth over Ush100 million ($51,413) in 2002, some Ush54 million ($27,763) was still outstanding. The lawyers added that the ministry had also failed to take delivery of up to 5,000 ceremonial uniforms, which it ordered from the company two years ago. The impending suit comes at a time when the UPDF is involved in another saga over ceremonial uniforms. The EastAfrican reported last week that a Kenya-based Burundian businessman, George Rogers, had imported ceremonial dress and other paraphernalia without authorisation from the army's procurement authorities. The army has rejected the goods though Crown Rock Shield, the importers, are trying to persuade the Chief of Logistics and Engineering to take them. Officials from Crown Rock Shield were in Kampala last week, but it was not possible to establish whom they met while they were in the country. In 2002, Eladam Enterprises and Phoenix Logistics were the two local firms pre-qualified by the Military Tender Board to supply uniforms to the UPDF. Eladam was subsequently given a list of UPDF officers who were supposed to receive ceremonial uniforms. It had to take the measurements of the officers and then supply the dress. Each dress comprises trousers, a shirt with metallic buttons emblazoned with the national court of arms, and a tie. Eyasu Sirak, managing director of Eladam Enterprises, told The EastAfrican that while the army initially took ceremonial dress worth Ush100 million ($51,000), it has failed to pay a balance of Ush54 million ($27,600). In addition, it has not taken about 5,000 uniforms, which are now said to be lying in the dressmaker's warehouses in Jinja. "I imported the fabric and the buttons, all of which cost me more than $150,000 (Ush291.75 million). Now my capital is tied up because of the UPDF," he said. The EastAfrican has seen a letter from Brig Masaba to Major Ochan advising that from February 2004, arrears owed on uniforms delivered in 2002 be paid within two months. Brig Masaba said deductions should be made from the salaries of officers to pay for the ceremonial dress now with Eladam Enterprises. The deductions were to be made over a 10-month period. Each uniform costs Ush220,000 ($114), which implies that Ush22,000 would be deducted from each officer's salary for a total of 10 months. At the time the tender was given to Eladam, the suppliers were also supposed to provide boots, but a committee comprising the Permanent Secretary, then Chief of Staff Brig Nakibus Lakara and Chief of Logistics and Engineering Brig Oketa, and the Secretary for Defence, struck off the items in order to reduce the amount each soldier was to pay. However, Major Ochan has said the suppliers did not take the measurements of all officers so the army should not take all the uniforms. He said only officers whose measurements were taken should receive their uniforms and have deductions made from their salaries. But Mr Sirak insisted that though that they did not take the measurements of every officer, they took a random sample that enabled them to make uniforms for all the officers. "You do not measure every officer, you do it scientifically," he said. "Even in the US and other armies, that is the way it is done; you do not measure one by one. I challenge him to give me 24 hours to provide a uniform for any officer and see if I fail." Kagoro Asingura, the army's Director for Legal Services, on October 20, 2003, advised the Chief of Staff that Eladam should be paid immediately, adding that "the court process is expensive and UPDF would definitely lose this case." Comments\Views about this article Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
ugnet_: Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin
Mulindwa: There is nothing new you are informing a critical thinker like me! Mu7 is a real enemy of Buganda and Uganda at large! Mu7, Okello, and Obote showed us what they are capable of doing to humanity, and thatto kill! I've told you this before, Buganda is not going to offer herself as sacrifices to Mu7 or UPC. Critical thinkers can not go that route! There is much more Buganda needs toputher efforts towards. I'm sure the Kabaka knows Mu7's motives. The "byoya bya nswa" was known from the beginning when the Kabaka was allowed to come back to Uganda,tothe time of the coronation up to now! Even the "ebyaffe" was known from the beginning to be byoya bya nswa! Critical thinkers have all along known these facts. The point has been from the time the Kabaka was brought back upto now, is to put strategies in place! So far, they have been very very productive considering from where we started off. That's good news! I want Uganda at large to know that Mu7 and Obote are enemies of freedom! They have done the same things throughout their dictatorships. They have banned political parties. They have selectively decided to develop certain favored regions at the expense of others.-- Mbarara, Bushenyi, Ntungamo(Ankole)are growing at a fasterratethanGulu, Kitgum (Acholi). They have triggered and manipulated negative tribalism throughout the whole country. They have raised their tribesmen above other capable men and women in the army.-- Jjeje Odong was dropped for a favored Munyankole! Etc, etc, the examples can go on and on. We need to start building Uganda as nation in all regions. We need to get federalism for Uganda. We need to have Acholi region retain some of the taxes collected in her region to develop that region. We need to have the Acholi region to be capable of paying the Arrow Boys. We need to have the Acholi region to have her police forceit can payand retainto keep law and order there. We need to start! Bring Federalism. Zakoomu R.Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yao You are explaining a very critical issue to a very uncritical mind. Ssenyange as many Baganda look at Uganda politics in such a narrow way. Museveni taped into that mind and he will die a president in Uganda. To Ssenyange what is important is that his Kabaka went to Rwakitura and with a helicopter from Museveni. That is enough and that can make the Ssenyange's of our days happy and fail to even see the bold mistake/s Museveni and UPDF does. Eh munange oli Museveni waffe yawadde Mutebi enyonyi. That is why Museveni will use Buganda all along, right from Luwero war to today. It is the political immaturity which obote classified as ignorance that is eating up my part of the country. The Ssenyange's in Mengo have for example just figured out that what Museveni gave them was byooya byanswa, just figured it out !!! That is why I say that Ugandans must acknowledge this loop hole we have in Buganda, and start to build Uganda as a nation. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Y Yaobang To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin J. Ssenyange: Dictator Museveni is a very crafty son-of-a-bitch. He invites the Kabaka to rwakitura, pays for all his expenses to come to rwakitura(central government expense), gives him the 50 cows, and then later, bang!-- he SPITS on the Kabaka: the dictator warned the Kabaka not to meddle in politics, and to leave itto "us the bakopi". Remember? He does that all the time to all the inept political opportunists who cross his path, including, unfortunately,your Mutebi II. y From: "ssenya nyange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 16:54:25 -0500 Mulindwa, By simple logic, If I know that you want to come ( visit) to my home to beg, I WILL BE VERY STUPID TO SEND YOU LIMOS AND HELICOPTORS TO TRANSPORT YOU TO MY HOME AND BACK. In other words, It would be very stupid of Mu7 to transport Kabaka by presidential helicoptors to Rwakitura if the purpose of the visit is known to be begging. Lastly, who requests for a visit? Kabaka or Mu7? J. Ssenyange -- From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote Kin Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 20:56:00 -0500 But why does Kabaka go to Rwakitura to beg? The very nonsense I do not respond to. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: ssenya nyange To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ugnet_: Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote \ Yaobang @ Mulindwa
Mulindwa: Come on, man! Be a critical thinker! President Museveni is the leader of Uganda, including Buganda as a region of Uganda. You can not compare the two leaders; one is a traditional leader, and the other is a political leader. I want you to rephrase your questions in a very intelligent, informed, manner. Make your questions look morelikethis; 1). Who has more traditional support in Buganda (Museveni or Kabaka) today??= My answer is: The Kabaka of Buganda. 2). Who has more political support in Buganda (Museveni or Kabaka) today??= My answer is: The President of Uganda. I want you to make a difference between Feudalism and Federalism (democracy). Act like a critical thinker, if you are one! Zakoomu R.Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings me to the next question, who has more support in Buganda today,Kabaka Mutebi or President Museveni?EmThe Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"Groupe de communication Mulindwas"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"- Original Message - From: "ssenya nyange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:55 PMSubject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote \ Yaobang @ Mulindwa Yaobang, Do you think the majority of Baganda ( including me ) wantKabaka Mutebi to be invited ( actually SUMMONING)?. You cannot summon a Kabakaas per tradition. Do you know why the late Ben Kiwanuka was hated by Baganda? Its because while he was a prime Minister, h e "summoned" or invited Kabaka to meet him ( Ben) at his residence or office. Ben was a Muganda who knew it. Because Kabaka does not have powers, he is held at runsom \" gunpoint" by Mu7. You know what happened to Dr. Kayiira, DP's Ssekweyama etc. Solong as Kabaka is in Uganda with no powers, he can be summoned at any time bythe ruling president. This is what we want to reverse. This is against our culture. He's is the head of all Ganda clan leaders ( Ssabataka) no matter what. Rediculing him tantamount to rediculing all the Baganda who belongto the 52 clans.Thats why want a share of political powers, NOT deligated cultural powers. Watch with your eyes, we shall be there. Ssenyange --- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster.
RE: ugnet_: 'Kenyans Acquiring Ugandan Passports'
When this matter was brought up sometime ago after it came to light that Nigerans were scooping up Ugandan passports, it was essntially swept under the rug: the Twaliires and Twateera-e-mbundus were too busy getting their "commissions". However, down the line Uganda, which "earns"about US $600 million for remittances of its army of nkuba-kyeyos, will likely pay a price for this greed and corruption. This is because countries like USA admit foreigners on a quota system. A few years ago, each country was allocated 20,000 a maximum of slots per year in all categories. The exceptions were USA Mexico, which were allocated 40,000 slots per year. To be sure, not at all slots are used, especially for (Black) African countries. But is also possible that fewer slots are allocated to certain countries. So how might this hurt Uganda? Well,each Nigerian or Kenyanetc who is admitted on a Ugandan passport uses up a Ugandan slot. To make matters worse, when such a Nigerian/Kenyan joins the kyeyo army, his/her remittances wind up in his/her home country, rather than Uganda. Further, if such a person were to engage in criminal activity, it is Uganda that gets the black-eye. Over time, such ill-effects accumulate to make a significant impact. I'd say that for a country that is broke, getting over 50% or more of its recurrent expenditures from 'exported-labor', this is graft it cannot afford: it is like cutting the branch of a tree on which one is perched. And like falling from a tall building, it is not the falling that kills you. Rather, it is the sudden stop. Can Uganda afford a sudden stop? Ssemakula Original Message Follows From: Omar Kezimbira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: 'Kenyans Acquiring Ugandan Passports' Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:38:40 -0800 (PST) PA2 Monday, March 8, 2004 - Eastafrican - Nairobi- Kenya - Focus on East African Customs Union 'Kenyans Acquiring Ugandan Passports' BY A.MUTUMBA-LULE THE EAST AFRICAN Though the system of acquiring a passport passes through five stages many people have been beating it especially at the grass root. For one to acquire a passport, his/her application forms have to be certified by a respected civil servant and signed by a local council chairman in the area where he stays. Parish chiefs, before going to county chiefs (Local Council three chairmen), must endorse the forms to the resident district commissioner and then the forms are also scrutinised by the district security officers before being submitted to the immigration department. Some Congolese nationals who ran away from the eastern part of the Congo during the civil strife in the mineral rich country between 1996 and 2000, now pass off as Ugandans and some even carry Ugandan passports. At present a number of Rwandan nationals have Ugandan passports acquired when they were still in Uganda as refugees before going back to their country after the 1994 Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) take-over of government. In Uganda, like in other countries it is illegal to acquire a passport fraudulently when one is not a national. The penalty is imprisonment. Ministry of Internal Affairs officials blame the rampant acquisition of Ugandan documents by foreigners especially Kenyan and Rwandan nationals on how the colonial masters streamlined the common borders. For example on the Rwanda/Uganda border there are some houses which are divided into two by the border-line. But this is also a contemporary problem. During the border dispute between Uganda and Tanzania in the last three years, a number of families found themselves straddling the border when a redefinition was made. Dr. Kagoda said that the ways they are now discussing would make the fraudulent acquisition of Ugandan passports very hard. The wars that the country has experienced for several years till 1986 had led to a breakdown in all departments dealing with documentation. Until recently it was very easy to get a passport and that is the reason as to why many aliens were coming to Uganda to acquire passports. But the ministry of Internal Affairs has since made passports have scanned pictures. Uganda is not the only victim of passport racketeering. A number of countries are facing the same problem while Ugandan nationals themselves have been implicated in the scum themselves. Two years ago, Ugandans who had acquired South African passports and went to UK were deported to South Africa were they got stranded. Comments\Views about this article - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. Fast. Reliable. Get MSN 9 Dial-up - 3 months for the price of 1! (Limited-time Offer) This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: ..and now the NRM reffers to the US as Imperialist
This after the NRM has benefited a great deal (in form of AID money from the USA..now referred to as imperialist) ..talk about unprincipal , unprecedented level of duplicity on the part of Museveni's NRM. I believe the Imperialist may do "An Aristide" on Kaguta!!! Matek Cuba Offers Great Lessons - Mayombo Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala)March 9, 2004 Posted to the web March 9, 2004 Elias Biryabarema Kampala The Chief of Military Intelligence Col. Noble Mayombo has said the Cuban spirit of resilience against US imperialism should inspire Uganda's own struggles against evil forces.The spy chief was talking to members of the Pan African Movement who were welcoming the Cuban Vice President at their offices in Kamwokya last Friday. "The experience of Cubans offers us great lessons. Mostly that when people have good and visionary leadership, then a country will triumph over all forms of aggression no matter how long and who they are," Mayombo said.He said that the US is involved in events in Haiti, Venezuela and Iraq. The United States pressured former Haitian leader Jean Bertrand Aristide, who had been democratically elected, to relinquish power after a raging rebellion and mounting international pressure last month.Mayombo praised Cuba for her bilateral assistance to Uganda especially in human resource aid.Cuba helped government establish the Mbarara University of Science and Technology."Cuba has on several occasions sent its doctors to help us overcome our health problems. But these doctors are also different.They serve with great responsibility and at times in difficult areas like Karamoja," Mayombo observed .Senior Presidential Adviser and veteran Pan Africanist, Chango Macho said Africans must support Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe against the US and UK imperialists.The Cuban Vice President, Estevan Lazo pledged more cooperation between Uganda and his country. "We might not have the capital. But we shall assist you with the greatest resource that we have and that is human capital," he said.He said Cuba will never succumb to US threats of toppling President Fidel Castro's communist regime. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Attack On 3rd Term Critics Irks Kategaya
Attack On 3rd Term Critics Irks Kategaya Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala)March 9, 2004 Posted to the web March 9, 2004 John Kakande Kampala MOVEMENT historical Eriya Kategaya has condemned the attack on members of the Parliamentary Advocacy Forum (PAFO) and the use of state machinery to stop meetings organised by the anti-third term activists."I was very saddened that not only were the PAFO group stopped, but also there was violence, people were injured and some rogues holding the President's placards stopped other people from airing their views," Kategaya said. Kategaya argued that the attack on PAFO was "a sad commentary on our so-called democracy and human rights."Explaining that he did not attend because he had cases in court to handle, Kategaya said, " I was surprised that I was a target of these thugs. It was sad. Why should people be stopping these PAFO people? Why don't you listen to them? There are some good people in PAFO.""The Movement was fighting to have everybody in Uganda say what he wants. If the power belongs to the people, then people should listen to different views. There is bit of intolerance, which is coming up, which is against the Movement philosophy," added Kategaya.Kategaya featured at a CBS FM radio programme 'Manya Edembe Lyo' (Know Your Rights), sponsored by the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative presented by Matia Lwanga Bwanika.Kategaya talked about a number of issues including his disagreement with President Museveni, his participation in the five-year bush war and his opposition to the third term.On the human rights situation, Kategaya said: "It is deteriorating. There are incidents I see which are worrying. There is an attempt to use the state functionaries, the police, the intelligence, the state machinery to stop those who are having opposite views not to express them freely.""Those who are for Ekisanja (pro-third term) are given free reign to do what they want. Those who are against are stopped every time, which is absurd," he argued."I feel if this attempt to change the Constitution goes on, they may succeed, it may succeed, but that will be not for the country. I can see we are going to have a problem like other African countries where people have no trust in leadership or in politicians," Kategaya said.He reaffirmed his opposition to the third term saying, "It is not good for the stability of this country."Kategaya also attacked lands minister Col. Kahinda Otafiire. "I was really hurt by Hon. Otafiire's remarks during Bushenyi by-elections when he was asking people that do not vote Catholic, vote Protestant. Again, it is something which is against what the Movement has been talking about."Kategaya rejected charges by President Museveni that his participation in the struggle did not involve real combat. "He knows very well that he cannot face me and say 'you did not participate'. I did. I was doing underground work here," he said."He (Museveni) cannot erase history. I have been in this struggle since we were in senior five in Ntare School in 1965 and he knows it. I was in the struggle against Amin and he knows about it. I was part of the struggle against Obote." Asked about the Movement functionaries, who attack personalities, Kategaya said, "In this country we have had regimes before."For me, one of the signs of these regimes when they are about to collapse is having some individuals who are almost seen to be above the law." "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote \ Yaobang @ Mulindwa
Zakoomu If you are serious with your statements, make oneposting in this forum,about the problems facing our nation without praising The Buganda King, a King installed by Museveni (a Rwandese)and terrorizing Obote, a Uganda former twice elected President. They are very strange indeed. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:10 PM Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote \ Yaobang @ Mulindwa Mulindwa: Come on, man! Be a critical thinker! President Museveni is the leader of Uganda, including Buganda as a region of Uganda. You can not compare the two leaders; one is a traditional leader, and the other is a political leader. I want you to rephrase your questions in a very intelligent, informed, manner. Make your questions look morelikethis; 1). Who has more traditional support in Buganda (Museveni or Kabaka) today??= My answer is: The Kabaka of Buganda. 2). Who has more political support in Buganda (Museveni or Kabaka) today??= My answer is: The President of Uganda. I want you to make a difference between Feudalism and Federalism (democracy). Act like a critical thinker, if you are one! Zakoomu R.Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings me to the next question, who has more support in Buganda today,Kabaka Mutebi or President Museveni?EmThe Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"Groupe de communication Mulindwas"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"- Original Message - From: "ssenya nyange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:55 PMSubject: Re: ugnet_: Museveni Gives 25 Cows To Obote \ Yaobang @ Mulindwa Yaobang, Do you think the majority of Baganda ( including me ) wantKabaka Mutebi to be invited ( actually SUMMONING)?. You cannot summon a Kabakaas per tradition. Do you know why the late Ben Kiwanuka was hated by Baganda? Its because while he was a prime Minister, he "summoned" or invited Kabaka to meet him ( Ben) at his residence or office. Ben was a Muganda who knew it. Because Kabaka does not have powers, he is held at runsom \" gunpoint" by Mu7. You know what happened to Dr. Kayiira, DP's Ssekweyama etc. Solong as Kabaka is in Uganda with no powers, he can be summoned at any time bythe ruling president. This is what we want to reverse. This is against our culture. He's is the head of all Ganda clan leaders ( Ssabataka) no matter what. Rediculing him tantamount to rediculing all the Baganda who belongto the 52 clans.Thats why want a share of political powers, NOT deligated cultural powers. Watch with your eyes, we shall be there. Ssenyange --- Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ugandacom/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
ugnet_: Fw: Who put Lule in power?
- Original Message - From: Yoga Adhola To: UPC UPC Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:18 PM Subject: Fw: Who put Lule in power? Mr. Johnnie Muwanga-Zake, You wrote: " Why didn't the UPC directly assume power after Amin's government fell? I do not understand why the UPC, controlling the front-line, would for example allow Lule to be proclaimed president (page 11), unless of course Lule was deliberately used to lure the support of the Baganda during the overthrow of Amin." I have to begin by complimenting you for taking time to read Dr Obote's account of what happened. Not many people from Buganda do that. They simply dismiss Obote and never get his side of the story. This is done despite what Kabaka Mutesa said about Obote's abilities: "...Up to this point his career had not been a conspicuous one. Elected to the Legico, he became head ofa powerful political party, and even then his undoubted ability was little recognised." The Desecration of my Kingdom page 159. I believe it is important to get both sides of the story, however, objectionable one side is before taking a position. I would further also observe it is good you have put out the issues you wish explored further in form of questions. I will attempt to answer some of them. The issue of Yusuf Lule. Lule was not put in that position by the Tanzanians. Lule was placed there by the British. None other than the Dr David Owen, British Foreign Secretary at the time has written in his memoirs, "Time to Declare:" "But the Amin issue did not go away. Later he was ousted by Tanzanian armed intervention, and we aided Julius Nyerere in the attempt. I will never be sure whether it was wise to do so. The price we extracted from Nyerere four our material support was the promise that a mild, decent former children's doctor should be President rather than Milton Obote. Unfortunately the doctor did not have the necessary authority. The end result was that Obote returned to the Presidency, Uganda was riven again and human rights were trampled. Although not quite as bad as Amin's, Obote's rule was still a disaster." (Owen, D 1991) There might be some confusion over the description of Lule. Owen describes him as an eye doctor. This point is cleared by Ingham in his book on Obote. I would have quoted it but I don't have a copy with me. Ingham says Owen's memory let him down; the person he was talking was really Lule. I hope this clears up things for you. Yoga Adhola. ___ - Original Message - From: Johnnie Muwanga-Zake To: federo Cc: Abaana e South ; Buganda Discussion Group Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 3:26 AM Subject: [FedsNet] The UPC role in the removal of Amin paper by Dr Obote Netters, I have read Dr Obote's paper 'The UPC Role in the Removal of Amin Paper' posted on Fednets some time ago. Thanks to Dr Obote for throwing more light on what transpired since Amin overthrew his government. More questions arise when one reads this paper. For example, mention is made of a DP leader who accepted to be a Chief Justice (page 1) without mentioning the name (probably the late Ben Kiwanuka); apparently Dr Obote gives this as one reason why as a contributing factor to Amin's dictatorship. While Dr Obote elaborates on how much his family suffered under Amin (page 4,although none of his family members appears to have been murdered by Amin), the murder of Ben Kiwanuka is not mentioned. Roumors (mainly from Amin's quarters) had it that UPC played a hand in the murder of Ben Kiwanuka. Museveni is mentioned in the paper as a liar (he had not recruited any fighters) (page 5), and apparently UPC's Kikosi Maalum with the help of TPDF overthrew Amin. In a nutshell UPC is the only Ugandan organisation that overthrew Amin. Among the interesting questions to ask Dr Obote: 1. Why didn't the UPC directly assume power after Amin's government fell? I do not understand why the UPC, controlling the front-line, would for example allow Lule to be proclaimed president (page 11), unless of course Lule was deliberately used to lure the support of the Baganda during the overthrow of Amin. For those of us commoners in Uganda then, there was no mention of the UPC or Kikosi Maalum. I tend to believe that Kikosi Maalum and TPDF would have had a tough time had people learned that UPC was lingering behind the scene. The role of the use of Lulehas to be acknowledged prominently. 2. Would Kikosi Maalum have managed that war without the help of the local people of Mbarara and Masaka (including non UPC members) whose sacrifices seem not to be acknowledged? 3. Isn't it possible that the fall of Dr Obote's second government was due to the failure of acknowledging and nurturing the role of the Ugandan population in the south, which had helped in the fall of
