[Ugnet] Fr Kanyike's view of Uganda mixed up
Fr Kanyike's view of Uganda mixed up
Fr Larry Kanyikes opinion entitled "Violence Has No Room in Uganda's political Space"deviated from his otherwise good record of analysis and objectivity.
He asserts that Ugandans were "better off under the British Protectorate than after they left us to manage our own affairs", and that post-independence Uganda has justified the statement that "Africans are savages".
He does not seem to consider that the British took control of Uganda using violent means and that the post-independence perennial conflict was largely engendered by the Colonial rule. He seems oblivious of the worse savagery that preceded democracy in other parts of the world or of the savagery imperialist wars that are still rocking the world.
Fr Kanyike dismisses all political parties, except the Democratic Party, as either being prone to, or having a history of violence. All political parties in Uganda ("traditional" or not) are, to the best of my knowledge, formed to pursue political programs through peaceful means. I am not aware of any political party with a motto encouraging violence.
Where members of political parties have found it necessary to resort to armed struggle, I am not aware of a political party that resolved to pursue armed struggle.
Indeed the greatest majority of the members of NRA/M who pursued armed struggle in 1981-6 were predominantly from the DP; though, the leaders of the rebellion were mainly from Uganda Patriotic Movement.
Following Fr Kanyike's logic, the National Resistance Army/Movement was an "offshoot" of the DP. Other leaders of the DP have been variously involved with other armed rebel activities, which Fr Kanyike acknowledges. It should interest him to find out why so many people looked for solutions outside their party.
Fr Kanyike asserts, "in order to command respect and trust from the world of civilisation, Uganda needs a leadership that respects civility, ... has no history of blood on its hand and one that respects courts of law to settle conflicts". The "world of civilization" that he admires, generally supported Apartheid South Africa; may be, Fr Kanyike would have advised the ANC to take their grievances to the Apartheid Government Courts and to respect their verdict.
Fr Kanyike should appreciate that pro-democracy supporters and activists may differ in their approach to achieving their objective, but they are, and must remain, united in their goal. Undermining each other or adopting a holier-than-thou attitude will only serve to perpetuate the evils that give rise to violence.
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[Ugnet] Not wishing to put our newcomers off or anything............
Not wishing to put our newcomers off or anything One day while walking down the street a highly successful executive woman was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up in heaven where she was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter himself. "Welcome to Heaven," said St.Peter. "Before you get settled in though, it seems we have a problem. You see, strangely enough, we've never once had an executive make it this far and we're not really sure what to do with you." "No problem, just let me in." said the woman. "Well, I'd like to, but I have higher orders. What we're going to do is let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then you can choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity in." "Actually, I think I've made up my mind...I prefer to stay in Heaven", said the woman. "Sorry, we have rules..." And with that St. Peter put the executive in an elevator and it went down-down- down to hell. The doors opened and she found herself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf course. In the distance was a country club and standing in front of her were all her friends - fellow executives that she had worked with and they were all dressed in evening gowns and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks and they talked about old times. They played an excellent round of golf and at night went to the country club where she enjoyed an excellent steak and lobster dinner. She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy (kinda cute) and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing. She was having such a good time that before she knew it, it was time to leave. Everybody shook her hand and waved good-bye as she got on the elevator. The elevator went up-up-up and opened back up at the Pearly Gates and found St. Peter waiting for her. "Now it's time to spend a day in heaven," he said. So she spent the next 24 hours lounging aroun d on clouds and playing the harp and singing. She had a great time and before she knew it her 24 hours were up and St. Peter came and got her. "So, you've spent a day in hell and you've spent a day in heaven. Now you must choose your eternity," he said. The woman paused for a second and then replied, "Well, I never thought I'd say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great and all, but I think I had a better time in Hell." So St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again she went down-down-down back to Hell. When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and Filth. She saw her friends were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage and putting it in sacks. The Devil came up to her and put his arm around her. "I don't understand," stammered the woman, "yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland of garbage and all my friends look miserable." The Devil looked at her and smiled. "Yesterday we were recruiting you; today you're staff." Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! Get Yahoo! Mail___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
Re: [Ugnet] WHO Tells Uganda To dismantle 'Kony' Camps As Death Rises
Y What does decongest mean in this case ? NumeY Yaobang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are sick and tired of these international community leaders coming for "familiarization" tours! Better to stay in Kampala or Rwakitura! Our people continue to die and be used as pawns in dictator Museveni's re-election bid. And that sychophant Amongin continues to make those silly remarks! ySimon Nume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHO tells Uganda to dismantle camps as deaths rise The World Health Organisation wants Uganda to remove internally displaced people from camps in the country's war-ravaged northern region as reports say the government has failed to curtail the high death rates there. The special representative of the WHO director general, Dr David Nabarro, said that the death rates in the camps have climbed so high that the only way to arrest the situation is to remove people from there. Up to 1.4 million people in northern Uganda no longer live in their homes, having been herded into camps that are congested, with poor sanitation and hygiene conditions. Dr Nabarro was speaking after the release of partial results of a survey carried out in the region to assess the death rate at the camps. The results revealed that the region has one of the highest death rates in the world, with 1.2 out of every 10, 000 people dying daily. Dr Nabarro, who is the head of the WHO Health Action in Crisis group, was on a familiarisation tour of Gulu district last week. He also said that despite efforts to confront the four leading causes of death in the camps malaria, HIV/Aids, violence and dysentery the only way to tackle the problem is for the government to end the war. "The results suggest that there are an extra 1,000 deaths every week due to living conditions. The insurgency should come to an end. Too many people are dying," he said. The survey, which was carried out in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader between January and July this year, was the first to specifically seek to establish the causes and rates of mortality. As several organisations have pointed out in the past, malaria emerged at the top of the list, followed by HIV/Aids. Survey results so far released by the government indicate that malaria accounts for 25 per cent of all deaths. HIV/Aids is second with 13.5 per cent, while violence accounts for 9.4 per cent. The Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Christine Amongin Aporu, said that the government would decongest the camps, but there is no time frame for this. "Decongestion has already started in the safer areas," she said. At first called "protected villages," the camps were set up in the mid 1990s and expanded as the conflict escalated, leading to an increase in the incidence of disease, hunger and deaths. In November last year, the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers reported that the death rates among children in Lira district camps stood at 5.4 out of 10,000. It also gave the higher figure of 10.5 out of 10,000 for one of the camps in the same period. The government has been at pains to defend its policies in northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have waged a war against the government for two decades. The military solution that President Yoweri Museveni is pursuing was partly to blame for the collapse of peace talks in December last year. The Ministry of Health has defended its current report, with the acting Director General Dr Sam Okware saying it has been verified. Although the people in the camps do not have access to clean drinking water and food is scarce, the World Food Programme (WFP) country representative, Ken Davies, said that nutrition is not a big contributor to mortality. He said that the sanitation and nutrition problems of the camps can only end when the camps are decongested. Mr Davies said, however, that the problem of food shortage is likely to continue into 2006 because the people remained in the camps past the August planting season. Comments\Views about this article Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://asia.messenger.yahoo.com ___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
Re: [Ugnet] WHO Tells Uganda To dismantle 'Kony' Camps As Death Rises
Matek WHO is making sense. Their argument seems to be thatif 1000 peopleare dying of disease, malnutrition etc, in the camps, then it is SAFER to dismantle the camps and let the people go back to their homes since 'Kony' cannot kill as many as a 1000 a week. M7 is of course going to squirm, since once the camps are dismantled, he will not have a ready excuse to fleece donor funding to 'help the victims'. Expect a stupid argument from Bantariza/ Nsaba Buturoabout the need to keep the people safe from Kony, and a plea for donors to come and see for themselves how the camps can be improved, thus soliciting for more money to put in their never filling stomachs. Fortunately noone seems to be listening to him anymore. Nume Matek Opoko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow Citizens: In Yoweri Museveni's Uganda foreign refugees from say The Sudan, DRC Congo, Rwanda, Burundi are accorded excellent treatment then the regimes treatsIT'S OWN CITIZEN who are now living in squalid condition in the IDP camps of Northern Uganda. Never do you hear of a situation whereby 1,000 say Sudanese or DRC or Rwandan refugees living in Uganda dying in one week. That stated, I am in total agreement with WHO position. The NRM military dictatorship needs to completely dismantle IDP camps in Northern Uganda . People in those camps need to be resettle in other part of the country meanwhile Museveni and "kony" continue to battle it out in Northern Uganda. Fellow Citizens, we can no longer allow a situation whereby 60,000 Ugandans of Acholi origin must die in one given year and about 1,200,000 in 20 years( you do the maths 30,000 in six months..60,000 in one year.. 1,200,000 in 20 years!!!) MatekSimon Nume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHO tells Uganda to dismantle camps as deaths rise The World Health Organisation wants Uganda to remove internally displaced people from camps in the country's war-ravaged northern region as reports say the government has failed to curtail the high death rates there. The special representative of the WHO director general, Dr David Nabarro, said that the death rates in the camps have climbed so high that the only way to arrest the situation is to remove people from there. Up to 1.4 million people in northern Uganda no longer live in their homes, having been herded into camps that are congested, with poor sanitation and hygiene conditions. Dr Nabarro was speaking after the release of partial results of a survey carried out in the region to assess the death rate at the camps. The results revealed that the region has one of the highest death rates in the world, with 1.2 out of every 10, 000 people dying daily. Dr Nabarro, who is the head of the WHO Health Action in Crisis group, was on a familiarisation tour of Gulu district last week. He also said that despite efforts to confront the four leading causes of death in the camps malaria, HIV/Aids, violence and dysentery the only way to tackle the problem is for the government to end the war. "The results suggest that there are an extra 1,000 deaths every week due to living conditions. The insurgency should come to an end. Too many people are dying," he said. The survey, which was carried out in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader between January and July this year, was the first to specifically seek to establish the causes and rates of mortality. As several organisations have pointed out in the past, malaria emerged at the top of the list, followed by HIV/Aids. Survey results so far released by the government indicate that malaria accounts for 25 per cent of all deaths. HIV/Aids is second with 13.5 per cent, while violence accounts for 9.4 per cent. The Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Christine Amongin Aporu, said that the government would decongest the camps, but there is no time frame for this. "Decongestion has already started in the safer areas," she said. At first called "protected villages," the camps were set up in the mid 1990s and expanded as the conflict escalated, leading to an increase in the incidence of disease, hunger and deaths. In November last year, the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers reported that the death rates among children in Lira district camps stood at 5.4 out of 10,000. It also gave the higher figure of 10.5 out of 10,000 for one of the camps in the same period. The government has been at pains to defend its policies in northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have waged a war against the government for two decades. The military solution that President Yoweri Museveni is pursuing was partly to blame for the collapse of peace talks in December last year. The Ministry of Health has defended its current report, with the acting Director General Dr Sam Okware saying it has been verified. Although the people in the camps do not have access to clean drinking water and food is scarce, the World Food Programme (WFP) country representative, Ken Davies, said that nutrition is not a big contributor to
[Ugnet] The anatomy of the GF caper in Luganda vernacular
Apologies to non-Luganda speakers on the forum. This news article spells out clearly and explicit the way in which PMU officials and associates used to to swiddle the GF money meant to fight TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS -- a growth or cottage industry of sortsinvolving persons in the highest levels of government. (Apparently such persons might have been left "out of the loop" on this particular caper,hence the abundance of info about it, but that is another story). Anyway the method was to simply setup sham NGOs -- in some cases brifcase entities without so much as a physical address --, and then fill them with their relatives, concubines friends and other associates; end then direct millions towards them. If you think those fancy houses and limos you see in Kampala come from clean money in the midst ofa non-functioning economy, you have another think coming! Always ask the question that was posed to Muhwezi during his parliamentary censure: Mulwana has a factory that manufactures this and that, but where do you get the money to buy all these properties? Per Deep Throat: Just follow the money! Hopefully sceptics like Mr. WBK will also be able to see what the entire sees. Abanene abaalya eza siriimu babaanise Bya Ahmed Mukiibi ne Angel Lubowa KKAMPUNI zabanene mu gavumenti abaalya obuwumbi 80 ezaali ezeddagala lyabalwadde ba siriimu zaanikiddwa. Abagezigezi bano basoose kutondawo bibiina byobwannakyewa ebyekimpatiiira ne babissaamu abenganda ne mikwano gyabwe oluvannyuma ne babisemba mu gavumenti okufuna ssente okulwanyisa siriimu, omusujja gwensiri nakafuba. Abalala bo tebaamaze biseera kutondawo bibiina wabula ssente baaziridde butereevu nga bayita mu kuginga lisiiti ezenjawulo omuli eza wooteri, ezamakampuni agapangisa mmotoka gattako emikono, nebiwandiiko ebirala ne bafunirako ssente ezobwereere. Bino biri mu lipoota eyemiko 121 ababazi bebitabo abali ku mutindo gwensi yonna aba Pricewaterhouse Coopers kye baakoze oluvannyuma lwokulondoola ensimbi ddoola obukadde 45 (eza Uganda 80,000,000,000/-) ezibadde zaakaweebwa Uganda okuva mu nsawo yensi yonna eya Global Fund okulwanyisa siriimu, omusujja nakafuba. Ssente endala 210,651,550 aba Pricewaterhouse Coopers baazudde zaasaasaanyizibwa ku bintu ebitalina kakwate na kulwanyisa Siriimu, mussujja oba kafuba . Okugeza waliwo ezisoba mu bukadde 39 ezaaweebwa akulira ebyobujjanjabi mu ggwanga Polof. Omaswa okwetaba mu nkungaana e Norway, Amerika, Bufaransa, Switzerland ne Rochester. Endala obukadde 12 zaaweebwa Muky. Catherine Omaswa okugenda mu musomo mu Amerika. Waliwo obukadde 120 ezaasasulwa ensako yabakungu mukaaga ba Minisitule eyebyobulamu ate obukadde 19 zaabwe omuwandiisi owenkalakkalira owa Minisitule eyebyobulamu okulambula emirimu gya Minisitule eno. Obukadde bubiri zaweebwa abakozi bekitongokle kya Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) ngensako ya Ssekukulu, ate 4,873, 392 aba PMU baazeeyambisa okupangisa ennyonyi okutambuza abagenyi baabwe mu Arua. Ssente endala 949,500 zeeyambisibwa okukyaza abakungu ba Minisitule eyebyobulamu eya Rwanda are 8,459,200 zeeyambisibwa okukyaza abakugu mu byobulamu okuva mu Thailand. Ebibiina byobwannakyewa 23 bye byatondeddwawo mu ngeri eyekimpatiira era Pricewaterhouse Coopers baagambye byamu kikapu kubanga tebirina biwandiiko bibyogerako. Ebimu ku bibiina bino mulimu Kifamba Zukuka HIV Prevention Project , Buruli Anti Aids Crusade, Kira Youth Action, Kitimbwa Medico Society, Ngabo Development Association, African Families Support Organization, Association of Wakiso Women, Campus Alliance to wipe out Aids nebirala. Ebibiina ebirala mwenda byo byewandiisizza nga bimaze kuweebwa ku ssente ezokulwanyisa siriimu. Mu bino mulimu Kyengera Women Against Aids, Bunyole Womens Association , Youth Talkie Magazine nebirala. Essomero lyabakungu be Mmengo erya Data Mine lipoota egamba nti baalemwa okulaga ensaasaanya yobukadde 32 ku nsimbi zino ezaabaweebwa okusomesa abalwadde ba siriimu. Wabula Matthias Mpuga alikulira yategeezezza nti abaakoze okunoonyereza tebaatunuulidde biwandiiko byonna. Ssente zonna twazikoleredde bwe twatabadde mu Kisenyi, Mulago, Katanga newalala. Ekibi bannaffe abanoonyereza tebalinze kwebuuza ku bakungu ba minisitule be baabadde babuulirizako abandibadde babalaga ebiwandiiko kwe twakolera era kino si bwe kikolebwa mu kunoonyereza, bwe yategeezezza. Lipoota egamba nti kkampuni zemmotoka abakungu ba gavumenti ze bategeezezza nti zabamazeko ssente mpitirivu teziriiyo. Essimu ya maneja nnanyini mmotoka ze bapangisa obuwanana bwe yakubiddwa ate yagambye nti mwana wa ssomero atagulanga yadde akagaali ka maanyi ga kifuba era ne wooteeri ezebbeeyi ze bagamba nti bazisulamu e Luweero ne Kiboga za mpewo, ekiwandiiko bwe kisoma. Bukedde: Wednesday, 31st August, 2005__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[Ugnet] GF: Is it corruption or donor politics?
OPINIONS COMMENTARIES TALKING POINTS | Karoli Ssemogerere ... GF: Is it corruption or donor politics? Monitor, September 1, 2005 Before jumping at Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi and Capt. Mike Mukula, the new unlikely foot soldiers against corruption in the Ministry of Health after the Global Aids Fund debacle, there is need for caution. This is one event in the programmed donor disengagement from Uganda. One must also appreciate the fact that Jim and Mike would never win a rhetorical argument on corruption. Jim is a graduate of Censure Academy. His appointees including appointment of the programme manager in Uganda was over a more qualified candidate. His deputy Mike, had a checkered career in business before switching to politics. Uganda is the front post for a controversial anti-Aids campaign, the one that focuses on abstinence and behavioral change. HEALTH MINISTER: Jim Muhwezi It has just come to light that only 25 percent of the Aids campaign funds goes to actual drugs. It is amazing that an economy that is paying nurses and primary school teachers peanuts can absorb more than $150 million in "seminars and educational programmes" yet primary school teachers are striking for their wages to be raised to an acceptable $115 a month. Part of the fund gimmicks include daily advertisements in newspapers and radios reporting on disease prevalence in the country while patients collapse due to lack of drugs in hospitals. Global movements and global campaigns in a complex and fast moving world struggle to retain public attention. But solutions to complex problems are difficult to ordain on a global scale. For instance the persistence of policy makers for religious and ideological reasons to ordain one strand of Aids prevention over another has induced a whole new vehicle of corruption through ill-advised over priced seminars to induce behavioral change. At the same time, HIV-Aids prevalence rates after a dip to as low as 5-6percent are now back on the rise. It is ironical that in the era of behavioral change, their targets. The masses, are dealing with phenomena like ekimansulo; or open prostitution; and now call girls. One of the by-products of policies like IDPs in the north and night commuters who have to travel several miles a day from camps to homes, school, are incidents of rape and assault rising. It is similarly ironical that Aids prevention focus which is taking the lion share of health sector funds globally , would ignore the mundane fact that Aids sufferers are more susceptible to common infections that can no longer be handled by crumbling hospitals. While grants are an improvement on loans, conditionalities to design systems to spend funds end up sucking up a very high managerial cost. I was once told by a donor coordinator at the Ministry of Finance, a 31 year old graduate of Computer Science that his operational focus had shifted to creative bugs that would detect opportunities for pilferage. A lot of the fraud may even be beyond the mental abilities of the Ministers in charge at the Ministry. God, Guns, and SalvationLast week, US televangelist Pat Robertson, a Christian conservative minister and former candidate for the US presidency in 1988 touched off a huge storm by comments on his television show to the effect that the US government had to "put out" Victor Chavez, the belligerent Venezuela president who has defied all efforts by the US government to undermine him. Chavez, a former Venezuelan field grade officer overthrew a civilian government to come to power, before "winning" several elections and defeating a US backed opposition campaign to unseat him. Chavez is no ordinary mortal. Fully 20 percent of US oil imports come from Venezuela (Africa supplies about 15 percent of which 7percent comes from Angola). In the era of $60-70 per barrel of oil, this windfall has made him rich and economically independent of the US. The Bush administration has paid a heavy price for seeking to oust him earlier in the Bush presidency because of his close association with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. And since the days of the Monroe doctrine that sought to curb foreign influences in the Western hemisphere, the US has treated Latin America like its extended courtyard with one single nuisance, the Communist Fidel Castro. Pat Robertson apologised and fell off the radar in news speak. Pat Robertson honestly believes that this is good policy even though it is officially banned by US statute, and from his Africa profile, we see a lot more. The Rev. Robertson has been active in bloody African conflicts including the Liberian conflict. Entities linked to him have been associated with bloody episodes in the DRC. One wonders why investigations into genocide in the DRC stalled at investigation without formal indictments. It is not too much of a stretch that the west is wary of all sorts of defenses African leaders and their soldiers would give that may embarrass their
[Ugnet] Uganda to refund stolen Aids cash (Japan did the same thing a while back)
Monitor,September 1, 2005 Uganda to refund stolen Aids cash FRANK NYAKAIRU KAMPALA THE Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has told the Uganda government to recover money it says was misappropriated leading to the suspension of all its five grants to Uganda. The Chief of Operations of the Geneva based Global Fund, Mr Bradford Herbert told a press conference at the Ministry of Finance Boardroom yesterday that his visiting team had asked the government to restructure the Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) to carry on with monitoring the fund. We have asked the Ministry of Finance to recover any funds that could have been misappropriated and we hope that will be done, said Bradford who was flanked by the Permanent Secretary in the Finance Ministry Mr Chris Kassami. Bradford was tight-lipped over the amount of money lost but described it as significant. Over Shs80 billion ($45.4 million) has already been disbursed. This is part of the five grants worth $201 million over two years. He also announced that the suspension would be lifted in October if what we have agreed on goes well.A process has started and it might take weeks but in October the suspension will be lifted, Bradford said. Kassami declined to answer questions on whether government would dip into the Consolidated fund to pay back the Global Funds money. Kassami, who represents the principal recipients of the funds, the Finance Ministry, said the government would instead recover the money from selling property of those found guilty of misappropriating it. Whoever will be found to have broken the law, the law will take its course. If there are people who have taken the money, it will be easier to recover it from their property, Kassami, who is also the Secretary to the Treasury, said. Bradford and his team had also earlier in the day visited Parliament and met Members of Parliament on the National Economy committee. He defended the Global Funds move to suspend the grants. It took me two days to read the report and I made the decision because many people are dying out there. We give the money to be utilised and not to be misused, Bradford said. Bradford said that projects covering life-threatening initiatives would not be disrupted by the suspension of the fund. In the meantime, an international auditing firm Ernst Young has temporarily taken over management of the Global Fund from the disbanded Project Management Unit (PMU). The decision was reached at a two-hour meeting between the Minister of Health Maj. Gen. Jim Muwhezi and three officials from the Global Fund Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Global Fund last week suspended all its five grants to Uganda over serious mismanagement of the funds, asking the Ugandan Ministry of Finance to put in place a new structure that will ensure effective management of the grants. The Fund announced last week that it was withholding over Shs280 billion. The investigation, which exposed much of the rot in the management of the grants, was done by the Global Funds local fund agent (LFA), PricewaterhouseCoopers, which found a string of problems with the grants. The problems involved lack of proper accounting for funds, with some expenditures not covered by invoices or receipts. Additional reporting by Mercy Nalugo. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] DP on the rocks as Sebaggala, Sebaana, Mao launch bids for party candidature
Monitor,August 31 - September 5, 2005 DP on the rocks as Sebaggala, Sebaana, Mao launch bids for party candidature EMMANUEL GYEZAHO VICTOR KARAMAGI In what will go miles in ensuring that the Democratic Party waves good bye to any chances at assuming the Presidency in 2006, Chief Seeya Alhaji Nasser Ntege Sebaggala announced his candidature for the March polls on Saturday. Not surprisingly, he is running on an independent ticket. Or so he says.While Sebaggala may realise that his party will not pick him as presidential candidate, the nonconformist politician has decided to go it solo. Sebaggala brings chaosIt is now official- the DP woes are far from over. For a man who commands massive support from the party's down trodden youth-who make the biggest composition of Uganda's oldest political party- a breakaway firmly spells doom for the mainly Catholic-Ganda DP. YOUNG, ABLE, AMBITIOUS: MP Nobert Mao OLD AND EXPERIENCED: Mayor Sebaana Kizito ROWING AGAINST THE TIDE: Hajji Nasser Sebaggala WORRIED AND WORRYING: DP boss,Dr. Paul Ssemogerere It is no secret that Sebaggala stands by far as the DP's most populist leader, whose candidature as thus on an independent ticket is simply bad news for the party. Backed by a large following of the party's biggest composition-the erratic youth-DP can count themselves out of the next polls. With Seeya off, the party ticket, you can firmly count a huge chuck of the mainly youth, out of DP. Since his sojourn from the UK, Sebaggala's presence in town has only caused trouble for the party. First he sparked massive revolts against the Presidency of Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere arguing that Ssemmo is way past his prime. Then he set up a youth brigade for his personal protection. This obscure misfit organisation has quickly built a reputation for itself as a ragtag riffraff group talented in breaking up rallies and locking up party top shots (City Mayor Sebaana Kizito was held hostage in his house for over three hours courtesy of the brigade). Too many candidatesWhile the rest of the opposition parties can firmly zero down onto one or two candidates to front their quest for the plush environs of state house in 2006, the same cannot be said for the Democratic Party. Up north, stands the versatile and astute Gulu Municipality MP Norbert Mao backed by the Northern vote.Further down in central, stands the old man about town, Kampala City Mayor John Sebaana backed by Buganda vote.Then you have the ever-present controversy called Nasser Sebaggala and Paul Ssemogerere who has never said yes, I will stand, but has declined to say no either. He is never far from pulling a surprise himself, for better or for worse.This means that DP is surely headed for more trouble, as the battle over who the party endorses as its presidential candidate begins. Mao was last week endorsed by the northern region as their DP candidate. The DP USA caucus also weighed in days after, endorsi ng Ssebaana at a three-day conference in California. US based Prof. Richard Otto said that he had taken leave off his commitment in the US and flew into the country early August to arrange for his campaigns. Discrimination of tribesMao's group could push for his candidature on the basis of regional balancing. There has been a long running accusation that the top DP leadership has for a long time been dominated by Buganda. Within DP, there is thinking, especially among non-Baganda that some information considered sensitive to the party hierarchy is kept way from them. But considering the current composition of the mainstream leadership, Mao's group will have a difficult time selling this line of thinking. Ssemogerere (President General), Sebaana (National Treasurer) and Damiano Lubega (Organizing Secretary) are from the Buganda region. On the other side, Boniface Byanyima (National Chairman), Zachary Olum (Vice President General), Mariano Drametu (Secretary General) and Francis Bwengye are all from outside Buganda. The problem is not about the numbers, but about who heads the party. No other person outside Buganda has been Presid ent General of the party, and the group will push to break this dominance. Sebaana has the financial muscle to see through his candidature. The USA caucus that endorsed him contributes a significant chunk of money to the party's budget. Sebaana's supporters argue that he is a candidate with more experience, whose chances of putting up a good show in the 2006 general elections could salvage DP's pride. He won the hot Kampala mayoral seat, despite the efforts of President Museveni to thwart his victory. Maos challengeOn the other hand, Mao will have a hard time convincing the party to put its hopes in his limited experience at the top level.The history of DP also means that Mao faces the task of breaking the Ganda dominance of the position.All this sets the stage for DP to either compromise some of the members' positions, or sink further. Relative calm elsewhereIn
[Ugnet] Land wrangles rage on
Land wrangles rage on WENDY GLAUSER They say land is wealth and a battle to have a piece of this has pitted the government against the people of Rwamwanja in Kamwenge district Daily Monitors Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi visited Rwamwanja in July and gives an account of the situation. A t 80, Mr George Rwakaikara, has no idea how to start all over again by building a new home in a new place. All his life, he has lived with his parents and grand parents in Nkoma village, Nkoma sub-county, Rwamwanja in Kamwenge district, western Uganda. But a recent government directive seems to suggest that he has no option but to move on and find land elsewhere. I dont understand what madness has gone into the government, Rwakaikara laments as he stares at the clearing marking the boundary lines for what the government claims is a refugee settlement. FACING EVICTION: (L-R) Mr William Baguma, 70, Mr Emmanuel Kambule, 40, Mr Eliphaz Matebere 68, Mr George Rwakaikara, 80 and Mr George Mwirumubi, 53. They are some of the residents of Rwamwanja who may have to relocate if the government goes ahead with its eviction plans. Photo by Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi Rwakaikaras is one of the 1,000 families representing over 10,000 people embroiled in a bitter row with the government over a 40 square mile piece of land in Rwamwanja. The land in contention stretches over two and a half sub-counties of Nkoma, Bwizi and part of Kahunge sub-county. On November 7, the first deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Lt. Gen. Moses Ali, issued an operational order for the survey of refugee land in Western Uganda. The order, code named operation cause for justice seeks to free, and properly identify refugee land, which the government says had been invaded by encroachers and land grabbers since large numbers of Rwandese refugees that had occupied it returned home between 1994 and 1998. Mr Alis order gives the residents six months to quit the land but the locals are staying put and say they are determined to fight for their land to the last man. Land is fast becoming a very hot topic in Uganda. The case of Rwamwanja is just but a tip of the growing sensitivity of land issues. The desire to free large chunks of land for investment purposes as part of the governments scheme to modernise agriculture is seen as a possible reason to have the Rwamwanja land secured. The local landowners in Rwamwanja (encroachers according to the government) feel that big shots in the government could be behind the move to grab their land. The Land Act (1997) gives right of tenure to any person who has lived on a piece of land for a period of 10 years or more. Governments standLt. Gen. Moses Ali says that the governments aim is to secure all refugee land. Ali says, in his operational order that a lot of what was formally settlement land has been lost to encroachers thus the need to secure it. Nakivale, Oruchinga and Rwamwanja refugee settlements were established in 1959-1961 at the time of the Rwandese Tutsi influx to Uganda and other neighbouring countries. While Oruchinga was established as a reception centre, Nakivale and Rwamwanja were established to settle refugees after they had undergone screening and status determination; after the influx stopped, Oruchinga was also turned into a settlement, Alis order states in part. But this position is sharply contested by Tooro Kingdom, which was the actual owner of the Rwamwanja land. The Prime Minister, Mr Nyabongo Rwankijuma wrote to President Yoweri Museveni on January 13, 2004; The people of Rwamwanja-Nkoma have learnt with shock that a meeting was held in Mbarara by the Rt. Hon. Lt Gen. (Rtd) Moses Ali, the First deputy Prime Minister of Uganda, which was among others allegedly attended by the leadership of Kamwenge district and it was decided to evict the people from their land and call them encroachers of the refugee settlement Your Excellency, it was established by all the kingdom officials who were in charge of the area during the time of the Rwandese refugees influx that at no material time was the area gazetted or surveyed as a refugee settlement. HistoryRwamwanja stands out as a unique case. In 1964 when the then king of Tooro, the late Sir George Rukiidi offered land to host the fleeing Rwandese in his kingdom, Rwakaikara was the chief of the then Rwamwanja sub-county. He helped not only in identifying land but also in getting the Rwandese to settle. Giving an account now, Rwakaikara insists the land has never been an official settlement but was instead lent by the King of Tooro at the request of his counterpart King Kigenyi of Rwanda as a temporary settlement for members of the royal family who by tradition could not mix in the same camps with commoners. The understanding then was that after some time, the Ugandan government would find alternative accommodation for the refugees in Kyaka or elsewhere to settle more permanently. The permanent
[Ugnet] Uganda to refund stolen Aids cash
Uganda to refund stolen Aids cash FRANK NYAKAIRU KAMPALA THE Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has told the Uganda government to recover money it says was misappropriated leading to the suspension of all its five grants to Uganda. The Chief of Operations of the Geneva based Global Fund, Mr Bradford Herbert told a press conference at the Ministry of Finance Boardroom yesterday that his visiting team had asked the government to restructure the Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) to carry on with monitoring the fund.We have asked the Ministry of Finance to recover any funds that could have been misappropriated and we hope that will be done, said Bradford who was flanked by the Permanent Secretary in the Finance Ministry Mr Chris Kassami.Bradford was tight-lipped over the amount of money lost but described it as significant. Over Shs80 billion ($45.4 million) has already been disbursed. This is part of the five grants worth $201 million over two years. He also announced that the suspension would be lifted in October if what we have agreed on goes well.A process has started and it might take weeks but in October the suspension will be lifted, Bradford said. Kassami declined to answer questions on whether government would dip into the Consolidated fund to pay back the Global Funds money. Kassami, who represents the principal recipients of the funds, the Finance Ministry, said the government would instead recover the money from selling property of those found guilty of misappropriating it.Whoever will be found to have broken the law, the law will take its course. If there are people who have taken the money, it will be easier to recover it from their property, Kassami, who is also the Secretary to the Treasury, said. Bradford and his team had also earlier in the day visited Parliament and met Members of Parliament on the National Economy committee.He defended the Global Funds move to suspend the grants. It took me two days to read the report and I made the decision because many people are dying out there. We give the money to be utilised and not to be misused, Bradford said.Bradford said that projects covering life-threatening initiatives would not be disrupted by the suspension of the fund. In the meantime, an international auditing firm Ernst Young has temporarily taken over management of the Global Fund from the disbanded Project Management Unit (PMU).The decision was reached at a two-hour meeting between the Minister of Health Maj. Gen. Jim Muwhezi and three officials from the Global Fund Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.The Global Fund last week suspended all its five grants to Uganda over serious mismanagement of the funds, asking the Ugandan Ministry of Finance to put in place a new structure that will ensure effective management of the grants. The Fund announced last week that it was withholding over Shs280 billion. The investigation, which exposed much of the rot in the management of the grants, was done by the Global Funds local fund agent (LFA), PricewaterhouseCoopers, which found a string of problems with the grants. The problems involved lack of proper accounting for funds, with some expenditures not covered by invoices or receipts. Additional reporting by Mercy Nalugo. Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE! ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] High Court to hear Brigadier Tumukunde petition in camera
High Court to hear Brigadier Tumukunde petition in camera SOLOMON MUYITA KAMPALA THE State yesterday convinced the High Court to hear Brig. Henry Tumukunde's application, challenging his military trial, in camera.When court convened to hear the matter yesterday, the acting Director of Civil Litigation, Mr Joseph Matsiko, asked for the hearing to be under closed doors "because it had issues concerning the (UPDF) High Command." He said all parties had agreed upon the issue.Tumukunde's team of lawyers, who included Enos Tumusiime, McDusman Kabega, Oscar Kambona and Ronald Oine, did not object to the application.Justice Richard Okumu Wengi subsequently ordered the press and public out of court. The High Court premises remained under tight guard by Military Police during the proceedings. Tumukunde faces was charged with spreading harmful propaganda before the General Court Martial chaired by Lt. Gen. Elly Tumwine, and has been on remand since May 30. He has separate charges of creation of ghost soldiers on the army payroll in which the UPDF allegedly lost over Shs120 million. This trial is also heard in camera.Tumukunde is challenging his Court Martial trial, saying the court was illegally constituted, as the Army High Command never appointed it. He claims that Tumwine cannot preside over his trial when he actively participated and chaired some of the meetings that recommended his prosecution. But the Army refuted the claims in an affidavit sworn by the Chief of Military Intelligence, Col. Noble Mayombo.Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE! ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
Re: [Ugnet] WHO Tells Uganda To dismantle 'Kony' Camps As Death Rises
Nume, That sychophant Amongin says " the government would decongest the camps, but there is no time frame for this". How many times has the government said this, and why is there no timeframe? These concentration camps created by the mulalo dictator Museveni must be dismantled now, not just decongested! ySimon Nume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Y What does decongest mean in this case ? NumeY Yaobang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are sick and tired of these international community leaders coming for "familiarization" tours! Better to stay in Kampala or Rwakitura! Our people continue to die and be used as pawns in dictator Museveni's re-election bid. And that sychophant Amongin continues to make those silly remarks! ySimon Nume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHO tells Uganda to dismantle camps as deaths rise The World Health Organisation wants Uganda to remove internally displaced people from camps in the country's war-ravaged northern region as reports say the government has failed to curtail the high death rates there. The special representative of the WHO director general, Dr David Nabarro, said that the death rates in the camps have climbed so high that the only way to arrest the situation is to remove people from there. Up to 1.4 million people in northern Uganda no longer live in their homes, having been herded into camps that are congested, with poor sanitation and hygiene conditions. Dr Nabarro was speaking after the release of partial results of a survey carried out in the region to assess the death rate at the camps. The results revealed that the region has one of the highest death rates in the world, with 1.2 out of every 10, 000 people dying daily. Dr Nabarro, who is the head of the WHO Health Action in Crisis group, was on a familiarisation tour of Gulu district last week. He also said that despite efforts to confront the four leading causes of death in the camps malaria, HIV/Aids, violence and dysentery the only way to tackle the problem is for the government to end the war. "The results suggest that there are an extra 1,000 deaths every week due to living conditions. The insurgency should come to an end. Too many people are dying," he said. The survey, which was carried out in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader between January and July this year, was the first to specifically seek to establish the causes and rates of mortality. As several organisations have pointed out in the past, malaria emerged at the top of the list, followed by HIV/Aids. Survey results so far released by the government indicate that malaria accounts for 25 per cent of all deaths. HIV/Aids is second with 13.5 per cent, while violence accounts for 9.4 per cent. The Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Christine Amongin Aporu, said that the government would decongest the camps, but there is no time frame for this. "Decongestion has already started in the safer areas," she said. At first called "protected villages," the camps were set up in the mid 1990s and expanded as the conflict escalated, leading to an increase in the incidence of disease, hunger and deaths. In November last year, the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers reported that the death rates among children in Lira district camps stood at 5.4 out of 10,000. It also gave the higher figure of 10.5 out of 10,000 for one of the camps in the same period. The government has been at pains to defend its policies in northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have waged a war against the government for two decades. The military solution that President Yoweri Museveni is pursuing was partly to blame for the collapse of peace talks in December last year. The Ministry of Health has defended its current report, with the acting Director General Dr Sam Okware saying it has been verified. Although the people in the camps do not have access to clean drinking water and food is scarce, the World Food Programme (WFP) country representative, Ken Davies, said that nutrition is not a big contributor to mortality. He said that the sanitation and nutrition problems of the camps can only end when the camps are decongested. Mr Davies said, however, that the problem of food shortage is likely to continue into 2006 because the people remained in the camps past the August planting season. Comments\Views about this article Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://asia.messenger.yahoo.com ___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ___Ugandanet mailing
