Forumists! Below is the email I sent to Daily Monitor about Mr. Conrad Nkutu's article about my work stint at Monitor.
I am bringing this matter because it is being used by some disgruntled political opportunists. Though Conrad is spot-on in regards to my professional competencies, he was actually engaged in alot of self agrandizing. Conrad Nkutu was job hunting at Tullow Oil at the time and might have been using the article as self-advertizing/promotion. He was appointed Corporate Affairs manager Tullow Uganda a few weeks later after the article. Though I did see Mr. Nkutu to personally give my condolences for the loss of his father as he says in his story, his narration of events is from a nollywood movie (most likely skills obtained from producing "The Hostel" series on NTV Uganda). But more importantly, I subsequently embarked on finding out what exactly happened to his late father. I got the very intelligence operatives who were protecting Mr. Shaban Nkutu at his house in Jinja following directives from my father (Amin had actually set Mr. Nkutu free from jail). Well the facts of his death are simply incredible. I didn't share this development with Conrad. Primary reason being I was waiting to meet him personally and also discuss his employment story over a cup of tea. But just for the record, I pasted a letter I wrote to Charles Onyango Obbo explaining exactly how Mr. Shaban Nkutu actually died and was buried. I pasted it on my blog. But below is my unpublished response to Daily Monitor after the Nollywood article of Conrad. "Dear Former Colleagues, I am quite shocked by you opinion article "Employing Amins Son" ( www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/Employing-Amin-s-son-Lumumba/-/688342/1842664/-/item/2/-/mfj8s1/-/index.html ) After a replay reading, It is clear that the writer could have been engaged in dramatically and narcisistically portraying his own good nature and inflating his greatness. To write of fictional events that purpotedly happened in his office where I was collapsing and abandoning my professional responsibilities is a stingy and poignant hallucination. Kindly ask Mr Peter Kabba and Martha (HR) if anything like what has been written ever took place. The first time I went to Mr. Nkutu's office was alone to give my heartfelt apologies and condolences as a human being to a fellow colleague. It took less than 20 seconds, I was out. The only other time was when I was leaving Monitor to work with the UN and Mr. Nkutu was trying to see if there was any way I could stay on with KFM where I was working as a Production Consultant. Obviously the UN was a good opportunity for my career. But Martha who was at this meeting, tried to negotiate an increase in my wages so as to keep me with the company. When I told them what I would be earning in Peace-Keeping, they let me go. I had promised to return at the end of my 6 months contract. Mr. Nkutu was glad with that. So I didn't just vanish as Nkutu writes. Instead, they had tried to have me stay at Monitor but couldn't compete with the UN offer...obviously!?! It turned out the UN extended my contract for 6 years because of outstanding abilities in technical, supervisory skills in substantive areas of Public Information in a post-conflict field mission. I was subsequently even transferred to Darfur as UN technical support for African Union forces and was one of the pioneers instrumental in establishing the Communications and Public Information Department for UNAMID at its inception. I am happy though to see some recognition of my high professional standards. Thank you for publishing. Hussein." So the moral of the story is that when writing anything about Amin, people are ALWAYS upto some personal agenda. And those who think Amin was stupid, I can assure you he was sharper than me and you combined. Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin.
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