Mr. Cheeye is asking for the media to be muzzled and information dissemination be channeled through one door. The problem is miss-informants like his own (Cheeye's)The Confidential. Having a nationalistic policy is tantamount to controlling the media and information. If Uganda still cannot even so much as put in place a clearly defined nationalistic political policy, (to avoid political wrangling over which political definition is appropriate for Uganda) I wonder how we can even achieve what technical and nationalistic policy Cheeye wishes us to believe. Cheeye must realize that putting the blame on the colonialist today is not going to help any Ugandan.
While I understand his attempt to give an historical perspective to this issue, it is uncalled for at this moment in time. Uganda needs a solution not history. History has been revisited already when dictator Museveni first came to power when even dubious politically corrupt Ugandans went on to the air to talk history as if they were going to solve Uganda’s problem the next season around. Seventeen years down and we are still looking for Uganda’s place in history. Mr. Cheeye, where to now for Uganda????? Forget colonialism!!! Forget Dr. Apollo Milton Obote, Forget Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada. Forget The Okello’s (RIP). Where is Museveni leading Uganda? That is the problem. You do not blame the toilet for the foul smell we have in the air. Blame yourself Mr. Cheeye. Talking about the lonely man at the Governer's office and promotting tribalism; Mr. Cheeye, what are you going to say about Museveni’s referring to the northerners as biological substance? Museveni is no different than that man who portrayed you as lazy. In fact just look at your own words: It does not take nuclear physicist to tell that you just created the words to appeal to a certain sector of the Ugandan population. Let’s revisit the wording: the Northerners were known as the brave and barbaric people; the Baganda were cunning and white-collar thieves; the Banyankole were portrayed as lazy people; while the Asians were seen as “coolies”. Mr. Cheeye I think Uganda has more than just those four communities. If you can even classify this man’s task as a job worthy spending a whole evening over, and that it was powerful enough to cause so much pain and hurt, and destruction of the Uganda community, I think something is inherently wrong with this approach to the Uganda problem. I think Mr. Cheeye has a responsibility to come out clear on this issue if his intensions are not to fuel narrow mindedness hidden in tribalism. The Confidential has a bigger responsibility than appealing to a certain, and quite obviously, uninformed Ugandan sector. But if The Confidential is indeed speaking to the well-informed and analytic Uganda class, this analysis does not hold any water. Infact it leaves a lot to be desired. If of course as it is that Cheeye’s problem lies in Mr. Mirundi’s observation that the Banyankole are looters of state wealth, Mr. Cheeye’s interest would best be served by not mixing issues here. Bwambuga. ------------------------------ "Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is deplorable that Tamale Mirundi (and I am taking Cheye's word for this) is >blaming all Banyankole for the sins of Museveni and his cabal. > >However, Cheeye's logic condemns Cheeye. Look at this: "The late J. Namakajjo and >group were coughing up in this mess, and journalism became synonymous with >intelligence." How about an ISO Director who is a rent-a-wag publisher of a >mercenary newsletter frequently hired by some of the most notorious Movement >sleaze-bags to clobber their real and imagined enemies? > >Also Cheeye's logic about political failures would have shut up Museveni for good. > After all Museveni was soundly defeated in the 1980 elections by Sam Kuteesa, and >even earlier his lie about inexistent troops was one of the reasons the first >guerrilla uprising against dictator Idi Amin failed tragically. > >Tamale appears to have borrowed a leaf from Museveni's own playbook: walk away from >your failures and reinvent yourself in a new medium. > >Cheeye has a lot to be humble (and I really mean humble) about. Our Teddy is no >Bagehot, and I daresay that unlike the Economist, the malice-bag called Uganda >Confidential will not survive his political or natural demise. > >vukoni > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mulindwa Edward > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Rwanda ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:25 AM > Subject: ugnet_: TAMALE MIRUNDI'S POISON > > > The National Political Commissar, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, has warned that Mr. Tamale >Mirundi's hate propaganda against the Banyankole, which is aired on the CBS FM Radio, >is inflaming genocide. We want to amplify Dr Kiyonga's important message. > > It is really laughable for people like Tamale Mirundi to self-style themselves >into the Biblical Moses who see themselves as the right people to guide Ugandans. >Uganda Confidential finds it intriguing that a man who cannot successfully manage >even a kiosk, a journalist whose vernacular paper, Lipoota died long ago and whose >management of The Voice newspaper also failed, a man who failed to convince just one >constituency (Kyotera) to elect him to the seventh parliament, can now stand up and >assign himself the role of a founding father, the overseer, the visionary, and so on. > > To Uganda Confidential, the problem is not Mr Tamale Mirundi. He is just a small >part of the larger problem. The problem is the Government failure to put in place a >technical and nationalistic information policy. This is the problem that has never >been addressed right from the colonial days. When the colonialists come to Uganda, >they deliberately refused to develop two important areas: the army and the media. > > During the colonial days, what should have been a fully fledged ministry of >information was reduced to a mere desk, manned by one man in the office of the >Colonial Governor. This person's job was to write about Ugandans with a lot of >emphasis on tribal differences: the Northerners were known as the brave and barbaric >people; the Baganda were cunning and white collar thieves; the Banyankole were >portrayed as lazy people; while the Asians were seen as "coolies". > > Mr Tamale Mirundi's emphasis that the Banyankole are looters of state wealth is >just a continuation of the destructive colonial media distortion. In the absence of a >solid media base, at the time of independence, the media, mainly Radio Uganda, was >synonymous with entertainment. > > Indeed, one of the main agreements in the merger between Kabaka Yekka Party (KY) >and UPC was that since the Baganda had the richest cultural industry, it was agreed >that Radio Uganda be given to KY. Indeed, Radio Uganda was known more for its Kadongo >Kamu music of the day. But that was not bad. The turning point where the Tamale >Mirundis of this world have roots was when the KY-UPC alliance collapsed in 1966. > > For unclear reasons, The first Milton Obote regime and the successive savage >regimes of Idi Amin and Okello Lutwa (RIP) turned the ministry of information to be a >cover for state security operatives. The late J. Namakajjo and group were coughing up >in this mess, and journalism became synonymous with intelligence. Radios were turned >into instruments of hate campaigns. Instead of developing specialised media, Radio >Uganda was turned into a spring board for dwarf politicians, with their savage >political announcements. > > Mr Tamale Mirundi's hot political air is rooted in this recent distorted media >history, where political failures assigned themselves the role addressing the nation >from a safe radio station, which was at that time, even guarded by the military. >Radio propaganda was an easy way to use in poisoning of the colonial peasants. It was >successfully used in Rwanda and Burundi. In fact, the French colonialists, the savage >of the whole lot, deliberately refused to develop the print media in their colonies. >The print media appeals to serious people. A written word is like an egg, once broken >can never mended. One can take you on word per word in the print media, not so with >the radio where Mr Tamale Mirundi will counter by denying or modifying his statement. >It is therefore easy for an entertainment house to take a little licence into >political gossiping in lazy and casual manner. You don't do that in political >writing. You must be ready to defend your self even after many years, if you ever >make a political blunder in writing. It is precisely because of this scientific law >of the media that cheap political blunders in the print media cannot be sustained. >The Citizen, Munno and The Exposure, which were the voice of the Democratic Party >collapsed, because the readers voted against their line. The Focus and The Shariat, >which stood for the Muslim fanatics, collapsed because the readers voted them off the >streets. The People of the UPC folded because the readers also voted them out of >Uganda House. So when Dr Rwanyarare turns to The Monitor and wants it to play the >role which The People used to play, the writing on the wall is very clear. Dr >Rwanyarare's poison will soon make the readers vote The Monitor out of the Monitor >House. Mr Tamale Mirundi's own paper Lipoota was voted off the streets precisely >because not even one hundred readers agreed with his political views. Mr Tamale >Mirundi is thriving at CBS because the management of CBS does not seem to realise >that if Government woke up today and set up a solid informatio n policy, Mr Tamale Mirundi's mountain of cheap political propaganda would be reduced to sea level. Even the wonderful CBS would find it hard to take a gamble in political areas which they cannot scientifically defend. Our advise is simple: Entertainment Radios should stick to entertainment. If they want to adventure into political and economic areas, they should get political journalists, not a political failure who is taking his revenge on society for having rejected him twice, as an editor and as a politician. If Mr Tamale Mirundi want to be a political journalist let him start his own political paper. Uganda Confidential, which is now more than 12 years, has succeeded because we scientifically analysed the readership in Uganda. We have a small class of the most important people, which will grow with time. The famous Economist did this in 1848. It started off with only 3,500 copies. But as the capitalist class grew in UK, now The Economist prints more than 500,000 copies a week. CHEEYE T.S. > The Mulindwas communication group > "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 10/15/2002 > -- He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything. Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim. Michael Bwambuga. __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
