You speak from the heart.
I would like to note the following to your well articulate article below:
a) Please note that every single Ugandan, from North to West to South wants nothing short of peace in our nation.
People, many of whom are very poor peasants, want to love each other, share resources, send their kids to school, have a stable source of income, In short people would like to improve their own wellbeing..and just be happy!
b) I submit to you and to my fellow citizens, that Museveni is part of the Problem. Uganda's problems stems from what I would refer to as regionionalism, tribalism and regionalism, It is made worse by simply ignorance.
Museveni's movement system simply magnified this problems to the benefit of the Movement and the Bayarawanda ruling class in Uganda.
Museveni knows that he cannot, establish a Byarwanda ruling class in Uganda, except by dividing the people of Uganda along tribal, religion and regional lines.
It is therefore no accident that during the NRM military dictatorship, Ugandans have experienced the must discriminational policy since when Uganda received it's independence from the British in 1962.
Under the NRM military dictatorship the people of Uganda have been divided the people of Uganda along tribes, regions and religion
Museveni, while communicating to the white gullible friends in America or Britain, calls people from Northern or Eastern Uganda Primitive.
This he does in order to justify his oppression of citizens of Uganda who happen to come from East of North of Uganda.
In the South he offers the Kabaka of Buganda our friend Magulu Nyondo, BIYOYO BYE ENSSUWA.
Museveni knows that, let us face it, the Buganda are very ignorant so much so that their thinking capability is pretty much conditioned on Kabakaism.
In otherwise, offer a typical Muganda Kabakaism, and a typical Muganda will cease to think in terms of Uganda as a nation state. Better yet cease to think all together!
Some of our Buganda friends exercise their thinking capability which is pretty much limited to the boundaries of their village!
A typical Muganda thinks, wrongly so given the economics of globalization, that economic empowerment to him comes only and only if the Buganda reign "superior" over other Ugandans.
In the West of our country, Museveni has played similar tricks.
He offered the Buyoro their so called Kingdomship. This he did in the hope that the Buyororo would be grateful and in return simply accept Museveni's Rwandise Bahima rule to Lord it over Ugandans.
The tricks in western Uganda has also worked. The Bunyoro got their Kindomship. Like the Buganda, they too are now Sleeping TULLO!
However, are the Bunyoro any better off then other Ugandans simply because they received their Kindomship?... The answer is of course NO. They too are suffering like the rest of poor Ugandan peasants in Kaberamido, Acholiland, Jonam land, Bagishu land, tesoland, Karamoja land. e.t.c
Poverty in Bunyoro land is rampant. People simply cannot afford to send their kids to school. premature death from diseases such as Malaria, typhoid, meningitis is rampant. Hospitals in Bunyoro land lack medicine as do hospitals in many Ugandan hospitals all throughout the nation. Museveni promises of developing Bunyoro land is nothing short of mere talk.
The NRM has played the some politics of appeasement in West Nile region of Uganda. The Moses Ali's (senior four mentality) have been co-opted to play along with Museveni's tribal and regional politics.
However, take note EM, Museveni never restored the Banyakole Kindomship. Ever wondered why? That is because Museveni calculated that restoring the Banyakole Kindomship will reopen the sour wounds of divisionsim between the the Bunyakole ( the baheru's vis Bahima) Museveni knows the Baheru do not like and WILL NEVER accept the Bahima lordship over the Baheru.
Some cooped Baherus are now serving under the NRM.
Establishing the Bahima Kingdomship will most definitely alienate the Baheru. (especially those who are serving the NRM military regime. This would undermine the NRM military dictatorship)
In short we have a problem.. A big problem.
If and when Museveni and his NRM goons (or rather criminal bandits who have looted DRC resources with Impunity are gone,) that will be a first step in solving Uganda's problems.
The other major endeavor which must be under taken in order to solve Uganda's problems is going to involve the changing the Minds of Ugandans.
This is a very difficult task. And I will be the first to admit.
However, it must be done.
We have to establish a certain sense of conscious among our people. ..A sense of nationalism if you want.. .. A believe in Uganda among those Ugandans of good will..and establishing the notion of Uganda as a nation state ..And that it must be looked at as such.
The alternative, is of course to continue with Musevemi's NRM type politics of divide and rule..of regionalism, of tribalism, of religionsim.
Of course Museveni's type of politics, I am afraid, has very serious repercussions to the Uganda nation state ....and it will , as it has already done, claim a lot of lives.. some of this very repercussions we are already witnessing ... as in the rebellion now going all throughout the country... as in wars and social unrest. Particularly in Northern Uganda, Karamojo region.
Have a good week!
Matek
In a message dated 2/17/2003 12:41:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fellow Ugandans, let us have a family talk (A Lugaambo)
The week end is closing in on us so fast that no one can know what will happen to us tomorrow. So I thought that before it closes on us, let me ask a very simple question that we all can understand may be we can have a good sleep. And this posting is for Ugandans only that is why I have not posted it to other forums, and if you are not a Ugandan do not read it.
The question is, Is Museveni the problem?
And I am asking this question from my heart, please ask your self the same question, your self and see if you have an answer on it. Why are we so dam? What is it that we are so dearly missing that has pulled our nation to these need greedy sufferings. Late last year, I went to Europe, and visited a number of nations, among which was Uk. In UK I went to a Ugandan lady's home, a lady I had never ever mate before, and this lady was not even a Muganda. But she looked in my eyes and remember this was my first time to see her, and her legs trembled as she made her case "Edward I just need peace in my country" That was a very powerful and touching statement. Now to people like my self, we start to wonder what can be done so that Ugandans of all calibre can have a right to go to Uganda and get out? For we have lived out here for several years, we have seen administrations coming and going, We have seen our neighbouring countries moving on and going, we are very smart and very educated people, for I have seen no single company that does not want to employ a Ugandan. The question is why are we so dam? Is it Obote?
When I came in this country in 1984, I prayed to have the life to a time to be able to go back to Uganda, and I honestly was not praying to reach in 2003, for the medical condition I arrived in, was very pathetic. And if you have questions on that statement ask Chris Opoka my neighbour and a man who has proven him self to be a true friend, he will explain. But today I am in 2003 and I have no reason to believe that I can go back to Uganda than the couple of times I would go in under the cover of the night. Is this Obote's mistake?
In my leaving in this country, I have made sure that I have not involved my self into political issues. Let me clarify that, I have made sure that I have no political affiliation, for a very simple reason, if I belong to Kabaka Yeka which of course as a Muganda must be my first choice, I must go with the chorus, I must sing only one song. What I mean if Ssabasaja makes a statement or if Buganda makes a statement I am not comfortable with I can not oppose it, for it is from Ssabasaja. This kind of belief is so detrimental that it has created so many enemies between our selves and in the process we have failed to move or to grow on. We have forums here which are so interesting, that if you debate the kind of Federalism you want in Uganda, you are deleted out of the forum. It is so hurting that if today ask what forum we have that combines Ugandans abroad, you can not get an answer, couple of Ugandans on Ugandanet, some on Ugandacom, some on DP or Uga something that Mwaami Bwanika runs, UNAA something on and on. Yet one would think that we as Ugandans would get a way where we can put our sorrows and power together to see that we can make changes into our nation. For you know what? I have been with Baganda's Alur,s Kakwa's you name it and all of them want Museveni to get out of power and we go home. At least in all nations and in all Ugandan meetings I have attended they all have a single call. Museveni and Movement get out of our nation. Then I wonder why can't we do it?
But we have tried. And in the process we have made our aims clear. As Baganda we have looked into the crystal ball and seen the problem of Uganda, being Milton Obote and UPC. We have spent the entire adult age of our lives to preach that what ever happens to Uganda was a cause of Obote, when there is a war in Northern Uganda it is UPC not working with the government. And I have been accused to be a member of UPC way too long, in fact I have been accused to be financed by Lusaka, so there is nothing you can accuse me to scare me any more. But I have a question for you as a Ugandan, Are the problems we have in our country today caused by Milton Obote? Mwaami Kasangwawo, did this man really do so much damage that today in February 2003 people are being shot in Kampala fday light for Obote messed up Ugandans minds? Let us cross check our selves, Mwaami Matovu, When prisoners are put in safe houses, where they are made to drink their own urine and threatened to be bitten by poisonous snakes, is this Obote's problems? The RCs we know to be looters are they UPC wingers? What about the UPDF officers that rape women , Yes I am talking about those who are sent in Northern Uganda to rape every single woman and girl so that they can be infected by AIDS. Is this all works of UPC?
(President Obote, I am not here to tarnish your name, but when you become an important figure as you now are, your name will pop up, and I apologise for this)
No do not respond to me, give me a chance to respond to you, for you know we as Ugandans have a right not to belong to any political party or any political movement but that does not mean we are useless. That does not mean that we are clue less. Our being Ugandans entitles us to state our case and all we are requesting all of you, as movementists and political party bosses, is to listen to our nagging voices. For yes we failed to have party uniforms, we failed to go to Kyankwanzi, but we are still Ugandans with mouths and we will talk until when cows come home. We will talk until when the old lady I found in London has a right to go and visit the tombs, North of Kigumba.
May be Museveni today is not the problem, may be it is our brains that stopped for a while and may be that is where he is abusing.
Look here. My Dad used to say you must always take stock of what you do, to know how good/bad you are doing. Well how about doing that right now?
Let us look at Kiiza Besigye.
This is a man who has been in the movement for God knows how many years. He has sanctioned the murders of millions of our people. Can I back up my statement? Hell no but all I can say is that it is very disturbing if he was in Uganda, close to Museveni that long, and never got a clue that Ugandans were treated worse than a pig. It bothers as well to know that he never knew that Ugandans in the North were in camps. He did not even know of the deaths of Ugandans in Mukura when they were packed in train wagons, Kiiza Besigye did not know any thing about the murders of Ugandans in Kanungu, the same fellow did not even know bout the murder of Kayiira. Nkwaanga Nope, odongo Nayenda? Naahh!! he did not hear about that one either. Now Mugalu who was shot in day light he missed that one for he was napping. Over a million Ugandans are in camps for very many years.We have now a generation of people we have no tribes on, for the rapper is a Southerner and the raped is a Northerner, we have thousands if not millions of bastards in Uganda, from Ugandans who have been forced to be in camps and officially recognise to be Internally displaced people. But all of them KiizaBesigye never heard of them.
If Kiiza Besigye ever heard of these murders and rapes, if kiiza Besigye ever felt that these are wrong things to done to Ugandans, has he ever told you what happened? Let me put this straight, has Kiiza Besigye, ever come out clean as a man who ran out of Uganda for he is tortured and he told you what actually happened, or who killed who or who was killed where? Tell me Ugandans, the information's you have, what is it that Kiiza Besigye added to it that you did not know that you know now?
I am not here to spend my life on Besigye's life. God knows he might be hiding now under the bed for the wrongs he did to our people are hurting him. But this is what I want to say. The moment Besigye stood for election, I was personally attacked for I must support him, this is a man who is going to bring changes and we are communicating with him, and people were ecstatic, And I asked, how much do you know about him? Yes I talked with his guard. Then you wonder
Ugandans I could have gone on with this posting for ages, for I have not even reached the Fracas of Baganda like Mwaami Kibuuka who thought that Museveni was going by God to give him a post by accepting Federalism in Uganda. The entire system went awo to the extent of demonizing Mulindwa and calling him a Nubian, for if you were called a Muganda at that time then your criticism would cost the Federalism going to be delivered. Ugandans you are babies and you need to be fed with milk. My heart goes to Museveni who has to lead you until death for he is getting old and he has no serious challenger.
I think we have to take stock of our issues. I think we must stop the blame game. I think our previous leaders like Milton Obote deserves a right of respect for those are men our kids must look at for the future of our nation. And I think I must as Mulindwa Edward have a right to make such a statment when I am not so scared to be ladled UPC or anti UPC member. I just want to be a free Ugandan expressing my feelings about my country. Can you as well do so? May be and only may be we can know the problem with our nation for Museveni does not seem to be.
Have a good one all
