To the best of my knowledge,Binaisa has been a joker all his life.
I thought all of us were agreed on that point especially with the experience we had of his during his stint as President of Uganda and how after falling out of favour with Mu7 in the early days of the NRM rule,exiled himself first to London,then later to the US and went back full circle to state on his latest return to Uganda that he was still the substantive President of Uganda.
What more do we need to qualify and certify him not only as a joker but the epitome of Joke itself?.
Just wondering.
Kipenji.
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Is this a joke or what? I did not see the third point. Anyway it does not matter. But was this a joke?
Bwambuga.
"Mitayo Potosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Binaisa's 3-point solution to Kony war
>
> By GODFREY LUKONGWA BINAISA
> July 7, 2003
>
> The time to act is now and not to continue apportioning
>blame, but to save our
> country form disintegration. Unless we swim together now,
>we shall sink separately.
>
>
> Unless our government comes up with a solution now, the
>war in the north may
> become an African version of the 30 years war that ravaged
>Europe from 1618 to
> 1648 when it was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia. The
>nations that were involved
> ran out funds, there was a terrible loss of life and
>destruction of property. This is
> what is happening now in the north.
>
> The time to act is now and not to continue apportioning
>blame, but to save our
> country form disintegration. Unless we swim together now,
>we shall sink separately.
> A three point programme is suggested:
>
> The president should send a high powered delegation to
>Britain, to plead with the
> British government and convince that government, that for
>its role in Uganda before
> independence when it practised the old Roman adage of
>divide et impera a-k-a divide
> and rule and filled its Uganda army, the King's African
>Riffles, with soldiers from the
> north, who Britain claimed were great warriors.
>
> The first British appointed Ugandans were ignored,
>officers such as Capt. Ashe
> Mukanga, a Muganda who served in World War 1, Capt. Daudi
>Chwa II, the Kabaka of
> Buganda, Lt. Prince Yusuf Suna, Lt. Prince George William
>Mawanda both from
> Buganda, Lt. George Rukidi, the Omukama of Toro were all
>left in limbo. At that time
> the northerners who were preferred were given one roomed
>grass huts, three
> blankets for a mattress, and the third with which to cover
>their bodies, they were
> made to sign on for nine years, at the end of which they
>received neither gratuity or
> pension, but were only exempted from paying a head tax of
>Shs 15 per year. The
> northerners who did not join the army, joined the police
>and prison services. The rest
> worked in the sugar estates of Lugazi and Kakira.
>
> After independence, their firm grip on the security forces
>was used by them to stage
> two coups in 1971 and 1985. President Yoweri Museveni
>ended their grip on the army
> in 1986. Leadership of the army reverted to the
>southerners.
>
> It is this loss of leadership of the armed forces, which
>had hitherto been used by the
> northerners to grab political power and unleash reigns of
>terror, that is responsible
> for the war. This loss of the big jobs made the likes of
>LRA leader Joseph Kony to
> resort to war. Unless Ugandans clearly understand the
>reason Kony is fighting, they
> will not be able to win the war soon. The northerners want
>their jobs as leaders of
> the armed forces back right now before they can be
>persuaded to stop the carnage. I
> believe that the leadership of the armed forces shall
>continue to be based on merit
> only.
>
> Secondly, the British government should be requested to
>pay for what I call a mini
> Marshal plan similar to the American plan after World War
>II for western Europe. It
> could be called the Tony Blair Plan, if you prefer.
>
> The reason for such a plan is firstly that Uganda stands
>on high moral ground in
> making the request. It is a well known maxim of equity
>that equity imputes an intent
> to fulfil an obligation. The purpose of this request would
>be to compensate Uganda
> for the wrong the British government committed more than
>40 years ago when they
> left their weapons of mass destruction in the hands of
>people who had no experience
> to handle such weapons, besides wantonly using them to
>gain power and riches.
>
> Uganda does not have the money in its budget to pay for
>what it will cost to
> rehabilitate more than 60 years of misrule and
>mismanagement of the British army in
> Uganda before independence. It is further suggested that
>Uganda government may
> permit the British to stay in Uganda to supervise their
>money until the end of the
> plan.
>
> Such a plan would be two-pronged;
>
> (a) Military to engage Kony's troops.
>
> (b) Non- military - this would be the most important and
>urgent - would be directed at
> winning the hearts and minds of Kony's troops as well as
>all youth in the north,
> between the ages of 12 and 35, to persuade, cajole, and do
>everything to win them
> over to the side of peace, and thus deny Kony the field
>from which he recruits his
> fighters. This may entail recruiting civilians from all
>parts of the country to go to the
> north as missionaries of peace.
>
> All of us have been to the same schools with northerners,
>we have played
> together and stood together throughout the period we were
>a British colony. We
> have to create thousands of jobs and job training centres
>for the thousands of
> unemployed youths, who are hungry and suffering from all
>kinds of diseases that are
> curable but for the malnutrition. These youth look to Kony
>to break their boredom.
> The plan would include building the infrastructure and new
>schools and dispensaries
> to make everybody in the
>
> north feel that he is a Ugandan.
>
> The writer is a former president of Uganda
>
>
> � 2003 The Monitor Publications
>
>
>
>
>Mitayo Potosi
>
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