J Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----Original Message Follows---- From: Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote:Efforts to Impose a one-Party State Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:07:52 +0100 (BST) Mwaami Ssemakula,sometime ago,I did state to you that you have a very serious case of judgemental attitude which you claimed you were not and it is indeed very pathetic because we really have a long way to salvage you from your attitudes. You like many present day "non Obote" supporters want to wallow on the musings of those whose theses may as well been to get back to the one they have a grudge with so as to demonize them as the gold standard for judging Obote as a dictator!.Mr. Kipenji:
Either you are impervious to facts, or have trouble grasping reality. Either way, the fact is that Obote rulled Uganda twice. On both occassions, he left an irrefutable record, e.g. speeches & comments in public -- and, even more 'interesting' or rather damning, what he may have assumed to be private conversations. Then there are his forays into Ndeeba's bars and other nite-spots, like the Peacock.
Some of these found there way into newspapers, e.g. Uganda Argus, to say nothing of the vernacular press. These newspapers accounts are fortunately still available to us, as are Uganda's Parliamentary Debates (a.k.a. Hansard) -- which, incidentally, Mr. Ibingira made extensive use of.
One would, of course, hope that in time you'll come to accept distasteful facts about Obote, learn what sorry excuse he is for humanity and move on. For me, Ibingira makes a compelling and well documented case for this inescapable conclusion: Obote only cares about Obote and power -- at whatever cost. He manipulated and even undermined his own party, the UPC in order to stay in power. He is very simply devoid of even an atom of nationalism in him.
Read his favorite quote (Paradise Lost) carefully and analytically; and then look at his record critically in light of it and see what is obvious to just about eveyone else.
As for court-cases, get real! But even here, if you cared to check the archives of Ugandanet, you'll see excerpts of Abu Mayanja's article that appeared in Transition. You'll also see that Abu was detained, along with Transition's editor in Luzira Maximum Security Prison. Their crime? Daring to be critical of Obote in writing.
(Incidentally, one Bataringaya used to refer to Luzira Maximum Security Prison as a 'university' when taunting and/or threatening political opponents).
It is to be hoped thast Mr. Abu Mayanja will write his account and publish it in a book so Uganda and the world can see what he witnessed first hand -- like Mr. Ibingira did in his two books: The Forging of African Nation and the less well known, but very informative; African Upheavals Since Independence, both of which still speak to us today so authoritatively and are chokeful of revelations of the UPC's ugly truths.
Finally, in Kiganda etiquette, being a "Muko" (in-law) enjoins one to be very careful and respectful of the Bako and one must always be on their best behavior in matters concerning them. Obote is the very antithesis of a muko in our culture. I'd hope that you can avoid the same label.
On this fora,just yesterday I forwarded an article from the monitor publication titled:"I love Amin by Nasur".My reason was more to use what Nasur said regarding the many allegations levelled against him buy Ugandans who,despite their intellect tend to be governed by hearsay rather than facts that can be proven in the law courts.Many claims and counter claims have been made regarding Obote,Amin,Mu7 Binaisa ,Sir Frederick Edward Muteesa II (RIP) and many others and yet at no time have we even made steps to have these claims reaffirmed in the courts of law.Why is this?.Is this nature of African style leadership?or it is the way many of us up coming politicians want to gain a foothold in the political process by demonizing others without authenticating the views we feed our very manipulable population?.
There are very many eminent Lawyers of international repute in Buganda some of whom were near privy to Obote and or MuteesaII i.e the likes of born-again Joash Mayanja Nka ngi and Abu Kakyama Mayanja among others.If the Baganda were so much wronged by Obote,I believe they should have approached these eminent sons and filed a case against Obote in the last close to 40 years that they have been grieving about how bad Obote is and I am sure if the courts found merit in their plaint,they would have exacted the justice they needed from Obote.That they have failed to date to so to do,baffles me and left me wondering whether they are there to maintain the flow of this perceived hatred message to their grand-grand children for the purposes of expressing their own hidden incompentences.Promoting hatred without facts that is verifiable and validated by the law courts will not help any of us.I do not want to see Uganda by courtesy of Buganda teetering into the Interahamwe situation of Rwanda because of this chronic state of mutual suspicions.
Like when one is to get wedded,there is always a time given for any persons with claims as to why the couple should not be enjoined in matrimony otherwise after the deed,whatever claims or knowledge thereof should be kept away till death,I request my Bako to get out of this cocoon of hatred for Obote who is also their Muko and learn that life has to continue.It is this blind hatred usually based on hearsay and half truths that is making the Ganda not to be taken seriously by many non Baganda when it comes to leadership of Uganda.Every other non Muganda know how violence is a common currency within Buganda and to prove this ask St Kizito,St kalooli -Lwanga,St Bruno Sserunkuma among others. Thank you. Kipenji.
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