Dictator Museveni must be having some foul bowel Movement!
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>Subject: ugnet_: Museveni told he'll be pushed
>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:13:44 EDT
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>Museveni told he'll be pushed
>By Badru D. Mulumba
>Oct 12, 2003
>
>KAMPALA - Main opposition groups have warned that President Yoweri Museveni
>would be taking a big risk if he tried to cling to power.
>They said yesterday that they would push him out, but did not explain how
>they would do so.
>
>They said that Mr Museveni's remarks are the clearest indication that he does
>not intend to leave power in 2006.
>
>While meeting East Africa Law Society members in Entebbe on Friday, Museveni
>said that he could stay in power if he is pushed.
>
>"The more you talk about my staying in power, the more I may change my mind
>about leaving," he reportedly said.
>
>He said people were only talking about their turn in power, without
>articulating any vision, adding that he had not seen anybody with a vision to lead
>Uganda. Prof. Fredrick Ssempebwa, the president of the East African Law Society,
>chaired the meeting. Ssempebwa is also the chairman of the Constitutional
>Review Commission.
>
>"It gives the impression that the president will hand over power according to
>his wishes," Mr Okumu Reagan, Aswa county MP and vice chairperson of the
>opposition pressure group, Reform Agenda said.
>
>"He should know that Uganda is not his. If he does not want to leave, we will
>push him," he added. Exiled former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye
>heads reform Agenda.
>
>Okumu said that Reform Agenda has not started pressing the president to
>relinquish power because they expect him to leave in 2006.
>
>"But if he does not go, we will push him," he said.
>
>Asked how they expected to push Museveni out of power, Okumu said that they
>would apply the same means the president will use to cling on.
>
>"The army belongs to the people. The mood in the country is for change. I
>don't see how he will stick to power. If he dares use arms, we will not take it
>lying down. We will fight back the way he will fight," Okumu warned.
>
>"When Major Kakoza Mutale was beating our people, we were running. When
>Mutale was intimidating our people, we were running. When our people were killed,
>we were running. This time, we will not take it lying down," he added.
>
>"It is he who is tinkering with the constitution. We are not pushing him. We
>are only reacting to his intentions," the Democratic Party president, Dr Paul
>Kawanga Ssemwogerere said.
>
>"Those who are locked out of power have resorted to very unpleasant means to
>ensure change. We have seen it here in Uganda. We have seen it elsewhere," he
>added.
>
>Bunyole MP, Emmanuel Dombo said: "It is the constitution he promulgated that
>is pushing him.
>
>He is a member of a parliamentary group that is opposed to amending the
>constitution to give Museveni another term.
>
>"Museveni endorsed whatever is in that constitution. If he chooses to stay on
>then he would not be fulfilling the objective for which he went to the bush.
>Let us pray to God that he helps him fulfill the objectives for which he went
>to the bush," Dombo said.
>
>He added that Museveni's statement showed that he is still interested in
>power. "That is why although the constitution says that he should go, he feels he
>should stay," Dombo argued.
>
>Dr James Rwanyarare, chairman of the presidential policy commission of the
>Uganda People's Congress, said: "Museveni has been determined to be life
>president from the time he mounted a guerilla war. Museveni entered by force. He will
>be pushed out of power only by force."
>
>But he said it would not be UPC to force Museveni out. A campaign to amend
>the constitution to lift presidential term limits has apparently split the
>Movement.
>Mr Elias Lukwago, a member of the East Africa Law Society, said over the
>phone from Entebbe that the president's remarks appear to be a veiled warning to
>Ssempebwa.
>
>"He intentionally made the remarks in the presence of Ssempebwa - the person
>responsible for the constitutional review exercise. It confirms our fears that
>Ssempebwa is wasting his time. It confirms what Dr Crispus Kiyonga said that
>the CRC is just a consultant for cabinet."
>
>Kiyonga, the National Political Commissar, recently said that cabinet would
>have the final say on the recommendations of the commission before they are
>presented to Parliament.
>
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>� 2003 The Monitor Publications
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