[Ugnet] RE: [FedsNet] How government killed Wapakhabulo

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:15:45 -0800

Mr. Buwembo,
 
Which bank in the Western world do you think is eager to provided a credit card to an official of the Uganda government or any of its organs, even a secured one -- even at 16,000.99% annual compund interest?
 
Would you happen to recall talk, sometime ago, of issuing credit ratings to African governments?
 
Would you happen to know what Uganda's credit rating is?
 
What credit rating would you give to an entity that is not only perennially broke unable to balance its budget come rain or come shine, but also chronicall & systemically corrupt at all levels, unaccountable and opaque, AND the said entity is already heavily indebted to the tune of $4 BILLION, has never been know to pay off a single debt in the last 25 years, and which is always on its knees begging for "debt forgiveness"?
 
How much money would you lend to an unemployed, self-dellusional, asset-challenged habitual drunkard, even if s/he were your relative?
 
OK, now lets talk about that credit card again ...

Rash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Joachim,

I do understand your frustrations and I think it should always be done as you explained.

Am  surprised that a full minister in Uganda government had no medical insurance, specially when going to UK.

Before traveling to any European /USA / Canada, one of the visa requirement is the medical Insurance.

Who was to blame ---- In any third world country even if it has all the money�I bet there will always be such lope holes.--- From his letter to M7 � you should remember that he had no transport to travel to Soroti city.

 

Salaama Zhangu

 

Rash


Joachim Buwembo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


What I am wondering is, does a foreign minister have to process money for every trip he makes before he makes it, yet he is supposed to be a busy traveller who spends so much time out of the country? Don't lesser persons in security organs have large travel and operational imprests for example, which they 'account' for periodically and don't have to 'chase' cash for every little journey they have to make?

I think at a certain rank, especially in the diplomatic field, officials should ensure they have international credit or even debit cards. Standard Bank and I dont which other ones already provide these services in Kampala. The Wapa case was very sad, and Butime's reaction quite honourable. But our officials should need to push their government so that it enables them to travel decently and act modern, in order to be at par with their counterparts from other countries. A Ugandan diplomat should fear fixing an appointment at a five star hotel because he is scared he might not manage the bill.




jbuwembo
>From: Rash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: RE: [FedsNet] How government killed Wapakhabulo
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 07:22:02 +0000 (GMT)
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>Joachim,
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>The article is saying that  the foreign minister had travelers cheques.
>Do you miss Afrigo------ - Is it true that their so many rats in Dar?
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>Rash
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>Joachim Buwembo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Does this mean our foreign ministers have credit cards?
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>jbuwembo
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> >From: "ekissodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Subject: [FedsNet] How government  killed Wapakhabulo
> >Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:32:44 -0000
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> >How government killed Wapakhabulo
> >STRANGE BUT TRUE: With Andrew M. Mwenda
> >Dec 1, 2004
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> >It is approaching December 5th, 2003 and a meeting of Commonwealth
> >leaders is due in Abuja, Nigeria.
> >President Yoweri Museveni, accompanied by his State Minister for
> >Foreign Affairs in charge of International Affairs, Tom Butiime, has
> >travelled to Norway.
> >He is on an official visit from where he will be travelling to
> >London, before going to Abuja.
> >Butiime is to return to Uganda for other state duties.
> >
> >Meantime, the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign
> >Affairs, James Wapakhabulo, has travelled to London on an official
> >trip from where he is to travel to Abuja, and arrive before President
> >Museveni.
> >However, Wapa falls seriously ill and is hospitalised in London.
> >Foreign Affairs decides that Butiime should travel to Abuja instead.
> >
> >Butiime asks for per diem to pay his hotel bills there. Reasonable
> >enough, since he won't be sleeping in the conference hall.
> >Instead of getting fresh money in Kampala, the guys at Foreign
> >Affairs send Uganda's High Commissioner to London, Mr. Sisye
> >Kiryapawo, to Wapakhabulo's deathbed. As Wapa is gasping his last
> >breath, Kiryapawo visits him to "collect Government money."
> >
> >The reasoning is that since the minister is not travelling to Abuja,
> >the per diem should be given to Butiime instead.
> >However when President Museveni arrives in London, he is not told
> >about the fate of his foreign minister.
> >
> >When Butiime is told of where it came from, he rejects the per diem
> >and instead travels to Kampala, hoping to raise money from the cash-
> >starved ministry headquarters. But in Kampala, the Permanent
> >Secretary, Onen and his stand-in, Ambassador Mugume, are both absent
> >and with them are the "keys" to the "vaults."
> >
> >As a stranded Butiime looks around for money to travel and arrive in
> >Abuja before his President, as protocol requires, Kiryapawo travels
> >to Abuja with Joan Kakwenzire, the latter pissed by the callousness
> >with which government had taken money from its Deputy Prime Minister
> >on his deathbed.
> >
> >In Abuja, Kiryapawo goes straight to his counterpart, Joan
> >Rwabyomere. Pulling a khaki envelope from his jacket, Kiryapawo gives
> >the money to Rwabyomere telling her it is Butiime's. Rwabyomere
> >cannot understand why she should be a custodian of Butiime's money.
> >Is it because they come from the same tribe? However, it seems
> >Kakwenzire has tipped her off that the quid had been grabbed from a
> >dying Wapa, and she rejects it.
> >
> >Back in London, Wapa has to look for resources to pay his medical
> >bills.
> >How does he do it, and how does he return to Uganda only to die a few
> >weeks later, a frustrated man? More on this coming soon!
> >
> >
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