Obote was no democrat
In your issue of April 28-May 4, you published a letter, Obote not Nagenda�s equal by Peter Kawada of Makerere University. The writer asserted that John Nagenda (a presidential advisor) could not be Apollo Milton Obote�s equal because the latter was MP, party president, prime minister, president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
However, Obote was never a legitimate president of Uganda. In 1967, he declared himself president through a derailed parliament. It was an internal coup. In 1980 he was declared president on the basis of torture. Ask Vincent Ssekono the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government [who was chairperson of the electoral commission]! He (Obote) brutally did this using his peg boy the late Paulo Muwanga. So, Kawada, you are wrong!
Patrick Kiggundu,
Masaka.
Weekly Observer, 12th May 2005
First Lady not being honest
Mrs Janet Museveni has hit back at ex US envoy, Mr Johnnie Carson, in an article in the local press, making a circular argument in support of a third term for her husband.
During the 2001 campaigns Janet begged Ugandans to vote for her husband for the last time. She evidently has a lot of difficulty directly asking Ugandans to return her family to State House one more time, hence the veiled appeals.
The part that is most unacceptable is where she says: "And all we ask is, let Ugandans discuss their destiny without those who chose to be silent when we lived in shame and now that we are marching forward as a nation, they want to decide that we should not be doing that." Janet then concludes by asking: "Are these friends or enemies?"
I would expect the shame in which Ugandans live today to be felt most at State House, unless those in power have lost their sense of shame. Abject poverty, endless wars, encampment, shameless desire for life presidency and uncertainty about the future amidst the so-called stability brought about by her husband�s government, constitute the most shameful of cocktails Ugandans have had to go through under any regime.
Therefore, to answer her question, people like Mr Carson who bother to advise us for no gain during such a shameful era in our history are friends, not enemies.
Clement Lalobo
Jinja
The political future for Uganda looks utterly bleak
If unemployment can make our desperate graduates risk their lives willingly to work in deadly Iraq, do we have any tomorrow? The government said more districts should be created in West Nile such that unemployment can be checked. Can someone tell me whether Koboko is finished with proper infrastructure? Where is the administrative block? Why do we turn blind to problems of our own creation by creating more districts when the existing ones are all limping?
We rant against corruption, but we cannot fight it, because we reap from it. What kind of leaders has Uganda engendered?
Denis A. Toko
Kampala
Let govt meet our simple needs
''Makerere university faces closure'' - no money.
''Mulago Hospital suspends surgeries'' - no money.''War in northern uganda is likely to continue for years" - no money.
However, the goverment is reserving Shs31 billion for the referendum.
Referendum concerning which way we should go politically is really not a matter for debate. The Movement and the opposition should consider that we ordinary mortals are the ones suffering in their fight for supremacy.
We do not care who rules, provided we get our peace and basic necessities, which we are not getting now.
David Mugume Kateeba
Makerere University
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I would like to salute the government of Uganda that whereas Mulago is on the verge of closing for lack of money to buy medicine and other basic equipment for surgical operations, someone in the echelons of power is pushing for Shs3,040,000,000 (Shs10 million for each MP) as Constituency Development Fund (CDF), to be spent on the 304 Members of Parliament that already take a whopping Shs5.7 million each month, and will most likely spend 50% of the CDF on their stomachs.
I am also thanking the government, given that whereas Makerere University is in dire need of Shs5.2 billion, some people in certain circles are highly charged to spend Shs7.6 billion on 66 vehicles.
I advise the government to always keep to itself its proposals, should not be bothered by Public Expenditure Review meetings in the guise of consultations.
It should simply spend as lavishly as it so wishes.
Julius Kapwepwe
Kampala
Ps: do not forget the
- US $150 MILLION proposed to build a State House (one that Ugaganda has done without for the last 20 years � with no visible ill effects,
- US $300K+ rececently spent on acquiring a Hammer SUV for H.E. General Museveni,
- US $400K+ spent on acquiring a Range Rover just a couple months back for H.E. General Museveni,
- US $40 MILLION splurged on a Gulf Stream jet for the very same H.E. General Museveni, and which now needs over $5 MILLION (i.e. 12.5% of the purchase price) just for a tune up. I suppose all that flying to and from German ferrying the presidential brood on their maternity journeys wears down even a brand new Gulf Stream that spend most of its on the tarmac.
- $50K+ that the Ugandan pizanti had to cough up to financie the presidential joy-ride on the now retired Supersonic Concorde aircraft (in spite of being chronical hours late for official functions).
- Etc etc etc ad infinitum.
Monitor, May 14, 2005
Oh what a waste
I read with dismay that our MPs had endorsed the referendum for the change of the political systems. They have actually endorsed the massive wastage of Uganda�s resources on an already foregone conclusion.
The last referendum was declared null and void but again the so-called people�s representatives have gone ahead to endorse another one.
Adrian Jjuuko
Makerere University
Sunday Vision: Sunday, 8th May, 2005
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