Joicye Nansikombi, I have a feeling you replied before reading Mulindwa's comments. You may wish to revisit them before thanking him!!
Otherwise, many of us share your concerns. We however have to be careful when joining yesterday�s killers to fight today�s killers. Some of the people who are shouting most about Human Rights abuses, abused the same rights more or simply chose to remain silent when the same rights were being abused by their heroes. Some of them will today go to the extent of reminding us how the Bible teaches forgiveness forgetting that the same Bible also says something about not killing. The couldn�t use the Bible to prevent their heroes from murdering our parents but want to use it to preach forgiveness now that they see themselves almost at the receiving end of the law. The article below will hopefully show you to what extent they were allowing others their rights include the right to life. Where is dad? NOW BIG GIRLS: Margaret, Suzan, Getrude, Beatrice and Ruth Lubega By Arthur Baguma A green metallic gate welcomes you to the four-roomed house surrounded by a perimeter wall. A maize garden, banana plantation and neat flower beds enhance the greenery from the lush lawns in the compound. Inside this house, which is located three kilometres off Kajansi town, is a story of agony and tribulations � a story of perseverance, hope and faith. Donned in a green kitenge, an old woman emerges from the house. She has a humble look enhanced by short hair, which makes her look years younger than her age. She leads us into a spacious living room and sits on a brown chair. Amidst silence, her four daughters join us. They gaze sadly and each seems to be engulfed in deep thought. For a moment, they plunge into silence oblivious of our presence. The old woman bites her lower lip and crosses her hands as she struggles to speak out. Hardly before saying a word, she breaks down as her children struggle to hold back their tears. The scene evokes fateful memories of Samuel Lubega Lugaggi, their father, who was kidnapped in 1981 and has never surfaced again since. My eyes stray around the room landing on a unique family photo hanging on the wall. Gertrude lubega, a clinical instructor at Mulago Nursing School and excuses herself only to come back with another photo. She reels with pain unable to narrate the story that has given the family sleepless nights for decades. Gertrude hands me the photo before screaming out, �This is our wedding photo. He is the one... This is all we have of him. All we need is to know whether he is dead or alive. Some one out there must be knowing.� Lubega, her husband, disappeared mysteriously in 1981 and hopes of seeing him are fast waning. Is he dead or alive? � a question the family has failed to comprehend for 24 years now. �One time, I thought he was going to come back home. Some people came to me and asked for his shoes and clothes claiming he had sent them. They never came back,� she says in a sad mood, wiping tears from her face. December 17, 1981 started like a normal day at the home of Lubega in Masajja, Mengo. After exchanging pleasantries with her husband, Gertrude left for work promising to see her husband later. Little did she know it was the last time they were seeing eye-to-eye. At about 1:00pm, Joseph Ngabo, one of the employees, showed up at Nsambya Police barracks, where Getrude worked as a nurse. They were frightened and trembling. Lubega had been picked up by plain clothes security personnel and whisked away to an unknown destination. Lubega ran a popcorn-making business at his home and employed over 10 people. �They signaled him in a friendly gesture, but when he approached them, they grabbed him in a mafia-style, bandled him in the car and drove off. It was a government car,� Ngabo told Gertrude. Talk around Mengo then indicated that Lubega was a recruiter for the then guerillas of the National Resistance Army. His business instantly collapsed. Employees fled as people kept a distance from the family for fear of being branded rebel collaborators. �With help from the wife of the Inspector General of Police then, we searched all prisons for Lubega. We approached all his relatives and friends within the country and abroad, but never got wind of his whereabouts,� says Gertrude. At the time of her father�s disappearance, Ruth Lubega was in P1 at Nakivubo Primary School. Her dad used to pick her from school, but on that fateful day, she waited for him in vain. �I walked back home. The mood was unusual. People stood in groups talking in low tones. The daughter of our neighbour told me my father had been kidnapped. �My dad was a nice man. I don�t think any one would have anything against him... he loved us. He never used corporal punishment to discipline us,� she says. Lubega was a hard working man in his late 30s. He supplied popcorn to many supermarkets in Kampala and Lugazi. He lost his father when he was a toddler. Lubega hailed from Semuto Bulemezi in Luweero district, where the then NRA guerillas operated. He studied up to Senior three. �He never told me he was a rebel collaborator, but his movements were suspicious. �I would also hear rumours that he was recruiting guerillas for Museveni. But he kept it a secret from me,� Getrude says. At 30, Gertrude would have got married again, but she opted to remain a widow and raise her eight children. She struggled to see them through school to a level, where they could all read and write. �If I got married again, what would have happened to my children? Because of God�s grace I educated my children from my meagre earnings. �Although only one finished university, educating my children to at least S6, is a miracle.� Lubega fathered 14 children. He had eight children with Gertrude. Ends Published on: Monday, 6th June, 2005 Quoting Joicye nansikombi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Mr. Edward Mulindwa: > > Thank you very much for your comment. I believe that there are also or > if not very many > UPC like my family in Buganda who where and still are not with Museveni. > Please, > we should speak like Ugandans' not like a tribe or Company as you may > call it. > My Uncle Kalule -Setala if he was alive. I dont think he would have > liked even see > or look at Museveni. Just like other places all over Uganda there some > who > are good and bad ones. Of course the bad one are for " Musevene and > his Movement" > and there are also those who were blindly mislead to join him and now > are running away. > As I said from my early not that we should not waste time blaming any > body right now. > Our first priority is to remove this Monster. Let us unite and send > this creacher away , or we should send him back to his country Rwanda. > Our neighbors have abused our help we helped them during their exile. > Now they are > treating our Ugandans like foreighers and yet they are foreighers. I > hope all Ugandan > have learned a lesson. Let us pave our country for our future children > Ugandans. > You can not play in other counties like Kenya, or Tanzania andy country > for that matter. I think we here more of christians and now we are > paying the price. Sudanees and Rwandees have (Okkupama on us) I hope > you get that word. Ask some body near you what it means. > What I mean is that they have really treated us like Shit. Wright now > let us unit and we > clean our Uganda. I dont mind any Ugandan to be the next President, > that way we can > always have our parties of Uganda. > Not like of Banyarwanda calling themselves that they Liberated us!!!! > From what Colony!! > We had the best Hospitals, Schools, Roads, Banks before they came to > kill us. What > do they mean?? Those Mafia??? Stealing, robbing and killing our > country. > Mr. Mulindwa you do not know how bitter we are. If I happen to be the > President. May > be I will be more delited to be second Amin to give them only 24 hours > for their exit. > I am your beloved sister. > JN. > > > Edward Mulindwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To those who have been with me from when the Nansikombi's and company > were calling Museveni a new breed of Uganda leaders, a man who has > brought peace in Uganda, Hung in there only that long. > > Uganda's story is only going to get better, for this is just less of > what you expected to happen in Uganda. > > Em > Toronto > The Mulindwas Communication Group > "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de communication Mulindwas > "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" > \\\\\\\"Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else.\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Njoki Paul University of Pretoria _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
