The "twalire culture" whereby Westners from Yoweri Museveni's Village were given the upper hand , and allowed to eat never to stop.
The truth be told, Yoweri Museveni henchmen also known as the " The Twalires" sold every government property, built from the taxes of Ugandans under the UPC II government.
under the a dubious scheme privatisation scheme supported by the British imperalist , the twalire sold and pocketed the monies....
What the fools do not realize , is the fact that their ill gotten wealth can only last as long as Yoweri Museveni is in power!!!!! talk about taking a ride on a tigers back!!!
Indeed, while the twalires were acquiring their ill gotten weatlth , they allowed Museveni to perpertuate a reign of terror against Northern and Eastern Ugandans.
MK
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The Monitor (Kampala)
COLUMN
September 20, 2006
Posted to the web September 20, 2006
September 20, 2006
Posted to the web September 20, 2006
Karoli Ssemogerere
2006 may end up
being a historically significant year for Uganda. It is not clear in which direction the apple cart will tip. The contested election of February seems long in the past. In its place have been much clearer tribes of the new class paradigm that manages the country's politics whether in the ruling party or in the opposition.
The ruling party has fought its fair share of battles. Two of their MPs have left Parliament in short shrift on allegations bordering on the criminal. Loy Kageni Kiryapawo repeating what led to the ejection of Naome Kabasharira from the Sixth Parliament. Stephen Mugeni lost his seat against a tenuous stint as Busia Town Clerk.
The opposition is swimming in their own stormy waters. The official opposition Forum for Democratic Change failed to explore ways how they "could not benefit" from a pony scheme to lend MPs Shs 60 million to purchase all-terrain vehicles. The stink coming out of City Hall
does not leave the Democratic Party, grandfathers of City Hall, in better public light either.
Some individuals have done better than others. The Inspector General of Government (IGG) nullified Jacobsen's thermal power bid where a government minister Mwesigwa Rukutana took a decision to offer Uganda's credit facilities to a private foreign company.
Judge Faith Mwondha has been in running battles with the Attorney General's office which has invested significant resources in watering down the Inspectorate's powers. Chaps like Maj Kakooza Mutale, with the support of State House, prevailed against Mwondha's predecessor, Jotham Tumwesigye.
Sometimes the Judicial branch appears to be in free fall. The few quiet hard working judges like Moses Mukiibi, Lameck Mukasa, Egonda Ntende have been overshadowed by the flamboyancy and high handed manner of their junior contemporaries.
Judge Richard Oscar Okumu Wengi after several rulings and complaints from litigants and the public will appear before a Judicial probe into his conduct as Judge. The probe's terms of reference are so narrow; they miss the wider picture of his alleged high handedness, and purported non-judicious conduct in the courtroom.
It is a pity that Makerere University Business School would invest so much thought and resources in Judge Okumu Wengi's ruling. Universities even public ones, should never have to litigate internal administrative procedures put in place to protect their academic integrity. Otherwise, universities are going to find it hard to expel professors accused of plagiarism lest a Judge like Okumu Wengi attaches their entire inventory in his judgment.
Judge Okumu Wengi's did not spare the taxpayer either. With a stroke of the pen, he recalled a high profile tax dispute filed by Uganda Revenue
Authority (URA) against prominent Kampala businessman Sudhir Ruparelia.
If this folly is one which gets URA to ask Parliament to give the Tax Tribunal exclusive original jurisdiction in tax matters, this would be it. Tax law does not happen to be Judge Okumu Wengi's s application earned a few lawyers millions of shillings.
In the case of the Masaka Woman MP's election that returned Sauda Namaggwa to Parliament, even though she failed to submit her academic testimonials to the Electoral Commission within the statutory time, Judge Okumu Wengi in defense of his personal friend denied the other party Agnes Mayanja "leave to appeal" his decision before the Court of Appeal.
Judge Okumu Wengi in American-speak has lots of guts. It is a pity that the Honourable Judge is afraid of facing the tribunal that has not convened even for the first day to make his case. That application should be
dismissed for lack of ripeness. He has not been fired. He has only been asked to step aside to allow investigations into his conduct as a Judge.
Given the rifeness of greed and bribe -taking currently in Uganda, Okumu Wengi may be feeling "victimized" Bribe taking is now at the heart of commercial litigation in Uganda. You have to pay to play.
At the rate we are burying and privatizing history around us, we may have to send our historians to North America to write our history. In 2006 alone, I have met two African-American women who attended Uganda's independence celebrations in 1962.
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African-Americans looked at Africa as a source of hope at a time when black America was going through social upheaval that challenged the racial status quo. Segregated America both physically and emotionally had obvious limits to
African-Americans of superior intellectual achievement.
These accomplished individuals narrate the glamour of Kampala society of the day that was captured by newsmen of the day like Kintu Musoke for Uganda Argus or Nick Ssali who wrote for the predecessors of the now defunct Ngabo newspapers.
Both my Godmother now 70 and the 88 year old retired physician ended up in the D R Congo to the beat of Lingala music and spent more years in Africa combing its people and culture until the vandals and goons took power. They never returned but continue to man the highways of this huge country with pieces of history with no one to tell.
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