Ugandans These are the very deep scars that we as a society have when we look at FDC, and personally my opposition to this party way passes its stand and rests entirely on its hypocrisy. On sitting on my computer this night and I read this very touching writing about the death of our main community member in Toronto, Edgar Mutungi. And this writing written by non other than Dr. Muniini Mulera. Yet the very same Doctor, late in the eighties, while singing for the Movement as a best government in Uganda, worked so hard to see that those that worked in Obote's government get deported back to Uganda, and Edgar Mutungi happened to be on his list for he worked in Rwakasisi's office. And today it is the very same Dr.Muniini Mulera who has a pen to write and so selectively chooses what happened to this family. For some reason he happens to mysteriously forget the very terrible times it had when it was listed to be reported to the Canadian government as a family that worked for a dictator in Uganda and which should be deported back in Uganda to be charged by a democratic government of Museveni we now have.
FDC is a political party but it needs to clean up its self and come out very
loudly and state its stand on its leadership, for Dr. Munini Mulera is a very
major player into the very same political party. A very reason I have
questioned why we have a term like reconciliation and forgiveness, when we do
not have any one we have wronged. We are simply victims of a population so
blessed to be able to flip from one corner to another as long as that journey
still leads to power. There are those of us that are so glad that Edgar Mutungi
was not deported back to Uganda, for God knows he would have not lived this
long. And by the way it is not only him that was a Mulera's target in Toronto
to be fade to the Movement as a people that worked with the UPC government.
There are other families that narrowly survived this Movement fracas. Ugandans,
these people flip this much if it is to get their hands to power, and if they
did it to Edgar's family they can do it to yours as well. You see there is no
institution that never forgets as a society, we remember Dr. Muniini Mulera the
best Toronto Movementist as yesterday. May Edgar Mutungi kindly rest in peace.
Dr. Munini Mulera's writing in today's Monitor follows, let society be the
judge.
Em
Toronto
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LETTER TO A KAMPALA FRIEND | Dr Munini K. Mulera
One man's brave walk through the last days
July 30, 2007
Dear Tingasiga: I did not write last week. I could not write last week.
Even now I find it a monumental struggle to pen this column. You see, our
community in Toronto is engulfed in paralysing sadness as we bid a final
farewell to yet another dear brother and friend.
Edgar Mutungi son of Katego of Bushenyi, Nkore died here on Friday July
20, 2007 after a valiant battle against cancer. He embarks on his final journey
home tomorrow, leaving behind a community in a deep sorrow that is only eased a
little by memories of a man whose life and home we freely and frequently
enjoyed during his 15 years in this city.
His life was celebrated at a memorial service two days ago, which
attracted a very large multicultural congregation that symbolized one of
Edgar's great attributes and accomplishments during his life. He was a man of
the people, who had very many friends from all ethnic groups and all walks of
life.
In the words of Mr Abbey Bihaabwa Mushega, Edgar's cousin and great
friend who gave the main eulogy, he [Edgar] was "humble, generous, reliable,
warm, compassionate, loving, happy, calm, peaceful, easy going, laid back,
hardworking, organised, very handy and helpful."
These were attributes which nearly everyone present must have affirmed as
true as we listened to Mr Mushega's very moving tribute to his cousin. Like
most of those who knew him, I admired Edgar a great deal.
In addition to the wonderful qualities that Mr Mushega spoke about, I
held him in high esteem partly because of his incredible masterly of
do-it-yourself skills in building and renovating his houses as though he had
gone to technical school to study the various building trades.
Truth be told, I envied him. Where I spent large amounts of money hiring
carpenters and builders and other trades to improve our house, Edgar simply
bought materials and transformed his houses into great showpieces.
But my lasting memory of Edgar will almost certainly be the extraordinary
courage and grace with which he faced his terribly painful cancer whose outcome
he knew right from the start.
Edgar and his lovely wife Allyce allowed me an opportunity to observe
Edgar confront the grim news of his diagnosis and prognosis. I also witnessed
Edgar deal with unbearable pain and suffering as he walked the final steps
towards his death.
His was a courage and forbearance that challenged my notion of tolerance
and strength in the face of adversity. It was a class act of a man who did not
allow any self-pity or bitterness to get in the way of his struggle against one
of the worst cancers known to man. Not even a doctor who spoke to him in a
manner and with words that left no doubt that death was imminent, was able to
break Edgar's determination to remain calm and dignified.
Where the rest of his family expressed to me their anger at that unkind
doctor's inappropriate bedside manner, Edgar told me: "Ogwe tinyine shonga
nawe." (I have no problem with him). In his eulogy, Mr Mushega told the
mourners: "From the time he was diagnosed with cancer, Edgar remained
steadfastly positive. He fought hard; he fought courageously, even in the face
of excruciating pain.
It was the strength of his character that was reassuring whenever we went
to see him, either at his home or in the hospital. Throughout, he never showed
any anger or asked "why me?"
But while courage and dignity were his by nature, Edgar was supported on
his difficult journey by his wife Allyce, whose love and commitment, together
with her own grace and courage, gave him a solitude that must have eased his
suffering.
I was again privileged to observe Allyce fulfill a vow she had taken 22
years earlier, to be there for her husband "for better for worse, in health and
in sickness, till death us do part." Allyce, a lawyer in private practice,
scaled down her work to devote her full energy and time to caring for her
husband. And in so doing, she steadied his hand as he stared death in its cruel
face.
Here was a couple very much in love; living for each other; struggling
together against a devastating cancer whose prognosis they understood; in a
close partnership that continued till 5:15 p.m. on July 20,2007 when Edgar
breathed his last.
No they are not the only couple that have done this, but they affirmed
the meaning of friendship and true love as a strong foundation for marriage.
Tomorrow, Allyce embarks on the difficult task of accompanying her beloved
husband on his final journey home.
Yes she will be crestfallen and filled with an anguish that is impossible
to comprehend as she watches his casket lowered into his final resting place.
Yet she will be comforted by the knowledge that she did her best for her
husband and best friend.
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The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
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