But one can start to question a very intelligent question, when will Besigye
realize that he is done and today a disaster to Uganda politics? A straight
question if you ask me. Dr Kiiza Besigye created Museveni and I think some of
us have done so well dealing with that disaster and we can honestly move on
with our lives with him.
And we are on record to state that he will never ever lead Uganda.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Ssenkindu
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 5:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {UAH} Right now at 02:06 panda gari in operation at KB home... Uganda
at 50
Besigye is making desperate sos calls that his home is under assualt by the
panda gari boys. this is Uganda at 50
" I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery"----Jean Jaqueas Rousseau
" Apolitician thinks on the next election - a statesman of the next generation"
James Freeman Clarke
" The State calls its own violence, law;but that of the individual crime" - Max
Stirner "The Ego and His Own (1845)"
"The people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned how to pronouce
the word 'no' -Winston Churchill.
"The more corrupt the state,the numerous the laws- Cornelius Tacitus
"Annals"(c.116.A.D)"
SR. Sveritanien.
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Subject: Re: {UAH} 50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - UGANDANS DISAPPOINTED WITH
COUNTRY'S PROGRESS
From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:37:17 +0200
To: [email protected]
Members,
In my case things have been negative not stagnant. The primary school I went to
(kisosko) had electricity and running water...now none of these things are
available 27 years after the " enlightened" revolution lead by " visionary"
leaders!
Sent from Gook's iPatch!
"What you are we once were, what we are you shall be!"
An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.
On 7 okt 2012, at 15:27, Muzigu Sebatta <[email protected]> wrote:
Prof. Mwangusya Ndebesa, of Makerere Univ (History Dept) now says what some
of us have been saying for a long time:
"Ugandans have never truly been in control of their government," says Ndebesa.
Another problem, he adds, is that although independence created a legal state,
it failed to build the nation-state needed to forge a common identity.
“Ugandans do not have much in common. And that explains why most Ugandans do
not identify themselves with each other and with the Ugandan state. Ugandans
still primarily identify themselves with their ethnic groups. People do not
identify with their national symbols or the constitution,” said Ndebesa.
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<http://www.voanews.com/author/19975.html> Hilary Heuler
October 06, 2012
KAMPALA — October 9 marks the 50th anniversary of Uganda's independence, an
event the government is celebrating with great fanfare. In 1962 Ugandans had
high expectations of their new nation. But not many of those expectations have
been realized.
On the day Uganda was granted independence from Britain - October 9, 1962 -
Denis Kazibwe’s father planted a tree. “A tree for independence. That was the
first time we were served bread and tea with milk, and all of us got excited,”
said Kazibwe.
Kazibwe was only nine years old at the time, a primary school student in
central Uganda. But he remembers the atmosphere of euphoria and hope that
permeated the new nation.
“The people thought that with independence, things would improve through all
sectors. People would get jobs, life would be better, schools would be better.
They were expecting quite a lot,” he said.
This Tuesday, Uganda is celebrating its 50th anniversary as an independent
state. The event is being marked in Kampala with concerts, speeches and
exhibitions. But not everyone is jubilant, as Ugandans look back at the
turmoil of the last half-century, and contemplate how much remains to be
achieved.
Mwambusya Ndebesa, a history professor at Kampala’s Makarere University, says
that at the time of independence, Ugandans expected dramatic political reform.
“They expected to be more democratic and enjoy [more] freedoms than under
colonial rule," said the professor. "They expected to be controlling their
economy and their politics. But alas, they have found that citizens’ control
of those in power, in certain respects, is as it was in the colonial period.”
Political trouble
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Former President of Uganda Milton Obote (file photo)
As Ndebesa points out, political trouble began less than a year after
independence. Things came to a head four years later, when then-Prime Minister
Milton Obote suspended the constitution and seized all power for himself. What
followed was a succession of military takeovers ending with the current
president, Yoweri Museveni, whose rule is seen by many as increasingly
autocratic.
Ugandans have never truly been in control of their government, says Ndebesa.
Another problem, he adds, is that although independence created a legal state,
it failed to build the nation-state needed to forge a common identity.
“Ugandans do not have much in common. And that explains why most Ugandans do
not identify themselves with each other and with the Ugandan state. Ugandans
still primarily identify themselves with their ethnic groups. People do not
identify with their national symbols or the constitution,” said Ndebesa.
Back in 1962, says Lawrence Bategeka of the Economic Policy Research Center,
the new government’s intentions were good. Policymakers of those days were
determined to improve the lives of all Uganda’s people, he says.
What went wrong
“The government of the day that came into power was very excited. The desire
was that government would provide everything, it will run public enterprises,
and that’s where it went wrong,” said Bategeka.
What went wrong, Bategeka says, is that like many other new African states,
Uganda embraced socialist policies without the financing to back them up. He
says this goes a long way toward explaining the wealth disparity today between
Uganda and its relatively prosperous neighbor, Kenya.
“Kenya did not assume socialist policies. That persuasion of adopting
socialism partly explains the stagnation of sub-Saharan African countries.
Those that did not stifle the private sector, like Kenya, have done relatively
better,” said Bategeka.
Economic outlook
Which is not to say that Uganda’s economic outlook is gloomy. The past decade
has seen robust growth, averaging over seven percent a year, according to
Bategeka. Uganda has also recently discovered oil.
But, as Bategeka points out, not everyone has benefitted from the boom years.
“It was driven mainly by services and construction," he said. "And
agriculture, which employs the majority of the people, grew dismally, sometimes
negatively. So the growth has not been equitably distributed. Income
inequality has widened between income groups, and also between regions.”
Denis Kazibwe, now 59, agrees. Life in his village, he says, has not improved
much over the past 50 years. Earlier this year, he took his son back to visit
his old primary school, and was saddened by what he saw.
“That primary school is even worse than what it used to be in 1962," said
Kazibwe. "You know, we used to go to school barefooted. Now when I visited
that place again, the pupils were still barefooted. They don’t have
electricity. I would say that in the area, people are even poorer than what we
used to be. It’s a very, very big disappointment.”
The tree his father planted is still there. But his village’s optimism, Kazibwe
says, died off long ago.
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