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And that is where Uganda issues get very complicated for one reads what Dr
Muniini Mulera has written and it is all great and very nationalistic, but
then you wonder if he is that good of a Ugandan, why he decided to go after
those very Nkuba Nkyeyos and tried so hard to get them deported from Canada
back to Uganda for they were UPC supporters? Dr Muniini Mulera made several
hearts in several families in Toronto and Canada pound for no one knew what
he had accused those families to The Canadian immigration, because he wanted
them deported back to Uganda, now that we have received a new intelligent
Museveni government, and the onus is on us to get everybody that served
under the UPC government deported back to Uganda for Museveni is a
democratic man. And do you know what is so strange? Yes I was arrested in
Uganda by the UPC government by a man Ocen Nekyon claims does not exist, and
walked the path of Makindye underground where everybody was killed in that
night, and we survived only three who walked out of Uganda to Kenya and the
other two died enroute. But I have never gone after UPC its members let
alone the party, I go after it when it goes wrong for down in my heart I
know it is a good party except for cheap punks like Olara Otunnu.
And yet Dr Muniini Mulera, educated by UPC all way, either studied or sent
abroad on a UPC scholarship, shows up in Toronto and decided to hunt down
party members for now it is Museveni a Westerner and I am a Westerner and
everyone I UPC has to go down the firkin tubes. Life became very unbearable
but as always Ugandans in The Authority of Toronto we somehow survive, we
survived the escapades of Dr Muniini Mulera is hunting down UPC members to
be deported from this country and to today, based on information I have none
was actually deported, but the days were very tough. And today he is the one
standing up preaching how those Nkuba Nkeyos have served. Then the question
becomes how many did we lose that died due to psychological torture he put
them in a new country? And how did it affect the children in these
families?
But I hear you that we need to burry these old bones and move forward to
build a society and a country. The answer is no. There is no way we can
remain burying such bones when Ugandans behave this way. Dr Muniini Mulera
never had an intention of building democratic principles in Uganda, he never
had an ambition to take those with crime against the people to court,
Muleras agenda was to target a well-paying job from The Movement at a cost
of The Nkuba Kyeyos. Well if he manages to get 5 families deported from here
and they lose the Canadian citizenship when he has become a minister of
health, what is to loose. And this is how Uganda politics has ran always,
the Mugisha Muntus kill Ugandans but hey we are now in FDC, the Muleras work
for Uganda government but hey today I am pro Nkuba Nkyeyo. When can we get a
break on this stupidity? And do you know why? For what Dr Muniini Mulera did
hurt real people real families and real children. Dr Arnold Bisase
accidently popped up on my firkin screen few hours ago, can you believe that
!!!!! Well can you?
Why do I defend Museveni? For he saw through Dr Muniini Mulera and in all he
has strived through, from trying to get Ugandans from this country deported,
to working on The Canadian Immigration board as an advisor where he made so
many Ugandans fail to be landed for he pleaded how democratic is Museveni,
to stalking UNAA and taking it to Uganda which has been the sole creator of
all disasters in that organization, President Yoweri Museveni denied Dr
Muniini Mulera any job from The Movement, he was denied being a Uganda
ambassador to Ottawa as fast as he was denied being a minister of Health in
Uganda.
Mumuleke Muzeeyi waffe abeewo kuba mwenna muli Minya !!!!!
Geez !
EM
On the 49th
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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"
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Dear Tingasiga:
Many Ugandans despise us. We are the Nkuba kyeyo, a Luganda phrase that
literally means: I am a sweeper, as in sweeping the streets and other
facilities in foreign lands. It is used as a derogatory term, rooted in a
culture that despises manual labour. The Kampala newspapers, including the
Daily Monitor, refer to the work done by Nkuba kyeyos as odd jobs, a not
so subtle expression of contempt for manual and other relatively underpaid
employment.
Even many Ugandan professionals in the Diaspora protest at being called
Nkuba kyeyos, their common refrain being that they are highly educated
people who do serious jobs that demand respect.
In fact, there is nothing odd about the jobs that hundreds of thousands of
Ugandans do in the Diaspora. Factory workers, home and road maintenance
workers, sanitation workers, personal support workers, other service
industry employees, farm hands, taxi drivers and other transportation
workers, salesmen and so on are the backbone of the economy.
Their work is no less vital and no less valuable than the work of lawyers,
teachers, doctors, accountants, politicians or pilots. All are respectable
and essential jobs that have built these countries into developed societies
from which Uganda begs foreign aid. These countries are the handiwork of men
and women with basic or college education and skills acquired through
apprenticeship and experience. The Ugandan obsession with university degrees
and so-called white-collar jobs is in stark contrast with the attitudes here
in Canada, for example.
Only 25 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 25 and 64 years have
university degrees. The figures for other developed countries are: Norway,
32 per cent; USA, 31 per cent; UK and Japan, 23 per cent each; Germany, 16,
and Italy, 11.
>From time to time, we are reminded of the indispensability of what Ugandans
call odd jobs when groups of workers go on strike. When, for example, the
sanitation workers in Toronto went on strike a few years ago, the smell on
the city streets quickly brought the negotiating teams to an agreement that
increased the workers wages.
The teams of employees who clean my clinic and ensure maintenance of the
systems are as essential to my practice as the doctors and nurses. Working
in unhygienic conditions is out of the question. We pay these essential
workers very well. Among these essential workers all over the world are
Ugandans doing the kyeyo that their compatriots despise. They remit large
chunks of their savings back home, exceeding $1 billion per annum.
If the Nkuba kyeyos decided to withhold their remittances for one year, it
would probably open the eyes and ears of our compatriots to appreciate the
important role we play in the health of our country.
As a senior member of the Nkuba kyeyo Clan, I praise and honor my
compatriots. We left our homeland in search of personal safety and economic
opportunities. We live far from our loved ones, in strange lands and do
whatever it takes to provide a decent living for our families. We smile when
countrymen despise our jobs but not the cash we send back.
I gladly wear the badge of the Nkuba kyeyo, for I salute the foresight,
choices, stamina, humility and patriotism of those of us who chose to go
abroad or to stay abroad after the wars, to earn a living and to advance our
careers and lives. My claim to membership is not false modesty but a true
description of one entering ones 36th year of toiling in foreign lands.
As a young refugee medical doctor in Kenya in 1977, unable to find paid
employment in my profession, I landed a labourers job at Kenya
Uniforms.Carrying bales of cotton cloth from the trucks into the factories
was a blessed experience that humbled me and quickly disabused me of the
illusion of being special simply because I had studied human medicine.
I learnt to respect manual labour and to appreciate my modest wage that
supplemented the stipend that I received from the Joint Refugee Services of
Kenya. I thank the Lord that He enabled me to pursue my professional career.
I thank Him for the numerous Nkuba kyeyos who have successfully advanced
their education careers and financial health through hard work and
sacrifice.
We are blessed not to be dependents on anyone except the Lords grace and
mercy. We are fulfilling the teaching of the Apostle Paul who urges us in 1
Thessalonians 4:11 to work with your hands, as we directed you, so that you
may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one.
We voluntarily give significant chunks of our earnings to Uganda more than
$1 billion per year. We do not steal from the public purse. We ask for
nothing in return, except our rights of citizenship, including the right to
vote and to be full participants in the political and economic development
process in our motherland, without being discriminated against simply
because we chose to cast our nets far and wide.
Dr Mulera is a Daily Monitor columnist based in Canada.
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