Joseph Magandazi
I wrote this piece in New Vision of 08 September 2009, let me hope it can help you get some answers from the sucking up you did to Olara Otunnu. EM On the 49th Otunnu, why attack the society that built you? <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php> Description: img By Edward Mulindwa AS Uganda gets shaken by the return of Olara Otunu, and as he plans to re-enter Ugandan politics, I have a concern that must be addressed directly to him. The issue of a creation and support of the system. Every nation must have a system that runs it, and that system is the one that educates students to build the nation in future. That system is up and above the Movement, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and any other party. Governments come and go, but the system remains. A long time ago, that system educated all students in the country, without caring about their tribe, place of origin, or whose child they were. Among those children were the two sons of Uganda, Otunnu and Bazilio Okello. Both were given tests and Otunnu passed highly, but Okello did not. The system in Uganda decided to pay an enormous amount of money to put Otunnu’s brains to test. He passed all exams he was given to a point that Uganda gave him a passport and a ticket to further his studies. And all the Ugandan society wanted out of him was to write proposals that could build and maintain the system in Uganda. The Ugandan society sent Okello to the armed forces to be trained as a soldier to defend the borders of our country and to get instructions from our politicians. Instructions that were supposed to be built and written by Otunnu. I must point out that both Otunnu and Okello were not educated or trained to serve UPC the party or Obote the president but, Uganda the state. How then did Otunnu end up in a barracks to serve Okello? Why did he fail to realise that when Okello, who was not a politician, but a trained soldier takes a government, it directly contravenes everything we educated him to build. Why did he not simply refuse to join the Okello, let alone resign his job? One of my friends in Ottawa, Canada, was a financial controller of the Uganda embassy during Amin’s government. At its fall, she had an embassy account with about $5m. This friend, irrespective of what was happening in Kampala (everyone was running away and looting), walked into an Ottawa bank and instructed them to transfer all the funds to the Kampala Ministry of Foreign Affairs account. This Ugandan did what she was trained to do, not what she felt. Trust me, I am in Canada, but if you gave me $5m today, I would receive it with glee. But this official was trained to fight and defend the system, not Amin’s government, but the state of Uganda and that is the reason for this article. What we work hard for, is to protect the nation’s assets. Otunnu’s decision to work for Okello the man he wrote policies for, must make Ugandans pause and ask where we went wrong. Did we educate him wrong? Did we fail to teach him that nationalism is the best thing for Uganda? Did we, as society, fall short in educating him on the ways and means of building and defending that system? If we were wrong in any of the above, then we must sit down again and re-configure how to educate Ugandan children better than we did Otunnu. We simply cannot educate children to run the system and have them turn around to work against it. However, there is a possibility Otunnu got the best education, but he is simply a bad apple. Maybe he naturally never cared about the system and about building it, let alone maintaining it. Maybe all along it was only about himself and he never cared at all about Uganda and her political growth. If the latter is true, then Ugandans must stand up and strip him to the last wire, to find out why he has started attacking the very system it was supposed to serve and protect. We must have a commission of inquiry where Otunnu must be given a constitutional right to respond. He must respond to the disturbing events that happened at the government take-over that brought Okello to power. This is the only thing that will clear Otunnu and make Ugandans trust him. It will also show respect to the thousands of Ugandans in the Diaspora who work day and night in defence, not of the Movement, but the system that runs our country. And I would even take further by setting up a parliamentary commission to crosscheck each and every decision Otunnu made while he was ambassador. The commission will cross-check if he made those decisions in defence and protection of our country. The writer lives in Toronto, Canada [email protected] 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 joseph magandazi Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:24 PM To: Joseph Magandazi Subject: RE: SV: {UAH} Otunnu Urges Opposition Parties To Unite Ahead of 2016 Folks, This massage is for Ambassador Otunnu,i know he reads and he or is assistant is a member of this forum. I 'm saddened by his revelation that opposition parties have to unite to win 2016. Here is why, before Otunnu made up his mind to run on a UPC ticket we met in Boston with him and so many good hearted Ugandans to pave ways and means of how to forge Unity to remove this dictator from Uganda's political arena. To this cause a body registered as campaign for democracy and justice in Uganda was formed. Election to lead this organization were held and an interim administration was created, he was part of the lead team. After that meeting we only hard of his run for UPC leadership. What disturbs most is that as UPC president he turned down the offer from opposition parties to form unity and defeat M7. He is now waking up late when this man has dug himself deep into the region and the only possible means to throw him out is force. I ask you Mr Otunnu how ready are you to contribute to this cause? I know that you know votes can not take him out so what is you next plan? _____ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:09:26 +0100 Subject: Re: SV: {UAH} Otunnu Urges Opposition Parties To Unite Ahead of 2016 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sekajja Actually Otunnu asked for the ECD to be banned or patries feruse to vote. He was let own by Besigye in that coalition they had formed, On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Can someone get a saucepan and hit Otunnu's head, maybe, just maybe he will wake up and smell the coffee. Before he can call the opposition parties to unite against the dictator in 2016 elections, he should first call them to take no part, if that stooge Badru Kiggundu is chairing the Electoral Commission staffed with other NRM cadres. If there is to be free and fair elections, the referee and linesmen have to be non partisan. FULL STOP. If ugandans want a bogus and fraudulent 2016 election, where cows will dancing and hoofing it to the polling stations, keep the Electoral Commission in its current make-up! Ssekajja -----Original Message----- From: Ocaya Mike pOcure <[email protected]> To: ugandans-at-heart <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:54 Subject: SV: {UAH} Otunnu Urges Opposition Parties To Unite Ahead of 2016 Fellow Ugandans, Politics is a collective responsibility but not a single man or woman's work. The question to both you Mujabi Nakawombe, put your best solutions to Ugandans to value it. If your equations are correct and workable that can bring the whole Ugandan peaceful and democratic coexistence so well and good. If you do not have any, please let those who are trying it do it tills they may get some luck! Ocaya pOcure Från: Frank Mujabi <[email protected]> Till: [email protected] Skickat: torsdag, 29 augusti 2013 2:01 Ämne: Re: {UAH} Otunnu Urges Opposition Parties To Unite Ahead of 2016 Rev Jessica It has got to be a very bad joke if he is asking the opposition to band together and create another monster with unlimited powers in the unitary rubbish. And I am not sure what Mao is saying. If the opposition is too weak why do they bother? or is it the ugaenglish of the journalist ? On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jessica Nakawombe <[email protected]> wrote: Is this a joke? Rev. Jessica “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9) From: [email protected]: [email protected] Subject: {UAH} Otunnu Urges Opposition Parties To Unite Ahead of 2016Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:46:35 +0100 Otunnu Urges Opposition Parties To Unite Ahead of 2016 To: The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) is encouraging opposition political leaders to embark on a robust campaign of free and fair elections ahead of the 2016 general elections. Olara Otunnu, the UPC President, says this can be done by bringing together opposition political parties, civil societies and those interested in promoting democracy in Uganda. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> UPC President Olara Otunnu <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> According to the former United Nations (UN) Ambassador this translates into a basket of demands as they did in 2010 highlighting the key issues on which the integrity of the elections lie and make proposals on them. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> These include reforming the Electoral Commission (EC), involvement of security forces, financing of the elections and deployment of monies, the voter registry and how to secure the journey from the counting of votes at the polling station to the correlation of regional levels and announcing at the national level. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> But more effort should be put on how to handle dispute in the aftermath of the polls particularly in regard to the Presidential Poll. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> Otunnu insists the above issues should be the circle of deliberations in a national open forum with a view to garnering national consensus and a new electoral process. Considering this will involve all political parties including the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), Otunnu says they need to generate and pile pressure on President Museveni. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> The UPC President believes the challenges Uganda is facing can only be resolved if the regime is changed. When asked what the party is doing internally in order to prepare for the 2016 elections such as party restructuring, mobilization of masses and finance among others, Otunnu confidently states that what matters is not about who is going to be the candidate. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> What should be asked is the mannerism under which the elections would be held adding that the UPC exists not to serve itself but to serve the people of Uganda and that can be achieved through changing the regime. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> He also revealed that he will soon be going on a nationwide tour but their focus now is to work with other parties to bring regime change despite the abnormal conditions under which political parties are working under. <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> However, Lira Municipality MP James Akena, also a UPC member, disagrees with his party President saying there is still a lot of work to do to organize their structure ahead of 2016. The pertinent question according to Akena is that if a free and fair election is held tomorrow, how will the UPC perform? <http://www.redpepper.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Olara-Otunnu.jpg> Yesterday the Democratic Party President Norbert Mao stated that it is possible to change the Presidency as long as a political party organizes itself. 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