What really upsets is Ugandans that drunk a glass of wine for Museveni said he
was going to be a leader for only one term. That really made me pound my head
on the wall. For I wondered why only one term, who gave him the authority to
decide that it is one term, and did he only authorize him to be powerful to one
term? Why only five years? Why not three? Why not seven? What was the magic
number about 5 than 4 did not have and 7 was missing? It was such a gimmick
beyond belief. It had lies written all over it. But again those that stood up
to praise Museveni never thought that far, and they hated to be educated for
any one talking them into facts was labeled a Northerner and working for Obote
and praising UPC, but those were very hard facts. The moment Museveni stated
that he was going to lead only one term of five years he declared himself a
president for life for if he has the power to install himself for five years he
can yes install himself for 80 years. People go back to Ugandanet archives and
read how WBK and Wafulla Oguttu gave a tick to Museveni for unlike AMO he is
too intelligent to die in office.
Yes we have travelled a very long and hard path. Man or man !!!!!!!
EM
On the 49th Parallel
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 Ocen Nekyon
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:55 PM
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Subject: Re: {UAH} Coincidence of Mbabazi, Aronda fates and Sejusa letter
Pojim;
But what new thing did we learn from Gen Sejusa's letter/s?
Kizza Besigye told his fellow comrades-arms way back 1999 that M7 is going to
run in perpetuity.
I remember back then having a conversation with a friend who thought M7 could
do no wrong. He held the view that M7 was going to step down. I told him that
the moment PPU is upgraded to a Brigade you should know that the clause dealing
with term limits is going to be dropped. He laughed me off.
When it happened the fellow began looking at me as if I had invented fire!
Ocen
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: edward pojim
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 22:13
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: {UAH} Coincidence of Mbabazi, Aronda fates and Sejusa letter
Ocen;
I read this piece with some weird acknowledgment to the whiskered General!
In intelligence, there is no such thing as coincidence. So, the turn of events
involving Mbabazi can not be wished away as a happenstance.
But, what didn't Mbabazi or Nyakairima know about Museveni's intent and resolve
to rule forever? So, Sejusa is here pealing a bell that is already ringing: the
toll is not necessarily his, but at the same time, you can't explicitly deny
him the credit for sounding it.
Pojim
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To: Ugandans At Heart <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 6:59 PM
Subject: {UAH} Coincidence of Mbabazi, Aronda fates and Sejusa letter
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Coincidence of Mbabazi, Aronda fates and Sejusa letter
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Monday, 10 March 2014 00:57
Written by BENON HERBERT OLUKA
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10 months ago, Gen David Sejusa said Amama Mbabazi (L) and Gen Aronda
Nyakairima (R) were targets for opposing the 'Muhoozi project'
As Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has been fighting for his political life, the
exiled General David Sejusa (Tinyefuza) has been generally quiet.
It’s not clear why, but Sejusa could well have been having a good laugh in
Britain.
And you have to go back 10 months to see why.
Just before Gen Sejusa fled to exile in May 2013, he demanded an investigation
into allegations that he and two other officials could be assassinated for
opposing a planned presidential succession scheme.
The other two public figures named in Sejusa’s dossier were Prime Minister
Amama Mbabazi and Gen Aronda, the then chief of defence forces (CDF).
Although all three are still alive, there has been what some analysts have
called an almost systematic assassination of their respective political and
military careers since then.
Mbabazi, also the NRM secretary general, is the last of the trio still battling
to ensure his wings are not clipped within the party and government.
Some political analysts say the assassination of careers may perhaps signal a
change of tact by the brains behind the alleged scheme, but it nevertheless
lends some weight to the allegations made by Sejusa.
“All those people have been made vulnerable. That is why they refused Aronda to
leave the army so that he remains vulnerable to prosecution by whatever forces.
That is why Mbabazi is being taken to a disciplinary committee, also to make
him vulnerable,” said Mwambutsya Ndebesa, a political historian at Makerere
University.
In his April 29 letter to Brig Ronald Balya, the director general of the
Internal Security Organisation (Iso), Gen Sejusa hinted that he, Mbabazi and
Aronda could be in trouble because they were perceived as being opposed to
plans to have the First Son, Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba, succeed his father as
president.
The army and the government vehemently denied that such a scheme existed.
Sejusa’s letter sparked a chain of events, which analysts say could be
connected to the current debacle that Mbabazi and his wife Jacqueline, who
chairs the NRM Women’s League, are facing within the ruling party.
However, government functionaries say it is just a coincidence that Sejusa
chose to stay in exile rather than returning to Uganda “to be arrested like a
chicken thief”. Gen Aronda has since been replaced as CDF without being retired
from the army. And Mbabazi is clinging to his political career, with the party
accusing him of nursing ambitions to replace President Museveni.
President Museveni’s Private Secretary on Political Affairs, David K Mafabi,
last week dismissed the connection of the trio’s current circumstances to the
claims made by Sejusa as speculation.
“There is absolutely no legitimacy to what Gen Sejusa said,” Mafabi said.
He added that both Mbabazi and Gen Nyakairima were still serving a Museveni-led
government while Gen Sejusa “is out of the country voluntarily.”
Mafabi tacitly admitted that all was not well between Museveni and allies such
as Mbabazi.
“There have been issues but, you must have read the president’s statement
issued [on Thursday], those issues are being handled in-house,” he said. “The
misunderstandings, from wherever they arose, are being handled.”
Sejusa exile
When the contents of Sejusa’s letter became public, the army MP was in London
on what he called official duty. However, as the UPDF began to send signals
that it would arrest Sejusa, 59, on his return, he eventually asked for
political asylum.
The army withdrew guns from Sejusa, sent soldiers to search his home and
offices, and arrested soldiers who were said to be loyal to the now-renegade
member of the UPDF High Command.
Eventually, Sejusa lost his parliamentary seat, something he once told The
Observer was the handiwork of President Museveni. Ndebesa reasoned that Sejusa
could have been privy to some information on the behind-the-scenes plans,
forcing the spymaster to blow the whistle.
“Maybe he had his own intelligence,” the academic said. “Even if it was not
intelligence, he probably knew which people were in the way of a bigger
project.”
However, Mafabi said the NRM did not believe in assassinating its opponents,
citing the case of former FDC president, retired Colonel Dr Kizza Besigye, who
has challenged Museveni’s hold on power three times and he remains “very active
in opposition.”
Aronda sacked
Shortly after Sejusa’s damning revelations, President Museveni began to
criticise Gen Aronda Nyakairima, Uganda’s longest-serving CDF in his regime,
for operational incompetence. Analysts say the timing of the criticism was
rather curious given that Museveni had trusted his comrade to serve at the helm
of the army for about 11 years.
During a May 22 UPDF High Command meeting, which came two weeks after Daily
Monitor first published the contents of Sejusa’s letter, Museveni castigated
Gen Nyakairima for the several mistakes he said the army had made.
The next day, Museveni fired Nyakairima, replacing him with Gen Katumba Wamala.
Several young officers were promoted and appointed to understudy the new CDF,
in a reshuffle that effectively marked a generational change in the army under
Museveni. Nyakairima was appointed minister for Internal Affairs.
But Museveni declined to retire him from the army as had been standard practice
in the past, with former army commanders such as Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu and Gen
Jeje Odongo. Instead, the president got Parliament to approve the former CDF to
a cabinet post while still a serving officer.
President Museveni has since replaced Gen Katumba Wamala (L) replaced Gen
Aronda Nyakairima (R) as CDF
Earlier reports indicated that Nyakairima had asked to retire from the army
and, possibly, run for MP for Rubabo constituency in Rukungiri district.
However, Museveni is said to have ignored the request.
Ndebesa says that by making such a decision, Museveni had got the final laugh –
kicking one opponent of the “Muhoozi project” from control of the army while
keeping him shackled by military law. Should Aronda flirt with ‘hostile’
political ambitions (such as those of Mbabazi, for instance), he could be
dragged to the UPDF court martial.
Mbabazi wings clipped
With the two senior army officers having been neutralised, analysts have said
the final piece in this particular jigsaw could have been to clip Mbabazi’s
wings, who held two senior positions in government and the party.
Even before Sejusa opened the can of worms that claimed his political and
military career, and derailed Nyakairima’s, Museveni had tried to get Mbabazi
to resign as NRM secretary general. However, Mbabazi refused to budge, saying
there was no reason. After all, Museveni is both president of the republic and
chairman of the party.
The relationship between Museveni and Mbabazi has since grown increasingly
strained, especially after intelligence reports suggested that the prime
minister’s supporters were working behind-the-scenes to prepare ground for him
to ambush the president.
Richard Twadong (R) has been appointed to carry out the day-to-day running of
office of the secretary general, while Kasule Lumumba (C) is rumoured to be the
next Prime Minister
Ndebesa argues that because Museveni does not allow any space for challenging
his power, he has disagreed with Mbabazi and all the NRM secretary general’s
predecessors in the Movement system such as Amanya Mushega, Dr Besigye, and
James Wapakhabulo – all of whom served as National Political Commissars.
“Normally the secretary generals of parties are the ideologues of the party and
are kind of groomed to succeed into the chairmanship. He has ensured that they
become vulnerable or he has removed them in a very bad way,” Ndebesa said of
Museveni.
“If you cannot trust the political ideologues, the secretary generals of the
party, then who else can you trust? If a secretary general cannot speak, then
who else can speak? This is almost near to absolute monarchism.”
Speaking on the Capital Gang radio talk show on Saturday, Mbabazi said while he
was not interested in contesting against President Museveni, his wife
Jacqueline had heard that some party officials were organising to remove him
from the position of party secretary general.
Mbabazi said his wife mobilised against those forces, which was misconstrued as
organising to topple Museveni from the presidency. He said despite his current
troubles, nobody was going to expunge him from the NRM because of his
long-serving record in the organisation.
“Those of you who are asking me to quit NRM, obviously it is like asking me to
quit myself,” he emphasised. “Nobody can throw me out of NRM; nobody. It is not
possible.”
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Democracy is two Wolves and a Lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is
a well-armed Lamb contesting the results.
Benjamin Franklin
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