Gook
There is a new one now way worse than we were duped. “Nze sikyabitela munange!
–Abbey”
I have sat on this computer for now almost 25 years singing the very same song,
and Abbey Ssemuwemba has taken almost half of it praising Museveni praising The
Movement and calling me a lost sheep. And that is the best I can pluck out of
him now that he car has struck a wall I have been stating always. Now watch how
the civil war walks into Uganda and dead’s scattered on Kampala road to make it
worse than Jidka Isbaratimadda street.
That is one of the major streets of Mogadishu
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"
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Aaaah!
An all too familiar story of "we/I was duped"? Makes me sick to the stomach to
hear/ read this and.. Hear some people " praise" Twondwong as a brilliant chap!
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.
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<http://observer.ug/images/stories/Sheila-Kawamara-Mishambi.jpg> Of recent a
lot of drama is taking place in Uganda, giving soap script writers a whole
range of angles to write from.
Drama begins with Northern Youth MP Evelyn Anite kneeling in Kyankwanzi and
begging President Museveni to stand as sole candidate in the 2016 elections.
Then we have Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi swallowing his pride and vehemently
denying ever nursing ambitions of standing against his boss.
To add to the drama, Rev Fr Simon Lokodo, the minister supposed to enforce
morality, publicly displays his weakness towards Ugandan women and condemns
them for enticing men and therefore unleashing boda boda cyclists to undress
any woman who they feel is inappropriately dressed!
The drama continues as we see “the great leader” Museveni humbled by Anite’s
plea and with all the humility accepting the challenge to continue offering
himself as the only NRM bull. Threats are then issued against any members of
the NRM party harbouring ambitions similar to those denied by Mbabazi, and the
deal is sealed.
Now the challenge for the NRM pundits is to manage public expectations and
perceptions, and that is where the narrative begins. The recently-recruited NRM
cadres, or should I say new converts, go public to defend the indefensible
since nobody would believe the old guard, many of whom are on record saying the
exact opposite of what the new converts are saying.
On February 21, the minister without Portfolio, Richard Todwong, wrote in New
Vision: “Ugandans support NRM because of what they witnessed in the past as
compared to what is currently prevailing.”
Never mind the fact that Todwong was not part of the past and, therefore, he
may be just reciting what he has been told, and he has conveniently believed it
to remain on the safe side. Todwong goes on to make an argument that hurts many
Ugandans that were part of the history he is referring to. Each time I hear our
leaders, including the president, arguing for longevity in leadership, I
shudder and pray for our country.
As a young university student at Makerere when Museveni took over government in
1986, many radical students did not believe in the NRM government taking
government by force of arms, much as they were being liberated from anarchy.
But Ugandans were assured that they had got a fundamental change and that
democracy and good governance would be restored. In one of Museveni’s
heavily-quoted speeches, he said Africa’ s main problem was leaders that stayed
too long. Today he is the longest serving Ugandan president.
The political commissar then, now Museveni’s arch-political rival, Col Kizza
Besigye, was every other week at Makerere University’s main hall, persuading
students to change their perception of Museveni.
Others in this campaign to soften the Ugandan elite so as to support the NRM
cause included Col Amanya Mushega and Kahinda Otafiire. I recall Museveni
making his maiden visit to Makerere, the reception was so unfavourable.
Students booed him and a good number even walked away in protest.
Scepticism remained rife at the university until a plan was hatched to get
university professors into cabinet and take students for politicisation and
militarisation courses at Kyankwanzi.
Many university professors found themselves appointed ministers while graduate
students got enlisted for government jobs after proving that they were now
reformed cadres willing to serve the system. Many others joined the army. I was
among the students taken to Kyankwanzi, with my colleague at many fronts,
Ofwono Opondo.
At Kyankwanzi, we were taken through Uganda’s political economy and the
challenges experienced by our country at the time. The blame was heaped on the
British colonialists, imperialists and Uganda’s past leaders. Three months
later, we were totally convinced that Museveni was the leader with a great
vision for Uganda. No matter what some people said about him, I vowed he would
never be like the leaders before him.
I feel ashamed today when the same people that have been sceptical all along
confront me with the many ills of the government and the leader I so strongly
supported.
Many years later, I met and married one of the bush war heroes, Jack Mishambi
(RIP), who narrated the convincing reasons that took Museveni to the bush.
Top on the agenda was to remove bad leaders that clang onto power, to restore
democracy, and ensure that Ugandans elected their leaders without coercion.
Mishambi was a very strong advocate of the LC system, a big critic of
corruption, and definitely a great supporter of Museveni, having been one of
the bush political commissars and the first Special District Administrator for
Jinja in 1986.
I was bought into the NRM and even strongly campaigned for it at previous
elections. However, in the past few years, the distortions of our history have
become too unbearable for my own conscience that I even wonder whether my late
husband, if he was alive today, would believe what Todwong and Anite are saying.
For sure I know that many people Mishambi was with in the bush, including those
still serving in government, are perplexed by such irresponsible talk that is
not only dangerous for today’s youths but for our country’s future.
Just for Todwong and Anite’s information, my generation was born at the time
when post-independence conflicts began in Uganda. We grew up under Idi Amin’s
eight-year regime, then briefly experienced Prof Yusuf Kironde Lule, Godfrey
Binaisa, Paul Muwanga, Milton Obote and Tito Okello’s regimes, all in a span of
six years.
For 28 years now, we have had President Museveni, the only one known to my
children and the two newly-converted MPs that have conveniently decided to
distort and reverse our history.
Luweero bush war heroes and the many Ugandans that shed their blood to
“liberate” our country, or those that were killed because they were suspected
to support Museveni’s struggle for “liberation”, must be turning in their
graves to see what opportunist youths are doing to our country.
My plea to all our youthful leaders who were too young to know what we went
through, please do not rewrite our history and distort it because some of us
lived it and we know the sacrifices that we have been forced to make so that
you can enjoy the privileges you have.
Time is the best friend we have and it will tell when you are forced to face
your lies.
The writer is a women rights activist and former EALA member.
Ocen Nekyon
Democracy is two Wolves and a Lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is
a well-armed Lamb contesting the results.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benjaminfr109066.html> Benjamin
Franklin
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