We do not want to remove Museveni from power what we actually want is to remove
the Movement from power.
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 Gook
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SV: {UAH} The Observer - Opposition has to organise to defeat NRM
Noc,
Listen to Bukenya and you will know why the " opposition" is failing.
According to him... There is no government in the true sense of it... We still
have NRA with all it's attendant bush mentality!
Hence the o e man vision which much be followed to its tragic end!
Please listen to Bukenya and even to that "bad boy" Sejjusa... Now bleating now
an old He goat without its harem!
In between them you will detect what ails our country....
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 22 apr 2014, at 11:06, "'gaumoy nockrach-laduma <[email protected]>' via
Ugandans at Heart(UAH) Community" <[email protected]> wrote:
I keep hearing: " the opposition has to organise to defeat NRM";
"...the opposition has to roganise...."; "...we are going to....."; "we know
the solution..."; "...we know how President thinks...";..."..of course we know
what he is thinking even before he opens his mouth..;" we know every thing, it
is JUST A MATTER OF....,"It is JUST MONEY THEY ARE LACKING...".
Hmmmm, 28years and counting of knowing "BUT IT IS JUST"?!??!
Me thinks the opposition is not fighting the battle where the battlefield is:
THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING AT THE BATTLEFIELD!!!
They underestimate Ugandans.
There are so much that need attention but the opposition can not identify the
people's priority needs?
That is perhaps why the opposition fail. They believe their own desire is one
and the same with the peoples.
That may not be true.
Noc'la gaumoy
“WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US”….noc’la gaumoy.
Den tisdag, 22 april 2014 8:34 skrev akim odong <[email protected]>:
Ocen Nekyon,
Precisely that is the point. You would rather dangle your leg on the fence and
see which side is greener. What is your opinion on the subject, why did you
think the piece was worthy of forwarding? This has nothing to do with how long
you have been on this forum for it does not matter. What matters is your
opinion on a matter so important. The lack of, clearly qualifies you as a
middle class Dr Dolittle. Time for you and your lot to pull up your socks and
engage in Uganda politics.
Akim
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Akim;
The reason the opposition is in a quagmire is simply because it is populated by
"Rocket Scientists" such yourself.
I have been on this forum for almost two years and for you to charge in here
barely 5 months after joining and accusing for not agreeing with an article I
posted is sheer folly. When and where did I state that I do not agree or
support the authors assertions.
I know it is Easter Monday, but please recheck the contents of the 'Kongo'
consumed over the weekend.
Ocen
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: akim odong
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 04:33
To: [email protected]; Moses Khisa
Reply To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} The Observer - Opposition has to organise to defeat NRM
Ocen Nekyon;
The writer is echoing what i have been bellowing for some time now on this
forum. I have lassooned the opposition and all their spokespersons including
Okello Lucima for wasting time on the electoral processes and machination;
instead of uniting the opposition under one brand new umbrella, which all
voters can identify with. The writer is a cut above the rest and spot on with
his analysis of the dialysis that the opposition desperately need, and they
must yield to such criticism if they want to succeed in dislodging the ruling
behemoth. They should stop charging aimlessly like a head less chicken or else,
like a rabbit dazed by the headlamp, they are in for a sharp painless death!
Ocen Nekyon, the problem of the opposition is made worse by people like
yourselves the so called middle class who would rather fold their arms and make
not even a comment on an analysis such as the one you have posted. I am sure
you must have appreciated it one way or the other but, to not say why you think
its worthy of forwarding it to this forum, is the very reason why the
opposition is stuck in a guagmire.
Akim
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Columnists
Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:44
Written by moses khisa
I suspect that most regular readers of this column now know my stand as regards
Uganda’s current politics.
I believe, like many Ugandans, that President Museveni is past his sell-date
and that the NRM government is running this country down. The sooner we have a
new leadership, the better for Uganda’s future. I firmly hold this view and
would relish a candid debate with readers who think otherwise.
In saying this, I would like to make a small but important clarification.
Recently, one reader emailed me chastising me for being too critical of
President Museveni. He implored me to be an “objective scholar.”
I appreciated his point but hastened to say that the scholarship I subscribe
to, and the objectivity I believe in, enjoin me to take a stand, on a critical
question, and defend that stand through rational and factual analysis. This
entails critical assessment of facts and arriving at logical conclusions. It
also means avoiding blinded partisanship and lopsided reading of events.
Although I criticise the Museveni establishment, my criticisms are neither
baseless nor illogical. I am neither blind to the successes of the NRM
government and the personal qualities of General Museveni nor oblivious to the
many shortcomings of his opponents.
In sum, staying balanced and adhering to objectivity should not, therefore,
preclude staking a position and expressing it, especially with respect to the
struggle for democracy and freedom, which are values that are inevitably
subject to moral judgment.
In my view, hiding behind the façade of professionalism and claims to
“objectivity,” to disavow holding a political opinion, is at best rather
cowardly and at worst hypocritical. On that note, I would like to turn to
opposition parties and the broad spectrum of forces opposed to the NRM misrule.
The current fad is electoral reform. In principle, this is a laudable
initiative.
But upon deeper reflection, I doubt that this is where the efforts of
progressive forces should be focusing. The campaign for electoral reform
rightly sees the current electoral rules as skewed and the incumbent Electoral
Commission (EC) as incapable of holding free, fair and transparent elections.
But the electoral rules and the EC are just a small part of a bigger governance
problem. The reason why General Museveni continues to misrule the country is
less about a biased EC and more about his firm grip on the military and control
over material resources that he uses to rent support.
Hasn’t the opposition defeated the ruling behemoth in several constituencies
under the same electoral rules and the same less independent EC?
In 2006, the opposition won most parliamentary seats in the wider northern
Uganda and the Teso sub-region. And if a by-election was held in Kampala today,
Erias Lukwago would easily defeat any NRM candidate. The ultimate challenge,
therefore, is how the disparate opposition forces can mobilise the masses to
defeat an authoritarian leadership and dismantle the current decadent system of
rule. This system includes the electoral commission!
The unfair electoral rules, and other institutions that adjudicate electoral
processes, are part of the ensemble that constitute Museveni’s authoritarian
regime. These rules and institutions can only be systematically dismantled
through a shift in balance of power away from the current mis-rulers to
progressive forces. The current laws and institutions reflect the actual
balance of power.
The critical shift in the balance of power that we need is both with the masses
and the middle-class. The former has the numbers needed to oppose the current
system while the latter has the requisite material and human resources to
organise and propel the wagons of change. Opposition parties must aggressively
tap into resources of the middle-class and woo the masses.
The point needs no belabouring: the opposition must do more introspection. What
they should urgently and painstakingly do is to organise, to mobilise and
inevitably overpower the authoritarian system. The coterie running Uganda today
is too sloshed with power to acquiesce to calls for reforms.
Sadly, the internal organisational capacity of today’s opposition parties is
shambolic and far from inspiring. Their grassroots presence is at best thin and
at worst nonexistent. We may get a new set of good electoral laws and a
competent non-partisan and efficient electoral commission, but it’s unlikely
that the current opposition can muster the organisational strength to defeat an
entrenched state-party.
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The author is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University,
Evanston/Chicago-USA.
The Observer - Opposition has to organise to defeat NRM
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content
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