Akim Odong
What you need is not to be educated on Federalism what you need is to
understand your audience and what it is telling you. And one wonders if you
are truly that un informed? Akim why is it so had for you to even recognize
that Betty Kamya a woman you so publicly praise all the time, has distanced
herself from you in her latest writing? Instead Betty is talking about Otunnu,
Mao and others. To her, you simply do not exist. Someone had it right, when
they said" "you cannot teach an old dog a new trick" or "ekakyaama amamera is a
lost cause at birth". What Baganda want and let me be slow here for your
clarity, is one thing and one thing only, that is "Let these badokolo
particularly the kopangos, whose representatives caused mayhem in Luwero to
pack their belongings and leave Buganda soil. And there is no other way of
telling them this than using federalism.
Please read Betty Kamya and understand her for she has left with the Federal
bus and you are sadly not on board sir.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of akim odong
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 7:14 AM
To: 'kaliro45' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community
Subject: Re: {UAH} OK! LETS BLAME IDI AMIN FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Mulindwa;
Thanks for your friendly advice. And it takes a friend to give one as it may
take one to request. I would like to make a friendly request, since i have
decided federalism is what i want for Uganda. Please educate me on the benefit
of federalism in a country like Uganda!
Akim
Tolerance is a stage in civilisation!
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <[email protected]> wrote:
Akim Odong
You really need to take a moment and understand what is Federalism for you put
a shame on a very good thing. You simply have no clue what is Federalism and
you need to stop throwing that term out there recklessly, for you are making
yourself look a fool.
Just a friendly advice.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of akim odong
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 3:38 AM
To: 'kaliro45' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community
Subject: Re: {UAH} OK! LETS BLAME IDI AMIN FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Hussein Amin;
I am following you with keen interest of late! Here you wrote, But it's still
based on the One ruler formula.
And that shows lack of longterm vision. This model has been proved to
inevitably collapse into guaranteed violence at the demise or death of that one
person.
The one thing i will warn you is that if you keep your thoughts
alive and think hard, you will soon realise that it's the concept of federalism
as the summation. Keep thinking but very hard!
Akim
Tolerance is a stage in civilisation!
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Hussein Amin <[email protected]> wrote:
Recently, while discussing with some journalist friends, we ended up focusing
on the blame game that has become a constant in Ugandan politics.
We were talking about how in the aftermath of the Luwero Parliamentary
by-elections 2014, blame was poured on Idi Amin for the districts current lack
of government services.
I wondered how anyone in their right mind could concocte such obvious
misjudgemeny in 2014, 35 years since Amin left the country.
The true word up for mention is the "incompetence".
Many intellectuals possess a superiority complex, and they have for the last 40
years been shouting themselves hoarse about Amin.
These men and women have chosen to invent a ficticious political parochialism
involving Amin as long as it suits their agenda of either grabbing power or
hanging on to it.
Many individuals in Uganda and the region talk about the learned elite simply
unable to accept a semi-literate person reaching heights they never even dreamt
of attaining themselves. Thereby their subsequent, persisting negative
utterances.
Obviously this haters group of elitist politicians and scholars wouldn't accept
any mention of Amin's positive achievements, particularly that of an uncorrupt
leader struggling for the people and enjoying pan-africanist applause as he did
back then when he fought for Ugandans and Africans against neo-colonialism and
against apartheid in Southern Africa.
It is surprising that there is a total disconnect between the Amin that
ordinary Ugandans talk about, and the Amin that the media/elite talk about.
How come?
Is the media censuring popular opinion on Idi Amin?
Obviously something is amiss.
The excuse that I have heard being brought up by some editors when faced with
an Amin issue, is that they don't want to hurt the feelings of those who might
have suffered during the 70's.
But that isn't the job of the media. When their is a story, it should be either
balanced or remain unpublished.
Headlines such as "Killed by Amin for confronting him" is a total fallacy of
journalism when there is no substantiation.
People, mainly opportunists, use such self-seeking tactics to appear brave.
Scaring others by lying that they encountered a lion and single-handedly fought
it.
Then the whole village fears the crook.
But Amin has never been convicted of any crime, and he was never asked to
narrate his side of the story.
So how can a news article on Amin be without his say included? That is
unacceptable journalism.
When one-sided stories on anything get printed by the media, that isn't
journalism.
It's Politics?
Yet family members and former government officials are all over Uganda and able
to say their opinion.
As I said recently, article 28 of the Ugandan constitution says everyone is
innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
So how come the media is allowed to break editorial standards, journalistic
principles and the constitution of Uganda all in the same stride when it comes
to reporting about Idi Amin?
The media takes more seriously the verbosity of a suspected underpants
thief/government spokesperson.
That is a telling sign of the poor quality of our ethics, politics, judicial
system and media professionalism.
But to explain the political tactics that have been employed for the last 35
years, the formula is quite simple.
Say that everything bad was by Idi Amin, and you cover for your failures and
your hitherto glaring ignorance.
That is the single biggest success of any government since 1979 when Amin left
the country: Blaming Amin.
That is how in todays Uganda, old, outdated politicians have managed to remain
under the spotlight longer than all Miss Ugandas combined.
But if someone dares to praise Field Marshal Idi Amin on a particular point,
these elite turn into beasts right infront of your very eyes, with anger and
venom oozing from the nostrils and all pores.
You think I'm exaggerating? Try it once and see the metamorphosis happen before
your very eyes.
The period 1980-1990's (after Amin) saw a million Ugandans dead. It stood as
the East African record until the Rwanda genocide equaled it in 1994. Was that
Amin?
The amusing part is that the perpetrators on both sides prefer the
diversionaries of... you guessed it... Blaming Amin. And sometimes they do it
together.
Didn't Mwalimu Nyerere withdraw his troops from Uganda in total nausea and
disgust at the chaos, criminality, ethnic killings and torture by these very
people he helped?
But you find that til today, for some particular individuals, there is
literally no public speech without at some point the mention of Idi Amin.
Even for crimes committed by them when he had already left.
Ok then! Since the blame game is a serious policy, let me help.
The never-ending, exponentially rising wave of continuous corruption scandals,
that have paralyzed the civil service and seen disgusted international donors
withdraw aid as billions upon billions of public funds are literally pillaged
from the coffers of the state every year. Let's put that on Amin.
Let's see if we can also blame Amin for the military hardware that crashes
before reaching Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab insurgents because corrupt
officials bought cheap junk equipment so as to pocket the rest of the funds
originally disboursed for new equipment.
Lets blame Idi Amin for the officers who sell fuel and ammunition meant for
battle tanks and foot soldiers who then fail and die miserably in the Somalia
battle field.
Blame Amin for the killings in Northern Uganda where The Uganda Peoples Defence
Forces purportedly "guarding" Internally Displaced Peoples camps would somehow
disappear prior to so-called "LRA attacks" and re-appear right after, acting as
concerned samaritans.
Blame Amin for the recently exiled Gen. Sejusa who says that the regime is
plotting to assassinate senior officials opposed to the plan by Museveni to
have his son replace him as president.
Blame Amin for other exiled Ministers like Bakoko Bakoru who recently exposed
how members of the first family secretely call ministers demanding, without
accountability, for public cash from the different ministries.
Blame Amin for the many deserting soldiers fleeing the regime, while political
opponents like Nebanda, Francis Ayume, Wapakabulo, Gad Wilson Toko, Noble
Mayombo and Andrew Kayiira die mysteriously, and sometimes in questionable car
accidents similar to that of Archbishop Janan Luwum, with independent
investigations swiftly curtailed by the state police.
Blame Amin for the 1986 Mukura massacre where the 35th NRA/UPDF battalion
heinously and mercilessly burnt trainloads of civilians in eastern Uganda.
Blame Amin for the senior government officials who have attempted to forcefully
grab properties and ancestral lands of poor peasants around the country and
more specifically in the oil rich regions.
Blame Amin for putting South Sudans former President, the late John Garang in
the ill-fated presidential helicopter that crashed and killed him together with
his entourage and the crew.
Please blame Amin for the prevailing police state that is torturing, beating up
and arresting anyone seeking any other president other than the supreme leader
for 2016, while crushing protesters and unarmed civilians.
Yes! Just put all that on Amin.
Even the current pillaging of state coffers to bribe voters and enrich ruling
party cadres, leaving teachers, doctors, policemen, soldiers and other
unfortunate civil servants unpaid.
Blame Amin for incarcerating and torturing soldiers who dare ask why the
supreme leaders son was being promoted swiftly up the ranks while the rest of
them are in the trenches selling guns to Al Shabab.
We should also ask Idi Amin why he has put several relatives and tribes mates
of the supreme leader and his wife in all key positions in the civil service
and government.
But let's make sure we blame Idi Amin for lifting presidential term limits in
2005 by bribing parliamentarians, then holding them hostage by forcing an open
ballot vote so that they are unable to vote their concsience about the supreme
leader hanging on to power.
Blame Idi Amin for dispatching the UPDF to Congo in 1998 where, in an outburst
of literal greed, Ugandan soldiers run amock and looted the country, and now
Ugandans are asked to kindly reimburse 10 billion US dollars of tax payer money
to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We shouldn't forget to blame Amin for creating and supporting negative forces
and rebel groups wrecking havoc in Congo i.e. M23, Laurent Nkunda, M19, Gen.
Jean Pierre Bemba and Terminator Ntaganda (the last two now facing the ICC).
Idi Amin shouldn't go scot free for the staggering 6 million Congolese dead,
tortured, maimed, cannibalized and raped in the course of the UPDF/NRA's
military tour of Congo since 1998.
Let's also blame him for the pit murder, suffocation and rape of civilians by
the UPDF in Purcoro village in April 1991.
Very importantly let us all get together quickly and blame Amin for the
hundreds of thousands of human skulls and bones in Luweero district. Don't tell
the Muzungu that all are innocent peasants, victims of the fight between
"liberators".
By the way, we can also blame Amin for bringing out the tanks and armed troops
during all recent Ugandan elections to instill fear, coerce and literally
threaten the people into voting "the right candidate" supreme leader who is now
the longest serving ruler this country had ever had.
Surely someone must have quietly celebrated the day he surpassed Amin's eight
years in power.
In the meantime, we might as well ponder at the enormity of the actual criminal
responsible for all of the above. This can't be a human doing all this.
Did the living devil visit Uganda after Amin left or what?
What was this 80's cult-like assassination style of sinking a hole in innocent
civilians skulls and watch them collapse to death?
I had an interesting read about that in Major Kazoora's novel entitled
"Betrayed By My Leader".
Sorry guys, we need psychiatric therapy for some people.
Fellow Ugandans. It might not look so but we have a looong way to go before we
can rest assured of long term political stability.
There is already rampant talk of revenge on the current regime ehen the winds
of change reach this country.
Of course the regime is holding haphasardly at the moment. But it's still based
on the One ruler formula.
And that shows lack of longterm vision. This model has been proved to
inevitably collapse into guaranteed violence at the demise or death of that one
person.
Especially if he is surrounded by folks with hidden personal agendas of also
"wanting" quietly.
Institutions? My foot.
Hussein Juruga Amin
Son of His Excellency Idi Amin,
Former President of Uganda.
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