Erik Kashambuzi
Wow you sit in a forum and swear when you are that an old fart? Geeez
!!!!!!!!!!! Listen, read this paragraph for you really need to read it to
understand why you are burning gas on Uganda. This was stated by Putin just
yesterday and how it fits with Uganda.
Start to act your age man, Ge’ez.
After 1991 there was the illusion that a new national ideology, a development
ideology, would simply appear by itself. The state, authorities, intellectual
and political classes virtually rejected engaging in this work, all the more so
since previous, semi-official ideology was hard to swallow. And in fact they
were all simply afraid to even broach the subject. In addition, the lack of a
national idea stemming from a national identity profited the quasi-colonial
element of the elite those determined to steal and remove capital, and who
did not link their future to that of the country, the place where they earned
their money.
Practice has shown that a new national idea does not simply appear, nor does it
develop according to market rules. A spontaneously constructed state and
society does not work, and neither does mechanically copying other countries’
experiences. Such primitive borrowing and attempts to civilize Russia from
abroad were not accepted by an absolute majority of our people. This is because
the desire for independence and sovereignty in spiritual, ideological and
foreign policy spheres is an integral part of our national character.
Incidentally, such approaches have often failed in other nations too. The time
when ready-made lifestyle models could be installed in foreign states like
computer programmes has passed.
We also understand that identity and a national idea cannot be imposed from
above, cannot be established on an ideological monopoly. Such a construction is
very unstable and vulnerable; we know this from personal experience. It has no
future in the modern world. We need historical creativity, a synthesis of the
best national practices and ideas, an understanding of our cultural, spiritual
and political traditions from different points of view, and to understand that
[national identity] is not a rigid thing that will last forever, but rather a
living organism. Only then will our identity be based on a solid foundation, be
directed towards the future and not the past. This is the main argument
demonstrating that a development ideology must be discussed by people who hold
different views, and have different opinions about how and what to do to solve
given problems.
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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Subject: {UAH} Transitional government in Uganda
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(L-R) Gen Museveni and his embattled ex prime minister Amama Mbabazi during
their good old days. He has now finally got rid of him and has placed his
succession plans up and running again.
By Henry D Gombya
A call has been made for a transitional government to be established in Uganda
led by a presidential commission. It comes during a time when the current
Ugandan leadership under President Yoweri Museveni is facing internal
misunderstandings that have led to the sacking of the once powerful Prime
Minister, Amama Mbabazi and attempts by the ruling National Resistance Movement
(NRM) to remove him as its Secretary General.
Social media reports recently reported that Mr Mbabazi who was unceremoniously
sacked after he made it known he was going to stand against Museveni in the
2016 general election was publicly humiliated at a recent meeting of the NRM’s
Central Executive Committee (CEC) in which prominent figures like Brig Matayo
Kyaligonza publicly hurled abuse at him. Held at State House Nakasero and
presided over by its Chairman, Gen Museveni, the NRM’s CEC saw prominent party
leaders like Capt Mike Mukula, Jim Muhwezi being encouraged by President
Museveni to humiliate Mbabazi, accusing him of committing ‘crimes’ against the
party.
New Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda is said to have suggested that his
predecessor be hauled before the party’s disciplinary committee to answer
charges of bring the party into disrepute by declaring his intentions to stand
against Museveni while it had been agreed by the party that there would be no
one to contest the presidency apart from the incumbent. According to social
media reports circulating in Kampala, Mr Mbabazi remained calm throughout this
ordeal, asking to be told what crimes he was being accused of.
In the heat of exchanges of bitter words against each other CEC member
Kyaligonza is said to have been restrained from having a fist fight with
Kampala businessman and Museveni’s business confidant Basajjabalaba. In the
end, Capt Mukula allegedly recommended that Mbabazi be sacked as the NRM’s
Secretary General. While it is not yet clear whether this was the decision
reached by the CEC, it is now understood that Mr Mbabazi has been forced to go
on an indefinite leave as Secretary General as the party looks to appoint his
replacement.
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Prof Eric Kashambuzi believes a transitional government in Uganda is
appropriate at this time of uncertainty in Uganda’s leadership hierarchy.
Writing in his column
<http://www.thelondoneveningpost.com/features/uganda-is-in-a-crisis-how-did-it-get-there-and-how-will-it-come-out/>
in The London Evening Post, Prof Eric Kashambuzi said the crisis in the NRM
had forced Museveni to quietly get rid of those that were posing a threat to
his leadership. He writes that these include Sam Kutesa, the country’s longtime
Foreign Minister who, in addition to his duties as the Foreign Minister, is
currently President of the United Nations in New York. Others, he added, are
the former army chief Gen Aronda Nyakairima who has been moved aside and placed
as the country’s Internal Affairs Minister and Gen David Sejusa who fled the
country early last year and now lives in London.
Kashambuzi charged that several solutions have been put forward by various
Ugandan political groups to try and bring the country together. These include
those wanting a military solution that would forcibly remove Museveni from
power, those that are aspiring for ‘a significant’ reduction of central
government power, those that believe the solution lay in secession from the
country, those that want the opposition to unite for the sole purpose of
overthrowing Museveni and then find time to settle their differences once they
got into power. “The group that I belong to is of the view that the ‘winner
takes all’ is not a wise solution,” Prof Kashambuzi said.
He went on to explain that all Ugandans, apart from those that have committed
war crimes and crimes against humanity, should form a transitional government
under a presidential commission with a representative from each of Uganda’s
regions. The new government elected in this form would then organise a
comprehensive population census to determine how many Ugandans are there,
identify development needs and hold a national convention to debate and decide
how Ugandans want to be governed.
Museveni has been president of the country since 1986 after leading a bush war
against the former regime of Dr Milton Obote. While he at first criticised
those African leaders that were reluctant to give up power, he has since gone
out of his way to ensure that he remains president and has been accused of
using the army to keep himself and his closest members of his family in power.
Once a darling of the West, President Museveni’s standing on the world scene
has suffered irreparably since he changed his country’s constitution to make it
possible for him to stay in power forever.
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Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Museveni’s son who is being groomed to take
over from his Dad.
But calls for a transitional government in Uganda may fall on already deaf
ears. Sources close to the Museveni regime are starting to whisper that it may
be too late for anyone in the next 10 years to change the status quo in Uganda.
The sources who spoke to us on condition they were not named said President
Museveni has already finalised arrangements for the handover of power to, you
guessed it, his son Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba. While the young army officer is
officially the commander of the Presidential Protection Guard, unofficially he
commands more authority than Gen Katumba Wamala, the Chief of Defence Forces of
the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF).
The sources further reveal that while many of the old NRM guard were busy
making money and becoming filthy rich, President Museveni has been quietly
strengthening his hold onto power by slowly but surely getting rid of those who
do not agree with his plan to have his son succeed him. As a result of this,
many vital command structures in the UPDF, the government, the judiciary, the
police force and the prison services are safely in the hands of young men who
are ready to die for Museveni. As our Kampala columnist Jessica Badebye reports
in this week’s Letter From Kampala
<http://www.thelondoneveningpost.com/comments/letter-from-kampala-ex-premier-takes-leave-of-secretary-generals-office/3/>
, President Museveni has finally managed to get rid of his major stumbling
block to his plans; his former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi who he has tricked
into writing his own letter of ‘dismissal’ as NRM’s Secretary General.
President Museveni has finally managed to get rid of his major stumbling block
to his plans; his former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi who he has tricked into
writing his own letter of ‘dismissal’ as NRM’s Secretary General.
With the fleeing into exile of another heavyweight last year, Gen David Sejusa
and the demotion of the former CDF Gen Aronda Nyakairima to Minister of
Internal Affairs, Museveni has once again proved to be the master planner the
world has come to quietly accept and reluctantly appreciate. Our regular
readers may want to refer to Gen Sejusa’s Analysis Report of June to July 2014
<http://www.thelondoneveningpost.com/features/the-free-uganda-situation-analysis-report-june-to-july-2014/3/>
where he spoke of ‘cracks starting to appear’ within the Museveni regime. Our
reliable sources are now telling us that indeed those cracks were deliberately
shown to the world while the master planner was busy putting into place the
final bits of his jigsaw.
Nepotism and patronage, as Gen Sejusa warned in his earlier analysis report
<http://www.thelondoneveningpost.com/features/sejusa-warns-of-a-looming-war-in-uganda-as-govt-covers-up/6/>
, have been widely used by Gen Museveni to the extent that today nearly
everyone in a position of power in Uganda has in one way or the other, a
relationship with the Ugandan leader. The Uganda leader has ruthlessly used
state finances to ‘lubricate’ those he wants to serve his interests, our
sources say. As a result of this, the 2016 elections are seen by many as a
foregone conclusion.
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