Barigye
Let us remain on facts, and you have spent a good number of years discussing
only the facts, is Museveni of Uganda really in power? And if your response to
that question is a yes, can Museveni tomorrow Thursday morning Kampala time,
walk into parliament and read a resignation statement? Even if he so wants to.
Do you think he can? Let us kindly lift this discussion from the wallops/gutter
of Africa is doing bad for it has bad leaders, because at the end of the day,
they end up being victims as we so are. Yoweri Museveni is a victim. You know
many in these forums attacked me for I went after Obama, I never went after him
for I hated the man, I never even knew him for crying out loud, but when you
listened to the hyper he held in campaign, you questioned if he even understood
how the system he was entering functioned. But you wondered if he had Godly
powers to change what some of us knew on how the system runs. Listen the man
said that as soon as I get to Washington I will pull our soldiers from Iraq.
That was his mantra. When Hillary lost he changed that to we will talk to our
partners on how we can get out of Iraq. Those are two very different sentences.
The problem I have is Maggots that supported him without understanding the
underbelly creation of the system, as stupidly as he so understood it. By the
time Obama leaves office, history is going to list him as a killer when it will
never list GWB as such. Go figure that one when you get the next Omuramba.
Kindly understand Museveni’s position for it is way complex than driving out of
State House as a head of state to Rwakitura as a commoner.
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: Re: {UAH} The Observer - Where is FDC's Sam Mugumya?
Ndugu Ocen,
It's amazing how dictators dare fate head on. M7 is in injury time and he knows
it. What I don't understand is how he ignores small stuff like this that can
set off irreversible events well knowing that it can trigger off his demise.
This Sam guy may be a no body but considering how the pizant is tired of him
and his gang of thugs, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a starting point.
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The Observer - Where is FDC’s Sam Mugumya?
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:43
Written by Edris Kiggundu
Without trace: Political activist Sam Mugumya
Confusion, uncertainty reign over the whereabouts of vocal FDC activist
On October 17, Sam Mugumya, a Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political
activist who is now a subject of parallel investigations by two governments,
sauntered into the parliamentary building in Kampala.
Dressed in khaki trousers, a navy blue T-shirt emblazoned with a photograph of
Che Guevara, an Argentinian revolutionary, and carrying a small bag, he
appeared to be in a jovial mood.
“He was in good spirits,” recalls Francis Mwijukye, a friend and fellow
activist. “He said he wanted to go back and spend more time in Rukungiri to
look after his ageing mother and the family property.”
This was the last time Mwijukye saw Mugumya. The former FDC president, Dr Kizza
Besigye, for whom Mugumya served as a long-term personal aide, recalls meeting
Mugumya around the same time. Dr Besigye told The Observer on Monday that he
last saw and spoke to Mugumya about three weeks ago.
“We did not talk much. He told me he was going back to the village,” Besigye
told us at Namirembe cathedral, on the sidelines of a funeral service for
Prince David Ssimbwa, the younger brother to the late Kabaka Sir Edward Mutesa
II.
Having lost his brother months earlier in a motor accident, those who know
Mugumya say the accident jolted the young opposition politician. Some of his
friends say the loss of his brother greatly affected him and, for someone
without a formal job, the task of looking after his late brother’s family
seemed to weigh heavily on him.
It could have influenced his decision to go back to Rukungiri and look for
means of eking a living out of the prime family land located in the
municipality.
It is during the time Mugumya was supposed to be in Rukungiri that UPDF
spokesman, Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, announced that he had been arrested in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Contradictions
As mystery continues to shroud the exact whereabouts of Mugumya, friends and
fellow political activists cannot tell how, when or whether indeed Mugumya went
to DRC. The Ugandan army reported two weeks ago that he had been arrested in
Beni, a town in eastern DRC.
The army spokesman, Lt Col Ankunda, said then that Mugumya had been found in
possession of dollars and was suspected to be involved in subversive
activities. Ankunda stuck to the same position on Monday when The Observer
sought him out for an update. He said what was left was for the Ugandan
authorities to work out Mugumya’s extradition arrangement with their
counterparts in DRC.
While the army is yet to provide evidence of Mugumya’s alleged detention or
engagement in subversive activities, last week, Ofwono Opondo, the executive
director of Uganda Media Centre, posted a photograph of a bare-chested Mugumya,
allegedly taken from Beni, which has set tongues wagging.
Taken at close range, Mugumya is seen in the undated photograph standing
against a background of a house, looking haggard and emaciated. Repeated
attempts to get Opondo to tell us the source of the photograph that he uploaded
on his twitter handle (@OfwonoOpondo) on November 6 were unsuccessful as he did
not pick our phone calls.
But Mugumya’s story took an interesting spin this week when two diplomats, one
from Uganda and another from DRC, could not tell for sure whether Mugumya was
in DRC or even whether he was under arrest. Maj James Kinobe, Uganda’s
ambassador to DRC, told The Observer yesterday that he had also read about
Mugumya’s arrest in the papers.
He said: “There are two ways through which I can get formally informed. First,
a relative of the detained person can report at the ministry of Foreign Affairs
that their person is missing and he is suspected to be in DRC. Then, as
ambassador, I am told to do a follow-up. No relative of Mugumya has shown up.
Secondly, the government of DRC can write to the embassy telling me they have
arrested a Ugandan. They have not done so.”
Kinobe said he had heard informally about Mugumya’s arrest but until DRC
confirms his arrest and conducts investigations, we should not draw early
conclusions.
Even in the event that charges are brought up against Mugumya, Kinobe said, his
extradition to Uganda will not be easy as happened with Nsubuga Tony Kipoi, the
former MP for Bubulo West, who is still held in DRC (See:
<http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=34715:dr-congo-refuses-to-hand-over-ex-mp-kipoi&catid=34:news&Itemid=114>
DR Congo refuses to hand over ex-MP Kipoi).
Similarly, Pierre Masala, DRC’s deputy ambassador to Uganda, told us on Monday
that they were not aware of Mugumya’s arrest in DRC or that of any other
Ugandan.
Conspiracy theories
“I also read from the newspapers [that Mugumya had been arrested in DRC]. So, I
am the wrong person to ask where he is,” Masala said in a brief telephone
interview.
The lack of clarity over Mugumya’s current situation has fed into and given
veracity to several conspiracy theories as to what could have happened to the
vocal opposition activist. Some people claim Mugumya was kidnapped from
Rukungiri by the army and taken to DRC so as to implicate him in rebel
activities.
Others suspect that he is being held and “tortured” in a safe house in Kampala
with a view of extracting a confession from him that he was involved in
subversive activities.
“At this point we can’t tell whether he is in Beni, Kinshasa or Kampala,” Maj
Gen Mugisha Muntu, the FDC president, told journalists on Monday.
He was flanked by a group of youths holding posters with a photo of Mugumya and
with the inscription: “Release Mugumya Now.”
There has also been speculation that Mugumya’s arrest and the allusion that he
is involved in rebel activities could signal the onset of new treason charges
against him and/or his boss, Besigye.
This view gained currency on Monday when one Dan Morris Tumusiime, who
described himself as a transformed former PRA rebel coordinator, posted a
943-word statement on his Facebook wall alleging that indeed Mugumya and other
FDC leaders were planning to overthrow the government.
“I have read with a lot of disgust how FDC, Dr Besigye and others have on
several times again denied and tried to sway the public away from believing
that they’re involved in subversive rebel activities.
I wish to put this on record that FDC and some of its leaders have indeed been
involved in rebel activities designed to overthrow the government of President
Yoweri Museveni, and they have in this been linking up with the LRA and ADF
since 2001...They have tried many occasions to reactivate the PRA which they
were trying to do through Mugumya and others at large but have been hit in the
face by the intelligence of Museveni,” he wrote on his wall, attracting a
series of comments, many accusing him of being part of the plan to implicate
FDC leaders in treasonous activities.
>From Tumusiime’s statement, others saw parallels between Mugumya’s situation
>and that faced by James Opoka, a former guild president at Makerere University
>and Besigye’s political assistant during the 2001 elections.
Opoka is said to have joined the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) after the
elections. However, he was reportedly killed in 2003 by Joseph Kony, the rebel
leader, after the two got a disagreement.
Shortly afterwards, some people were arrested, accused of being part of a
shadowy rebel group, People’s Redemption Army (PRA), which was reportedly led
by Besigye, then exiled in South Africa. Upon his return from exile, Besigye
was arrested and charged with treason. But in 2007, the High court dismissed
the case.
Eternal political activist
Mugumya was born in Rukungiri in 1979 to the late Emmanuel Turyomurugyendo and
Edinat Turyomurugyendo in a family of five siblings. He had an eventful
childhood, growing up in Kasese where he had his primary education.
“We used to jump on fast-moving vehicles for free rides to town,” he told us
during a 2011 interview, in a tone that suggested he did not regret this
dangerous stunt.
Mugumya in his favourite T-shirt embazoned with Che Guevera
Later, he joined Muntuyera High School in Ntungamo district for his secondary
education before joining Makerere University. During his days at Makerere
University in the early 2000s, Mugumya was an opposition activist and a member
of the Reform Agenda, Besigye’s 2001 campaign platform.
An admirer of Che Guevara (he told us that he has more than five T-shirts
emblazoned with the photo of Guevara) and a consummate reader of Machiavelli’s
works, Mugumya’s political thinking was greatly shaped by the political
philosophies of these two men. After university in 2004, Mugumya, unlike many
young people, decided not to look for a job and instead immersed himself,
headlong, into political activism.
“I will get a job when the country is liberated,” Mugumya told The Observer in
2011. He apparently survived through handouts from friends, relatives and
well-wishers.
In 2005, Mugumya got his “first job” as a political aide of Besigye. On the
campaign trail in 2006 and 2011, Mugumya did everything to ensure that his boss
was comfortable.
He bought the day’s newspapers and refreshments for Besigye, and carried the
portable public address system which the former FDC boss used during the
campaigns, among other duties.
Mugumya’s personal identity would be incomplete without reference to Besigye.
Asked in the 2011 interview what drew him to Besigye, Mugumya said: “Besigye
espouses the values I stand for. He is an eternal political activist.”
Yet for the people who have known and interacted with Mugumya, the same
description could fit him. He eats, breathes and dreams politics.
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