And that is the actual danger in Uganda politics, people look at faces but
never remind themselves the laws these faces have created. Most of the worst
laws on Uganda constitution were drafted by Dr kiiza Besigye. And what is so
funny is that he drafted them to strangle UPC when it was still alive party for
he wanted it to stop functioning. Now that UPC has died, the very same laws
remain on Uganda books and guess who they are targeting? Yes FDC. When Ugandans
look at FDC they adore Besigye and hold hopes into him forgetting that this man
was the ion man of The Movement when they came to power. And again the Uganda
Air Line we lost in Serbia that was carrying 19 Tons of rocket launchers to
Croatia was sent by Besigye.
Why do Ugandans hold a hope in such characters, beats my small soul.
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"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 10:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Mbabazi ‘finally’ speaks out on 2016 bid
Mbabazi is currently playing the innocent Political card but surely be the
serpent he is was, he will and still.... Forever....
Do not under look the legislations this man cowardly & arrogantly moved in the
Ugandan Constitution that are to date are affecting our freedom of speech,
human rights etc
Not by accident did he table or support them but out of sheer greed- we know
the knowledge of a slimy, sneaky serpent - don't look elsewhere but at Mbabazi
who can't stand on his 3 legs & whisper to us his apology nor what his stand is
since.
He is the serpent of serpents- we shall not get swayed by his murmurs.
Rhita Wasswa
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On May 31, 2015, at 2:17 PM, 'Simon Okurut' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH)
Community <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Afuwa Kasule,
So, what is the final word or statement which he has "finally spoken out" on
the 2016 bid? That he is standing for presidency or not?
Peter Simon
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From: Afuwa Kasule <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
To: "[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> "
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 7:49 AM
Subject: {UAH} Mbabazi ‘finally’ speaks out on 2016 bid
Mbabazi ‘finally’ speaks out on 2016 bid
Former prime minister Amama Mbabazi. FILE PHOTO
He had remained ambivalent for nearly a year and a half, much to the irritation
of many of his supporters and the waiting media.
Ever since the dramatic NRM party retreat at the National Leadership Institute
at Kyankwanzi in February 2014 when he was booed and denounced, Amama Mbabazi
had mostly kept his cool and continued to pledge his loyalty to President
Museveni and the cause of the NRM.
Further heckling and criticism followed through most of the year, including
being dropped first as prime minister (in September) and as NRM
secretary-general (in December), but Mbabazi remained calm and courteous amid
these developments.
His wife Jacqueline became the face of the rumoured Mbabazi presidential bid,
with some frustrated political analysts and supporters speculating that Mbabazi
lacked the ambition but was being urged on by his wife.
After he was dropped as secretary-general with barely a word of protest or
reaction, many started to conclude that the whole Mbabazi presidential story
had been cooked up by the media desperate to find the next exciting political
story or Opposition hero.
Some in the media, though (this writer among them) persisted with reporting on
an impending Mbabazi bid largely because it was a true story, despite Mbabazi’s
evasiveness.
Last week, the issue that has been reported on and speculated about for more
than a year and even longer, finally and publicly began to fall into place.
Statements at wedding
At the wedding of the “rebel” NRM MP Barnabas Tinkasiimire of Buyaga West in
Kibaale District, Amama Mbabazi made significant statements about government,
the delivery of public services and the political direction the country ought
to be taking.
The government-owned New Vision paper sort of reported Mbabazi’s presence as
chief guest at the wedding, but also sort of dodged the part of reporting what
Mbabazi had said.
It fell to the Sunday Monitor to report the revealing details.
“If you teachers decided to let the struggle go, it is upon you because the
increment was every financial year to channel a percentage,” Mbabazi is quoted
to have said, starting off with this comment on the ongoing national teachers’
strike.
Mbabazi was targeting popular sentiment with that statement on the teachers.
Doing what the NRM government and the police usually term “inciting the
people”, Mbabazi referring to the dilapidated Kigumba-Kyenjojo road said: “I am
really surprised that you continue to support leaders who have not met the
demands made. It’s a caution for you to take lessons whenever voting.”
“Roads in Bunyoro should have been tarmacked yesterday since it’s the rich
region blessed with natural endowments like oil, but because you ‘vote well’
here compared to Kabale and Kanungu where I come from, such leaders think all
things are okay,” Mbabazi added.
His tongue-in-cheek reference to “voting well” was clearly aimed at President
Museveni who a decade ago had remarked that it did not matter what Members of
Parliament did on the floor of the national assembly as long as they voted
“wisely”, meaning voted to support Bills or political moves that favoured
Museveni.
The actual bombshell, at least in the sequence of the Sunday Monitor story,
came toward the end of the speech Mbabazi made. No words could have been more
plain than these in describing Mbabazi’s plans:
“I have kept many people guessing on my next step, but now I tell you
confidently that in not more than a month I will be declaring my intentions or
ambitions,” to which the crowd, understanding what this meant, cheered wildly.
There at last, in Kibaale, the long suspense was broken. Mbabazi had finally
gone public about his presidential ambitions and this time stated in
straightforward words that even the folk in Kibaale were able to understand.
For the first time since January 1986, Amama Mbabazi – the man who was one of a
handful of powerful figures at the very heart of the NRA/NRM military and
intelligence state – was now distancing himself from the Museveni legacy and
administration.
He was doing what the long-suffering Ugandan media, often dismissed as “bitter”
or “anti-government” by the NRM, had been doing for more than 20 years:
declaring that in terms of the delivery of public infrastructure and social
services, the Museveni administration had let down the country.
Support to “rebel” MPs
However, Mbabazi did not altogether disassociate himself from the NRM. He went
on to pledge his support to Tinkasiimire and the other three “rebel” MPs
Wilfred Niwagaba, Theodore Ssekikubo and Muhammad Nsereko, saying he would
stand by them in their court appeal to have their expulsion from the NRM
overturned.
“It is true when I was [NRM] secretary general, we did not agree with all the
four outspoken MPs but I can confidently say I am with them in all endeavours,”
said Mbabazi at the wedding, glossing over that part of the NRM’s expulsion of
the MPs and his role in it.
Just for Mbabazi to be the main guest at Tinkasiimire’s wedding, itself was
testimony to how much has changed within the NRM in two years.
Mbabazi as secretary-general had been one of those most adamant that the four
young MPs who were increasingly and publicly protesting at the excesses of
their own party and defying their party leadership. That is what led to their
expulsion from the party.
In fact, one almost wonders whether all along these four had really been
rebelling against the NRM or might have quietly been pro-Mbabazi agents within
the NRM used to further weaken Museveni’s standing within the party.
Mbabazi’s statements at Tinkasiimire’s wedding can be summed up thus:
1) He is, it’s now certain, preparing to announce his presidential bid. He has
now stated something to that effect and these statements leave no doubt what he
meant.
2) He now regards his political career as separate from that of President
Museveni and in his remarks at the wedding, sought to distance himself from the
failures in the delivery of basic public services, hinting that someone else,
if elected, could perform much better.
Poor delivery
By urging teachers to insist on their claim to a pay rise, Mbabazi seemed to
suggest that even while in government, it frustrated him that Ugandans could
not see that it was their right to get proper medical facilities, roads and
schools.
If he was not being sincere in those statements about poor delivery of public
services and was simply posturing at the wedding in order to strike a chord
with his audience, it still comes to the same thing: he is trying to secure
himself a national political constituency.
3) He still views himself as an NRM cadre, suggesting that if he were to run,
it would be to seek to create or head a reformed NRM, not a new party.
In this sense, he is from a similar school of thought to that of FDC leaders
such as Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, Col Kizza Besigye and Maj John Kazoora, whose
position has consistently been that what took place between February 1981 and
January 1986 was a genuine revolution, was based on an actual rigging of the
1980 general election, a revolution that meant well for Uganda but which
gradually under the leadership of Museveni departed from its ideals and
descended into personal, then family rule.
4) Regarding the “rebel” NRM MPs, it is one thing for one’s enemy’s enemy
(Mbabazi) to become one’s friend or ally when the practical calculations of
politics require it. But for this enemy’s enemy, who was once one’s own enemy
to not only become a friend by virtue of being one’s enemy’s enemy, but
actually one’s guest of honour, not at a political fundraising but at one’s
wedding, raises a number of questions.
Was Mbabazi all along in a secret alliance with the rebel MPs as they
challenged President Museveni’s authority in the NRM, officially blasting them
over their insubordination but privately working with them?
Considering the information that the media has been airing and printing, about
Mbabazi having aides, supporters and operatives in many sections of the State,
media, church, civil society and diplomatic services, this certainly seems
plausible.
At Tinkasiimire’s wedding, Mbabazi admits that he and the rebel MPs were until
recently antagonists but that’s now behind them. He does not explain what
transpired that turned him from critic of the MPs to fervent supporter of their
right to remain in the NRM and what’s in that for him.
And if it is plausible that all along Mbabazi was actually on good terms with
the rebel MPs, judging by the pride of place they gave him at Tinkasiimire’s
wedding (Ssekikubo was the best man, Niwagaba the chairman of the organising
committee), it raises the spectre that embedded within the NRM party and State
apparatus there might yet be many more supporters of Mbabazi.
Many of these secret supporters might appear to publicly disagree with Mbabazi,
but it could all be part of Mbabazi’s political game, the same kind of
secretive game played expertly by political operatives such as the late early
1980s vice president Paulo Muwanga, the 1960s director of the GSU intelligence
agency Akena Adoko, or even Museveni himself while he was still in the UNLF as
defence minister – building a power base within the organisation you intend to
overthrow or replace by placing your aides and supporters within that
organisation as sleeper cells.
All this said, we now know that the media speculation about a Mbabazi
presidential bid were not speculation. The long-awaited (and for many,
long-dreaded) fight for control of the NRM between President Museveni and Amama
Mbabazi is now about to become official.
Mbabazi’s comment on various issues
On roads: “Roads in Bunyoro should have been tarmacked yesterday since it’s the
rich region blessed with natural endowments like oil, but because you ‘vote
well’ here compared to Kabale and Kanungu where I come from, such leaders think
all things are okay,”
On silence: “I have kept many people guessing on my next step, but now I tell
you confidently that in not more than a month I will be declaring my intentions
or ambitions”
On teachers’ strike: “If you teachers decided to let the struggle go, it is
upon you because the increment was every financial year to channel a
percentage,”
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