ugnet_: Profiles
Political profiles of new faces in cabinet By Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda May 28, June 4 2003 At Parliament some of the newly appointed ministers might be missed. They have posted fair records and their contribution to the legislative process has been outstanding. Mr Adolf Mwesige the new Minister of State for the Office of the Vice President was the indefatigable chairman of the legal and parliamentary affairs committee. The committee has considered several legislations under his able leadership and his absence there will be conspicuous. Ms Mwesigye. Ms Namuyangu. He is a member of the National Resistance Movement party constitution draft committee. Mr Mwesige passes as a liberal politician and as a lawyer he is non-compromising on legal issues. He teamed up with his colleagues on the legal affairs committee and asked government not to over restrict political parties. Government did not follow his advice and paid dearly for this: The two controversial clauses in the Political Parties and Organizations Act 2002 were nullified by court on 21 March. These two clauses were stopping parties from opening up district branches. But Mr Mwesige would probably have served better in a ministry like Justice or as Attorney General. Ms Hope Mwesigye, now the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs is a very staunch third term proponent. She is a member of the Movement National Executive Committee and spoke in favour of unlimited presidential term. She is a zealous promoter of President Yoweri Museveni’s brand of the Movement politics and one of the women that have banged the benches and foot stamped every time the Movement is on top of a situation. The new appointment found her in London and she told The Monitor upon return 26 May that with the help of God and cooperation of her colleagues, she would be able to execute it. Ms Mwesigye sits on the legal and parliamentary affairs committee but sided with government on the matter of restricting parties when the majority report of her committee was for freeing parties. She has been the deputy chairperson of the rules, discipline and privileges committee of Parliament. Her blind support notwithstanding, she remains a good legislator. Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere of Local Government ministry has been there, done that. First he served as minister of state foreign affairs under the Movement in 1987-91 and as minister of natural resources in 1979 and 1980. His last assignment was that of a special presidential envoy to the Great Lakes Region. At Parliament he has defended the Movement at all costs. Mr James Nsaba Buturo is the Minister of State for Information. He has been chairman of the presidential and foreign affairs committee and has a deep affection for the Movement. Mr Nsaba Buturo has taken over his new job with zeal and has even succumbed to the temptation to make public statements before he is approved and sworn-in. The man has been all over FM stations making comments on the reported sacking of Brig. Henry Tumukunde. But this is characteristic of him. When he took over the chairmanship of the presidential committee, he and his colleagues zealously drafted the rules of the East African parliament elections but the Speaker of Parliament humbled them when he instead instructed the rules committee to do the job. Mr Nsaba Buturo surprised the Budget committee of Parliament when he took it upon himself to defend the Movement Secretariat’s Shs 6bn indicative budget for 2003/4. Mr Kirunda Kivejinja is the Minister of State for the Presidency. He was forced to resign his ministerial job after an ill-tempered Sixth Parliament censured him for drawing 2,000 litres of fuel from Uganda Railways Corporation and using them on constructing a road in Pallisa. He was taken to the Movement Secretariat as director of external affairs. Mr Kivejinja is an NRM historical. He is on the record for opposing the freeing of political parties. Prof. Ssemakula Kiwanuka is the Minister of State for Luwero Triangle. He was Uganda’s ambassador to the United Nations before he returned and made an unsuccessful foray for the Makindye East parliamentary seat in 2001. Mr Ssemakula bought himself a return ticket to New York after the elections when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to give him the money. Sources said that they had always wanted to drop him but they were still looking for a post for him. Nshimye Sebuturo is Minister of State for Regional Co-operation. He is leaving Parliament before his report on election violence is even debated. The report incriminated the army and other senior Movement people. It was very critical of the Movement political system and blamed the individual merit principle for the chaos that marred the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2001. Mr Nshimye told The Monitor 26 May that his new job would be a challenging one and he is eager to execute it. At Parliament he has not taken any radi
ugnet_: A must Read tomorrow Monitor
In the Sunday Monitor tomorrow May 31, 2003 In the last 17 years of Museveni’s rule, Hon. John Nasasira has been the least reshuffled minister. Sunday Monitor brings you an amazing insight into the life and politics of the tall slender man from Kazo who plays politics like a civil servant. A must read! Charles Rwomushana, the president’s assistant on Political Intelligence is increasingly playing the role of Museveni’s attack dog, a role previously played by Ofwono Opondo. But who is Rwomushana, anyway, and why is he suddenly throwing mud all over the place? Gen. Moses Ali, James Wapakhabulo, Amama Mbabazi, Medi Kaggwa, Syda Bbumba and Janat Mukwaya have all been in the queue for vice president. In our special report, we piece together the pieces that gave Prof. Gilbert Bukenya the edge over other candidates – and whether the matter is closed for the other hopefuls. Prof. Dani Wadada Nabudere and Mbarara Municipality MP Winnie Byanyima on the implications of the cabinet reshuffle, and attempts to form an NRM party. Plus your regular Lifestyle features, entertainment and columnists Austin Ejiet, Alan Tacca and Kevin O’Connor. Sunday Monitor makes your Sunday! © 2003 The Monitor Publications --- He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything. Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim. Michael Bwambuga. __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455
ugnet_: Disgusting:Lost VP Bukenya talks
Netters, This is what we are dealing with in Uganda. Sleepy and Lost pro dictator Museveni's supporters. What a shame!! "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But he built Wandira kazibwe too > >Em > > The Mulindwas Communication Group >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de communication Mulindwas >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" >- Original Message - >From: "Y Yaobang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:31 PM >Subject: ugnet_: VP Bukenya talks > > >> >> What a disgusting statement from Uganda's VP-elect: >> >> "I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has >> taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. >Where >> would I go if I decided to leave Museveni?" >> >> >> y >> >> >> I Started 3rd Term Talk, Says Bukenya >> >> By Edris Kisambira >> VICE President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya said yesterday that he initiated the >> third-term talk and he cannot stop it. >> >> Speaking in Luganda at Kakiri at the launch of a Euros1.1m food security >> project, Bukenya said, "Nze natandika okwogera ku kisanja ekyokusatu, ate >> nyinza ntya okutandika okugaana abantu oku'kyogerako? (I initiated the >third >> term talk, how can I then come out and try to stop it?)." >> >> Bukenya, who hosted the European Union (EU), Italian and Chinese >ambassadors >> was reacting to a lead story in The Monitor newspaper of Friday that said >he >> had stopped people from agitating for a third term for President Yoweri >> Museveni. "Yesterday (Thursday) we were in Namayumba launching a new >malaria >> drug. I did not mention anything to do with the third term but The Monitor >> has come out with a story that is contrary to what happened. The Monitor's >> headline today should have been like . Bukenya launches new malaria >> drug," he said. >> >> "Writing wrong sensational news is what is going to bring us trouble. >> Newspapers should not write headlines to disturb and cause us problems. If >> there is nothing to write about, nothing should be written. I think it was >> confusing, and could result into divisions in the country." Ambassadors >> Sigurd Illing, Li Qiangmin and Maurizio Teucci were present. >> Bukenya spoke passionately about Museveni saying that he is stuck with >> Museveni and that he will never forsake him for whatever reason. >> >> "I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has >> taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. >Where >> would I go if I decided to leave Museveni?" >> Ends >> >> _ >> The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* >> http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail >> >> >> > > > -- He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything. Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim. Michael Bwambuga. __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455
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ugnet_: LEGACY OF RIVALRY AND SUSPICION
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor(Filed: 31/05/2003) For the past five years, Britain and France have been trying to overcome their ancient legacy of rivalry and mutual suspicion in Africa. It started with them sharing embassies in Africa. Then ministers began taking joint trips around the continent. Now British soldiers are preparing to serve under French command to try to stop the bloodletting in Congo. By agreeing to send in troops together, Tony Blair and President Jacques Chirac are also signalling their determination quickly to overcome their row over the war in Iraq. In the imperial "scramble for Africa", the two countries almost went to war in September 1898 over who would control an abandoned fort at Fashoda in the Sudan. It was at the crossroads of Britain's attempt to run a railway from Cape Town to Cairo and French plans to open a route from Dakar to Djibouti. French soldiers got there first, but after a tense stand-off relinquished control to the more powerful British force. A century later, in the fort-town of Saint Malo in northern France, Tony Blair and M Chirac agreed to work together to unify their policy in Africa. French and British diplomats have been seconded to work in the Africa departments of each other's foreign ministries. French and British diplomats also share premises in Sierra Leone and Niger. But despite such shows of unity, tensions remain. Britain was outraged earlier this year when M Chirac invited President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to a sumptuous Franco-Africa summit in Paris despite a European travel ban imposed on senior members of his regime. The Congolese civil war broke out in 1998 as a spill-over from the Rwandan civil war and genocide of 1994. Whereas Paris has strongly supported the "sovereignty" of the Congolese government in Kinshasa, Britain has maintained close relations with Uganda and Rwanda, which support the main rebel forces in eastern Congo. Britain is the biggest bilateral aid donor to Rwanda and argues that Kigali's security needs must be met. The Tutsi-dominated Rwandan government, for its part, is deeply suspicious of France. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: BRITISH FORCES READY FOR CONGO
British forces in mission to halt Congo massacresBy Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent and Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor(Filed: 31/05/2003) Britain will contribute hundreds of troops, possibly including the SAS, to a French-led multi-national mission to enforce peace in north-east Congo, British officials said yesterday. The UN Security Council yesterday gave the peacekeepers a mandate to use deadly force to try to stop massacres in the Ituri region, a remote area ravaged by tribal killings and cannibalism. A British military reconnaissance team will fly to the regional town of Bunia early next week to ascertain what size of force the Army should contribute. It will also examine if there is a role for the SAS to play. The force mandate is to protect civilians and secure the nearby airport until Sept 1, by which time UN reinforcements should have arrived. The force, likely to be about 2,000 strong, many of them French, will not wear the usual blue helmets of the UN and is expected to take firm measures to restore order. There are 700 UN troops already in Bunia but they have no mandate and no capability to do anything other than batten down inside their compound while the killing goes on outside. The UN decision, which was supported by the United States, is a further step towards re-uniting the Security Council after the bitter divisions over the war in Iraq. "Among Europeans there was a definite desire to show that we can work together after Iraq on foreign affairs and defence issues rather than just on economic matters," said one Whitehall source. The crisis began three weeks ago when Uganda withdrew its 6,000 troops from Bunia as part of a UN-brokered peace accord, leaving rival Lendu and Hema tribal militias to fight for control of the town in a series of bloody street battles. The civil war in the mineral-rich region, exacerbated by intervention from neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, has left an estimated 50,000 dead, including up to 400 in the past three weeks. The British force is likely to be no more than 200 signallers, intelligence and logistics specialists but, at its largest, could include a battalion of light infantry. British officials said a detachment of Royal Engineers could also be sent out to help rehabilitate Bunia's dilapidated airstrip and speed up the deployment. They may also conduct "hearts and minds" operations such as fixing roads and wells. A French reconnaissance team that is due back in Paris tomorrow is likely to recommend that a battalion of French paratroopers be dispatched next week. The main force is likely to include contingents from Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan, Nigeria, Denmark and Sweden. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: IF YOU MUST GO YO KENYA
If you must go, choose carefullyBy Jeremy Skidmore Tourists intent on visiting Kenya should be particularly careful in their choice of airline and accommodation, a security consultant has said. He was responding to our request that he advise any travellers who are determined to go ahead with their holidays despite the current Foreign Office warning. James Smither, a senior analyst at Control Risks Group, a London-based company that advises businesses, said that with British Airways flights suspended, it would probably be safer to travel on Kenya Airways than on another European airline. "We are not really in the business of recommending airlines, but a terrorist attack on Kenya Airways seems unlikely because it would damage the infrastructure and economy of the country, which is not the target." He advised people to stay in lodge-sized hotels and visit game reserves rather than cities or beach resorts. "The hotels with the best security tend to be five-star properties with international names, which are the highest targets. But cheaper hotels have poor security and you could also be a victim of crime, so we recommend small lodge hotels. "Beaches and cities have a high concentration of foreign nationals, whereas game reserves are in remote areas and less likely to be targeted." He said that despite recent improvements, security at African airports remained poor. "Since the September 11 attacks we've been warning that airline and hotel security in Africa is not up to scratch. I'm sure it is better now, but Kenya does not have the funds of other countries." Chris Yates, aviation editor of Jane's Transport, was blunter. New patrols around Kenya's airports were a "futile" public relations exercise, he said. "The area is vast, with undergrowth and buildings, and unless you seal [it] off with an electric fence, it's a waste of time." Control Risks Group is also concerned about travel to neighbouring Uganda and Tanzania. The FO said there was a high risk of global terrorism in these countries, but stopped short of advising against non-essential travel. "It is not difficult to transport people or missiles across the border and we believe there is a credible threat in Uganda and, in particular, Tanzania," said Mr Smither. But he added that the risk of terrorism should be kept in perspective. "In Kenya, some of the roads are terrible and crime is rife. You are more likely to be mugged or involved in a car crash than caught up in a hotel bomb." The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: MALCOM X FOUGHT FOR LIBERATION OF BLACKS
Speech by his Excellency Ambas-sador Simbi Mubako, Zimbabwes ambassador to the US, on the future of Pan-Africanism and the black liberation movement, New York, on May 17 2003. We meet today to commemorate the life of a great man, that illustrious son of Africa, Malcolm X (Malcolm Shabazz), whose birthday falls on May 19. There are few people who can achieve the heights of national leadership in the short time as brother Malcolm X did; few who can inspire generations of freedom fighters the world over as he did; few who can articulate the need to fight for justice and democracy by the oppressed as he did. As we celebrate brother Malcolms birthday weekend, we must remember that the most fitting tribute we can pay him is to consider and rededicate ourselves to some of those values and noble goals for which he lived and for which he laid down his life. I, therefore, commend you on your choice of topic for this discussion. Pan-Africanism and black liberation is what Malcolm fought for. The ideas of Pan-Africanism and black liberation were first articulated here in the United States. In honouring brother Malcolm X, we remember also black leaders like Marcus Garvey, Dr Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah and others who all contributed to make black liberation the powerful movement that it became in the 20th century and which it can still be in the 21st century. The lesson we learn from the work of these great pioneers is that the struggle for black liberation is one struggle whether in the Americas, the Caribbean or on the African continent. Your struggle is our struggle and the struggle of the workers and peasants in Africa is your struggle. In his presentation delivered to the African heads of state at the 1964 meeting of the OAU, Malcolm X said: "Your problems will never be fully resolved unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected until and unless we are also respected. You will never be recognised as free human beings until and unless we are also recognised and treated as human beings. Our problem is your problem. It is not a Negro problem, nor an American problem. This is a world problem; a problem for humanity. It is not a problem of civil rights but a problem of human rights . . ." The founding fathers of Pan-African liberation understood that imperative. After attaining political independence for Ghana, Dr Kwame Nkrumah stated that "the independence of Ghana was meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the rest of Africa from European colonial domination". When he made that statement it sounded like a pipe dream. We now know how very true that statement was. In Zimbabwe, we attained our political independence in 1980 after a protracted armed struggle. We knew that our political independence was not secure as long as Namibia and South Africa remained under colonial and apartheid domination. We, therefore, supported the black liberation movements in those countries both materially and diplomatically until those countries won their freedom. Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania had assisted our struggle in a similar way. None of us is free until we are all free. Even after an African country has won political independence it remains necessary to insure that status is maintained for the threat of imperialist domination is ever present. For that reason, Zimbabwe has always considered it its Pan-Africanist duty to assist other African states whenever their sovereignty was threatened. That is why Zimbabwe committed troops to Mozambique for seven years until Renamo was defeated; sent advisers to Lesotho to prevent a constitutional breakdown; and more recently, Zimbabwe intervened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist the government to repel aggression by Uganda and Rwanda which were acting as proxies of the forces of Western imperialism. In the last seventy years, the Pan-African liberation movement scored an impressive record of victories. There are now 54 black states in Africa and more in the Diaspora where there were two or three before the second Great War. And black people have achieved civil rights and recognition in North America. However, we must realise that in most cases black people have not yet acquired real economic power even though they have received political independence. Hence, the next phase of the black liberation struggle must be the struggle for black economic empowerment. The economic phase of the struggle for black liberation was dramatised on the world stage by the agrarian revolution which is currently underway in Zimbabwe. The two principle objectives of the bitter war of liberation were political independence and secondly reclamation of land which had been grabbed by British settlers from the Africans at gunpoint. Political independence was won in 1980 but Zimba-bweans had to wait for twenty years before they could recover their land. By the year 2000 over 65 percent o
ugnet_: ZIMBABWEANS FIGHTING MDC
Zupco challenges MDC Herald Reporter THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) yesterday filed an urgent application at the High Court seeking an order compelling the MDC to call off its planned mass action next week. It also emerged yesterday that there were divisions within the MDC following the unraveling by security forces of a plot by criminal elements behind the mass action to disrupt electricity supplies, disable traffic lights and the telecommunications system. Zupco said it was seeking an order to interdict the MDC from organising, calling for, encouraging and supporting any illegal demonstration. Justice Lavender Makoni set the matter for hearing on Monday morning. However, lawyers representing Zupco were understood to be trying to get an earlier hearing because of the urgency of the matter. The bus company is arguing that as a duly incorporated company in terms of the laws of the country, it was entitled to due protection under the laws of Zimbabwe. It said it had lost property and business worth more than $500 million during previous illegal mass stayaways organised by the MDC. Zupco said next weeks planned demonstration had not been sanctioned under the laws of the country and was therefore unlawful. It said since previous MDC demonstrations had always turned violent and the company had been one of the victims of the violence, it had reason to believe that it would again suffer losses if next weeks demonstration is allowed to go ahead. "Preceding on the basis that the applicant has already suffered extensive and largely irreparable prejudice because of the aforementioned illegal demonstrations, it entertains a reasonable apprehension of similar prejudice if the respondent (MDC) is not ordered to stop the illegal demonstration," Zupco said. Besides Zupco, the illegal MDC mass action will also prejudice people who rely on the bus companys service. Sources said a hard core group in the MDC wants to disconnect power supplies to essential institutions such as hospitals, disrupt telecommunication systems and traffic light to cause chaos. The group is taking advantage of the strike at the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority to disrupt power supplies and make it appear as if it is the work of disgruntled workers. Those who will disrupt the telecommunications systems work in the sector. The sectors workers representative body is led by MDC deputy secretary general Mr Gift Chimanikire. The group is working with certain foreign media personnel who have set up a communications network at a hotel in Harare. One Ms Davis, who is believed to have ties with the British Broadcasting Corporation and a confidant of British High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Mr Brian Donnelly, is co-ordinating the communications network. The network will communicate to the world that things are collapsing in Zimbabwe as the MDC hard core group switches off electricity, telecommunications systems and disables traffic lights. Another group in the MDC is worried that the strategy would expose the opposition party as a violent and dangerous party. "Switching off traffic lights, electricity and disrupting telecommunication systems is inherently dangerous because it endangers peoples lives as they depend on these services," said a source in the MDC. The sources said some opposition leaders were increasingly realising that they had called for a treasonous action against a constitutionally elected Government. The MDC has placed advertisements and distributed pamphlets saying it was taking to the street to remove President Mugabe from power. Party insiders said some Western diplomats had advised the MDC to change its declared action to overthrow Cde Mugabe and say instead it was marching for dialogue. Yesterday MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai told journalists at a Press conference that the aim of his party was to get President Mugabe to the negotiating table to discuss the country's problems. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: I INSIST UGANDA IS UNDER ANARCHY
I Started 3rd Term Talk, Says BukenyaBy Edris KisambiraVICE President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya said yesterday that he initiated the third-term talk and he cannot stop it.Speaking in Luganda at Kakiri at the launch of a Euros1.1m food security project, Bukenya said, "Nze natandika okwogera ku kisanja ekyokusatu, ate nyinza ntya okutandika okugaana abantu oku'kyogerako? (I initiated the third term talk, how can I then come out and try to stop it?)."Bukenya, who hosted the European Union (EU), Italian and Chinese ambassadors was reacting to a lead story in The Monitor newspaper of Friday that said he had stopped people from agitating for a third term for President Yoweri Museveni. "Yesterday (Thursday) we were in Namayumba launching a new malaria drug. I did not mention anything to do with the third term but The Monitor has come out with a story that is contrary to what happened. The Monitor's headline today should have been like . Bukenya launches new malaria drug," he said."Writing wrong sensational news is what is going to bring us trouble. Newspapers should not write headlines to disturb and cause us problems. If there is nothing to write about, nothing should be written. I think it was confusing, and could result into divisions in the country." Ambassadors Sigurd Illing, Li Qiangmin and Maurizio Teucci were present.Bukenya spoke passionately about Museveni saying that he is stuck with Museveni and that he will never forsake him for whatever reason."I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. Where would I go if I decided to leave Museveni?"Ends The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: VP Bukenya talks
But he built Wandira kazibwe too Em The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: "Y Yaobang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:31 PM Subject: ugnet_: VP Bukenya talks > > What a disgusting statement from Uganda's VP-elect: > > "I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has > taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. Where > would I go if I decided to leave Museveni?" > > > y > > > I Started 3rd Term Talk, Says Bukenya > > By Edris Kisambira > VICE President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya said yesterday that he initiated the > third-term talk and he cannot stop it. > > Speaking in Luganda at Kakiri at the launch of a Euros1.1m food security > project, Bukenya said, "Nze natandika okwogera ku kisanja ekyokusatu, ate > nyinza ntya okutandika okugaana abantu oku'kyogerako? (I initiated the third > term talk, how can I then come out and try to stop it?)." > > Bukenya, who hosted the European Union (EU), Italian and Chinese ambassadors > was reacting to a lead story in The Monitor newspaper of Friday that said he > had stopped people from agitating for a third term for President Yoweri > Museveni. "Yesterday (Thursday) we were in Namayumba launching a new malaria > drug. I did not mention anything to do with the third term but The Monitor > has come out with a story that is contrary to what happened. The Monitor's > headline today should have been like . Bukenya launches new malaria > drug," he said. > > "Writing wrong sensational news is what is going to bring us trouble. > Newspapers should not write headlines to disturb and cause us problems. If > there is nothing to write about, nothing should be written. I think it was > confusing, and could result into divisions in the country." Ambassadors > Sigurd Illing, Li Qiangmin and Maurizio Teucci were present. > Bukenya spoke passionately about Museveni saying that he is stuck with > Museveni and that he will never forsake him for whatever reason. > > "I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has > taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. Where > would I go if I decided to leave Museveni?" > Ends > > _ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > >
ugnet_: VP Bukenya talks
What a disgusting statement from Uganda's VP-elect: I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. Where would I go if I decided to leave Museveni? y I Started 3rd Term Talk, Says Bukenya By Edris Kisambira VICE President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya said yesterday that he initiated the third-term talk and he cannot stop it. Speaking in Luganda at Kakiri at the launch of a Euros1.1m food security project, Bukenya said, Nze natandika okwogera ku kisanja ekyokusatu, ate nyinza ntya okutandika okugaana abantu okukyogerako? (I initiated the third term talk, how can I then come out and try to stop it?). Bukenya, who hosted the European Union (EU), Italian and Chinese ambassadors was reacting to a lead story in The Monitor newspaper of Friday that said he had stopped people from agitating for a third term for President Yoweri Museveni. Yesterday (Thursday) we were in Namayumba launching a new malaria drug. I did not mention anything to do with the third term but The Monitor has come out with a story that is contrary to what happened. The Monitors headline today should have been like . Bukenya launches new malaria drug, he said. Writing wrong sensational news is what is going to bring us trouble. Newspapers should not write headlines to disturb and cause us problems. If there is nothing to write about, nothing should be written. I think it was confusing, and could result into divisions in the country. Ambassadors Sigurd Illing, Li Qiangmin and Maurizio Teucci were present. Bukenya spoke passionately about Museveni saying that he is stuck with Museveni and that he will never forsake him for whatever reason. I will support Museveni like it or not. Museveni has moulded me, he has taught me politics, he is my political mentor and I cannot leave him. Where would I go if I decided to leave Museveni? Ends _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
ugnet_: Kategaya plotting against Museveni, says Rwomushana
Kategaya plotting against Museveni, says RwomushanaBy Alex B. Atuhaire May 22, 2003 The head of Political Intelligence in State House Charles Rwomushana has accused First Deputy Prime Minister Eriya Kategaya of mobilising with other senior Movement and army officers against President Yoweri Museveni. "[Mr] Kategaya is mobilising Movement people against his long term colleague. [This is] treachery of the highest order!" Mr Rwomushana said on Tuesday while appearing on Andrew Mwenda Live, a talk-how on 93.3 Monitor FM. Mr Rwomushana also is a former Constituent Assembly delegate from Rukungiri and RDC for Pader. During the talk-show, he named Local Government Minister Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, East African Community Secretary General Amanya Mushega and an army brigadier, whose name he never disclosed, as part of the group that has been organising against the president over the past one year. Rwomushana claimed that Mr Kategaya, who also is the minister of Internal Affairs, has been working "undercover". "One day a brigadier invited [Mr] Bidandi and Hon. Kategaya and they addressed a training wing of more than 1,000 recruits to mobilise against the third term. This is a high degree of treachery," he said. Mr Rwomushana was commenting on issues regarding the controversial attempt to amend the 1995 Constitution to lift presidential term limits. One is expected to serve as president for two five-year terms. The lifting of term limits, an issue that continues to pervade political discussion, is seen to favour President Museveni to stay on when his constitutional term expires in 2006. Mr Kategaya, Mr Bidandi and Mr Mushega, all senior Movement leaders, are opposed to the amendment. Mr Kategaya was yesterday said to be away on duty in Kenya. But before he left for Nairobi, he warned Mr Museveni against running for a third term in an interview with a local newspaper. Mr Kategaya was quoted urging Ugandans to organise for the sake of their country against manipulation for a third term for Mr Museveni. When contacted yesterday, Mr Bidandi dismissed Mr Rwomushana's allegations as "of course nonsense". Mr Mushega told The Monitor yesterday, on phone from Arusha, that he could not respond to Mr Rwomushana because he was not his equal. He said: "I don't know whether that is true because I have not read or listened to him. But even if it were true, I cannot engage in debate with Rwomushana because he is not my equal and it's not fair to the people of Uganda." Mr Bidandi said the allegations proved what kind of person Mr Rwomushana is and what he is after. "It's these Rwomushanas who could land the country into problems. I think there is something they are looking after, from me," he said. Mr Bidandi denied ever having addressed an army-training unit, adding that he had nothing to do with the army. On Tuesday, Mr Rwomushana alleged that the conspiracy in government started when Mr Kategaya and his group began mobilising, even before Dr Kizza Besigye, a former Movement insider, ran for the 2001 presidential elections. "They wanted to mobilise and put up their own puppet, hijack the Movement and dictate like they used to do before. They discovered that they didn't have the ground, but they have now bounced back. The young Movementists are saying no," he said. "These fellows have over-exaggerated themselves; they have walked on the back of President Museveni, we pray that he sheds them off and we work on them politically," Mr Rwomushana said, before launching stinging personal attacks on Mr Kategaya, Mr Mushega and Mr Bidandi. Mr Rwomushana claimed that Mr Kategaya could not manage competitive politics, a reason he said former Ugandan High Commissioner to Kenya Francis Butagira was given the diplomatic posting to save the minister politically. "They had to remove Butagira to make him an ambassador such that a lazy Kategaya can become an MP. You certainly know that Kategaya cannot manage competitive politics," he said. Mr Rwomushana also claimed that Mr Bidandi had politically collapsed in Nakawa before he retired from active politics in 2001. He accused Mr Mushega of lacking credibility to talk about democracy."Amanya Mushega came to my village many times, oversaw the beating of my supporters. Reason? They were suppressing proliferation of new talent." © 2003 The Monitor Publications Gook We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of bad people but also for the appalling silence of good people". M.L.King MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*.
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Special Visa's Use for Tech Workers Is Challenged May 30, 2003 By KATIE HAFNER and DANIEL PREYSMAN American technology workers say their jobs are increasingly going to foreign workers who enter the United States under a little-known visa. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/technology/30VISA.html?ex=1055306183&ei=1&en=a3a0b7d5331773c6 - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8.
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Save Our Spooks May 30, 2003 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF After 71 days of searching in Iraq, we have not found any weapons of mass destruction. Oh, well, maybe we'll find them tomorrow or the day after. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30KRIS.html?ex=1055306203&ei=1&en=ec21a3cc17362369 Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.
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On Destined Way to Dallas, Oswald Tarried Here May 30, 2003 By STEVEN LEE MYERS The landmarks of Lee Harvey Oswald's strange life in the capital of Belarus remain in some ways remarkably unchanged four decades later. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/international/europe/30OSWA.html?ex=1055306419&ei=1&en=ea292099876755b4 - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8.
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Deportation Behind Closed Doors May 30, 2003 The Supreme Court dropped the ball by not involving itself in the case of deportation hearings for immigrants suspected of ties to terrorism. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30FRI2.html?ex=1055306517&ei=1&en=6c6e1d98df18ea89 - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
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Water Tap Often Shut to South Africa's Poor May 29, 2003 By GINGER THOMPSON South Africa has begun turning water utilities into profitable operations, but many poor communities still do not have access. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/international/africa/29WATE.html?ex=1055306575&ei=1&en=49bbdd0b057f462a - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/ads/nytcirc/index.html HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*.
