"Frederick Golooba-Mutebi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add to Address Book Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:16:53 +0200 Subject: [FedsNet] FDC leader, supporters and the Movement
Netters,
I am intrigued by what people such as Bwana Ojambo seek to achieve by their missives attacking former Movement supporters who have switched sides and now lead or support the FDC. There are many people in Uganda, myself included, who supported Museveni and the Movement at some point but subsequently stopped, for a variety of reasons. I am sure there are many on this forum too. I was once a firm and committed supporter of the Movement and what it stood for, until I realised it was just a wolf in sheep skin. I have never been a supporter of DP. However, it was the mistreatment of DP supporters by Movement partisans and public officials in Rakai District in 1996 where I was at that time, and the malpractices surrounding the 1996 presidential elections, that eventually forced me to abandon the Movement. Many of my friends who dismissed my concerns at that time and continued supporting and voting for the Movement have subsequently come to the realisation that it took them too long to realise that both the Movement and Museveni were up to no good. For me the issue was simple: the Movement had fought Obote's government on the grounds, among others, that it had rigged elections, and that it mistreated its opponents. The question I asked myself then was: if that was the case, why was it acceptable for it to do the same things 16 years latter and behave as if they were acceptable then?
My personal experience makes me think that people who have abandoned the Movement over the years, their respective roles in promoting and entrenching it notwithstanding, have done so because they reached a point, as I did, when they could no longer tolerate what was going on. The only difference between them and I is that I left earlier. The motivations, though, are the same. We all want a different Uganda now, one in which everybody is free to be what they like, provided it is legal, support a political group of their choice, and enjoy equal treatment before the law, etc.
Ojambo's attack on Muniini and other FDC people, in my view, is pointless and ultimately leads nowhere. It is, in my view, akin to saying that, since the kabakaship collaborated with UPC to thwart DP's aspirations in the early 1960s and UPC subsequently went to ban the monarch and terrorise the country, the Kabakaship should shunned. I am yet to hear anyone making such a point. If I did, I would find it as ridiculous and pointless as Ojambo's continued attack on FDC leaders. The reference by some to the ethnic membership of the likes of Mugisha Muntu, Ruzinda, I find repugnant. Let me declare my interest here. I am a sympathiser of FDC. I am, though, not a member. My sympathy derives from my belief that right now it, alongside other organised sections of the broad opposition to the Movement, are what we need to get rid of the Movement and all it represents.
Golooba.
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