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Greetings to comrade Chris and all netters.
It seems like the campaign to exterminate our Acholi brothers and sisters is in the final phase of completion, and next in line are Lango and Teso districts.
Forget the Kategayas of this world. They are all part of the problem. It is incredibly dipressing.
Mitayo Potosi
From: "Chris Opoka-Okumu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ugnet_: Kategaya dares Museveni on 3rd term Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:57:54 -0500
Now Kategaya dares Museveni on 3rd term By Emma Mutaizibwa & Henry H. Ssali Dec 23, 2003
KAMPALA - Mr Eriya Kategaya has said he will actively oppose the candidature of Mr Yoweri Museveni, if the President seeks another term in 2006.
Mr Kategaya appearing on the Andrew Mwenda show last evening (Photo by John Nsimbe).
Kategaya, a former first deputy prime minister, a childhood friend and political ally of Museveni for five decades, said he will openly support a rival to Museveni should the President run in the 2006 election.
Kategaya, who was appearing on Andrew Mwenda Live show on 93.3 Monitor FM last evening, said he cannot rule out running against Museveni for the presidency in 2006 "if people ask [him] to stand".
A relaxed Kategaya said Museveni chaired a Cabinet meeting that endorsed the third term.
"I have the circumstantial evidence that Museveni is behind the third term. He chaired the Cabinet meeting that endorsed the third term," Kategaya said last evening.
"The Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, had chaired the Cabinet a week before Nsibambi then said that Museveni would chair the next meeting that would endorse the third term," Kategeya said.
Kategaya, a former first deputy prime minister, was dropped in the last Cabinet reshuffle.
He has been a strong critic of Museveni's attempts to amend the Constitution to remove term limits on the presidency.
The move, dubbed the "third term project", is seen by critics as tailored to keep the incumbent at the helm as long as he wishes.
The removal of the term limit on the presidency was among a host of proposals the Cabinet submitted to the Constitutional Review Commission last October.
Kategaya said he was shocked to learn that Museveni intended to manipulate the Constitution for selfish interests.
"At times if people sing so many praises for you, you may think that you are indispensable. I am looking at the history of this country. The leadership in the past has never been trusted. If Museveni amends the Constitution, it will be the same old cycle," he said.
"As revolutionaries we shall be taken as selfish. I don't think my colleague should fall in that pit," he said.
Kategaya said he will feel betrayed if Museveni seeks re-election in 2006.
Kategaya dismissed claims that the country cannot do without Museveni.
"That is absolutely rubbish. I don't see the rationale that if he goes we shall have insecurity," he said.
Kategaya said political turmoil is a result of lack of strategic planning.
"We only think of the daily bread not the future. Africa should move out of this cocoon where the country depends on an individual," he said.
He said he would respect the results of the referendum on the third term.
"If it is free and fair, whoever wins it, so be it," he said. However he promised to campaign against the third term if it is put to a referendum.
He said Museveni could remain Movement chairman in a multi party system and play an important role. He, however, said the Movement should field another presidential candidate.
Kategeya rubbished a caller who proposed that Museveni should stay on until 2011 to complete his set goals.
Kategaya said that Museveni promised to finish his work and hand over power peacefully in the 2001 election manifesto. "That argument is self-serving. If I set out to do my work within a time frame and don't finish it, I should know that time is up," he said.
Kategaya also said he does not believe that one man can have a vision for the country as Museveni claims.
"A one-man vision is not a vision; I don't believe him," he said. "A vision must be shared. I think it should be a Movement vision not his."
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