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Musamize
Your points are very eloquent and I can not post
them any different. But that is not the big picture, a picture we all as
Ugandans must learn in this arrest.
Reporters are always arrested, some are even killed
in arranged accidents, you only have to look at Iraq. But members of parliament
are not arrested, for these men set the laws and run theater business in a
different environment.
When the Members of parliament were arrested, what
were your comments? No you kept quite for these were Northerners any ways. You
decided to take it as a non issue. Not only you but most of Ugandans especially
from the South so it became a problem only worried about by the people from the
North. This idiocy has been running in Uganda since Museveni came to power and
he has used it to its optimum.
That is why I have told you always, that you need
to be a Ugandan before you are a Muganda, because if we as Ugandans opposed the
arrest of MPs from the North, we surely would have had a bigger say on
Maenad's arrest but we do not, we think in our little holes and Museveni
has just exploited that.
Another good example is the federalism debate that
started in Uganda. Little brained as we are, when it started, Kibuuka your self,
Kigongo and many because ecstatic, to the extent that you chased us from Fednet,
and Kibuuka decided to fly to Uganda for now Buganda is going to become federal
state. The question became what do Ugandans think? I think Kibuuka is already
back or planning to be back for I do not see a federal state in Uganda. I happen
to write articles in Monitor and one day you said that you do not understand why
my postings are published yet yours are not , does Monitor have an agenda? You
forgot that my postings are made based in a larger picture of agnation which is
Uganda.
Musamize Museveni has an agenda, an agenda that in
the end he will even close Mengo. And you are saying Ffe Kasita Twebaka untill
when it will be closed then you will start to look for people to complain too?
Musamize we need nationalism, for tribalism has failed and very
miserably.
Em
Toronto
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 -----
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 9:45
PM
Subject: [Ugnet] Re:Monitor Talk Show
Host Arrested for sedition
Just be glad Mu7 is not in the medical field. He'd let the patient
die and be buried first then write a prescription, have the body excavated
to be given the medicine.
In this case, ignoring his own constitution and judicial system
he ordered Monitor Radio closed. After that, in the guise of wanting to seem
to be conducting some sort of investigation, he had Andrew Mwenda
arrested (before any evidence was gathered that we were told of, perhaps
without even so much as an arrest warrant). Possibly we shall see some sort
of trial in a kangaroo court and then perhaps imprisonment or whatever the
punishment for sedition is. Colonialists, in order to legally harass and
suppress Africans who were demanding self-government, by the way, introduced
sedition laws.
Some revolution Musevenis turned out to be. With every passing day the stench of
a dictatorship grows stronger.
One wonders what the investor who put up the tons of money needed set
up a functioning radio operation must be
thinking. Sandy L
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Netters this is scary: Thought we were logn past this.
| Monitors Mwenda detained |
| CHARLES
MWANGUHYA, SIMON KASYATE, SIRAJ LUBWAMA & KELVIN NSANGI |
| KAMPALA
The host of the Tonight With Andrew Mwenda Live talk show
on 93.3 KFM has been arrested and detained on charges of
sedition.
Mr Mwenda who is also the Political Editor
of the Daily Monitor was yesterday interrogated by the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for at least one and a
half hours and later whisked off to the Central Police Station
(CPS) where he was booked for the night.
According to
the Monitor Publications Ltd Legal and Administrative Manager,
Ms Anne Abeja Muhwezi, Mwenda was questioned over his August
10 edition of the talk show. Earlier on Thursday, the
Broadcasting Council had shut down KFM over the same programme
and suspended the radio stations broadcasting licence for
allegedly offending minimum broadcasting
standards.
Mwenda, clad in a blue short sleeve KFM
shirt, a black pair of jeans walked into the CID headquarters
along Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road near Parliament at 3:43 pm after
receiving summons earlier in the afternoon.
Upon
arrival, he joked to colleagues from Daily Monitor who waited
outside the gate, I have left my phone at home, I have no
belt, and I am ready to go to jail.
Accompanied by Monitor
lawyer James Nangwala and Muhwezi, Mwenda walked straight into
the office of Assistant Superintendent of Police Charles
Kataratambi.
Good afternoon gentlemen, I am here for
you to bite, to chew and to swallow. What are you saying? he
joked upon entering the office. Kataratambi replied, I am
pleased you know how to keep time.
Seated in the
office was the Presidential Assistant on Political Affairs, Mr
Moses Byaruhanga, who was one of the guests on Mwendas show
on Wednesday.
Mwenda and Byaruhanga hugged and exchanged
pleasantries before the latter was led to another office
within the CID complex.
Shortly afterwards Kataratambi
ordered the journalists to stay away, saying only Mwenda and
the lawyers were required in the office.
Byaruhanga did
not spe ak to journalists but CID officials said he had
recorded a statement.
Mwenda stayed in Kataratambis
office for close to two hours before the interrogation began.
He was later moved to another office by the O/C
Serious Crime SSP James Habuchiriro where he was kept for one
and a half hours before he was later returned to Kataratambis
office. Mwenda was charged and cautioned for sedition under
Section 50 of the Penal Code Act before he recorded a
statement.
Sedition is an utterance, which has the
intention of bringing into disaffection the person of the
president, the government as by law established or the
Constitution.
A charge and caution is a procedural
requirement that whatever is said may be used as evidence in a
court of law.
Nangwala said before being questioned and
making the statement, Mwenda dramatically tried to acclimatise
himself to prison conditions by lying on the floor, surprising
the Police officers present.
Nangwala told Da ily
Monitor that after Mwenda made his statement, Habuchiriro made
several phone calls before a gray Saloon car Reg. No. UAD
476R, arrived to take him to CPS.
We were not told at
any time that Mwenda would be detained, Nangwala said adding,
so when he was asked to get into this car, we had to follow
the car.
At CPS, which was in darkness due to a power
blackout, Mwenda was taken to the booking office where he was
booked in and later moved down a dark alley into a crowded
cell in the basement of CPS at 7:05pm.
Monitor
Publications Managing Director Conrad Nkutu described the
detention as very unfortunate and an excessive reaction from
the government.
Nkutu said Mwenda had walked himself to
CID and they should have invited him to appear
again.
He said the law of sedition under which Mwenda
was charged does not have a proper place in a democratic
state.
All countries that respect press freedom as a
pillar of democracy have removed from their books laws that
criminalise media offences, Nkutu said. |
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