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Ugandans
Okay that does it let me respond for I am
getting allot of this nonsense,both in the forum and private.
First of all Ugandans amaze me, for they respond
with out facts. I have been bombarded with responses regarding my article and
many start with I did not read this or that, (For the record I posted on
Ugandanet both Mwenda's transcript and Mulera's article). So if you did not
read Mwenda's transcript or Muniini Mulera's article why do you engage in this
discussion based on what I wrote in Monitor alone?
And to the one who said I wrote the article, for I
wanted to use a chance to attack Dr. Mulera, that was an 18 wheeler full of
crap.
Let me clarify my position.
I as Edward have a right to comment on Mwenda's
program and oppose it, that does not mean I support Museveni. You see our minds
are so paralyzed that we must only support or Oppose. That is why you see that
many Baganda have to today failed to move on for they are doing only one thing,
to sing a song Obote hates Buganda. Look on the Mukalabanda or Ekinu technology,
they will never change for no single Muganda is willing to think out of the box.
What ever you ask Musamize or Ssenyange, his answer will be standard, "Don't you
remember 1966? Obote is bad" In fact if Museveni becomes a bad leader, they
remind us about Obote. When you look on South Africa, blacks fought apartheid,
and in the process they forgot that apartheid is just a part of a problem. The
white went and he blacks went into power, you should see the crime in South
Africa, and un employment, and guns and on and on. Because all they did was to
fight apartheid and never minded about any thing else. They took power and they
were not ready.
The movement is bad for Uganda. But as we are
fighting bad governance we must fight some other things as well. You see we
personalized Uganda's problem to be Obote and to today Obote is gone and Uganda
is 20 years back from where Obote left it.
We want freedom of the press in Uganda, but we
should not only ask for freedom of press we should ask
good journalism as well. I read Mwenda's transcript, and I do not care
what he is charged with, but a good reporter never allows to become a part of
the story. Mwenda became a part of the story. And of all people Vukoni who is a
journalist should know this. If a journalist became a part of the story he
looses objectivity. And that is not the freedom of press I want in
Uganda.
There are those who have reminded me of the
arrogance Museveni uses when giving the speech, yes I know it all but I am not
discussing Museveni's style of speech, for Museveni is a president who is going
out of office any time, but Mwenda is a reporter who is going to stay in Uganda
when the movement is out of office. And he is supposed to report on the next
government for that is his job and he is paid to do it. Mwenda is supposed to
get the facts from any leader not to tell us his feelings. Now Museveni
went to Kololo and yelled to many people including Mwenda. What he should
have done is (a) use his journalistic experience to turn Museveni's attack
to a constructive program so that we as his listeners learn some thing good from
it or (b) if he wanted to attack Museveni personally, he should have got
another journalist to interview him. But we ended up getting a program director
ranting his rage on his head of state. And I do not want that in our journalism
I am sorry I just do not want it.
And I am willing to remain on this side and alone,
for you see when Museveni was fighting in Uganda, he attacked an ambulance
carrying patients to Mubende hospital and he killed them, then he went to
Kabaale and attacked a Bank of Uganda branch and looted it. Those two
actions were enough for me to conclude that Museveni is going to be a bad leader
and if you bothered to read my article in Uganda Times, I stated that
if you see any aspiring leader who bombs Government infrastructures, know that
you are getting a bad leader. The same Ugandans attacking me here today, called
me an Obote supporter. Well are you happy today that Museveni is leading
Uganda? And as you are flipping from position to position just how many Ugandans
have lost their lives?
We need to stop thinking in a bottle, we need to be
critical thinkers, support a leader because of what he says and what he can
deliver but do not support him because you hate the present leader. The hate
Ugandans have on Museveni today, they can not judge bad journalism to the extent
that even educated people like Vukoni have failed to look at Mwenda's program
objectively. With out letting their hate of Museveni impair their
judgment. And you are making Mulindwa the victim that some of you have even
accused me of posting that writing when I am drunk.
Well sober people, I have been here long enough and
posting any thing about Museveni was an uphill in this forum. I will maintain
course. You go on the hate rage and ask for freedom of press but do not
bother about the quality of that press. when the East is in Camps you will turn
around and start to think objectively.
Let us continue to build our ZOO which will became
a circus and very soon. For with the reasoning I see here Uganda has a very,
very long way to go.
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"
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