Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Netters,
This disturbing problem which continues to dog UNAA needs to be
unequivocally and clearly addressed, rather than ignored, sooner rather
than later.
It is not easy to dismiss the impression that UNAA has been infiltrated
and/or compromised by the NRM government, especially since many of the
organisers of the upcoming Convention are known NRM-0 functionaries, and
even some of those who manage our forum are NRM lackeys. When one adds
the recent list indididuals supposedly in M7's various intelligence
services here in in USA that made its rounds on the net, one gets a
combustible mixture.
{One could easily confirm this by visiting the NRM-0 website,
www.nrmousa.org, which has photographs of some of these and other
individuals posing around with M7 and hobnobbing with Movement bigwigs.
But apparently the site has been barnished from the web, possibly for
non-payment of fees. This is the message one gets:
nrmousa.org Web site is disconnected. To restore services send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.WebStreet101.com 508-963-4848}. No matter, archives of these photos
exist in other locations and can easily be dug up.
This is an issue that one can stonewall or adopt Ostrich tactics of
firmly sticking one's head in the sand in the hope that it will go away
on its own.
We need a strong firewall between the government of Uganda and the
affairs of UNAA, if the latter is to survive and continue to serve our
interests here in North America: namely help us to not only survive in
this corner of the diaspora, but to actually prosper.
Only if we are secure and prosperous here in the diaspora, can we hope
to be in position to help Uganda.
We already voted once with our feet in leaving Uganda, it'd be terrible
if the same fate befell the Convention or if we allow the NRM to
subbotage and undermine the original intentions of the Convetion.
What say you?
Ssemakula
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From: picpip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 5:11:26 PM
Subject: [UNAANET] Re-assurance Requested - with the Full Text
Fellow Colleagues on UNAANET
This time round rather than hit the delete button, I considered the
fact that someone known to me had posted the article below on
UNAANET and decided to check out the allegations contained with the
hope that I would arm myself with evidence to disprove what I
considered to be cowardly allegations.
I knocked down one or two pretty quickly but after a few phone calls
I find myself needing some assurances from the National UNAA
Executive and perhaps the local NY chapter. In this regard this
Email is copied to no less than UNAA's President, Mr Abdul Kimbugwe.
To me UNAA represents a milestone achievement of Ugandans ability to
successfully organize outside the support of government. This is
going to be the first UNAA convention that I attend and as you can
imagine I am a little excited. These allegations are therefore
particularly disturbing and I am hoping they can be disproved,
explained or in the worst case resolved before the Convention
begins. What is the relationship between UNAA and UAAGNY? Which
legal entity owns the Conventions, what is their organizing scope
and with whom does the buck stop? Are these accounts ever audited?
By who? To me it is perfectly fine that people of a single political
inclination may dominate the executive of UNAA or one of its
chapters but how are these office bearers appointed or retired? What
is their tenure? I imagine it is guided by a constitution and rules,
are these being followed?
I will admit here and now that I do not have any firm details and
perhaps this is how UNAA conventions have always been organized -
though I doubt it. Some of the people listed below may actually be
innocent victims of malice but something serious seems to be amiss
and in my opinion needs intervention if the New York convention is
going to be successful.
Mr. Kimbugwe, I look forward to a robust, factual, truthful and
reassuring reply.
Gaburungyi
Sebastiane lwanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note: forwarded message attached.
This is rather disturbing.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:30:21 +0100 (BST)
From: Ann Rose Munyenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UNAA unity threatened by NRMO tactics!
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UNAA Unity threatened by NRM tactics!
Think of any reason that may cause an organization to fall apart and
you have it as part of the reason that is causing the upcoming UNAA
convention in New York to crumble like a park of cards. Intrigue,
political conspiracy, corruption, overzealous desire to make money
and untamed egos make the list of the problems dodging the New York
UNAA convention Organizing committee.
In the recent past the issues have become so spicy that the whole
organization is engulfed in mistrust of one another resulting in a
break up into factions, cocoons and gangs reaching for each others
neck. For example the committee formally meets on Friday or Saturday
on alternating weeks. However, your writer has uncovered information
that a group of hardcore NRMO officials meets every Wednesday in a
New York pub. It is said that this is the body, which makes the
decisions, therefore the official meetings are only used to give the
cover of legitimacy. Two weeks ago, Twaha Bukenya, was seen
staggering drunk out of this pub after one of the meetings. Twaha
passes himself off as a devout Muslim in public.
The problems dodging the convention committee are not new. As the
committee was being composed some individuals were excluded and
rushed elections were held, whereby historical members of the
UAAGNY, which was supposed to form the background body sponsoring
the convention, were not invited. These were excluded mainly because
those in charge viewed them as radical conservative Baganda. As such
many of the leaders of Gwanga Mujje in the area have been treated as
pariahs in the organizing process. The only known Muganda leader who
remains a member of the organizing committee is Mr. Joseph
Ssenyonjo. But sources within the committee indicate that he is
contemplating resignation following his being sidelined in the
process of deciding the main speakers at the convention. Ssenyonjo
is a member of the Forums sub-committee and the only known member of
the opposition on the committee, which is headed by NRMO stalwart
Secretary General Allan Katatumba.
The fact that the organizing committee is dominated by NRMO members
and NRM sympathizers has led to several members to resign from the
committee. In early March as the committee was recovering from the
resignation of Lawrence Kiwanuka the radical DPUSA chairman, Muganga
and his wife Rehama Bukenya, who are founder members of UAAGNY
called it quits when the NRM gang led by their chairman Edward Wanda
insisted on inviting president Museveni to the convention amidst
protests from the general membership.
The intra-committee fights have divided the body into several
factions. There is a section which believes that the body should be
void of politics and it aims at working for the benefit of the
community. But this group has the minimal influence; this group is
led by Mildred Ssenyondo a banker in New York. Their is another
faction which has political interests, but aims at ensuring that the
convention is not overshadowed by politics as this might not be good
for the community. Interestingly this group has members of NRMO and
members of the diplomatic force from Uganda house in New York.
Abraham Muhoozi, the in charge of Uganda Mission asset management
and head of security at the Uganda mission, Joe Kazinduka, an NRMO
executive committee member and his wife Betty Tumusiime are members
of this group. A catholic Brother, Pancrious Bugembe, who has had
his foot in both DP and NRM is also said to be among the
independents, but his only interest is to see to it that the
Christian services during the convention succeed, according to the
sources.
Recently the fight were brought to a new high when the some members
moved to choke a private business interest to run a cruise ship
being organized by New York business man Nasser Kagiri. Kagiri the
proprietor of Kampala's hip-hop regalia store had earlier sought to
organizing a boat cruise to cater for Ugandans who could not afford
the conditions which applied to the official cruise ship. For one to
be allowed on the Official UNAA ship one has to pay for the whole
package of the convention. The total package costs about $949.
Kagiri realizing that many Ugandans would only like to enjoy the
cruise entered into a business arrangement with a New York cruise
company and decided to offer an alternative to Ugandans. Some
members of the Organizing committee upon realizing that Kagiri was
about to make a buck they moved to stop him from organizing the
alternative cruise which is cheaper by $30 compared to the official
cruise. According to information available, Harriet Zaffoni, Twaha
Bukenya the NRMO chairman in Connecticut, and Wanda wanted to
organize the second boat cruise themselves, but the Kagiri group had
moved ahead of them. This has caused bitter rivalry within the
committee. Wanda in a recent tiered in Boston, during a gathering to
promote the convention he threatened to "handle in a special way"
those who would dare set foot on the alternative boat cruise. On the
same day after a social gathering Wanda in a drunken rage is
reported to have threatened to Kagiri with "special action"
and "taking the matters in his own hands". This angered some
Ugandans who mobbed Wanda. Joe Kazinduka, who whisked him away in
his car to safety, rescued him from the irate mob of screaming
women. According to sources the NRM group is running around the USA
threatening people who are planning to attend the convention if they
do not buy all their services from them. In his outburst in Boston
Wanda is alleged to have threatened to involve the Immigration
Police from the Home office to go after those who will stay in any
other hotel other than the one he contracted.
Wanda is the over role
chairman of the convention committee, but because of invested
interests in the hotel he is also the chairman of the Accommodations
sub-committee. He made similar threats for those who will take the
alternative cruise. In my last message I warned that these people
are planning to do harm to Ugandans and handover all the records to
the government. This is intended to enable the Uganda government to
track the money people send back home. Wanda is a dangerous person
his personal record will reveal to you that he was kicked out of the
then Kampala DA's office for heavy handedness and recently while in
Uganda he used his NRM contacts and hired soldiers he took to Mukono
to "solve" a land dispute for a family friend.
According to sources Edward Wanda without consultation with the
committee manipulated a lawyer friend to write to Kagiri threatening
him with legal action if he continued to organize his private
cruise. The committee had in an earlier meeting resolved to engage
Karoli Ssemogerere, son of former DP leader, Paul Ssemogerere, but
Wanda rejected him because he is a known member of the Democratic
Party, despite the committee having agreed to retain him as a legal
advisor. This action is dividing the UNAA organizing committee
father, mainly because the lawyer hired by Wanda in billing the
group a rate four times higher that what Karoli had asked for.
Wanda was true to his words; within the last two weeks he has moved
from a document he forged purporting it to be summons orders from a
lawyer to Kagiri, to circulating rumours that the alternative boat
is being organized by anti-government elements. In one of the
meeting held at Uganda house recently Wanda physically manhandled MS
Lillian Letaro demanding that she leaves the meeting room. The Head
of security, Uganda house Abraham Muhoozi had to intervene to unhook
Wanda of Lillian in the building lobby. (Opnion: This is no person
who can continue to be a leader in the our community; the sooner
UNAA national acts the better)
In the last few days Wanda, without consulting other committee
members decided to "fire" Lillian Letaro and Nasser Kagiri from the
committee. According to sources M/s Letaro was the only leading
members of the opposition who remained on the committee. Lillian
Letaro is the DPUSA women's leader. Our sources indicate that the
NRMO group has singled her out for this reason and for her having
questioned some of the expenditures like the $25,000 tab to be paid
out for security.
Sources told your writer that the organization funds are being
abused. Earlier in the year Wanda and Twaha Bukenya attempted to use
the group's funds to travel to Uganda to attend Museveni's third
term swearing in under the guise of traveling to Kampala to look for
advertisement for the UNAA website. Interestingly the two were
looking for a double harvest; NRMO-USA had already paid for their
travels. The other source of contention is the fees being paid to
Elma Byekya an NRMO operative, based in Boston as promoter of the
convention. Elma Byekya was paid $2500 in advance and she will be
collecting 8% of the total convention collections. Your writer could
not confirm reports that the Marriot Hotel had also offered the
leaders a soft landing which they did not report to the general
organizing committee. The soft landing included a four day
presidential suite stay in Marriot Hotel and a hefty commission,
ranging between $13-16 per convention registrant. The sources have
also revealed that the Wanda group used the cover of hiring a lawyer
to take legal action against Nasser Kagiri and paid themselves
$4000; another source put the amount at $3000. The fee was paid to
have the lawyer to draft a letter of intent to sue. Interestingly
even though the letter was presented to the committee it was never
served out on Kagiri.
Opinion: UNAA is an important body bringing together Ugandans. It is
important that all Ugandans rise to the occasion and protect this
body from being manipulated into an NRM extension, which it is first
becoming.
The behavior of the NRMO members of the organizing committee is
threatening to impact UNAA very negatively. According to our sources
both FDC and DP which have been very active in the UNAA convention
forums have opted to boycott this year's convention and they will
not officially attend.
Note. The NRM squad is spread wide and is capable of doing harm.
After I sent out the last email they were able to block my email
account and lender it unusable. Thus I have had to create a new
email account. Stand warned! Yes, this is not Anne Mugisha of FDC,
(A woman I respect) I am a concerned Ugandan leaving in Connecticut
and the email account names I use are derived from my names and my
grand parent's names. I am keeping my identity covered because, I
reside near one of the perpetrators of the undrhand activities I am
reporting about while in the USA.
