5 years, 3 months agoKadaga just needs a bed rest and a standby ambulance
The acute disease most NRM cronies are suffering from seems to spread like wildfire. No one is ready to relinquish power peacefully and handover to other able Ugandans. Everyone seems convinced that they’re the best in the positions they hold and any alteration in the status quo is an abomination. This has been developed, well nurtured by the so called revolutionaries that are obviously masqueraders. Just like her colleagues, Kadaga is not ready to say goodbye unless forced out.
Hon. Kadaga has been in parliament since 1989, held so many senior positions in the Museveni led gov’t..Though she has nothing much to show, she still wants to continue being at the helm in public service. She has interesting, but also unfortunate reasons to support her stand.
Kadaga says she must serve her 2nd and last term as speaker of parliament, arguing that all her predecessors served two terms which is a lie. James Wapakhabulo and Francis Ayume served a single term each. Only Kiwanuka Ssekandi served a two term stint, in fact, it was Kadaga that fought and made him and abandon coming back for the 3rd term. Remember, the term of speakership in Uganda is open, there are no term limits.
She wants to Gazette the speakership position, a culture of self entitlement she seems to cherish.
Another reason she gives why it’s a do or die for her is that she represents woman emancipation. Unfortunately, these politicians think Ugandans so naive and stupid! As I pointed out earlier, this woman has been in parliament since 1989, held so many senior positions in the Museveni gov’t. What’s in the Busoga region where she hails from? A part from extreme poverty and jiggers, what can we talk about from the region? If woman emancipation was directly impacting women, Busoga would be like New York, don’t you think?
The first lady vice president in Uganda, Specioza Kazibwe hails from Busoga, the current NRM Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba is from Busoga, what have they changed? It’s public knowledge that over 2.4m Ugandan girls can’t go to school when in their monthly periods, reason; they don’t have and can’t afford sanitary pads. If she claims to stand for women emancipation, let her tell us how she has helped these helpless and hopeless Ugandan girls before preaching woman emancipation.
If indeed emancipation is what she stands for, how about the 18 women that die daily when giving birth? As I write this, probably a woman is dying somewhere in a banana plantation while giving birth. It’s no secret therefore that Kadaga’s women emancipation is for the fat cats in Kampala, not her fellow women wallowing and riddled in absolute poverty deep in villages.
One is a self proclaimed pastor raised by the dictator himself another is a former political commissar for ten years..Have Ugandans become that cheap to follow whatever opposes the government? MR BESIGYE SAYS VOTES WHERE STOLEN..WHAT ABOUT THE FEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT U GOT.THE DISTRICT CHAIRMEN?UNLESS YOU LAY A STRONG FOUNDATION YOU WILL NEVER BE THE PRESIDENT..I BEG THE POLICE TO TAKE YOU TO BUTABIKA INSTEAD OF NAGALAMA..TUUKOYE KATEMBA WAMWE.
Ugandans amaze me..up to when will we continue coming to help at the last minute. .even when we help we turn it into showbiz..Which type of a peoples president cant mobilise funds to treat a single patient?I thought by being a prominent doctor he could have made reliable private hospital facilities instead of him making petrol stations..At times we blame the govt but we also lazy..we clearly know this is a failed govt why cant we find lasting solutions to major problems..if Bobi wine can build a beach why cant he build a hospital??
FDC secretary for mobilisation Ingrid Turinawe is reported missing.
FDC preacher Doreen Nyanjura, said Turinawe was surrounded by heavy military police in Gayaza town earlier on Sunday.Nyanjura also FDC secretary for trade and investment said police started chasing the iron lady as she left home to go and visit her daughter.
She was reportedly picked from Gayaza trading centre at 2pm and whisked off by uniformed men.
“Ingrid Turinawe was kidnapped by military goons as she attempted to leave home today at2Pm,” Nyanjura said.
“We have searched all police stations including Kasangati, Naggalama, Kira, we cannot trace her whereabouts.”
FDC youth activist Shawn Mubiru, related the incident to Idi Amin days.
“Days of Pandagari are back, Ingrid Turinawe was picked up by men in Police and UPDF uniforms! She cannot be traced anywhere not at any police station,” Shawn said.
Another handler said “Kifeesi police have decided to violate her freedom to celebrate mother’s day with her children”.
Recently, Ingrid was attacked by goons at her home and her vehicle vandalised.
President Museveni seeks to tame a growing and unrelenting opposition
President Yoweri Museveni’s approach to containing a growing and unrelenting opposition to his rule appears to be a double-edged sword.
While his “containment tactics” provide him short-term relief to execute his aims, say, like eliminating or at least minimising any interruptions on the day he takes the oath of office, they put the judiciary and security organs tasked to execute them to an unnecessary test as they reignite questions over their impartiality.
The tactics include an interim court order that falls short of outlawing the opposition altogether, a Cabinet directive banning media coverage of the opposition’s activities, and increased deployment of security personnel on streets to quickly and forcefully break up any protests against President Museveni’s rule.
In the face of unwillingness by both the state and the opposition to soften their seemingly inflexible stands on how to resolve the prevailing political dispute, arising from the February 18 election, analysts say the current standoffs and violent confrontations are likely to become a common feature throughout the course of President Museveni’s seventh term.
“Shortly after the elections, President Museveni said his target over the next five years will be to wipe out the opposition completely.
What this actually means is using state machinery to oppress anyone who attempts to expound any ideas that are opposed to the government,” said Sabiti Makara, a senior political science don at Makerere University.
“If indeed this happens then we will have entered a full dictatorship because if you talk about a regime that will silence all other views that is a dictatorship. There is nothing else to call it as the cloak of civility will have completely been removed,” added Dr Makara, who researches on governance and electoral processes in Uganda.
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As a matter of necessity, Dr Makara said a compromise must be sought to diffuse ongoing political tensions that are potentially harmful to the economy and distractive to governance and both contending sides need to review the way they engage each other.
“There is no harm in bringing the discontented party to the table to talk. Even if ‘winner takes all’ is the practice of politics in this country, how you win is also important.
“On the other hand, if the opposition is truly discontented they should try a silent campaign instead of their preferred confrontations, which have adverse effects on the public as they trigger the state to react violently.
“Quiet mobilisation and campaigns to encourage supporters to work to strengthen the party might yield more results than calling people to the streets, which often results in injuries or even death,” said Dr Makara.
Although both the ruling NRM party and the FDC, the largest opposition party, have claimed to be open to dialogue, each side’s tough conditions cast doubt on their supposed willingness.
The NRM said FDC must first acknowledge President Museveni as the duly elected president and renounce their so-called defiance campaign — a position that runs counter to their core demand for an independent, internationally-supervised audit of the 2016 presidential elections.
Such an audit, FDC insists, would establish who truly won the February 18 polls whose final outcome — as declared by the Electoral Commission — remains contested even if the Supreme Court unanimously upheld it.
While the FDC has conceded to the government’s argument that there is no constitutional provision for the audit, it also argues that, “neither is the illegal detention of a candidate, raiding and taking over party offices, or illegal detention of hundreds of party leaders and officials,” wrote its former flag bearer Kizza Besigye, whom the police has put under house arrest again “until further notice.”
The FDC’s demand is at the heart of nationwide demonstrations the party had planned to begin on May 5. But on Thursday, April 29, Deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma issued an interim order to stop them after hearing the application to grant it in the absence of the respondents: FDC and Dr Besigye.
The order, which was granted a day after the application was made, also roped in any other activities — processions, public meetings, media campaigns or pronouncements — related in any way to the furtherance of the party’s so-called “defiance campaign.”
Six days later, on Thursday May 5, Information Minister Jim Muhwezi announced a Cabinet directive banning all media coverage of any activity under the said campaign, which appeared to be aimed at reinforcing Justice Kavuma’s orders.
Predictably, both actions drew widespread condemnation. According to the Uganda Law Society, Justice Kavuma’s orders went against standing practice in hearing and determining complaints involving civil rights and liberties.
“We do not see any justification for hearing such a politically charged application where the Attorney-General is the Applicant ex parte,” said Francis Gimara, the president of the Uganda Law Society.
“The ban on live media coverage of Besigye’s defiance campaign is illegal, unnecessary, disproportional, unacceptable and unjustifiable even in a society like ours that is neither entirely free nor fully democratic,” said Peter G Mwesige, the executive director of the African Centre for Media Excellence, a media training and advocacy NGO.
Dear Besigye.
Baganda have no obligation to support you.There has never been a law passed or a refrendum held where a verdict was reached that Buganda/Mengo must support.You are not a saint.Do not dare us. Leave Buganda alone and concentrate on fighting your 50yr plan succession battle with your fellow westerners.Because to some of us,you are fighting to also eat.Nothing more.Those other things you keep telling the media are just covers.Sijui rule of law,Ugandans taking back their country……….Just like Museveni fought to eat in 1980 but ofcourse blinded Ugandans/Baganda with his ten point program.
.You can not pretend to love Baganda more than Mengo.I don’t know of any poverty fighting program or education program you are running in Buganda.Probably fighting you wars in markets?
In any case,Baganda sacrificed alot during the bush war but instead,it is you and others,who came here wearing torn clothes who are now annoyingly rich.
I dare you Besigye to explain how you became filthly rich and particularly how you acquired that land in Kasanganti.What guarantee do we have that you Besigye will eliminate poverty when you get into power?Wasn’t it you who wrote a letter to Luzira prison ordering that all Baganda who had been framed and remanded on treason charges were never to be given medical attention like Ssemwogerere who was your senior had asked?Humiliating Ssemwogerere in the process?Weren’t you in internal affairs when Kayiira was assassinated?I don’t remember you releasing any report on his death.
Were you not among people who brutalised Ssemwogerere’s campaign team in western Uganda in addition to rigging him out with the likes of Muhwezi and Charles Rwomushana?You and others nullified any vote Ssemwogerere scored at polling stations in Rukungiri.Now,when I see you crying that you have been rigged out,I praise God for God makes us reap what we sow.You sowed vote rigging while in govt,you are reaping.
How often did you visit ordinary people and helped them when you were commandent in Masaka mechanised brigade?
Baganda gave you votes.If you failed to guard them and lost,those are your problems.
Do you know why Muliika,a man who staked his Katikkiroship in 2006 and supported you,gave you Buganda’s structures to campaign no longer associates with you?
Well he got tired of your “I was rigged lamentations”
FDC OBSCENITY & DISRESPECT FOR OTHERS’ FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE ROOT CAUSE TO THEIR 20 YEAR GUINESS RECORD FOR THE MOST SERIOUS AND MOST PERSISTENT POLITICAL FAILURES IN AFRICA.
When you hear them talk the word “human rights” in reference to #Besigye, you might think most FDC subscribers actually know what the word means. I am astonished by those who attack and insult ME and others on Social Media without due regard to our fundamental liberties they so seek for themselves. Talk about absolute selfishness.
When I read most insulting posts from especially FDC cult members particularly with Western Uganda and Kiganda names like #Kobusingye, I feel very sorry for Dr Kizza Besigye. I wonder what kind of Government he will have but I am sure obscenity will have to be adopted as the official language for Uganda. These people have no brains and yet think they are the clever ones and others are not. Too worrying. I actually request everyone who has ever insulted me never to vote for me in my life time. Your votes actually stink Just like the ver on of your insults. I will insist and keep to the Eastern Part of the Nile because un surprisingly all the filth or most of it is from Western Uganda. Sorry but you disgust me. Oh by the way, I doubt any of you has acquired any medical certificate of any form. If you cannot diagnose your own insanity and insult a presidential candidate to that extent yet most of you are as cheap as peanut butter, then you surely need to line up for your Butabika. You are such a waste of space and very big obstacle to Uganda’s development. Believe me never vote for me because I will make you sorry that you insulted me or anyone you find on the street for that matter. Everyone rigs for M7 because they fear the Besigye filthy government. Even FDC people accept bribes and shy away. Stop making noise, there are no bigger moles than you. You stole Mbabazi’s money and then voted your failing FDC. Cowards only. How can you call yourselves men and fear a very small woman to this extent. You will not stop me, just make yourselves better than me.
One is a self proclaimed pastor raised by the dictator himself another is a former political commissar for ten years..Have Ugandans become that cheap to follow whatever opposes the government? MR BESIGYE SAYS VOTES WHERE STOLEN..WHAT ABOUT THE FEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT U GOT.THE DISTRICT CHAIRMEN?UNLESS YOU LAY A STRONG FOUNDATION YOU WILL NEVER BE THE PRESIDENT..I BEG THE POLICE TO TAKE YOU TO BUTABIKA INSTEAD OF NAGALAMA..TUUKOYE KATEMBA WAMWE.
Ugandans amaze me..up to when will we continue coming to help at the last minute. .even when we help we turn it into showbiz..Which type of a peoples president cant mobilise funds to treat a single patient?I thought by being a prominent doctor he could have made reliable private hospital facilities instead of him making petrol stations..
FDC preacher Doreen Nyanjura, said Turinawe was surrounded by heavy military police in Gayaza town earlier on Sunday.
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