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70% OF PRESIDENT MUSEVENI’S PROGRAMMES FOR THIS TERM ARE BOUND TO FLOP; ONLY TURNING TO DO THINGS IN A GOD GUIDED WAY WILL SAVE THE SITUATION.
Yoweri museveni origins in Rwanda
God always gives man opportunity, however, more often than not, man gets to the tendency of assuming the role of God as he presides over the managing of people, man is corrupted into changing the national constitution, outright bribing of legislators and other people in responsible positions who can make his wishes to sail through.
The people of Uganda, many of them still alive have seen President Museveni change positions. What was most surprising was to see that in his 2001 Election manifesto he categorically stated that it was his last term. That went and it is now history as he was re – elected in 2006, 2011 and 2016 and it disturbs to see that some people with grey matter who have no shame are now agitating for the removal of the Presidential age limit. When a leader reaches such levels, though he can cover himself up that it is after all the brain less people that are under such a move, given his earthly powers, God resorts to use His powers as the creator of man and among the powers of God can be seen a number of things going wrong.
What can save the situation in the circumstances where Uganda’s outstanding public debt has hit US $7.6bn is for the President to endorse genuine talks with the opposition, the religious leaders and civil society representatives of what is the acceptable way forward for the country. Short of that, it will be most unfortunate as the country has graduated into ranks of Extremely Highly Indebted Poor Countries (EHIPC).
Evidence of President Museveni failures so far:
1. He had to pay the NRM Members of Parliament shs 5m so that they vote for Oulanyah and he went a step further to be present in Parliament to ensure that the man was voted.
2. The people of Uganda remember the effort to see Spe voted Chairperson of AU which was a big blow after the funds that were invested in the project. The Doctor who deceives herself as the best qualified actually Dr. Specioza Kazibwe got the least votes. She emerged 3rd among the three candidates.
3. The strike by the non – teaching staff at public universities turned the biggest challenge for the 1st Lady, and though she had talks with the affected people, she was instead told to talk with cash. It needed the intervention of the President to promise the striking staff pay in October, and though these have gone back, they have said that if Government fails to pay then, they will get back to the strike mood.So, the people of Uganda should get down to prayer so that the Almighty God changes the heart of President Museveni. If that does not happen, cry the beloved Ugandans.
Images illustrate programmes where Museveni has actually failed, and this will translate to 70% of the Government programmes during this term if President Museveni does not soften his heart to realize that it is the Almighty God who has to be in control and not for him to gamble with this and that for his personal objectives.
Now we need to come out and make him to account for every single penny on his account, we should put an end to this illegal accumulation of wealth Tyrant Museveni has built up an empire of corruption that has ruined our country beyond repair, This engine of corruption and repression that he rides on has helped his stay in power for the last 26 years.
It has weakened every institution in Uganda, evidence of this is seen on a daily basis, that every issue in the country supposedly to be handled by the government officials, citizens is instead referred or petitioned to the president even trivial issues.
He has become the Supreme Court Judge, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, the juror and penalty executioner President Museveni has instilled a culture were Ugandans believe that no one can prosper without stealing.
President Museveni’s bad leadership is turning Uganda into failed state that needs to be redeemed either using peaceful protest or violence ,Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world.
The vast majority of Ugandans are farmers on small plots of land which are used for subsistence agriculture or for the cultivation of cash crops such as coffee and tea. In Uganda 69 percent of the population lives on less than US$1 a day and the majority of this limited income (63 percent) is spent on food.
Most Ugandans have to work 2 or 3 jobs simply to survive, often even to secure a standard of living below the poverty threshold. Moreover, one or more of these jobs are often within the informal sector which draws taxation.
Museveni’s government spends only 1.9 percent of its GDP on health; the majority of Ugandan citizens struggle to acquire even the most basic health, there are only 4 doctors and 28 nurses per 100,000 people.
Nonetheless, the government Citizens die of simple diseases due to lack of basic medical attention and simple drugs such as aspirin, patients are required to buy their own gloves.Yet Dictator Museveni’s family and his henchmen when they have a medical issue such as delivering a baby, they fly to Germany or Spain now it has become a common practice in government clinic to prescribe drugs for patients requesting them to buy them elsewhere.
All they can get from these facilities is just a mere confirmation that they’re indeed sick. The rest is there business, Medicine is a luxury, this situation has been exploited by some private individuals who have set up private clinics around government hospitals were the poor Ugandans can resort to.
The situation in our public hospitals is so dire that those with a little more money have shunned them and opted for private health facilities while the poor are left at the mercy of poorly paid and facilitated medical workers, and hospitals with no medicines.
Our hospitals are a shadow of what they used to be 26 years ago, for the ordinary Ugandan it is a sentence to death With such an appalling health situation President Museveni has decided to sentence some Ugandans to a slow death by only allocating 9.8% of the budget (2011/2012) to health, which is far below the 2001 Abuja Declaration’s recommendation of 15%,While allocating defense 36.5 % of the 2011 budget with the aim of clinging on power.
Now in Uganda the number of police CSF armored tear gas trucks is greater than ambulances, every district has a CSF armored tear gas truck packed with fuel but without an ambulances ,those districts that are lucky to have an ambulance do not have fuel, yet police trucks have full tank .
It’s this injustice and deprivation that ‘s making Ugandans to get tired of President Museveni , He ‘s wasting tax payers money on his escalating patronage system, huge military establishments and propaganda
The IGG office should also take action against President Museveni by penalizing him , confiscating his property, removing him from office as he under declared his wealth
In 2002, Museveni declared his wealth as required by the Leadership Code. At the time he stated that his annual income then was sh48.2m.He declared that his property included his land at Katonga, Ssembabule district valued at Shs240m, land at Katwe Kambwa in Maddu, Mpigi district valued at Shs59m, residential houses at Rwakitura valued at Shs600m and land at Nyabushozi valued at Shs70m. The President is also quoted to have said he did not have property outside Uganda.
Rating Museveni at that time, according to his declaration, one would take him to be merely Shs969m rich, which is equivalent to $387,600 at the current exchange rate.
However, the new rating of Museveni’s riches at $1.7bn is over 4000 times more than what he declared to the office of the government ombudsman
Mbarara Journalists Warned fellow Reporter Over Loose Talk On Mb’ra Information Officer
The Western Journalists under umbrella of WUPA have been angered over a fellow journalist identified as Ronald Agaba who reports for one of the Tabloid we have in Uganda, he signed into the group Watsapp Platform and disclose the Mbarara District Information officer Fred Anyine’s health conditions
Ronald Agaba’s social media rant
” Its true Anyine is sick and its true he lost one of his balls
Now wat is disturbing uLet’s pray for him to recover
But don’t confuse us.”Right now Anyine Fred is at surgical ward MRH
But according to Jounalists who have gone to check on him including Tumwakire Michael of TV West said
“Comrade Anyine Fred is improving , thanks for Ur prayers.”Then Annitah Ritah added ” I have talked to Anyine this mrng, guys pray for him. He has alot of pain, but he will be fyn in Jesus name.”
Journalists have also said “So if he managed to write such, what does he go talking in public about him.?”
He should actually apologise to every member because his statements broke People’s hearts and it should be in writing to members through administrator then Admin he post it on platform and they discuss it and decide on his re-entry.All these were said after blocking him from accessing the group where all the journalists from Western Region mostly who comes from Mbarara share tips
May the healing hand of Jesus reach you Anyine, quick recovery
IT IS NOW 18TH AUGUST 2016, KILLER COP AARON BAGUMA HAS BEEN SUMMONED BY DPP TO APPEAR AT BUGANDA ROAD COUR LATER TODAY,AND BE CHARGED WITH MURDER.WE WAIT!!! REMEMBER THE MAGISTRATE COURT HAS NO POWERS TO GRANT HIM BAIL, SO WE EXPECT HIM TO BE REMANDED,,,,,,
Kenya is set to complete the construction of Standard Gauge Railway by 2017.
Surprisingly this was signed by all East African countries,I wonder how far has Uganda progressed on this project!!
SGR will improve the efficiency of movement of freight and services thereby lowering costs of doing business in the region
So far 40,000 Kenyans have been employed on this project.
HELP GET SUSPECTS OFF THE STREETS:-BOUNTY OF UGX 40M AWAITS
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Every able bodied citizen MUST help effect the arrest of suspects, Kaihura & Baguma ,if they continue to disobey court summons and don’t go to court.
The suspects are “armed & dangerous” so vigilantes are advised to approach with caution.
But the back stops with every responsible citizen to deliver Kaihura & Baguma to court.
If the criminal police cannot arrest them then the citizens should deliver Suspects to court.
If any of the suspect resists arrests and tries to reach for his fire arm, disable suspect in the legs and effect arrest. The suspect must go to court without fail.
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Rtd.Gen.Maverick places @20M/- bounty on Kaihura and Baguma
These NRM hooligans stole and sold all our assets and made this country dependent and enslaved to foreign profit hungry “investors”. Now they shamefully tell us they are driving us to a middle income status by 2021. Museveni’ economic gibberish not withstanding, the economy of this country is in the hands of a few individuals who wield a lot of political and financial leverage on the dictatorship. Truth is, developing the economy and improving service delivery is not up to us or the dictator anymore. He sold us wholesomely. He keeps lying that he is beefing up our economy. Truth is, economically speaking, he can’t tell beef from pork. Amin, with his scanty education wanted to have every building and every productive asset in the world to belong to and bear the name of Uganda. Our “graduate of political economics from Dar-el-salam” has made sure no company, no asset, no business carries the name of Uganda. Uganda commercial bank, Uganda airlines, Uganda railway, Uganda cooperative society….e.t.c all sold. This man is the biggest liability uganda has had in generations. He must go. Change is comingA brutal assault on American and other foreign aid workers in Juba marks a new low for a supposed U.S. ally and the state of U.N. peacekeeping.
By Colum Lynch, Dan De Luce, Paul McLeary
The rape and beating of American and Western aid workers in the South Sudanese capital of Juba by government soldiers has struck a devastating blow against two of President Barack Obama’s signature foreign-policy efforts: reforming the United Nations’ troubled peacekeeping program and standing up a stable government in the world’s newest country.The horrific July 11 attacks on the Terrain hotel facility mark a grim moment in a long-standing U.S. effort to help South Sudan build a functioning state after gaining its independence from the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in Khartoum. The violence highlighted the degree to which South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has evolved from a valued U.S. friend to the leader of a rampaging army that has now targeted American nationals.
“The U.S. and the U.N. gambled on close relations with Salva Kiir, and it turns out that Salva Kiir in an untrustworthy partner who hates the U.N. and increasingly hates the U.S.,” said Richard Gowan, an expert on U.N. peacekeeping operations at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
In the assault last month, uniformed South Sudanese troops singled out Americans for abuse and beatings, shot dead a local reporter while forcing foreign nationals to watch, carried out mock executions, and gang-raped several foreign women, according to a report by The Associated Press, which cited interviews with multiple witnesses on the ground.
The grim details of the attack have raised questions about why the nearby U.S. Embassy didn’t send American troops to rescue those trapped at the hotel — and why Washington kept silent about the incident for more than a month until it was revealed by the AP’s report.
When about 80 to 100 South Sudanese troops stormed the compound and overwhelmed the hotel’s small security team, foreign aid workers at the facility sent desperate pleas for help to the U.N. peacekeeping mission, located less than a mile away, as well as to the U.S. Embassy. But no U.N. blue helmets ever arrived to stop the nearly four-hour ordeal.
The U.S. ambassador to South Sudan, Mary Catherine Phee, immediately asked the South Sudanese government to send troops deemed trustworthy to intervene, and forces from the National Security Service did eventually arrive, senior U.S. administration officials said. But by then several foreign nationals had been raped, and Americans had been terrorized and beaten. A South Sudanese reporter, John Gatluak, who worked for Internews, a U.S.-funded media development organization, had been hauled out and shot in the head in front of aid workers.
The incident carries potentially damaging political overtones for the Obama administration and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has faced an avalanche of criticism from Republicans over how she handled a 2012 attack on an American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
Two days after soldiers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) carried out the assault, the Obama administration rushed dozens of American troops to bolster security for the embassy there. Another 130 American troops were deployed to nearby Djibouti as a quick reaction force.
That was too late to help those hurt in the July 11 attack at the Terrain hotel. U.S. officials said the embassy had a small security contingent that was not equipped to carry out a major combat and rescue operation against dozens of armed and disorderly South Sudanese troops. Embassy staff had to move to bunkers more than once during that day due to mortar and small-arms fire around the embassy compound, officials said. With the capital engulfed in violence, the primary mission of the security team — as in other embassies around the world — was to protect embassy staff and classified material, officials said.
“We didn’t have the personnel with the mission or the capacity to respond to such a wide-scale event. Our response was to engage the government that had the capability to do so,” a senior administration official told Foreign Policy on the condition of anonymity.
“There’s no Delta Force residing at the embassy,” the official added.
“There’s no Delta Force residing at the embassy,” the official added.The U.N., for its part, has launched an “independent special investigation” into reports that Chinese, Ethiopian, and Nepalese peacekeepers failed to respond to calls for help from the hotel. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office issued a statement late Tuesday night saying the U.N. chief “is concerned about allegations that UNMISS [The United Nations Mission in South Sudan] did not respond appropriately to prevent this and other grave cases of sexual violence committed in Juba.”
The statement, which was attributable to Ban’s spokesman, noted that the U.N. chief is “alarmed” by the preliminary findings of a U.N. fact-finding investigation that probed the July 11 attack on the Terrain hotel, and confirmed that one person was killed and “several civilians were raped and brutally beaten by men in uniform.” He urged the South Sudanese government to investigate the abuses and “prosecute those involved in these unspeakable acts of violence.”
The latest bout of fighting between government forces loyal to Kiir and those of his vice president-turned-rival, Riek Machar, erupted on July 8 after a cabinet meeting at the presidential compound and quickly spread to several locations around Juba. Researchers from Human Rights Watch visited Juba later that month and found evidence of “multiple crimes,” according to an Aug. 15 report by the group. The researchers said most of the wrongdoing was “committed by government soldiers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).”
The Obama administration says it is working tirelessly to ensure that U.N. peacekeepers are in a better position to defend civilians in South Sudan. Last week, the United States led negotiations on a resolution that authorizes an additional 4,000 peacekeepers to secure the capital of Juba.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, condemned the attack in a statement issued late Monday and demanded an inquiry into the response of the U.N. peacekeepers.
Power said the United States is “deeply concerned that United Nations peacekeepers were apparently either incapable of or unwilling to respond to calls for help. We have requested and are awaiting the outcome of an investigation by the United Nations and demand swift corrective action in the event that these allegations are substantiated.”
She also defended the U.S. reaction to the attack on the Terrain compound, saying that “the U.S. embassy responded to distress calls from the compound and urgently contacted South Sudanese government officials, who sent a response force to the site to stop the attack.”
The U.S. effort to reinforce the U.N. mission in South Sudan is part of a broader push by the Obama administration to reform peacekeeping operations to make them better suited to protect civilians from atrocities. The U.N.’s failures in Juba raise serious doubts about how much progress will have been made by the time Obama leaves office next January.
In July 2009, Obama’s newly appointed U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, delivered an address to the U.S. Congress in which she defended the U.N.’s often maligned peacekeepers as “an essential instrument for advancing” American interests around the world.
The Obama administration, she pledged, would make their “effectiveness” and “efficiency” a key priority. In September 2015, Obama hosted a peacekeeping summit in New York to highlight the U.S. commitment to such operations and to urge other countries to pledge troops and equipment.
But more than seven years after Rice’s speech, U.N. peacekeepers continue to generate damning headlines, including on sexual assault scandals in the Central African Republic and the failure to confront atrocities in Darfur, Sudan. In South Sudan, the U.N.’s inability to stem the violence even in its own compounds has raised doubts about the peacekeepers’ effectiveness.
Since fighting erupted in December 2013, more than 50,000 people have been killed and another 2 million displaced, including more than 180,000 people seeking protection in six U.N. compounds. A U.N. board of inquiry this month faulted the world body’s response to an attack likely carried out by government forces and allied militias on a U.N. compound in the northeastern city of Malakal, which resulted in 30 deaths and 123 injuries. The latest allegations about U.N. inaction in Juba have only reinforced those doubts about the mission’s effectiveness.
“This is an incredible moment of frustration for the U.S.,” Gowan said.
“This is an incredible moment of frustration for the U.S.,” Gowan said. “The U.S. has pushed hard for UNMISS [the U.N. mission in South Sudan] to raise its game since 2013,” when the country descended into civil war. “But the U.N. has been unable to protect civilians. After the Obama summit and all the emphasis on increased U.S. support to the U.N., it seems that the blue helmets are no better than before,” Gowan added.The chaos in South Sudan also marks a major setback for China, which has significant oil interests in the country and has taken a lead role in the peacekeeping effort there. “It’s a big embarrassment for China,” Gowan said. “China had invested heavily in South Sudan, sending its first full combat brigade to Juba and doing a lot behind the scenes to try to make the government behave properly. Now, it has not only lost two peacekeepers, but Chinese troops also stand accused of ignoring mass rape near their base.”
It’s unclear what effect the attacks, and the reports of widespread abuses by SPLA soldiers, will have on Washington’s support for the government in Juba. The United States remains the single biggest bilateral donor to South Sudan. In its budget request for 2017, the State Department asked for $30 million to help modernize the South Sudanese army so that it “respects human rights, represents its population, is accountable to elected leadership, protects the people of South Sudan, and encourages stability in the Horn of Africa” — in other words, to ensure it does not carry out the kinds of abuses it stands accused of. Another $132 million was requested for civil society and peace-building programs.
Two days after the attack on the Terrain hotel, Obama said in a statement that he was sending into the country an additional 47 U.S. troops “equipped for combat” who were being deployed “for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property.” Those troops remain in Juba, along with the 130-strong quick reaction force in Djibouti.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Africa Command told FP that there are American military “assets positioned within the region that are capable of providing a wide variety of responses when requested by the ambassador” but declined to go into detail about what capabilities are available.
The State Department declined to say exactly how many American forces or staff were at the U.S. Embassy in Juba on July 11. But, in recent years, the government has said about 50 staff were working out of the embassy. After the outbreak of fighting in Juba and the July 11 attack, the United States helped secure medical treatment for victims of the hotel rampage and organized flights out of the country for 80 U.S. nationals. The State Department also scaled back the embassy’s footprint to a skeletal staff, officials said.
U.S. diplomats and aid workers in South Sudan have faced recurring security threats. In 2013, a U.S. military attempt to evacuate American citizens from a U.N. post in Bor had to be aborted when a CV-22 Osprey aircraft came under machine gun and small-arms fire, wounding several Navy SEALs.
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