{UAH} FW: UNAALIST EDWARD SEKANDI, ELLY KARUHANGA and WINNIE BYANYIMA

Timothy: 

For you to label some members as being " Sectarian" And "Hateful" just because they saved the convention from the slavery and the Kampala dependence syndrome which you and others are dying to tie on UNAA, is not only scary to think about but outrageously disastrous to imagine. 

 So UNAA at the end of the day lost $40.000 from Karuhanga!! Does it mean that Karuhanga, who lives in Uganda, represents all corporate sponsors in North America, and because of his withdrawal, all North American sponsors suddenly disapeared?!!

Please don't blame me for the failures of Brian and his Dad Mureeba for not being able to attract sponsors. Last year, Ssennoga, single handedly attracted more than $30.000 from various sponsors. A poor workman blames his tools!! 

Kamugisha
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 7:07 PM CDT Timothy Gaburungyi wrote:

>Joseph,
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>A leader is one who influences others to follow him/her. Note that it is
>not about holding office. A leader needs to have a core set of principles
>to stand on and while a leader should be flexible, one who blows with the
>wind is no longer a leader but rather a follower.
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>It is understandable that you are still acquiring knowledge on how UNAA is
>managed and Dr. Muniini has explained some of the value of having
>dignitaries like the Vice President at our events. The expectation is that
>you acquire this information and then explain to your constituents. If to
>you an influential dignitary like the Vice President is nothing but a
>politician who can only be divisive to UNAA, then of course that is what
>you are going to propagate to your constituents.
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>Now if you do not think Uganda's Vice President has the profile to address
>an assembly of UNAA delegates then I can only recommend a deeper
>appreciation of protocol and diplomacy in leadership. If the Vice President
>sends you a note saying he would like the opportunity to address an
>assembly of UNAA Members, are you telling us you are going to turn him down
>just because he is a politician. So are you unhappy that Mayor Nutter
>addressed UNAA in Philly last year? He is a politician and in a democracy
>leaders including UNAA's are going to be politicians. So where do you draw
>the line.
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>Then the other process you have mixed up in all this is linking speaking to
>sponsorship. Normally UNAA should rather pay a speaker to grace our event.
>That would make the costs of a convention even higher and thank full you
>seem to be opposed to that the difference being that some of us roll up our
>sleeves and innovate to make it a reality. To this end in UNAA we had got
>people to pay to speak. How brilliant!!! Then of course someone who is
>opposed to politicians (like you) went all sectarian with hate speech and
>cost UNAA $40,000 in sponsorship in a single day. In my opinion that was a
>complete disaster and I do not know how any leader could celebrate such an
>outcome.
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>Finally you completely misunderstood my explanation on demographics. Your
>interpretation of my posting is completely inaccurate. Kindly reading it
>again in full context.
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>Tim Gaburungyi
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>UNAA Member
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>On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Joseph Musoke <joseph.musoke@ymail.com>wrote:
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>> 1. Several people have contacted me to clarify my position on politics in
>> UNAA. As many of you know, one of the four reasons why I run for UNAA
>> Presidency was to remove politics from UNAA. I do not intend to ask ANYpoliticians for
>> money and I will not invite them as main speakers (please see my emails
>> below dated June 2nd and June 26th...just replace Mr.
>> EllyKaruhanga/Ms.Winnie Byanyima for Mr. Edward Sekandi).
>> Obviously, I want politicians to attend the convention and speak at
>> political forums. Any delegate that wants to hung out with politicians
>> should be able to do so during the forums, in the lobby, at the bars,
>> during dinner, etc. But I strongly believe that it is disingenuous for any
>> person to claim that they can only hobnob with politicians if that
>> politician is a main speaker. When the politician is giving a speech, how
>> can anyone talk to them? One can only talk to them before or after the
>> speech...unless the politician has given a condition that they'll only
>> attend the convention if they are invited as a main speaker!
>> 2. all 3 presidential candidates have taken a position on this matter. Mr
>> Kwesiga and I have publicly taken opposite positions. Mr Senoga has taken
>> both positions. That is why I wanted him to clarify his position so that
>> voters can tell the difference between the 3 of us.
>> 3. unlike Mr Kwesiga and Mr Senoga, I was not well known when I started my
>> campaign and I did not have their resources. So I've built my campaign the
>> old fashioned way...by contacting each voter on my own to introduce myself.
>> Consequently, I have spoken to over 1,300 Ugandans in North America and I
>> can confidently say that MOST of them agree with my position. It is the
>> main reason why UNAA lost popularity in places like Boston, NY, NJ and
>> California where most Ugandans live. That's partly why I laughed when I saw
>> Mr Gaburungyi assert (in one of the secret email exchanges he had with Dr
>> Muniini last week) that the "demographics of Ugandans have
>> shifted"...meaning that the current voter registrations indicates that most
>> Ugandans now live in Dallas? The fact is that MOST people don't want to
>> deal with UNAA because they think it is too involved in Ugandan politics
>> and that UNAA favors the NRM. We can choose to pretend that that
>> perception problem doesbn't exist...but that won't change reality!
>> thanks
>> For a faster response please contact me at 415.789.6427
>>
>>  ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>  *From:* Joseph Musoke <joseph.musoke@ymail.com>
>> *To:* Uganda Heart Forum <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>; "
>> UNAANET@yahoogroups.com" <UNAANET@yahoogroups.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:11 PM
>> *Subject:* ELLY KARUHANGA and WINNIE BYANYIMA
>>
>> On June 2nd, I noted in the email below that Ms Nairuba, Mr Kwesiga and
>> his dad (Mr. David Mureeba, the head of Uganda's consulate in Dallas) had
>> quietly decided to invite Mr Elly Karuhanga as the main speaker during the
>> UNAA luncheon on Saturday Aug 31st. It was being floated that the
>> opposition parties in Uganda would apparently balance out with a main
>> speaking slot for Ms Winnie Byanyima during dinner on Sunday, Sept 1st.
>> Though Mr Mureeba is a Ugandan living in Texas, I don't think it is a good
>> idea to have an official of the government of Uganda to choose the main
>> speakers at the UNAA convention. e.g officials at the Uganda embassy in DC
>> told me that they are not even allowed to vote in UNAA elections though
>> they live here!
>> We've been told that Mr Karuhanga was chosen because he'd made a large
>> "donation to help UNAA get out of debt" and that efforts to stop him from
>> being a main speaker would make him withdraw his "donation". I don't how
>> much he is donating and I don't know how much goes to UNAA (a relatively
>> new incentive in UNAA allows a person that brings a donor to keep a
>> percentage of the amount donated).  This is a very strange reason to choose
>> a main speaker. Does UNAA auction the Saturday slot?
>> Mr Karuhanga is also allegedly supposed to talk about oil jobs in the
>> company whose board he leads. I do not think Mr Karuhanga needs to address
>> us in order to show jobs in his company.  UNAA has a has a web page for
>> jobs.  He can post them there.
>> Likewise, I do not think that Ms Byanyima should be a main speaker at the
>> convention. Of course I do not know either politician and I have no
>> problem with any politicians  coming to the convention as long as they
>> are not main speakers. Both politicians should be invited to address the
>> political forums rather than the main gatherings.
>>
>> Not everyone goes to the forums (e.g Mr Kamugisha has pointed out that
>> when he sees me at conventions, I spend time in the lobby or at the
>> bar...that's because I mainly go conventions to meet my friends and to make
>> new ones and you can't easily to either f those in a forum because you've
>> to listen to politicians!).  People that go the political forums enjoy
>> political talk and want to hear the competing views of the politicians.
>> However, everyone comes to the main meals. Everyone that pays for the
>> convention pays for that meal.  In other words, unlike audiences at the
>> political forums, people at the meals are captive audiences because they
>> have to be there...they paid for the meal! We should therefore avoid
>> subjecting them to politician's speeches.
>> Worse, if you invite Mr Karuhanga and Ms Byanyima this year, fairness
>> would require that you invite members of other political parties to speak
>> in subsequent years. Assuming that every political party in Uganda and the
>> US/Canada has a supporter in UNAA, are we ready to offer a main speaking
>> slot to representatives of all political parties???  Which political
>> parties will speak for free and which one will have to "donate"?
>> That is why I strongly urge our leaders to drop the politicians and invite
>> non-partisan speakers.  In the email below, I mentioned an example of the
>> exceptional speaker we had in Denver.
>> If our leaders can't think of alternatives, I can suggest the following
>> for consideration...all fit in this year's chosen theme "harnessing the
>> power of the diaspora":
>> 1. Robert Ocaya: he works the German International aid agency (GIZ) and
>> edits the excellent annual Agricultural Finance Yearbook. He can talk about
>> the various effective but cheap ways of increasing small-scale modern
>> farming and the financing available. UNAA's platform can help pass on his
>> work to our relatives around the country...or even to help UNAA members
>> start farming back home.
>> 2. Dr. Baterana Byarugaba: last I heard, he was the head of Mulago
>> hospital. He can update us on the status of Mulago. UNAA members that are
>> knowledgeable about health issues can liaise with him and offer help where
>> they can. e.g I recently talked to a Ugandan nurse that works in an ER and
>> had just got back from Kla where she was shocked on a visit to Mulago's
>> ER.  She thinks UNAA can help get US based nurses in touch with each other
>> and then they could talk about coordinating their vacations in Kla and help
>> train Ugandan nurses in modern medicine.
>> 3. Godfrey Alenyo: he's a senior immigration officer in Kla. I saw him
>> give a good talk about dual-citizenship laws at the Ugandan convention in
>> London.
>> 4. Ben Mukasa: he is a  dean at the University of New Hampshire. He can
>> talk about higher education paths in the US.
>> 5. A Ugandan-American high school teacher (Faith Kyomuhendo?): she
>> recently won accolades for the way she overcame lots of hardships and
>> became a great high school teacher.  Her moving story may resonate with
>> many UNAA members that came as youngsters or families that came with little
>> children and later had more kids. e.g her elder kids could not fit well in
>> US life but then the little kids also went into bad habits. These are
>> challenges that many UNAA members might relate to. With all her trials at
>> home, she also stick with a failing school that she worked hard to turn
>> around (and won the hearts of racist parents and a racist town...parents
>> would throw stones into her house and tell her to leave town!).
>> 6. Moses Wilson: he can talk about pooling resources for investment here
>> in North America and in Uganda (okay, this one definitely would have to
>> speak on Sunday after elections...we don't want him to use his speech to
>> politic for Brian or against Francis and I!).
>>
>> Let us keep politicians from main speaking slots at the convention.  They
>> should speak in political forums. We should not ask for money from
>> politicians (as I said before, "he who pays the piper calls the tune").
>> Having politicians as main speakers and getting money from politicians have
>> both caused divisions in UNAA. e.g that is largely why Gwanga Mujje started
>> and that's why many people erroneously look at UNAA as a NRM organ. We
>> should not keep repeating the same mistakes all the time and expect that
>> somehow, this time the results would be different.
>> thanks
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>>  *From:* Joseph <jmusoke98@yahoo.com>
>> *To:* "unaalist@unaa.memberclicks.net" <unaalist@unaa.memberclicks.net>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 2, 2013 11:15 AM
>> *Subject:* UNITY IN UNAA
>>
>> We have recently read that the keynote speaker at the convention will be
>> Mr Elly Karuhanga. That revelation was greeted with much enthusiasm from
>> many NRM supporters in UNAA but condemned by many UNAA members opposed to
>> the NRM, as well as independents.
>> We have also read that the choice of speaker was quietly made by the UNAAExecutive (the Secretary flew to
>> Kla to get the donation). In addition, Mr. Brian Kwesiga and his dad
>> (uncle?) David Mureeba of Texas played a big role and it is Mr. Mureebathat revealed that Mr.
>> Karuhanga was the choice that he *might* contact Ms Byanyima to balance
>> out on the closing ceremony. Since Mr Mureeba is one of the
>> representatives of the government of Uganda in the US (
>> http://ugandaemb.org/honoraryconsuls.htm), how is he allowed to get
>> involved in the convention planning and choice of speakers???
>> 1. When I announced my candidacy, I promised to limit situations that
>> lead to squabbles over politics. UNAA has members that are Republicans,
>> Democrats, Independents, NRM, DP, FDC, KY, Bataka Bbu, Libertarians,
>> Greens, etc. I will try to keep UNAA out of politics and create an
>> environment where all members feel comfortable and welcome, regardless of
>> their political affiliations. I believe that no one political group should
>> dominate UNAA. If a member left the convention feeling that any political
>> group has dominated the convention, that will be a failure on my part as an
>> organizer.
>> Choosing a keynote speaker is of those things that have brought disunity
>> in UNAA. I believe that it is not too late to change course. Of course, I
>> have nothing personal against Mr Karuhanga. We don't know each other. My
>> advice would be the same if the keynote speaker came from *any *party and
>> elicited similar polarizing reaction from UNAA members.
>> My goal is simple: I want UNAA to be like my local chapter. In my local
>> chapter, we don't care what party members belong to. We don't impose any
>> political view on anybody. But we discuss politics but we avoid polarizing
>> events. That's how UNAA should be too. Many of us remember the keynote
>> speaker in Denver. He probably gave the best keynote speech I've ever heard
>> at a UNAA convention...and his presence wasn't questioned by anyone, at
>> least not to my knowledge! Why don't we get someone like that?
>> 2. When I declared my candidacy, I also mentioned that I want to limit the
>> influence of donors/sponsors on UNAA's activities. If UNAA keeps its
>> expenses within its means (i.e what the members have paid), we will stop
>> relying so much on donors/sponsors. I will not ask politicians to give
>> money to UNAA. We all know that he who pays the piper calls the tune. If
>> someone gives you thousands of dollars, it is only fair to give them what
>> they want in return.
>> I don't know the criteria used to choose politicians/parties that donate
>> to UNAA and I don't know if opposition politicians are also asked to
>> donate money to UNAA. What I know is that we should keep politics a
>> bay...because we can't promote all political parties. If we get money from
>> CP, (and promote CP at the convention) I am sure DP, UPC, NRM etc
>> supporters will complain. That's partly why Gwanga Mujje broke
>> away...they wanted Mengo speakers to get as prominent a role as NRMspeakers.
>> If elected, I will not seek donations from political parties and I'll
>> treat all political parties the same. I'll welcome politicians and give
>> them a platform at the political forums. But I will not choose them to give
>> the keynote speech.
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