{UAH} Former minister Bakoko joins Sejusa
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Zoe Bakoko Bakoru
In a statement announcing his new acquisition, Sejusa said the former minister had written and given extensive interviews on the current state in the country, especially in regard to corruption and abuse of institutions by President Museveni.
Her revelations, he said, were important because they came from an insider.
“Mrs Bakoru was serving in an area where the Museveni’s stealing clique has perfected the methods through which they swindle public funds.
What she says is only a tip of the iceberg and she has come up with information of a rather extensive network used to stash away stolen money to foreign banks, he said. Sejusa said Bakoko planned to expose more filth in the ruling NRM soon.
Bakoko fled to the United States in 2007, when she went to attend a women’s conference at the United Nations. She had been expected to face prosecution for alleged mismanagement of funds at the National Social Security Fund when she was line minister.
Speaking about the increasing tense standoff between President Museveni and Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi over the latter’s political desire to lead the party into the 2016 elections, Sejusa said:
“Uganda is going through interesting times and [I] hope all pro-democracy actors are thinking seriously about the options open to us as we get closer to the crossroads…
“All segments, those who believe that change can be achieved through peaceful means and those who think that a mixture of means is the solution need to carry out a forensic assessment of objectives, capabilities, limitations, Museveni’s own options and those around him who exercise power, ostensibly on his behalf but in reality pursuing their own political agendas.”
Sejusa wondered how much control Museveni actually had over the individuals in his party.
“Are we perhaps beginning to see Mr Museveni being consumed by the very monster he created, i.e, the rise of real power centres which he cannot control and is increasingly becoming powerless?” he wrote.
“Because by Museveni destroying institutions, he destroyed the very mechanisms that would save him in his hour of need. Some of us warned him many times but he couldn’t take heed mainly because of his selfish designs to hold onto power no matter what. He didn’t envisage that there will come a time when he will have reduced energy and limited mental grasp of events by mere passage of time.
Asked about Bakoko’s move yesterday, Presidential Press Secretary Tamale Mirundi referred to her as a frustrated woman.
“In Islam, nobody is allowed to take anything from a drunkard and one who [can’t] add anything to Allah and can’t be taken seriously. Some people who claimed to be close to Bakoko gave a letter addressed to the president requesting to apologise but because I did not take them seriously I don’t even remember whether I delivered this letter to His Excellency,” Tamale said.
He added that because Bakoko was frustrated just like Sejusa, she could not be reliable.
“If she failed to handle the big ministry she was given, she and other people took advantage of her witness, she can’t claim that the First Family forced her to do anything fishy. If the life abroad is hot for her, she should apologise rather than joining Sejusa who might apologise before her,” Tamale added.
On Sejusa’s utterances that those serving the government now would be dropped, Tamale laughed, asking “why would people continue going to hospitals where there are mortuaries with dead bodies?”
He said when a Pope appoints someone to a cardinal and he misbehaves, they don’t blame the Pope but that particular individual.
“Why do we continue to have people like Zizinga, Mrs Njuba and Mukwayas in the NRM government. If individual people like [Amama] Mbabazi fall out with the Church, you can’t blame the Pope. Whereas even legally married couples separate in a few years, there are those who cerebrate 75 years in marriage, government is not like Banyankole kweterana or Bugisu Union,” added Tamale.
slubwama@observer.ug
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