SV: SV: {UAH} LUZINDANA: "Museveni has overstayed," says NRM youth leader, jailed earlier this month

Gook, Iam not in the business of demonising anybody. Iam just an information consumer who just do the Keyikeyi (gauge).

But you are right thouh,it is not clear as daylight to me that is why I prefer it transpired better.

I do not know why I see the NRM instead of "public". And a chairman of an NRM youth section means some kind of executive position to me (and, the damand and obligation that goes).

I am only for clarity:NOT DEMONISING

noc'l

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den onsdag, 30 april 2014 14:28 skrev Gook <grakanga@gmail.com>:

Noc,

What is so difficult to understand in that paragraph? Being an elected person and an employee is like the difference between a public servant ( MP?) and a civil servant..?

Clear as day light but I can see how confusing it might me for..people like you who want to demonise the young man!

Sent from Gook's iPatch!

"What you are we once were, what we are   you shall be!"

An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.

On 30 apr 2014, at 11:14, "'gaumoy nockrach-laduma' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community"<ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Abbey, the whole parag.

"...We want the world to know that we are not public servants. We are not employees of NRM: we are elected political leaders who are not on the government payroll. The anti-corruption act they talk about does not refer to elected political leaders. We have never abused any office. We are just raising our points: that the president has overstayed in power, that the president is suppressing the party structures. He does not want the structures to work; he wants a powerful statehouse and a weak NRM..."

 

I do not know how he draws the demarcation. The way I see ti, Mr. Luzindana has problems with procedures and demeanour.

That too makes his afterplay obnoxious in terms of trust and confidence.

It is always easy to be wiser in retrospect.

Noc'la gau"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den onsdag, 30 april 2014 7:54 skrev Abbey Semuwemba <abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com>:

" We are not employees of NRM: we are elected political leaders who are not on the government payroll. "?

Abbey

On 30 Apr 2014 06:36, "Gwokto La'Kitgum" <lakitgum@gmail.com> wrote:

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"Museveni has overstayed," says NRM youth leader, jailed earlier this month

Over the last month, youth leaders from Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement have been rounded up by the police. The NRM leaders say Ugandan security forces are after them for opposing the sole candidacy of President Yoweri Museveni in the 2016 general elections. Twenty-eight year-old Adam Luzindana, the chairman of the Kampala district NRM youth league, spent two weeks in jail. Here's his story as told to RNW correspondent Joseph Elunya.

We said: "This is not right. This goes against the NRM constitution." That was immediately after the events in Kiboga on 11 February, when the MPs of the NRM endorsed President Museveni as the sole candidate for the upcoming general elections in the so-called Kyankwanzi resolution.

So we decided to convene a press conference at Makerere University Guest House, where different leaders from our youth league could participate. Together we rejected the Kyankwanzi resolution.

After all, we need internal democracy. We need different people to contest President Museveni for party position. As such, we nominated Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi as our candidate to compete with President Museveni.

Immediately after the press conference, we started receiving calls from different people claiming to be security. Some of them told us to be careful. Others told us to leave the country – otherwise we were going to face it rough.

We said: "No, we can't leave our country. We are fighting for democracy."

President Yoweri Museveni has overstayed in power, we said. It's now been 28 years.

Arrested by the Flying Squad

After the press conference, I was arrested by the notorious police Flying Squad. That was on the 18th of February. I was taken to Kireka Special Investigations Unit and when I got there, I found my colleague, chairman of the Buganda district NRM youth league, William Seruyinda already in detention.

The police detectives asked me a number of questions.

"You people, who are you working for?"

"You people, why you are in touch with Kony?"

"You people, who are you working with outside Uganda?"

I was charged with abuse of office.

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Following my statement in response to the charges, I was released at 8 pm. My colleague was also released, so we went home. The following day we were summoned to report to Kibuli, the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department.

As instructed, we started reporting. Every day we were incarcerated from 9 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon.  We said: "This is an abuse of our rights, there's no way you can report in the morning and leave in the evening without having done anything." They just make you to sit.

Three weeks later, my colleague Omodo Omodo, who is vice-chairman of the northern Uganda NRM youth league, was arrested in Lira. He was detained for two nights. Afterwards, they brought him to Kireka. The following day we were presented to the court and charged with abuse of office.

On the 26th of March, we were sent by Magistrate Lagara of the Anti-Corruption Court to Luzira Prison, where we stayed till the 2nd of April.

On the same day we came back to court for a bail application and were granted it at a fee of five million Uganda shillings each. So now we are out.

We are going back to court on the 2nd of May for mention.

"We are elected political leaders"

We want the world to know that we are not public servants. We are not employees of NRM: we are elected political leaders who are not on the government payroll. The anti-corruption act they talk about does not refer to elected political leaders. We have never abused any office. We are just raising our points: that the president has overstayed in power, that the president is suppressing the party structures. He does not want the structures to work; he wants a powerful statehouse and a weak NRM.

As far as the political structure is concerned, we are not about to give up. We are not going to listen to any kind of intimidation because we know what we are doing is within the framework of the constitution of Uganda and the constitution of NRM.

We are not rebels; we are not a terrorist group as Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura said on April 2nd, when he addressed the parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs.

Enough is enough for President Museveni. He must give way to other leaders to come and take on the leadership of Uganda. We don't want something to happen here as it did in Libya.

In 2016 it will be 30 years for President Yoweri Museveni in power. And we say that this is too much. There's nothing new President Museveni can do for the people of Uganda.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower