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M7-Mao Medical Bail Out Revealed

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Published on 13 August 2014

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Secrets Emerge how President Museveni cleared Norbert Mao's Health Bills to a Tune of Shs 300M after Flirting with Death at Close Range in Nairobi's Agha khan Hospital

By Carlos Ghadafi

DP.President Nobert Mao

Splendid secrets have emerged revealing how the president of the Democratic Party, Hon Norbert Mao was saved to near death  with a whopping 300million pay out for his health bills by the NRM government.

The huge health bills accumulated after the DP leader suddenly fell sick at his home in Gulu. After a protracted fight for his life at Lacor hospital, He was subsequently rushed to Nairobi.  It was later rumored that Mao had been poisoned to death, allegations which were later quashed and denied by both his family and the DP political party leadership.  

But we are proud to reveal the inside story basing on a close Mao associate who has given us believable facts about what transpired on the ground. We also reveal how the NRM gurus decided to assist Mao get back to his feet.

The Inside Story

Although Norbert Mao first tried to get treatment from a local (Lacor) hospital, details later emerged that his condition was not conducive enough to be handled by the Ugandan health facilities because it had become a complex issue.

Doctors from Lacor hospital reportedly found contradicting health ailments in Norbert Mao's body which reflected cases of food poisoning and typhoid. As the doctors got stuck in catch-twenty-two situation, they decided to take bold samples to determine what had befallen the former member of the Ugandan parliament and aspiring presidential candidate.

But before they could get the real results from his blood samples, Mao's condition worsened. He reportedly fell into coma. Some of his shrewd relatives including his brother (a former Ugandan journalist) a one Mr. Dusman Okkee made a decision to contact some government officials to assist airlift Mao to Nairobi.  

The Tricky Bills

We have been told that it was realized that Mao couldn't foot the bills for the trip to Nairobi because they required costs of flying him to a neighboring country at a very short notice, more probably by helicopter.

Mao's brother, Dusman Okee made the first call to Gen Salim Saleh. Gen Saleh has been a very long time friend to Norbert Mao and both men have shared a lot, over the years, their affiliation to different camps notwithstanding. 

Meanwhile Mao's condition had worsened as he couldn't talk or hear anything but Saleh was not readily available. Okee then made a decision to call the chief of defense forces, Gen Katumba Wamala who responded with immediate effect.

Gen Katumba sent a chopper to Gulu which flew Norbert Mao and his close relatives to Nairobi. It must be told that the cost of flying a chopper alone could have shot beyond shs200m because that metallic bird is a real fuel guzzler.

Aviation experts assert that a helicopter, of the caliber that took Mao to Kenya uses over two drums of fuel for heating before it even takes off. Each drum has got an average fuel content of not less than 100 liters of fuel.

The Realities in Kenya

When Mao's entourage reached Kenya, he was posted in the much coveted Agha khan hospital where his bills accumulated much further. Our sources have further told us that the Agha Khan Hospital is a very expensive--in-fact the most expensive in east and central African region.

By the time, Mao got to the point of getting discharged from Agha khan, a bill which he couldn't afford was presented to him. He had to make frantic calls to Kampala to see if he could get a bailout. It was at this point when contact was established with the NRM political leadership.

It's rumored that a very close associate to the president met him and presented to him the issue of Norbert Mao's health situation. The president was told that the country was about to be embarrassed because the DP leader is stuck in Nairobi because he cannot afford to clear the hospital bills he had accumulated.

Cost Benefit Analysis

The senior NRM official then made a quick forensic cost-benefit analysis which later established that there was a bigger political benefit in rescuing Mao out of his predicament than abandoning him.

It was calculated that with the western and central region beginning to have political ambiguous swing states, the north could be vital in deciding the 2016 elections. The NRM leadership arrived at this calculation some two years ago and decided to court all senior politicians from the northern Uganda.

It's this calculation which forms the reason why people like Richard Todwong and Hon Evelyn Anitte have had a very strong say in the affairs of the NRM today.  Hon Annite actually was at the center of the storm when she announced the much talked about Kyankwanzi resolution that endorsed President Yoweri Museveni as the preferred NRM candidate for the 2016 elections.

And when the opportunity came beckoning on a silver platter, it was inconceivable that a leader of Mao's caliber would be ignored. The president eagerly consented to bail out the DP leader without even setting stern political conditions because he knows that it's enough to muzzle and neutralize him politically. And we have been stealthily told that Mao bailout is projected at not less than 300 million shillings.

This comes at the heels of another project which saw the NRM government bailing out several Ugandan MPs with over 4-2 billion shillings to repay their loans.

The Facts

Each man has got a price tag. But we have not said that Mao's bailout was intended to buy him out of opposing president Museveni. The facts simply show that he got assistance from the president.

But whether or not the gesture will soften his hard stance against president Museveni is another ball-game changer altogether. And in any case, it's a fact that Mao could have lost his life under mysterious circumstances if he had not received the much needed assistance from a more equipped hospital.

A case in point is the one of Brigadier Noble Mayombo who was rushed to Nairobi for treatment under similar circumstances to those of Norbert Mao. The articulate Brigadier Mayombo had been feared poisoned but was not as lucky as Mao to comeback alive.  Mayombo quickly perished from Nairobi.

edited by Drusilla Arinanye

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