{UAH} Prediction at 15th Dec 2014 NRM delegates conference at Nambole:

The following speech will be largely ignored by the media but some of you may find it a compelling vision for Uganda's future. It may become a historic speech, setting a new course for our country.Therefore, bypass the media by distributing the speech widely, and let an informed people decide. And consider supporting Mr. X as the NRM presidential candidate in 2016.

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"Let me say first of all that, in a way that is peculiarly fitting that I'm happy that my leave has ended as I have been missing being involved in our party activities. As i assume you all know, 32 years ago today, the NRA (then called PRA) declared war on Obote's government in what came to be called the liberation War. In an indirect way that had an enormous impact on my life because it was when we took a decision to seek refuge in Sweden as a family. I ended up being separated from the rest of the family as i had to run risky errands for the NRM from Nairobi, which was the largest "battlefield" on the Eastern front of that war, as we spent several days hiding away from UNLA spies that had been sent to look for us there and monitor our activities. Ndugu Ruhakana Rugunda can testify to this if he wants.

The liberation War was both an example of what happens when leadership fails in a country and societies collide and it was an example, in its aftermath, of what happens when people lie to themselves about the objective realities of the human condition,because instead of leading to peace and development, as our chairman for over 30 years had so devoutly hoped, it in fact ultimately has led to mini-peace in some areas especially in the north and under development in large parts of the country. And instead of leading to greater freedom for all human beings, as our chairman again in his ten points program had hoped, it has led to Nazism, fascism(as lady Jackie Mbabazi pointed out) and a lot of sectarian tendencies.

And so, it is both good for us today to remember the cost paid by those who believed enough in freedom to have died for it, and useful to remind ourselves that that price has to be paid every year and every week, and that it is better by far to pay that price in peace time, by being vigilant and by trying to do that which is right, than it is to allow your society to decay or to have inadequate leadership and drift into a cataclysm comparable to the Idi Amin and obote regimes. And that is not just a NRM battle cry. I think it is important to recognize that what is ultimately at stake in our current environment is literally the future of Uganda if we let things continue as there are at the moment.

I am a lawyer by background, and I would assert and defend on any campus in this country that it is impossible to maintain civilisation and peace with high levels of youth unemployment, with high levels of poverty, with high levels of immorality involving nudism, now termed as "Luzindanism", with maids killing or torturing babies, with an ageing leader, and with a decline in agricultural production. And that what is at issue is literally not NRM,or FDC or DP or UPC but the question of whether or not our country will survive beyond the current leaders.

Now, I've been sort of intrigued by the press coverage since rumours started that im interested in the presidency of this country. First of all, I think whoever started this rumour has most accurately captured the essence of the need for change in our country. I want to declare it today that I will stand for presidency in 2016 as long as our chairman does not stand.

Now, there has been an enormous effort in the Kampala elite to avoid the reality that this conference is actually about some fairly big ideas: which direction do you want the party to go in? There are those who argue that the chairman of the party should have absolute control including appointing the Secretary General. While we respect their ideas, we also think that they aren't different from those who agitated for Amin to declare himself the life president in the 1970s. NRM could do better than an Amin. We don't want an Amin at the helm of our party or a leader micromanaging virtually every part of the country.

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As My mate, Edgar Muvunyi Tabaro would say: " wait for part 2 of my UBC chronicles". We wish the NRMs a successful conference!

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