SV: {UAH} No term limits biting its framers

Ndugu OKURUT and UAH folks,

TRULY, Prof KANYEIHAMBA and cahoots must continue to cry for spilt cup of milk. KANYEIHAMBA, Mbabazi, Kategaya, Sejusa etal had tied the noose on their own necks.

Now both Kanyeihamba, Mbabazi, Sejusa etal thought it was the UPC party and the late OBOTE that was going to be killed by their legal technics.

FRANKLY, it is good they are reaping what they had planted, but unfortunately the whole Ugandans have been tight with such legal political strings! 

Ocaya pOcure

Den fredag, 12 december 2014 19:27 skrev 'Simon Okurut' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>:

Paget Kintu,

Well, can we say they deserve it? No, it is not right, they acted in their selfish ways thinking they were barring off the Opposition least knowing they were barring themselves also in the long run. That is why I like philosophers; they tell us to do what is right but not what is maliciously constructed to serve the interests of a cliche. 

Though I am a feel for the country, sometimes I find myself smiling and mused over how Prof. Kanyeihamba complains how he is denied this or that. I pick on this professor because he was most respected and led a team of fellow lawyers ( Eriya, Amanya, Amama, Njumba, Ssemwogerere, Sejusa etc etc in writing the sectarian Constitution that omitted what the majority of Ugandans wanted (federalism). President Museveni is the most witty among his playmates; he always shows disinterest leaving the lawyers to hammer home the unshakable laws. Now we all cry together! 

A story to illustrate wit. As kids we were told many stories; one of them involved a wizard who killed people by putting herbs on their excreta; once he put it, the victim would die within no time, they said. And people suspected him but would have no evidence to use against him. It took the wit of another man to net the wizard. As many people then never had nor used modern toilets, people just went to the nearby bushes and eased themselves there. The witty man sacrificed all his time to monitor the wizard to see where he would go to ease himself. Too much waiting but the chance finally came (patience pays), he followed the wizard  and saw the BIG man (wizard)  squat to ease himself; the spy hid as he waited patiently, it took long time before the man finished. When the "gentleman" finished his business, he went back home, via another route and inspecting his nearby garden.

Meanwhile the witty man quickly gathered the man's stuff in leaves and reached the wizard's house before he returned then scattered the pooh on the door and went into hiding. After sometime the wizard returned home and saw some pooh scattered around his entrance and we are told the man addressed the unknown assailant saying, " Now this kind of man who scatters his feces on my door, when I kill him should I be blamed? Well, let him reap what he wanted." With that he proceeded to get his herbs, sprinkled too much on the pooh so that the assailant would reap what he sowed immediately. The witty man stealthy went to his home to wait for news; sure to hell, the wizard started feeling pain in his whole body and started crying as the pain intensified and told his family members that he was dying; that people have killed him, he knew how his medicine worked. News soon spread in the entire village that the man was dying and he indeed died. Imagine that: "people have killed me," which people killed him when he was the one who applied his own herbs on his own pooh?

Lessons to learn from the story: Do to others what you would want them to do to you; like in factories where regulations are posted "if you do not know how to stop this machine, don't start it," that wizard knew how to kill but did not know how to stop the effect of his medicine. Also, knowledge is not the preserve of only a few, others can device other and sometimes better and simply ways. 

Similarly, the framers of No Term Limits in the constitution did their work but did not know how they can undo it, for they never expected to fall out. But how could they all not see; the answer is selfish motives.

Peter Simon

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From: 'paget kintu' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
To: "kin2pag@gmail.com" <kin2pag@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 3:29 AM
Subject: {UAH} No term limits biting its framers

Some years back while commenting on the removal of term limits, I posited that the move would harm the NRM Party more than the opposition parties.  Time has proved me right.  The rigging and unfair practices against the opposition parties are now being enjoyed by NRM members undiluted.  The new order is poodle up or pedal off.  The young Turks who have not yet lined their pockets enough to grow a national conscience have been enlisted as the ruthless attack dogs snapping at the rear ends of the "Hon." old historicals who are yelping their love for great dear leader in a desperate but useless bid to stay relevant. and. Africa is being treated to twin tragic comedies from some of its oldest dictatorships, Zimbabwe and Uganda as two aging irrelevant leaders pretend that a desire by others to think that they can do better in leading their countries, is treasonous!  "the people still love me" is the croaking we constantly hear from Mzee Mugabe and ilk.  Must they hate you before you think that, the leaders you should have been training with the massive amounts of time, resources and so-called vision you have had, are now ready to take over?

Paget Kintu

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