{UAH} WHY NIGERIA SHOULD REJECT MUSEVENI'S PEACE KEEPERS
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WHY NIGERIA SHOULD REJECT MUSEVENI'S PEACE KEEPERS
"I have never invited the UN to guard our security. Me Yoweri Museveni to say that I have failed to protect my people and I call in the UN ...... I would rather hang myself. We prioritized national security by developing a strong army, otherwise our Uganda would be like DRC, South Sudan, Somalia or Nigeria where militias have disappeared with SCHOOL
children. It will be a vote of no confidence in our country and our citizens if we cant guarantee our security. What kind of person would we be?"
The New Vision, May 2014 - Museveni mocking Nigeria's President Goodluck Johnson during a campaign rally in Luwero for the Woman MP bye-election. He was trying to hoodwink and intimidate the voters into supporting his choice of candidate by bragging that he is a security expert. No wonder, the candidate of his choice terribly lost amidst heavy intimidation and vote rigging.
It is hardly a year since he made that unfortunate and reckless statement. However, it is reported that he is now preparing to send two battalions of his personal army to Nigeria as part of the AU peace keeping force. That during the recently concluded AU summit the President of Nigeria made an appeal for help to fight Boko Harram and the leaders accepted to send 7,500 troops.
It is unfortunate that such an obnoxious statement came from a man who claims to have dedicated his life to PROMOTING African brotherhood or Pan African ideals. For Ugandans who have been and continue to endure the 29 years of a brutal military dictatorship, his outbursts and opportunistic intent to deploy troops in Nigeria not a surprise. For the struggling masses of the Great Lakes region and South Sudan who have endured Museveni's military arrogance either directly or through proxies, that development is viewed as an opportunistic scheme to further hold the West at ransom.
To demean an Independent state of Nigeria, Africa's second largest economy, a population of over 100 million, governed by democratically elected leaders, is the worst form of betrayal by a fellow black African Head of State. It is more aggravating for the same 'Pan Africanist' to turn around and send his personal army as part of the peace keeping force in the same country whose people and leaders he earlier described as 'bogus'.
When Museveni was fighting his senseless bush war (1981-85) he solicited for and received financial help from Nigeria's Chief Abiola. When he took over power in 1986, his first batch of Officer Cadets were trained in Nigeria and among them is now Chief of the Rwanda army Gen Patrick Nyamvumba when he was still in Museveni's army. Over the years, a number of his army officers have had professional training in Nigeria including his one time Army Chief Gen Kaziini.
Dictator Museveni has over the last 29 years managed to build a personal army that he has placed under the command of his brother and son. It is this personal army that he has been manipulating to keep him in power and just last month he told Ugandans point blank that he wont leave power because he has the CASH and the army. Unfortunately, its this same army that he has misused in his military adventures in Rwanda that resulted into the 1994 genocide, DRC resulting into killing and plunder of resources, Sudan, CAR and Somalia where its human rights record is appalling.
I appeal to the government, the people and friends of Nigeria to vehemently reject the deployment of the Museveni contingent of the AU peace force to Nigeria. Despite the challenges posed by Boko Haram, you will overcome without the evil and demeaning hypocritical contribution from Museveni. By rejecting the deployment of his personal army on Nigeria's soil, you will have not only demonstrated your superior economic and military independence but acted in solidarity with Ugandan masses who are struggling against Museveni's military dictatorship. Within Uganda, all the supposedly independent institutions of the state have been trampled upon by Museveni such that his actions can not be reasonably questioned thus deployment of his personal army outside the country needs no constitutional approval of parliament.
Therefore it is logically fatal for a head of state to sanction deployment of his army to a country whose leadership and people he has demeaned. In the circumstances, it would not be a brotherly act of peace restoring and keeping but a further mockery.
INFORMATION IS POWER
children. It will be a vote of no confidence in our country and our citizens if we cant guarantee our security. What kind of person would we be?"The New Vision, May 2014 - Museveni mocking Nigeria's President Goodluck Johnson during a campaign rally in Luwero for the Woman MP bye-election. He was trying to hoodwink and intimidate the voters into supporting his choice of candidate by bragging that he is a security expert. No wonder, the candidate of his choice terribly lost amidst heavy intimidation and vote rigging.
It is hardly a year since he made that unfortunate and reckless statement. However, it is reported that he is now preparing to send two battalions of his personal army to Nigeria as part of the AU peace keeping force. That during the recently concluded AU summit the President of Nigeria made an appeal for help to fight Boko Harram and the leaders accepted to send 7,500 troops.
It is unfortunate that such an obnoxious statement came from a man who claims to have dedicated his life to PROMOTING
African brotherhood or Pan African ideals. For Ugandans who have been and continue to endure the 29 years of a brutal military dictatorship, his outbursts and opportunistic intent to deploy troops in Nigeria not a surprise. For the struggling masses of the Great Lakes region and South Sudan who have endured Museveni's military arrogance either directly or through proxies, that development is viewed as an opportunistic scheme to further hold the West at ransom.To demean an Independent state of Nigeria, Africa's second largest economy, a population of over 100 million, governed by democratically elected leaders, is the worst form of betrayal by a fellow black African Head of State. It is more aggravating for the same 'Pan Africanist' to turn around and send his personal army as part of the peace keeping force in the same country whose people and leaders he earlier described as 'bogus'.
When Museveni was fighting his senseless bush war (1981-85) he solicited for and received financial help from Nigeria's Chief Abiola. When he took over power in 1986, his first batch of Officer Cadets were trained in Nigeria and among them is now Chief of the Rwanda army Gen Patrick Nyamvumba when he was still in Museveni's army. Over the years, a number of his army officers have had professional training in Nigeria including his one time Army Chief Gen Kaziini.
Dictator Museveni has over the last 29 years managed to build a personal army that he has placed under the command of his brother and son. It is this personal army that he has been manipulating to keep him in power and just last month he told Ugandans point blank that he wont leave power because he has the CASH
and the army. Unfortunately, its this same army that he has misused in his military adventures in Rwanda that resulted into the 1994 genocide, DRC resulting into killing and plunder of resources, Sudan, CAR and Somalia where its human rights record is appalling.I appeal to the government, the people and friends of Nigeria to vehemently reject the deployment of the Museveni contingent of the AU peace force to Nigeria. Despite the challenges posed by Boko Haram, you will overcome without the evil and demeaning hypocritical contribution from Museveni. By rejecting the deployment of his personal army on Nigeria's soil, you will have not only demonstrated your superior economic and military independence but acted in solidarity with Ugandan masses who are struggling against Museveni's military dictatorship. Within Uganda, all the supposedly independent institutions of the state have been trampled upon by Museveni such that his actions can not be reasonably questioned thus deployment of his personal army outside the country needs no constitutional approval of parliament.
Therefore it is logically fatal for a head of state to sanction deployment of his army to a country whose leadership and people he has demeaned. In the circumstances, it would not be a brotherly act of peace restoring and keeping but a further mockery.
INFORMATION IS POWER
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