{UAH} BUTARE BOY'S HYPOCRISY IN BLACK AND WHITE
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BUTARE BOY'S HYPOCRISY IN BLACK AND WHITE
Museveni's 28 years grip on power has thrived on lies and manipulations. On 18th September The Daily Monitor ran a interview with one of Uganda's distinguished politician and former leader of the DP Paul Kawange Ssemogerere. In the interview Paul Ssemogerere explained among other issues, the independence struggle during the 1950s when Museveni had not come on the political scene. Responding to that interview Museveni wrote; "Why did Ugandan elites chose to start another political party in 1954 - 56 DP when other Ugandans had already started another political party ....the UNC....to demand for Uganda's independence.? In the elites were genuinely interested in independence, was it not easier to work together? or could could it be that these Ugandans dis not care about independence ? What was it that was not in DP that was not in UNC?"
It is a fact that the two traditional political parties in Uganda; DP and UPC were founded on religious foundation i.e catholic and protestant respectively. The two religions were introduced into Uganda by both catholic and protestant missionaries representing France and England respectively. The English took the day by colonising Uganda and Protestantism had the privilege of being associated with the colonial power. Therefore the UNC later UPC had protestant foundation and the catholic countered it by forming the DP for obvious reasons. Museveni knows this history very well and the early days when he needed Buganda and DP support he acknowledge that the catholic were at one time persecuted and oppressed. On 18th December 1991 while closing a seminar for District Administrators (DAs) at Kyankwanzi, Museveni stated that "Before the NRM came to power in 1986 the history of Uganda was characterised by one group persecuting and dominating another group of Ugandans. During colonialism the catholic were the persecuted by the protestants because the three major religions had their origins from Turkey (Islam), Catholics (France) and Protestants (England). Even the Buganda agreement of 1900 was heavily loaded inform of Protestants. The Position of Prime Minister was reserved for a Protestant and could not be a catholic. UPC was a protestant faction. Even during the first elections, the Protestants in Buganda allied with the Protestants outside Buganda to form the UPC/KY alliance in order to deny the DP/catholic power. When the UPC was ousted and Amin came with Islam the catholic celebrated and the UPC became the persecuted." That was the Museveni then who two decades later is now questioning why the DP was formed. At the time, a number of DPs were in his government and among the audience were quite a good number of DAs who were DP affiliated.
When Iddi Amin overthrew the government in 1971, former President Milton Obote fled to exile in Tanzania. The government of Tanzania opted to oppose Amin's presidency by supporting efforts to ousit Amin and reinstate the legitimate President Obote who had been ousted. Museveni who had not only been a member of Obote's UPC party but also a member of his secret Police General Service Unit was also in exile in Tanzania. Instead of rallying behind the ousted President in the fight against Amin, he opted to form his own rag tag organisation called Front For National Salivation (FRONASA). When the exiles converged in Moshi town to form the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) and its army (UNLA) as the post Amin government and army respectively, he opted to undermine it by promoting his own FRONASA faction. It is his preference and promotion of the FRONASA faction in the post Amin army that gave rise to the political turmoil that Uganda has faced since the ouster of Iddi Amin. If he was genuinely interested in ridding Uganda of Iddi Amin was it not easier to work together in Tanzania?
After the overthrow of Iddi Amin and during the 1980 general elections, it was clear that it was the two traditional political parties i.e UPC and DP that would take the day but he opted to form his own UPM party well knowing that he could not even win a single constituency. The only difference here with the DP of the 1950s that represented the oppressed catholic, his UPM was a launching pad for his FUTURE
Presidential ambitions under cover of a rigged elections.
When some groups like UNLF-AD under the gang of four and UFF under Prof Lule opted to fight the UPC government in 1980, he did not join them but formed his own PRA that eventually neutralised all the other groups and he emerged as the victor and president for the last 28 years. What was in PRA that was not in UFF???
Therefore for those fans of Museveni, watch your back as he changes color according to his personal interests.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
It is a fact that the two traditional political parties in Uganda; DP and UPC were founded on religious foundation i.e catholic and protestant respectively. The two religions were introduced into Uganda by both catholic and protestant missionaries representing France and England respectively. The English took the day by colonising Uganda and Protestantism had the privilege of being associated with the colonial power. Therefore the UNC later UPC had protestant foundation and the catholic countered it by forming the DP for obvious reasons. Museveni knows this history very well and the early days when he needed Buganda and DP support he acknowledge that the catholic were at one time persecuted and oppressed. On 18th December 1991 while closing a seminar for District Administrators (DAs) at Kyankwanzi, Museveni stated that "Before the NRM came to power in 1986 the history of Uganda was characterised by one group persecuting and dominating another group of Ugandans. During colonialism the catholic were the persecuted by the protestants because the three major religions had their origins from Turkey (Islam), Catholics (France) and Protestants (England). Even the Buganda agreement of 1900 was heavily loaded inform of Protestants. The Position of Prime Minister was reserved for a Protestant and could not be a catholic. UPC was a protestant faction. Even during the first elections, the Protestants in Buganda allied with the Protestants outside Buganda to form the UPC/KY alliance in order to deny the DP/catholic power. When the UPC was ousted and Amin came with Islam the catholic celebrated and the UPC became the persecuted." That was the Museveni then who two decades later is now questioning why the DP was formed. At the time, a number of DPs were in his government and among the audience were quite a good number of DAs who were DP affiliated.
When Iddi Amin overthrew the government in 1971, former President Milton Obote fled to exile in Tanzania. The government of Tanzania opted to oppose Amin's presidency by supporting efforts to ousit Amin and reinstate the legitimate President Obote who had been ousted. Museveni who had not only been a member of Obote's UPC party but also a member of his secret Police General Service Unit was also in exile in Tanzania. Instead of rallying behind the ousted President in the fight against Amin, he opted to form his own rag tag organisation called Front For National Salivation (FRONASA). When the exiles converged in Moshi town to form the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) and its army (UNLA) as the post Amin government and army respectively, he opted to undermine it by promoting his own FRONASA faction. It is his preference and promotion of the FRONASA faction in the post Amin army that gave rise to the political turmoil that Uganda has faced since the ouster of Iddi Amin. If he was genuinely interested in ridding Uganda of Iddi Amin was it not easier to work together in Tanzania?
After the overthrow of Iddi Amin and during the 1980 general elections, it was clear that it was the two traditional political parties i.e UPC and DP that would take the day but he opted to form his own UPM party well knowing that he could not even win a single constituency. The only difference here with the DP of the 1950s that represented the oppressed catholic, his UPM was a launching pad for his FUTURE
Presidential ambitions under cover of a rigged elections.When some groups like UNLF-AD under the gang of four and UFF under Prof Lule opted to fight the UPC government in 1980, he did not join them but formed his own PRA that eventually neutralised all the other groups and he emerged as the victor and president for the last 28 years. What was in PRA that was not in UFF???
Therefore for those fans of Museveni, watch your back as he changes color according to his personal interests.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
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