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> From: Aroma Patrick <aromaguzi@gmail.com>
> Subject: {UAH} WHY UPC SHALL RISE AND SHINE AGAIN UNDER JIMMY AKENA PRESIDENCY-PARTIALLY PUBLISHED BY NEW VISION TODAY
> To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
> Received: Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 9:58 AM
>
>
>
>
>
> WHY UPC SHALL RISE
> AND SHINE AGAIN UNDER AKENA PRESIDENCY
>
> The campaign of
> misrepresentation by the former UPC Vice President Joseph
> Bossa and David
> Pulkol pertaining UPC District Conferences Elections of
> 30th May
> 2015 that culminated into swearing in of J. Akena, MP as UPC
> President on 1st
> July 2015 at Lugogo UMA Hall is a point of serious concern
> that deserves response
> from all Party Members. Both of these two gentlemen
> conducting the vociferous
> attacks on Akena and the entire UPC Electoral process were
> Presidential
> candidates with six others in the same elections. The
> positions put
> forward aggressively in these
> destructive campaigns by the two principals are full of
> false hoods derived
> from very superficial and distorted analysis and outlook of
> UPC Politics
> ,Internal Democracy and its entire
> electoral processes.
>
>
> In
> order
> to counter, more systematically, the lies in this campaign,
> with the truths and
> figures about what happened on 30th May 2015 and
> 1st July
> 2015, as a contribution to the enlightenment of millions of
> UPC members and
> Ugandans committed to democracy and
> streamlining of our national politics, let me inform you
> that I am the
> former National Youth Leader in Ambassador Olara Otunnu
> Government and have
> served UPC in many capacities as a member of Central
> Executive Committee
> Elected twice from Lira District in 2005 and 2011
> respectively. I also served
> as Communication Officer and Mobilization Secretary under
> Mama Miria Obote
> Presidency before being appointed by Ambassador Olara Otunnu
> as UPC National
> Youth Leader in 2012 and recently as part of the Planning
> team and support
> staff to UPC Party Electoral Commission
>
>
> First
> the vilification of Akena as a mole sent
> by President Museveni and NRM to destroy UPC now a washed in
> the media as
> propagated by Joseph Bossa and Pulkol is a big lie, an
> insult to Akena, UPC
> members and a threat to the corporate existence of UPC.
> Every Ugandan knows
> that Akena is twice elected as a Member of Parliament for
> Lira Municipality on
> UPC Ticket and first contested for UPC Presidency in 2010
> where Otunnu won and
> he became a runner up and it is the same year of 2010 where
> Both Joseph Bossa
> and David Pulkol who worked with President Museveni in
> various capacities
> surfaced in UPC. The two principals who are now conducting
> smear campaigns
> against Akena and Misrepresenting UPC Politics have, for
> over a decade worked
> with Museveni with their last assignments being Legal
> Advisor to Bank of Uganda
> and Director General of External Security Organisation
> respectively, therefore
> they don't have any moral authority to accuse Akena of
> being in bed with the
> state when they themselves could be classified as true moles
> since their
> actions are not in the interest of UPC.
>
>
> Secondly,
> the legality of the delegate's
> conference as described by Joseph Bossa and portrayed in
> Sunday Monitor of 5th
> July 2015 is quite disturbing, full of distortions and
> amazing. Akena never
> called a delegates conference but a consultative meeting
> constituted by members
> of National Council and annual delegate's conference upon
> being petitioned by
> Mr.Osinde Michael –a UPC delegate from Tororo to convene
> the meeting and he
> obliged, its only that one member of ADC Mr. Higenyi Kemba
> moved a motion for
> the delegates to properly constitute themselves into a
> delegates conference
> that was seconded by Mrs. Kellen Mugizi the newly appointed
> UPC National Woman Leader and UPC Woman Leader
> from Bushenyi and Atim Brenda Kinyera the
> new UPC National Youth Leader and
> UPC Youth Leader from Gulu District. The
> justification for members constituting themselves into a
> delegate's conference was
> premised on Ambassador Otunnu postponement of The Party
> delegates conference
> indefinitely that amounted to staging a constitutional coup
> against the Party
> Constitution yet the time line to 2016 general elections and
> the question of
> mobilizing resources to fund candidates who are going to
> contest in those
> elections are pressing hard on the Party and issues of
> utilization of Party funds needed discussions.
>
>
> Thirdly, the
> accusations labeled against Akena of staging a
> coup against Ambassador Otunnu government are grossly
> misrepresented. The truth
> is that Akena foiled a coup against the Party Constitution
> since Ambassador Otunnu
> through the Elections Review Board was going to cancel and
> annul the entire
> elections of District Conferences of 30th May
> 2015.
> The appointment of the Election Review Board by the former
> Party President
> Ambassador Olara Otunnu to resolve election issues is
> contrary to the UPC
> Constitution, the 1995 Constitution and Electoral laws of
> Uganda since all
> election disputes are supposed to be handled by the Party
> Electoral Commission
> and at the National level it is only the Electoral
> Commission who attend to
> election disputes, petitions and grievances. When a
> particular candidate is not
> satisfied with the election exercise, he or she seeks
> redress in the courts of
> laws but not with any Election Review Board, therefore Akena
> action was not
> only timely but saved the Party from being plunged into a
> constitutional
> crisis, chaos and paralysis.
>
>
> Fourthly
> under
> Akena Presidency UPC is in safe hands, those spreading
> harmful propaganda are in for a rude shock and these are the
> reasons why UPC
> Shall Rise and Shine again under his able
> stewardship
>
> a.
> Akena campaign theme was Loud and Clear
> 'Strengthening Our Firm Foundation
> Through Grassroots Mobilisation', therefore
> he will guide the Party
> members and harnessed their efforts in rebuilding,
> revitalizing and rejuvenating our Party
> through setting up FUNCTIONAL GRASSROOT STRUCTURES where
> they don't exist and
> renewing and revamping where they exist but are weak. UPC
> shall not be reduced to a Press Conference Party at
> Uganda House
> like was under Ambassador Otunnu but UPC
> MANIFESTO SHALL BE TAKEN TO THE GRASS ROOTS.
>
>
> b. While expanding UPC Political
> BASE in a
> achieving the same as above, Akena plans to make YOUTH and
> WOMEN the pillar of
> UPC. The
> issue of institutionalisation of the Youth and
> Women Leagues as directed by the National Council in 2011 is
> long overdue as no
> Party Organs were convened by Ambassador Olara Otunnu. Akena
> informed Party
> members, Partners and the general Public that the documents
> for
> operationalisation of the UPC Youth and Women Leagues given
> to the delegates on
> 1st July 2015 at Lugogo Uma Hall will be
> presented to the National
> Council for approval under his stewardship and right now
> mobilisation of Youth,
> PWDS and Elders to participate in the fourth coming National
> Youth Council
> Elections, PWDS and Elders Elections have TAKEN OFF
> AGGRESSIVELY
>
>
> c. Akena in his address
> to the delegates informed members that he will work with
> Women, Youth and
> Workers and together take UPC message to the citizens of
> Uganda by investing
> heavily in UPC Party regalia that will include T. Shirts,
> Badges, Cards, Pens,
> Congress Brochures, the Congress songs and
>
> a)
> Reviving the Peoples News
> Paper
>
> b)
> Weekly Press Conferences
>
> c)
> Use
> of Social Media i.e. Face book, WhatsApp, Twitter,
> YouTube and Video Clips to make our message reach a wider
> public
>
> d)
> Availing Party Policy Documents like
> Manifesto,
> Constitutions to all UPC Party members and the general
> public
>
>
>
> e)
> Akena personally noticed with keen interest the
> publication of
> list of intending 2016 Parliamentary Candidates by Monitor
> Newspaper of Monday
> 15th/ June/2015 where the UPC Party true
> Parliamentary
> Candidates numbers were not reflected, Akena REAFFIRMED the
> position of his
> leadership to mobilize UPC members to participate at all
> leadership levels right from LC1 Chairpersons, LC2
> Chairpersons
> and Councilors, LC3 Chairpersons and Councilors, LC4 and
> Councilors, LC5
> Chairpersons and Councilors and Parliamentary Candidates. He
> called upon the
> Party Leadership in the Districts to vigorously engage in
> candidate's
> identification and compilations for all elective positions
> in preparations for
> the Party Primaries as we gear to field candidates in all
> Local Government
> Elective positions. I believe you have been availed with
> copies of Candidates
> Identification Forms. Akena assured delegates.
>
>
>
> f)
> Akena leadership will popularize UPC
> Ideology to
> everyone in this Country of ours; everybody in this
> Motherland Uganda will
> start reciting the Congress ideology everywhere!!! We are a
> Social Democratic
> Party and in this inline Akena intend to set up UPC
> ideological school to cause
> ideological clarity among UPC members and beyond. The
> Ideological School
> currently is being hosted at the Party Headquarters run by
> Mr. Christopher
> Lwanga!!! Congress members know UPC ideology for the last
> five years was not
> only distorted but shamelessly adulterated by Otunnu regime.
> Akena have already
> introduced UPC Ideology Class at Party Headquarters managed
> by Lwanga
> Christopher and I invite the Youth and all Congress members
> visit the Party
> Headquarters on 6th Floor Uganda
> House.
>
>
>
> g)
> Akena has instituted three
> committees already to fast
> track the work of the Party,that is Finance and Resource
> Mobilisation Committee
> that would look into all issues of Party funds including
> utilisation of those
> funds .The Manifesto Committee that have already worked on a
> skeleton manifesto
> for 2016 general elections . The Constitutional Review
> Committee to
> comprehensively review all the gaps and
> hallmarks in our New Party Constitution and looking forward
> to constituting
> Education and Health Committees for the Party
>
>
>
> h)
> Finally the current
> campaign to convince UPC Members and Ugandans that Akena is
> a mole sent by
> Museveni/NRM and destined to destroy UPC are built on the
> systematic
> misrepresentation of the truth about the nature of UPC
> internal Politics,
> propaganda, distortions and failure to accept what has taken
> place that Akena
> actually won the 30th May 2015 UPC District
> Conferences Elections and
> what is taking place right inside UPC Party that Akena is
> NOW IS THE PRESIDENT
> OF UPC. This misrepresentation is derived from the politics
> of very narrow and
> backward-looking vested interests, and are informed with a
> particular twisted
> outlook on UPC Politics .I call upon all Congress members
> wherever you are to
> stand up, every time and everywhere, to oppose this campaign
> and firmly counter
> all attempts to divide and set Congress members to fight
> each other. We must
> instead organize and work hard, looking far ahead,
> determined to build a great
> future for our Party and Country.
>
> Written by Aroma
> Patrick
>
> Former UPC National
> Youth Leader in Ambassador Olara Otunnu Government and NOW A
> STAFF AT UPC
> SECRETARIAT--
> Aroma
> Patrick
> Uganda
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Aroma
> Patrick
> Uganda
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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> From: Aroma Patrick <aromaguzi@gmail.com>
> Subject: {UAH} WHY UPC SHALL RISE AND SHINE AGAIN UNDER JIMMY AKENA PRESIDENCY-PARTIALLY PUBLISHED BY NEW VISION TODAY
> To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
> Received: Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 9:58 AM
>
>
>
>
>
> WHY UPC SHALL RISE
> AND SHINE AGAIN UNDER AKENA PRESIDENCY
>
> The campaign of
> misrepresentation by the former UPC Vice President Joseph
> Bossa and David
> Pulkol pertaining UPC District Conferences Elections of
> 30th May
> 2015 that culminated into swearing in of J. Akena, MP as UPC
> President on 1st
> July 2015 at Lugogo UMA Hall is a point of serious concern
> that deserves response
> from all Party Members. Both of these two gentlemen
> conducting the vociferous
> attacks on Akena and the entire UPC Electoral process were
> Presidential
> candidates with six others in the same elections. The
> positions put
> forward aggressively in these
> destructive campaigns by the two principals are full of
> false hoods derived
> from very superficial and distorted analysis and outlook of
> UPC Politics
> ,Internal Democracy and its entire
> electoral processes.
>
>
> In
> order
> to counter, more systematically, the lies in this campaign,
> with the truths and
> figures about what happened on 30th May 2015 and
> 1st July
> 2015, as a contribution to the enlightenment of millions of
> UPC members and
> Ugandans committed to democracy and
> streamlining of our national politics, let me inform you
> that I am the
> former National Youth Leader in Ambassador Olara Otunnu
> Government and have
> served UPC in many capacities as a member of Central
> Executive Committee
> Elected twice from Lira District in 2005 and 2011
> respectively. I also served
> as Communication Officer and Mobilization Secretary under
> Mama Miria Obote
> Presidency before being appointed by Ambassador Olara Otunnu
> as UPC National
> Youth Leader in 2012 and recently as part of the Planning
> team and support
> staff to UPC Party Electoral Commission
>
>
> First
> the vilification of Akena as a mole sent
> by President Museveni and NRM to destroy UPC now a washed in
> the media as
> propagated by Joseph Bossa and Pulkol is a big lie, an
> insult to Akena, UPC
> members and a threat to the corporate existence of UPC.
> Every Ugandan knows
> that Akena is twice elected as a Member of Parliament for
> Lira Municipality on
> UPC Ticket and first contested for UPC Presidency in 2010
> where Otunnu won and
> he became a runner up and it is the same year of 2010 where
> Both Joseph Bossa
> and David Pulkol who worked with President Museveni in
> various capacities
> surfaced in UPC. The two principals who are now conducting
> smear campaigns
> against Akena and Misrepresenting UPC Politics have, for
> over a decade worked
> with Museveni with their last assignments being Legal
> Advisor to Bank of Uganda
> and Director General of External Security Organisation
> respectively, therefore
> they don't have any moral authority to accuse Akena of
> being in bed with the
> state when they themselves could be classified as true moles
> since their
> actions are not in the interest of UPC.
>
>
> Secondly,
> the legality of the delegate's
> conference as described by Joseph Bossa and portrayed in
> Sunday Monitor of 5th
> July 2015 is quite disturbing, full of distortions and
> amazing. Akena never
> called a delegates conference but a consultative meeting
> constituted by members
> of National Council and annual delegate's conference upon
> being petitioned by
> Mr.Osinde Michael –a UPC delegate from Tororo to convene
> the meeting and he
> obliged, its only that one member of ADC Mr. Higenyi Kemba
> moved a motion for
> the delegates to properly constitute themselves into a
> delegates conference
> that was seconded by Mrs. Kellen Mugizi the newly appointed
> UPC National Woman Leader and UPC Woman Leader
> from Bushenyi and Atim Brenda Kinyera the
> new UPC National Youth Leader and
> UPC Youth Leader from Gulu District. The
> justification for members constituting themselves into a
> delegate's conference was
> premised on Ambassador Otunnu postponement of The Party
> delegates conference
> indefinitely that amounted to staging a constitutional coup
> against the Party
> Constitution yet the time line to 2016 general elections and
> the question of
> mobilizing resources to fund candidates who are going to
> contest in those
> elections are pressing hard on the Party and issues of
> utilization of Party funds needed discussions.
>
>
> Thirdly, the
> accusations labeled against Akena of staging a
> coup against Ambassador Otunnu government are grossly
> misrepresented. The truth
> is that Akena foiled a coup against the Party Constitution
> since Ambassador Otunnu
> through the Elections Review Board was going to cancel and
> annul the entire
> elections of District Conferences of 30th May
> 2015.
> The appointment of the Election Review Board by the former
> Party President
> Ambassador Olara Otunnu to resolve election issues is
> contrary to the UPC
> Constitution, the 1995 Constitution and Electoral laws of
> Uganda since all
> election disputes are supposed to be handled by the Party
> Electoral Commission
> and at the National level it is only the Electoral
> Commission who attend to
> election disputes, petitions and grievances. When a
> particular candidate is not
> satisfied with the election exercise, he or she seeks
> redress in the courts of
> laws but not with any Election Review Board, therefore Akena
> action was not
> only timely but saved the Party from being plunged into a
> constitutional
> crisis, chaos and paralysis.
>
>
> Fourthly
> under
> Akena Presidency UPC is in safe hands, those spreading
> harmful propaganda are in for a rude shock and these are the
> reasons why UPC
> Shall Rise and Shine again under his able
> stewardship
>
> a.
> Akena campaign theme was Loud and Clear
> 'Strengthening Our Firm Foundation
> Through Grassroots Mobilisation', therefore
> he will guide the Party
> members and harnessed their efforts in rebuilding,
> revitalizing and rejuvenating our Party
> through setting up FUNCTIONAL GRASSROOT STRUCTURES where
> they don't exist and
> renewing and revamping where they exist but are weak. UPC
> shall not be reduced to a Press Conference Party at
> Uganda House
> like was under Ambassador Otunnu but UPC
> MANIFESTO SHALL BE TAKEN TO THE GRASS ROOTS.
>
>
> b. While expanding UPC Political
> BASE in a
> achieving the same as above, Akena plans to make YOUTH and
> WOMEN the pillar of
> UPC. The
> issue of institutionalisation of the Youth and
> Women Leagues as directed by the National Council in 2011 is
> long overdue as no
> Party Organs were convened by Ambassador Olara Otunnu. Akena
> informed Party
> members, Partners and the general Public that the documents
> for
> operationalisation of the UPC Youth and Women Leagues given
> to the delegates on
> 1st July 2015 at Lugogo Uma Hall will be
> presented to the National
> Council for approval under his stewardship and right now
> mobilisation of Youth,
> PWDS and Elders to participate in the fourth coming National
> Youth Council
> Elections, PWDS and Elders Elections have TAKEN OFF
> AGGRESSIVELY
>
>
> c. Akena in his address
> to the delegates informed members that he will work with
> Women, Youth and
> Workers and together take UPC message to the citizens of
> Uganda by investing
> heavily in UPC Party regalia that will include T. Shirts,
> Badges, Cards, Pens,
> Congress Brochures, the Congress songs and
>
> a)
> Reviving the Peoples News
> Paper
>
> b)
> Weekly Press Conferences
>
> c)
> Use
> of Social Media i.e. Face book, WhatsApp, Twitter,
> YouTube and Video Clips to make our message reach a wider
> public
>
> d)
> Availing Party Policy Documents like
> Manifesto,
> Constitutions to all UPC Party members and the general
> public
>
>
>
> e)
> Akena personally noticed with keen interest the
> publication of
> list of intending 2016 Parliamentary Candidates by Monitor
> Newspaper of Monday
> 15th/ June/2015 where the UPC Party true
> Parliamentary
> Candidates numbers were not reflected, Akena REAFFIRMED the
> position of his
> leadership to mobilize UPC members to participate at all
> leadership levels right from LC1 Chairpersons, LC2
> Chairpersons
> and Councilors, LC3 Chairpersons and Councilors, LC4 and
> Councilors, LC5
> Chairpersons and Councilors and Parliamentary Candidates. He
> called upon the
> Party Leadership in the Districts to vigorously engage in
> candidate's
> identification and compilations for all elective positions
> in preparations for
> the Party Primaries as we gear to field candidates in all
> Local Government
> Elective positions. I believe you have been availed with
> copies of Candidates
> Identification Forms. Akena assured delegates.
>
>
>
> f)
> Akena leadership will popularize UPC
> Ideology to
> everyone in this Country of ours; everybody in this
> Motherland Uganda will
> start reciting the Congress ideology everywhere!!! We are a
> Social Democratic
> Party and in this inline Akena intend to set up UPC
> ideological school to cause
> ideological clarity among UPC members and beyond. The
> Ideological School
> currently is being hosted at the Party Headquarters run by
> Mr. Christopher
> Lwanga!!! Congress members know UPC ideology for the last
> five years was not
> only distorted but shamelessly adulterated by Otunnu regime.
> Akena have already
> introduced UPC Ideology Class at Party Headquarters managed
> by Lwanga
> Christopher and I invite the Youth and all Congress members
> visit the Party
> Headquarters on 6th Floor Uganda
> House.
>
>
>
> g)
> Akena has instituted three
> committees already to fast
> track the work of the Party,that is Finance and Resource
> Mobilisation Committee
> that would look into all issues of Party funds including
> utilisation of those
> funds .The Manifesto Committee that have already worked on a
> skeleton manifesto
> for 2016 general elections . The Constitutional Review
> Committee to
> comprehensively review all the gaps and
> hallmarks in our New Party Constitution and looking forward
> to constituting
> Education and Health Committees for the Party
>
>
>
> h)
> Finally the current
> campaign to convince UPC Members and Ugandans that Akena is
> a mole sent by
> Museveni/NRM and destined to destroy UPC are built on the
> systematic
> misrepresentation of the truth about the nature of UPC
> internal Politics,
> propaganda, distortions and failure to accept what has taken
> place that Akena
> actually won the 30th May 2015 UPC District
> Conferences Elections and
> what is taking place right inside UPC Party that Akena is
> NOW IS THE PRESIDENT
> OF UPC. This misrepresentation is derived from the politics
> of very narrow and
> backward-looking vested interests, and are informed with a
> particular twisted
> outlook on UPC Politics .I call upon all Congress members
> wherever you are to
> stand up, every time and everywhere, to oppose this campaign
> and firmly counter
> all attempts to divide and set Congress members to fight
> each other. We must
> instead organize and work hard, looking far ahead,
> determined to build a great
> future for our Party and Country.
>
> Written by Aroma
> Patrick
>
> Former UPC National
> Youth Leader in Ambassador Olara Otunnu Government and NOW A
> STAFF AT UPC
> SECRETARIAT--
> Aroma
> Patrick
> Uganda
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Aroma
> Patrick
> Uganda
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole
> responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her
> postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented
> responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you
> agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules
> and Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email
> to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey
> Semuwemba at: abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.
>
--
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