{UAH} Senyonga: Uganda Embassy in US wasting money on useless legal battles?

Philip, 

Yes, it is very wasteful.  We have just leaned that in addition to court appearance in Arizona this week, we also have to go to court in Uganda on the September 14! 

I do oppose that NRM donation to UNAA...(it is actually 100k) for various reasons but especially because it gives UNAA a bad name that drives way potential members yet that money does NOT benefit UNAA in any way because it ends up in pockets of the leaders.  Each delegate pays about $240. The convention costs about $110.  Since the money we pay is enough to cover each delegate's expenses, you would think that the NRM money would be on account somewhere...but at the end of the convention, we have almost no money on the account. Therefore, the NRM donation does not benefit UNAA in any way at all!

On Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 7:54:59 AM UTC-7, Philip Ssenyonga wrote:

Joseph

Thanks for sharing, this misuse of Uganda tax payer's money is a culture that has been adopted from above (meaning M7). You don't have to look far, isn't it a shame for the government of Uganda to subsidize UNAA conventions for a tune of $50K a year when millions of our people in Uganda don't even have access to clean water.

Philip
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On Tue, 9/1/15, Joseph Musoke joseph...@ymail.com [UNAANET] <UNA...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: [UNAANET] Uganda Embassy in US wasting money on useless legal battles?
 To: "Ugandans-at-heart" <ugandans...@googlegroups.com>, "yahoogroups" <una...@yahoogroups.com>
 Received: Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 12:44 AM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
              
 After reading the Observer article about alleged corruption
 in the Uganda embassy in Washington, DC (http://www.observer.ug/news-headlines/39567-uganda-embassy-in-us-under-investigation-for-corruption)
 I quickly
 realized that the embassy might be wasting some that money
 in fighting one of clients! For almost a year, the embassy
 has been waging a relentless but totally useless battle
 against an NGO based in Arizona (African Children's
 Charities).  They started by tarnishing my client's
 name in the New Vision.  After we had defeated them in
 administrative channels, they resorted to court battles in
 Arizona.  And we won. Then they went to Uganda courts, and
 we winning there too.  Then they came back to US courts and
 we are about to beat them again.  But they also turning to
 government channels in Kampala (IGG, Min of Gender, Min of
 Justice, Min of Foreign Affairs, etc) and feeding them lies
 in hope of getting their help. One embassy official even
 lied to court in the US that the President has been asking
 about this child...really? I asked him how the president
 would find time to call a mid-level diplomat to ask about a
 child that is being well taken care of when there are
 thousands of orphans in Uganda but he didn't answer.
      
 Our story is simple (since the embassy has already revealed
 everyone's name in the media, I can also use names):
 several years ago, Joan Nakibuuka saw an orphan with a
 deformed back and put his story in the New Vision seeking
 help.  My clients responded to the story and started giving
 Joan money to care for all the child's needs, including
 healthcare at Mulago.  But Mulago could not treat s hump
 that he'd developed because untreated TB, so my clients
 flew him to the US for an operation. At this time (2013)
 Joan went court in Nabweru and got a Care Order after lying
 to the Probation office that she had been using her own
 funds to care for the child. Since he was a minor, the
 hospital required an adult to be with him.  When Joan got
 to the hospital, she spent more time in her room and let the
 kid roam in the hospital.  So they were kicked out and
 ended up at home of one of the directors of my client. Even
 there, Joan spent more time on the internet and the phone
 than looking after the child. She was given a calling card
 to call Uganda but she preferred calling directly, which let
 to huge phone bills for my clients. When they cut off
 international calling, she got upset and left the
 director's home and knocked on neighbors homes until
 police came.  According to the police report, she informed
 police that she did not want to go back to my clients. The
 police suggested that she gets a temporary shelter and call
 the Uganda embassy.  The embassy took the 2013 Care Order
 to the State Department and local police which took the
 child from my clients towards the end of last year. In
 January, I went to Uganda to gather more facts and found out
 how the embassy had been lying to media.  In Kampala, I
 also found emails from the embassy plotting how to use the
 New Vision "because they would sensationalize the
 story".  In the emails, the embassy even offered to
 draft stories to plant in the New Vision.  Indeed, several
 articles came out in the New Vision lying about the story,
 the latest appearing in May. 
         Though
 Joan had told my clients that the child had to known
 relatives, on my trips to Kampala, I met a lady that said
 she was the grandmother of the child.  I also met a man
 that claimed to be his father.  We took him for DNA tests
 and they came back negative. Meantime, he went to Court and
 discharged Joan's 2013 Care Order. Armed with this
 information, we decided to the child's home district
 (Mpigi) get a Care Order in favor of my clients (for 3
 years) since the alleged father was actually not the father.
 Meantime, the embassy was waging an expensive legal battle
 in US Courts to return to the child to Uganda even if he was
 still undergoing treatment.  By this time, the doctors had
 found he could not hear and recommended surgery .  He got
 the operation in July but one ear was so damaged from the
 prolonged neglect that he would need special hearing aids. 
 As my clients worried about caring for the child, they also
 had to worry about the embassy fighting them!  Between
 February 2015 and today, the embassy has made several trips
 to courts Arizona. One of the Uganda diplomats, Dickson
 Ogwang, is a lawyer (he used to work for the DPP).  On
 several occasions, he has misled US courts about Uganda law
 such that I waste time to correct court records. He has also
 flown to Uganda and misled Ugandan courts about proceedings
 in the US.  Recently he convinced a magistrate to send
 summons to my clients to bring the child to Uganda as a
 witness yet Ugandan law does not require summons to someone
 outside the jurisdiction of the court.  In court, he claims
 to represent the government of Uganda.  The court
 appearances in Ugandan courts are strange for a US based
 diplomat since government matters are handled by the
 Solicitor General.
 The
 embassy and Joan have also presented forged Interpol
 documents but when we took them for verification at
 Interpol, they gave us a written denial!  
 The
 question is: with all the needy children in Uganda, why does
 the embassy waste taxpayer money to take this child from the
 care that he needs? According to the website of the Ministry
 of Gender, in Uganda, eleven
 percent of children under 18 are orphans (http://ovcmis.mglsd.go.ug/. 
 Why doesn't the embassy spend money on helping them? 
 Instead of going to the UNAA convention on time, I have had
 to delay my departure because I have to go to court against
 the embassy on Sept 3rd and possibly the 4th of
 September!!
 
  For a faster
 response please contact me at 415.789.6427sent from SONY Z3 on
 Vodafone's LTE Network!
 
     
     
 
     
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