{UAH} WHY MUSEVENI COMMEMORATED HIS 30 YRS RULE IN KABAROLE
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WHY MUSEVENI COMMEMORATED HIS 30 YRS RULE IN KABAROLE
Kabarole district is the headquarters of the greater Tooro sub region. Its a home of the hospitable, loving and welcoming Batooro tribe. Like other regions, Tooro has also been a victim of Museveni's divide and rule policy whereby three more districts were curved out of Kabarole. Also, two kingdoms have been created and more are in the offing. In 1979 during the war to oust Iddi Amin, the advancing troops led by Museveni's FRONASA faction maliciously a destroyed the magnificent King's palace in Fort Portal. When a son of the soil, Edward Rugumayo who had been the Chairman of the post Amin ruling National Consultative Council (NCC) was rigged out in favor of Museveni's choice of a weak Godfrey Binaisa, he set up the UNLD-AD rebel group in Tooro much earkier than the December 1980 elections. It was headed by the infamous Gang of Four (Rugumayo, Nabudere, Omwony Ojok and Yash Tandon) and the armed wing was under Eriya Mwine alias Chefe Ali who had been the overall Commander of Museveni's FRONASA faction of UNLA.
During the 1980 elections, Kabarole overwhelmingly rejected Museveni and his UPM. Even the King of Tooro Patrick Kaboyo Olimi who vied for a parliamentary seat on the UPM ticket was outrightly rejected by his Batooro subjects.
When Museveni miserably lost the 1980 general elections and started guerrilla war in Buganda, he embarked on luring the UNLF-AD that that had alredy set up bases in the Rwenzori mountains and had a network of contacts in Tooro. It was around 1982 that the UNLF-AD fighters under Chefe Ali abandoned their bases in the Tooro to join Museveni's NRA in Buganda. Even so, some of the civilian supporters and fighters refused to join Museveni and instead went home. In Luwero, prominent Batooro like Tom Butine, Dr. kamanyire, Ambassador Katenta Apuuli and others joined the NRA. Former soldiers from Tooro like Italikire Kiiza Kajura and others who had served under Iddi Amin joined the NRA and played a big role in shaping the NRA. The forgotten male and female teenagers from Kabarole who were studying at Katikamu and Masulita secondary schools in Luweero were kidnapped by the NRA and conscripted as fighters. The female abductees were used and abused by the fighters the same way the LRA is alleged to have abused the female abductees from Acholi.
When the going became tough in Luwero, some NRAs from Tooro suggested to Museveni that a section of fighters be dispatched to Kabarole to open up another front and establish bases for the NRA, Museveni rubbished off the idea. In one sentence he asked the proposers thus: "If you had the capacity to do it, why didn't you start it?" and the matter just ended up there. This was because Museveni wanted to remain the sole Kingmaker, to control the number of his preferred 'home boys' in the NRA and to rival the pro Buganda UFM rebel group under Andrew Kayiira. To ensure that his home boys remained in the lead in terms of numbers, he would often issue recruitment banns but to the surprise of some members of his clandestine team like Aston Kajara and Bob Kagoro, they would be instructed to pick bands of new recruits from his home area during such banns.
However, when Museveni was away in Europe, the battle field in Luwero got rough and the commanders opted to take a group of NRA to Tooro to open up another front led by Chefs Ali and commanded by Fred Rwigyema. In Kabarole, Chefe Ali used his previous UNLF-AD network of contacts to sell the NRA to the Batooro. As had been the case in Luwero, in Tooro the NRA had started slaughtering UPC leaders when the Commanding Officer of the government's 31st Battalion, Capt. Okwera led his unit to join hands with the NRA. This negotiated surrender was facilitated by prominent elders of Tooro and the catholic church under Bishop Sarapio Magambo who had been mobilised by Chefe Ali. The presence of Chefe Ali confused many including now NRA's chief ideologist Kajabago Karusoke who at the tine bekieved that it was their old UNLF-AD that had resurfaced. Following the take over of Fort Portal by the NRA, the NRA got out of hiding in the Rwenzori mountains and set up an interim administration in Tooro. The Batooro overwhelmingly supported the NRA by offering all they could including massive enlistment of its youth into the NRA.
Its around this time that the likes of Noble Mayombo, Brig. Kayanja Muhanga, Col. Asingura Kagoro and others joined the NRA. During the same period a son of the soil defected from the government bringing with him the first tank to the NRA. Museveni who had earlier opposed the opening up of this western front was not pleased with the development. He rushed back from Europe and did not address any rally in Tooro. That is why he does not talk about the role of the western front and Kabarole in particular in his book and at public functions like the the one of yesterday. This is because he was no longer in control of numbers in favor of his home boys. Most threatening, on top of the Batooro, were the big number of Banyankole Bairu from other places of Ankole other than his home village. He had all along contained such unwanted numbers through his controlled selective recruitment while still in Luwero. This is what was later to cause oroblems to the likes of Brig. Kanyankole who was incharge of training and recruitment. Its during that time that Tooro supplied the highest number of female teenage recruits who were later used and abused the same way the LRA did to the female abuductees from Acholi. Even the first NRA female university graduate, Agnes Kasaami who hailed from Tooro was used and abused by the then Army Commander, Gen Tumwiine into oblivion.
Since coming to power 30 years ago, Museveni has taken Tooro's support for granted. He has sidelined those who actively participated in the struggle. Col. Butime refused to be dumped in Karamoja as Minister, Edward Rugumayo refused to be demoted from a Ministerial position to Ambassador to France, Aston Kajara had to get a ministerial position after Rwanda's Col. Karegyeya pleaded for him throug Noble Mayombo who was the CMI at the time because they had worked together in NRA clandestine squads, the Katentas as and Kamanyires are no where, Italikire Kiiza died a Major and a sidelines army officer, the list is endless. The highest ranked active army officer from Tooro is Brig. Kayanja Muhanga who is a Senior 5 drop out but just because he is a brother to sycophant Andrew Mwenda as if Tooro never gave the NRA university graduates. Dr. Kagoro who had been the farm manager of Ruboona Stock Farm and successfully carried out a reconnaissance of the government forces encampment that was stationed at the farm leading to the NRA to overrun it and capture a multi-barrelled Katutsya, recently retired into oblivion as a Lieutenant.
Museveni deliberately destroyed the train service to Kasese and delayed the construction of the Mubende - Fort Portal road in order to boost Mbarara's development as tourists and trade to Congo avoided going through Tooro. He prioritised the construction of a bridge and a road across the Katonga river from Kabagole in Ankle in order to facilitate the crossing of pastrolists to occupy Kyaka and Rwamwanja since according to him the Batooro are not cattle keepers. Ehen the Army's 2nd Division was based in Fort Portal in the late 1980s, then Division Commander Chefe Ali and his Division I.O Charles Angina were accused of beibg anti-government for allegedly cocertly reviving the old UNLF-AD network of cobtacts in the area for subversive activities. The fact is that Chefe Ali had advocated for the locals to be the ones to have tenders for supplying the 2nd Division. Chefe Ali was displaced and eventually grounded (placed on Katebe) before he died a misserable senior officer. The 2nd Division was instead relocated to Mbarara leaving a skeleton of troops in the area that was soon cobsequently hit by the ADF rebels left and right. Evidence clearly shows that because of the huge defence budget, the big presence of the army in an area greatly contributes to its economic developnent. This is how Lira and Guku have registed a tremendous growth inspite of the two decades of the LRA insurgency thus Kabarole missed out in favor of Mbarara. He demonished their King by calling him 'that boy who is getting fat' on top of severally using derogatory language on them. Its only of recent that the people of Tooro have woken up after realising that Museveni had all along taken them for a ride. In the ongoing election campaigns, the people of Tooro have already demonstrated huge support for the opposition. This has sent Museveni and company into terrible panic. The regime campaign helicopter's landing at Mbabazi's campaign venue in Fort Portal, Museveni personally buying off of Stephen Kaliba who is akey Mbabazi supporter in the area, and the huge sums of cash and violence being unleashed by the regime on residents all alludes to fear of losing its support in the model district of Kabarole. At the time the NRA took over Fort Portal in 1985, Stephen Kaliba was a teacher but his family which was deeply entrenched in the UPC narrowly survived slaughter by the NRA.
Therefore, from the aforementioned, there is no doubt that the choice of Kabarole as the host of the 30th anniversary of his hold on power is a desperate move to reclaim the sub region. It is for the same reason that the choice of the military parade commander, Col. Asingura Kagoro whose home is a few metres from the parade ground was a calculation aimed at winning back the residents. Its for similar reason that the last independence day celebrations were held in Gulu with all the parade commanders being sons of Gulu. In both cases, the bogus exercise of aimlessly awarding of medals has been used as a bait to trap the unsuspecting influential individuals whom he thinks will develop a feeling of belonging to the system (Tuli my Kintu). The parràde Admin, Major Muhenda also hails from the same area and is a father of a leading opposition political activist. A son of a retired prominent Education Officer, Col. Kagoro Asingura joined the NRA around July 1985 from 'A' level at St. Leo's College Kyegobe. After taking over power, he briefly served as an instructor at the NRA indoctrination centre in Namugongo before joining the then elite presidential guards (PPU) where he served as a body guard to the First Lady.
Things turned against Asingura when the First Lady stopped a commercial flight from taking off unless his body guard, then Lieutenant Kagoro Asingura was left to leave with her on a journer abroad. Consequently, Museveni gave Lt. Asingura one hour to have packed all his belongings and family and left State House and PPU. He was dumped at the army headquarters for redeployment somewhere else. Instead, Lt. Kagoro did mature entry exams at Makerere University and was admitted to study law. He is an Advocate and has been behind some of the regime's worst miscarriage of justice in using military courts to silence both military and civilians who are perceived dissenters of the regime. The choice of Kabarole was a Museveni campaign strategy and that is why he almost talked 'nothing' in his address during the function other than introducing his new catch, UPC's Stephen Kaliba. The move has flopped because the people have realised how disrespectful, divisive and confusing he is when he introduced all the two contestants for the Municipality parliamentary seat - the official regime flag bearer and the new catch Stephen Kaliba who is an Independent candidate after defecting the Mbabazi camp. The choice of the venue (in the strong catholic establishments) inspite of the existence of the official Boma grounds was another futile gamble. We are yet to see if these political manoeuvres coupled by the impending release of former Tooro Prime Minister, John Katuramu will help him to regain the dwindling support of the people of Kabarole.
IINFORMATION IS POWER
During the 1980 elections, Kabarole overwhelmingly rejected Museveni and his UPM. Even the King of Tooro Patrick Kaboyo Olimi who vied for a parliamentary seat on the UPM ticket was outrightly rejected by his Batooro subjects.
When Museveni miserably lost the 1980 general elections and started guerrilla war in Buganda, he embarked on luring the UNLF-AD that that had alredy set up bases in the Rwenzori mountains and had a network of contacts in Tooro. It was around 1982 that the UNLF-AD fighters under Chefe Ali abandoned their bases in the Tooro to join Museveni's NRA in Buganda. Even so, some of the civilian supporters and fighters refused to join Museveni and instead went home. In Luwero, prominent Batooro like Tom Butine, Dr. kamanyire, Ambassador Katenta Apuuli and others joined the NRA. Former soldiers from Tooro like Italikire Kiiza Kajura and others who had served under Iddi Amin joined the NRA and played a big role in shaping the NRA. The forgotten male and female teenagers from Kabarole who were studying at Katikamu and Masulita secondary schools in Luweero were kidnapped by the NRA and conscripted as fighters. The female abductees were used and abused by the fighters the same way the LRA is alleged to have abused the female abductees from Acholi.
When the going became tough in Luwero, some NRAs from Tooro suggested to Museveni that a section of fighters be dispatched to Kabarole to open up another front and establish bases for the NRA, Museveni rubbished off the idea. In one sentence he asked the proposers thus: "If you had the capacity to do it, why didn't you start it?" and the matter just ended up there. This was because Museveni wanted to remain the sole Kingmaker, to control the number of his preferred 'home boys' in the NRA and to rival the pro Buganda UFM rebel group under Andrew Kayiira. To ensure that his home boys remained in the lead in terms of numbers, he would often issue recruitment banns but to the surprise of some members of his clandestine team like Aston Kajara and Bob Kagoro, they would be instructed to pick bands of new recruits from his home area during such banns.
However, when Museveni was away in Europe, the battle field in Luwero got rough and the commanders opted to take a group of NRA to Tooro to open up another front led by Chefs Ali and commanded by Fred Rwigyema. In Kabarole, Chefe Ali used his previous UNLF-AD network of contacts to sell the NRA to the Batooro. As had been the case in Luwero, in Tooro the NRA had started slaughtering UPC leaders when the Commanding Officer of the government's 31st Battalion, Capt. Okwera led his unit to join hands with the NRA. This negotiated surrender was facilitated by prominent elders of Tooro and the catholic church under Bishop Sarapio Magambo who had been mobilised by Chefe Ali. The presence of Chefe Ali confused many including now NRA's chief ideologist Kajabago Karusoke who at the tine bekieved that it was their old UNLF-AD that had resurfaced. Following the take over of Fort Portal by the NRA, the NRA got out of hiding in the Rwenzori mountains and set up an interim administration in Tooro. The Batooro overwhelmingly supported the NRA by offering all they could including massive enlistment of its youth into the NRA.
Its around this time that the likes of Noble Mayombo, Brig. Kayanja Muhanga, Col. Asingura Kagoro and others joined the NRA. During the same period a son of the soil defected from the government bringing with him the first tank to the NRA. Museveni who had earlier opposed the opening up of this western front was not pleased with the development. He rushed back from Europe and did not address any rally in Tooro. That is why he does not talk about the role of the western front and Kabarole in particular in his book and at public functions like the the one of yesterday. This is because he was no longer in control of numbers in favor of his home boys. Most threatening, on top of the Batooro, were the big number of Banyankole Bairu from other places of Ankole other than his home village. He had all along contained such unwanted numbers through his controlled selective recruitment while still in Luwero. This is what was later to cause oroblems to the likes of Brig. Kanyankole who was incharge of training and recruitment. Its during that time that Tooro supplied the highest number of female teenage recruits who were later used and abused the same way the LRA did to the female abuductees from Acholi. Even the first NRA female university graduate, Agnes Kasaami who hailed from Tooro was used and abused by the then Army Commander, Gen Tumwiine into oblivion.
Since coming to power 30 years ago, Museveni has taken Tooro's support for granted. He has sidelined those who actively participated in the struggle. Col. Butime refused to be dumped in Karamoja as Minister, Edward Rugumayo refused to be demoted from a Ministerial position to Ambassador to France, Aston Kajara had to get a ministerial position after Rwanda's Col. Karegyeya pleaded for him throug Noble Mayombo who was the CMI at the time because they had worked together in NRA clandestine squads, the Katentas as and Kamanyires are no where, Italikire Kiiza died a Major and a sidelines army officer, the list is endless. The highest ranked active army officer from Tooro is Brig. Kayanja Muhanga who is a Senior 5 drop out but just because he is a brother to sycophant Andrew Mwenda as if Tooro never gave the NRA university graduates. Dr. Kagoro who had been the farm manager of Ruboona Stock Farm and successfully carried out a reconnaissance of the government forces encampment that was stationed at the farm leading to the NRA to overrun it and capture a multi-barrelled Katutsya, recently retired into oblivion as a Lieutenant.
Museveni deliberately destroyed the train service to Kasese and delayed the construction of the Mubende - Fort Portal road in order to boost Mbarara's development as tourists and trade to Congo avoided going through Tooro. He prioritised the construction of a bridge and a road across the Katonga river from Kabagole in Ankle in order to facilitate the crossing of pastrolists to occupy Kyaka and Rwamwanja since according to him the Batooro are not cattle keepers. Ehen the Army's 2nd Division was based in Fort Portal in the late 1980s, then Division Commander Chefe Ali and his Division I.O Charles Angina were accused of beibg anti-government for allegedly cocertly reviving the old UNLF-AD network of cobtacts in the area for subversive activities. The fact is that Chefe Ali had advocated for the locals to be the ones to have tenders for supplying the 2nd Division. Chefe Ali was displaced and eventually grounded (placed on Katebe) before he died a misserable senior officer. The 2nd Division was instead relocated to Mbarara leaving a skeleton of troops in the area that was soon cobsequently hit by the ADF rebels left and right. Evidence clearly shows that because of the huge defence budget, the big presence of the army in an area greatly contributes to its economic developnent. This is how Lira and Guku have registed a tremendous growth inspite of the two decades of the LRA insurgency thus Kabarole missed out in favor of Mbarara. He demonished their King by calling him 'that boy who is getting fat' on top of severally using derogatory language on them. Its only of recent that the people of Tooro have woken up after realising that Museveni had all along taken them for a ride. In the ongoing election campaigns, the people of Tooro have already demonstrated huge support for the opposition. This has sent Museveni and company into terrible panic. The regime campaign helicopter's landing at Mbabazi's campaign venue in Fort Portal, Museveni personally buying off of Stephen Kaliba who is akey Mbabazi supporter in the area, and the huge sums of cash and violence being unleashed by the regime on residents all alludes to fear of losing its support in the model district of Kabarole. At the time the NRA took over Fort Portal in 1985, Stephen Kaliba was a teacher but his family which was deeply entrenched in the UPC narrowly survived slaughter by the NRA.
Therefore, from the aforementioned, there is no doubt that the choice of Kabarole as the host of the 30th anniversary of his hold on power is a desperate move to reclaim the sub region. It is for the same reason that the choice of the military parade commander, Col. Asingura Kagoro whose home is a few metres from the parade ground was a calculation aimed at winning back the residents. Its for similar reason that the last independence day celebrations were held in Gulu with all the parade commanders being sons of Gulu. In both cases, the bogus exercise of aimlessly awarding of medals has been used as a bait to trap the unsuspecting influential individuals whom he thinks will develop a feeling of belonging to the system (Tuli my Kintu). The parràde Admin, Major Muhenda also hails from the same area and is a father of a leading opposition political activist. A son of a retired prominent Education Officer, Col. Kagoro Asingura joined the NRA around July 1985 from 'A' level at St. Leo's College Kyegobe. After taking over power, he briefly served as an instructor at the NRA indoctrination centre in Namugongo before joining the then elite presidential guards (PPU) where he served as a body guard to the First Lady.
Things turned against Asingura when the First Lady stopped a commercial flight from taking off unless his body guard, then Lieutenant Kagoro Asingura was left to leave with her on a journer abroad. Consequently, Museveni gave Lt. Asingura one hour to have packed all his belongings and family and left State House and PPU. He was dumped at the army headquarters for redeployment somewhere else. Instead, Lt. Kagoro did mature entry exams at Makerere University and was admitted to study law. He is an Advocate and has been behind some of the regime's worst miscarriage of justice in using military courts to silence both military and civilians who are perceived dissenters of the regime. The choice of Kabarole was a Museveni campaign strategy and that is why he almost talked 'nothing' in his address during the function other than introducing his new catch, UPC's Stephen Kaliba. The move has flopped because the people have realised how disrespectful, divisive and confusing he is when he introduced all the two contestants for the Municipality parliamentary seat - the official regime flag bearer and the new catch Stephen Kaliba who is an Independent candidate after defecting the Mbabazi camp. The choice of the venue (in the strong catholic establishments) inspite of the existence of the official Boma grounds was another futile gamble. We are yet to see if these political manoeuvres coupled by the impending release of former Tooro Prime Minister, John Katuramu will help him to regain the dwindling support of the people of Kabarole.
IINFORMATION IS POWER
Viele GruBe
Robukui
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