SV: {UAH} ‘Museveni has made us NRM MPs look like fools’

NO FfRANK,

He is not a fool. He is just being an African, a native Ugandan. If he does not another shall.That is the way they do it down there.

In Africa, if some one advices you, that is when you should really watch your back. It should not be so but, unfortunately, that is the way it goes yet!

I believethe problem with Africa is not so much about poor education but about the high education that is not responsive to society development, yet.

The highly educted are the problem. Because they are well educated but in all fairness, their education is yet but their own personal comfort (hand to mouth).

Africa and Uganda have not reached the upper stage yet, unfortunately!

Noc'la gaumoy.

 

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den tisdag, 9 februari 2016 11:33 skrev Frank Mujabi <frank.mujabi21@gmail.com>:

Anyone who supports M7 and his policies has to be a fool.

Because he is a fool, it took this man such a long time to find it out!

Sent from my iPhone

On 9 Feb 2016, at 05:00, Gook <grakanga@gmail.com> wrote:

Idiots the lot of them! They were warned, they knew, they instead accepted a mere five million bribe!

Sent from Gook's iPatch!

"What you are we once were, what we are   you shall be!"

An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.

On 9 feb 2016, at 02:35, Allan <barigye.rugos@gmail.com> wrote:

Written by Sadab Kitatta Kaaya

 Created: 08 February 2016

 

Nulu Byamukama

NULU BYAMUKAMA, the MP for Kitagwenda in Kamwenge district, is one of very few NRM MPs openly campaigning for former prime minister Amama Mbabazi in his bid to unseat President Museveni.

Until his Mbarara-based Endigyito radio was closed two weeks ago, Byamukama had kept out of the public eye and off the campaign trail of Mbabazi, the Go Forward pressure group presidential candidate.

But behind the scenes he vigorously campaigned for the former NRM secretary general in Tooro and Bunyoro. In a February 2 interview with Sadab Kitatta Kaaya, the MP discussed his decision to campaign for Mbabazi and not his party candidate and chairman Museveni. Below are excerpts:

Your decision to campaign for an independent candidate seems to suggest that you are no longer part of NRM. Why have you abandoned NRM?

Yes we are in presidential campaigns and everybody has a choice [to campaign for anyone]. It's not about NRM or President Museveni. Yes we have [Museveni], he is my president but I don't think I should give him much more than what we gave him.

Of course within the party, we have [divergent views] so we have to come out so that people know who we are. I am still an NRM person and I am sure even the president knows that. And he is also very much aware that Rt Hon Amama Mbabazi is still in NRM and equally aware that [Mbabazi] still holds an NRM membership card.

For me [and some others], we wanted Museveni and Mbabazi to compete within the party but the situation was not conducive for [Mbabazi] to compete with Museveni; that's why he opted to contest as an NRM-leaning independent candidate.

So, there are some of us who hold the same belief that our president has served for a very long time and what he has done is enough; he cannot do much more.

For the last 30 years, we have supported him so much but we have realised that now, he [Museveni] is very tired, he cannot move NRM forward. That's why we have teamed up with a person who has a more appealing slogan, Go Forward, which is more real than what we hear from the president.

The rhetoric you use at the rallies gives an impression that you are campaigning against your own party.

I'm really telling the people that first of all, we know what we are doing. And secondly, we have been with the president, our chairman for a long time; so, we know him better.

The third point is about service delivery. You find the president lamenting about the thieves [in government] yet he has all the powers, structures and institutions to stem corruption.

If a person who has all it takes to put things right continues to lament, then that automatically tells you that he is very tired, he cannot bark like he used to. That calls on us to have someone else to take over and put things back in order.

Your criticism of the president is surprising because you have always been part of the band that made the presidency so powerful, and of course extended his stay at State House. Do you have any regrets?

We don't sincerely regret because the president has done quite a lot for this country but his personal sincerity has gone, because as you may be aware, when we were opening up the term limits, he convinced us that he wanted to fix three things.

These were: ending the rebel LRA insurgency in the north; professionalize and make the army pro-people because he feared that if he left without professionalizing it, it would turn into a problem for this country.

The third issue was fast-tracking the East African federation. At the time, implementation of the EAC protocol hadn't taken off because he hadn't even appointed a minister for East African Community Affairs. He said then that he wanted to make sure that the treaty was on track and the East African Legislative Assembly  [EALA] was in place and functioning.

We saw the reasons as pertinent issues and in fact he told us that: "If you open up [the term limits] for me, for only one term, I will fix those three main issues and thereafter, I will get out."

That was 2005 and we opened up...You should not blame MPs because he really convinced us and after that we [renewed his mandate] in 2011.
Between then and now, I am surprised that he has not gone.

He has disappointed most of us; we look as if we are fools. In fact there are so many MPs who are regretting, and there are many who fear to come out because they are maybe looking for jobs and survival. If that were not the case, they would have come out and said: 'Mr President, enough is enough. Mr President, what you told us [in 2005] is not what you are doing today.'

For me, I go by the words of a person, and once they deviate from a position we agreed on, I part ways.

We sincerely agreed as a party that we remove term limits because of that; he has [now] made us look like fools to Ugandans. That for me personally I cannot accept...we should now fix this because we have that duty as Ugandans, as MPs to fix what we disorganized...we have to put everything in order.

But you were quiet until your radio was closed.

No, this is not about the radio. The closure of the radio was so technical; I don't want to comment about it.

sadabkk@observer.ug

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