{UAH} AKENA IS WORST TRAITOR TO UPC AND MEMORY OF PRESIDENT OBOTE

James Akena, son of President Apollo Milton Obote, has fast become the
greatest criminal ever in the long patriotic history of the UPC. His
act of high treason and betrayal is unprecedented and deserves the
highest punishment the party can impose.

Bobby

Alliance with NRM is poison for Akena, UPC
Written by GEORGE OKURAPA

Created: 24 June 2016

Since news broke that President Museveni had appointed Betty Amongi,
the wife of UPC president Jimmy Akena, to his cabinet, the reaction
from UPC party faithful in the diaspora has been characterized by
outrage.

As this news was still settling in, Akena dropped another bombshell
when he announced that the UPC cabinet had endorsed Amongi's
appointment and had given Akena the mandate to negotiate a memorandum
of understanding with NRM, leading to an alliance or coalition.

To many UPC faithful here in the diaspora, the talk of a memorandum of
understanding, coalition or an alliance with Museveni's NRM is an act
of greed and betrayal of the party by Akena and his team.

The gesture that President Museveni is making towards UPC has nothing
good for UPC. Instead, it is a clandestine attempt by Museveni to
perfect his long-term agenda to destroy UPC. Akena himself should be
very familiar with Museveni's agenda against UPC.

Museveni's attempts to lure UPC leaders to his cabinet as a means to
destroy the party are not new. In October 1997, Dr Apollo Milton Obote
(RIP), in a document entitled "UPC and NRM Dictatorship", disclosed
how Museveni had tried to destroy UPC by luring Cecilia Ogwal, the
then chairman of the UPC presidential policy commission (PPC), to
Museveni's cabinet with a promise of an appointment as a vice
president of Uganda.

Here is what Dr Obote said in reaction to Museveni's attempt to lure
UPC leaders to his cabinet:

"….After several assassination squads had been to Lusaka and failed,
Museveni and his imperialist and neo-colonialist mentors decided on a
second course of action for the destruction of the UPC. This second
course involves finding UPC members who love money more than they love
the people and then to bribe such members with much money and/or
appointments and set them to work to cause disarray in the UPC.

The former Speaker of Parliament, [Francis] Butagira, the former
Deputy Minister of Education [Philemon] Mateke and others like Ateker
Ejalu and Rev Kefa Sempangi are amongst UPC members who have been
suborned. The scheme is for such persons to leave the UPC with
thousands of members.

In October 1994, after having been working on Cecilia Atim Ogwal for
some years, Museveni asked her to go to Lusaka with a mission other
than UPC affairs. It so happened that the UPC President had requested
Mrs Ogwal as chairman of the PPC to travel to Lusaka, accompanied by
at least two members of the PPC. Mrs Ogwal told the party president in
Lusaka that before leaving Kampala, Museveni had offered her the post
of vice-president.

She did not disclose to the party president that the offer was
conditional on her return to Uganda with a signed document by the
party president appointing – without authority – Mrs Cecilia Ogwal to
be the UPC leader in place of Milton Obote.

When Mrs Ogwal returned to Uganda and reported to Museveni without the
document signed by Milton Obote, Museveni was reported to have reacted
with much fury. In that fury, Museveni told Mrs Ogwal that because of
her failure to get Obote to resign, he (Museveni) was going to annoy
Mrs Ogwal by appointing another woman to the office of vice-president,
and on the same evening, the appointment of Dr [Specioza Wandira]
Kazibwe, who was in Morocco at the time, was announced…."
www.upcparty.net.

Hon Akena is a personal friend and I respect him and his efforts in
the struggle for peace and justice for all Ugandans. However, I beg to
differ on his attempts to join President Museveni's government and
carrying UPC into an alliance with NRM. Akena should ask himself why,
all of a sudden, Museveni is interested in working with UPC after
several failed attempts to demonize and destroy UPC and its
leadership, including Akena's father Obote.

There is nothing to convince me that Museveni has deviated from his
agenda. It is not surprising that recently when Museveni met with the
NRM leaders from Lango, he disclosed that he had been working with
Akena clandestinely since 2011. If the gesture was good for UPC, why
not do it in the open?

My advice to Akena is that an alliance with Museveni is poison for UPC
from Museveni. It is intended to destroy both Akena and UPC. There is
nothing good in it for UPC. Please back out of it!

okurapa@hotmail.com

The author is a former Makerere University guild president, former
member of the UPC presidential policy commission and current
manager/administrator UPC website and UPC network www.upcparty.net).

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