{UAH} RAKAI EARTH QUAKE, TESO FAMINE, AND MUSEVENI'S FOREIGN DONATIONS

Teso sub-region in eastern Uganda is facing an acute famine that is already claiming lives.  A number of people are reported to have starved to death while tens of thousands are facing acute food shortage.  The region is prone to terrible floods that are followed by dry spells that affect crop yields.  The current draught started in three months ago in June but the Museveni regime did not put in place any contingency plans to avert the current crisis.  Teso region used to be the bread basket of Uganda before Museveni came to power 30 years ago.  The Teso based Uganda Meat Packers that used to process meat for local consumption and export was deliberately destroyed by Museveni in a wider scheme that saw the destruction of all other public entities that were started by the previous regimes. This is in spite of the fact that the Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Musa Ecweru is from Teso, people continue to hopelessly die of hunger as the country celebrates 54 years of independence this month.  There has been no single kilogram of relief food that the government has delivered to Teso region sofar. In 2009 when the worst famine hit Teso, the then Minister of Disaster Preparedness, Tarsus Kabwegyere told the locals to feed on grass, mangoes and rats.

Early this month an earthquake hit Rakai district that neighbors with Tanzania's North Western region of Kagera.   In Tanzania's Kagera region which was the epicentre of the quate, 17 people list their lives while about 300 were injured and about 20000 houses were destroyed.  In Uganda's Rakai district, its only about 3186 building strictures that were affected of which about 600 buildings were totally destroyed.  Museceni immediately donated US$ 200,000 (about 700m Ug shillings) to Kagera region while Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta donated US$ 50,000. The UK government gave US$ 2.7m, India gave US$350,000, and internal government fundrising initiatives rises US$ 640,000.   In Uganda, Museveni sent them 100 bags of maize flour and dry beans to the earthquake victims in Rakai.  The victims in Rakai rejected the donation before accusing him of ignoring their plight and instead giving priority to the people of Tanzania.  When he learnt that the Buganda Kingdom was considering coming to the rescue of the victims in Rakai, he fish d to the area where he promised to give them ironsheets and iron bars.  During the same tour he promised to gazette the Baziba of Rakai as a new tribe in Uganda in the constitution.

In November 2006, Museveni constructed two secondary schools in Kagera region at a cost of US$ 932.823 (1.72b Ug shillings).  The two modern secondary schools were constructed in Muhutwe in Muleba district and Kamacumu in Bukoba by Mulplex (U) Ltd.  The gesture was Museveni's appreciation of the help the residents of Kagera had extended to him during  his war against the Iddi Amin regime.  Other than that, Museveni has a special bond with some migrant communities in the Kagera region as exemplified by the recent special treatment that he accorded to the Rwandese immigrants that Tanzania had evicted from its territory.  At a strategic level, Museveni has always craves to secure that part of the Uganda border against his potential political opponents.  There is no doubt, if such a disaster had taken place in the southern region of Tanzania, Museveni would not have shown  such a concern.  In 2011, Museveni donated 777m Ug shillings to the construction of Nalukunga primary school in Rwanda as part of the fence mending following the spring relations at the time as a result of disagreements in the Congo.  Later on he donated US$ 300,000 during aa fundraising in Kigali for the construction of Ntare School of Rwanda.

While such external donations would be okay in the spirit of African brotherhood, Museveni's donations to Rwanda and Kagera while ignoring his own people at home is driven by ulterior motives and imperialistic agenda.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO

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