{UAH} HISTORY SHOULD NOT REPEAT ITSELF

NOTORIOUS SSEMBABULE PANGA GANG HELD
Good news from Nnambiriizi Police Post in Ssembabule District, this
afternoon when a gang of five panga men who are said to be cutting
people in greater Masaka sub region were arrested and are under police
custody.
According to CBS FM radio 88.8 12.00 noon news, Sadab Mubiru was  arrested on Friday December 15^th and is held.
He is said to have collected money from people promising them a
donation of motor cycles for bodaboda business from above, led the
cutting of Kasekera LC I Chairperson Misinde who had sold to him his
plot of land at 3,000,000/0 and in the night they came and found him
with only 1.5m/-.
Upon search of his house, it was alleged that machetes, knives and
other instruments some looking like guns, were found, so were dates
and maps for raids and other documents.
Panga raids started at Kinyarwanda zone in Kasekera village,
Nambiriizi Police Post, three years ago, and some of the victims were
relatives of Sadab Mubiru and Juma and the climax was at Kasekera
almost a month ago, Mwalo and Kabagalame trading centers, where
several homes were raided, several people injured, and money stolen.
I am grateful to IGP for restoring Nnambiriizi Police Post and let me
hope that other police posts in Ssembabule District, have been
restored. Their absence in addition of disarming LDUs and integrating
Special Police Constables in regular police, contributed to the
scourge in the district and greater Masaka in general.
However, these suspects are said to be directly connected to police
headquarters, and investigations should not be left to Uganda Police
Force alone.

Ssembabule DPC confirmed that Sadab Mubiru was held. A security source said that he was a  relative to Lwemiyaga MP Theodore Ssekikubo, a political aide to Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa, and a close aid to IGP Gen.Kale Kayihura who put him in a Frying Squad.

So either, police chiefs used these gangs to cause insecurity in the sub region to discredit President Museveni and NRM Government, or to justify increment on police budget, and in the process, they have been robbing and sharing with some of their superiors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY December 19^TH 2018

 

A DELIBERATE  DIVERSION

It was a shock of the day when it was reported that Roman Catholic  and Anglican chapels at parliament had been turned into bases for soldiers.

When the Vice chairperson  of NRM Parliamentary Caucus tried to cover it up by saying that soldiers had also gone there to pray, Aruu MP, a claimed staunch Roman Catholic almost beat him up, and the speaker had no alternative but to adjourn parliament at around 12.30 pm up to 2.00 pm so that she investigates the matter.

According to Internal Affairs Minister, police men used the corridor for  dining but not inside, but that was rejected by MPs.

Buyaga's Barnabas Tinkasimire led a group of Roman Catholics that went there and collected utensils which he laid on table in plenary.

Those who went to the Protestant Chapel did not bring their findings, but there were reports that in one of the chapels there were used bottles that had been used by men for short call.

Almost every boduy in Parliament became angry and when the NRM Caucus Vice Chairperson returned to plenary late, both sides chased away from sitting there.

The speaker has directed the clerk to investigate the matter and report back.

But leader of Opposition was also claiming that the entry from President's Office, which the Speaker directed that should be closed, was made more wide open. She was insinuating that SFC soldiers used the entry to return to parliament despite her directive that non police officers be out of parliament's premises.

This was a bid diversion which the opposition exploited to their advantage.

Whoever deployed officers whether army or police to use both chapels as bases and dining rooms, may have wanted to discredit the President and NRM Government, well aware that at a given time, it would be exposed as it has been done today.

In the morning the bone of contention was why the Oboth Oboth Committee went beyond its terms of reference and recommended for restoration of term limits and enlarging normal lives of presidency and parliament from five to seven years.

All such, and according to legislators from both sides , who have legislated, all these call for a comprehensive review of the national constitution.

In the afternoon debate, there have been fanatics on both sides like Ronald Reagan Okum, who  said that Northern Region demands either a fully fledged federal form of government for Uganda or they secede. He was repeating what Prof. Ogenga Latigo had said in an FDC press conference on Monday. Latigo was quoting what now DP President General Norbert Mao had said after South Sudan seceded from the Sudan. He called for the North to secede and declare itself the Nile Republic.

But Musa Ecweru, a former rebel, refuted what Okum had said, and said that at least Teso and North Eastern would not be part of secession. "Whether we agree or we disagree, we shall remain here no part of Uganda shall ever secede," that was Eceru, Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness and Refuges.

Then came Bobi Wine, who cautioned that  after  Obote l Parliament extended its normal life from 1966 to 1971 and that of government, when AMin dissolved it in 1971, no constituent demonstfrfated in its defence for it had become part of the dictatorship. The event was repeated in 1985 when the Okellos took over.

Yet Minister for Defence and Veterinary Affairs Adolf Mwesige and his state minister Bright Rwmairama want the President and 10^th parliament benefit from the extension so that 2021 general elections are postponed to 2023 if l understood them correctly, or even 2025. That will inviting civil war and civil strife. The debate on Magyezi bill  is now  going on normally.

 

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