{UAH} EU AMBASSADORS ELECTION INTERFERENCE IN AFRICA

EU Ambassadors have been visiting Ugandan political parties recently, starting with the newly formed National Unity Party on 12th August 2020.

I remember watching all the false hopes that their visit brought to some Ugandan youths. Many innocently felt as if they had now made it in the world. Until they saw the same ambassadors appearing the following week at other political parties offices as well.

In a bid to object to any attempts at foreign political manipulation of internal democratic processes of African nations, and foreign political manipulation of the African peoples, I would like to state that last year on October 19th 2019, the European Parliament issued a report that said "Foreign election interference is an attempt to influence decision-making. It threatens and puts at risk democratic societies".

The report, which was in response to allegations of Russian interference in European elections, added "The EU should not accept this as the new normal. Fighting foreign interference is a common, long-term endeavour for each EU Member State."

This statement followed in the footsteps of another highly-publicized election interference investigation in the US conducted from 2016 to 2019 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under Special Counsel Robert Mueller for the US Department of Justice, and has come to be known globally as "The Russian Investigation".

For three whole years the international media inundated the world with "concerns of electoral interference".

So how come the EU is fighting election interference in Western Europe yet openly interfering in African electoral processes?

What are the ambassadors, as foreign state agents, hoping to influence in Africa?

Not only does their visit give an indirect stamp of approval to the questionable electoral process, it also means that they ensure their control of Africa regardless of any future African leader.

However, would the diplomats therefore be willing to make themselves available to help an impartial election interference investigation by the local Ugandan Electoral Commission for example, just like they are investigating those who interfere in their own elections?

There are also reports that an EU citizen, specifically from Germany, is trying to gain monopoly in printing Uganda's ballot papers, supplying the country's biometric voter identification machines, and he also wants to be responsible for collating nationwide election results to the national tally center, data from which the winner of the Ugandan election will be announced.

One EU citizen controlling the entire electoral process of an African country is almost like giving away the country's sovereignty, independence and natural resources to that individual and those lurking behind him. In fact there are reports that even the printing of the country's currency might be handed to the same individual. That level of monopoly would have already been designated a national security concern anywhere else in the world.

On one hand the EU is visiting different political parties and providing rhetorical support, yet on the other hand, an EU citizen controls an entire African country, and the way the EU itself is colluding with the dictatorship by providing real substantive financial support in hundreds of millions of Euro's every month directly to the very coffers that sustain the corrupt regimes clinging to power.

I have read countless statements made by the EU over the years where it is condemning this or that act of infamy by a regime that trivialises it's own heinous tyranny, and marginalizes it's own serious violations and abuses as if nothing bad was really happening. But then the eU is first to prop up the regime internationally.

For example who didn't burst out in laughter last year when an EU-funded organization, Transparency International, awarded an anti-corruption award to the Ugandan leader who had all but just been found guilty of receiving $500,000 dollars in bribes from a Chinese company in exchange for oil exploration contracts?

The NGO's chairwoman, also an EU citizen, specifically from Italy, travelled all the way to Uganda to personally give the anti-corruption award to the corrupt recipient. This was followed weeks later by an anti-corruption March in the capital kampala where a mocking Kenyan media published the headline that basically said "Corrupt leader Marches Against His Own Corruption."

Only reality can show the real values that the EU stands for. This includes their modern day Scramble of Africa orchestrated through election interference, and even rewarding corruption with more development funds and global awards to the corrupt.

Incidentally right now EU MP's are discussing the Magnitsky act, a law designed to punish individuals anywhere in the world, including EU companies and citizens, if they are in one way or another involved in helping regimes commit human rights abuses, including persecution of individuals and/or mass murder like the senseless killings of the 2016 Kasese massacre.

The same EU which at this very moment has deliberately sent over athousand African refugees to their deaths in the Mediterranean Sea by refusing them to land on European soil. A heartless and brutal undertaking that goes against the essence of the Geneva Convention rules of "non-refoulement of refugees", and is devoid of anything close to what we are told are "humane European values in support of the empoverished people of Africa".

Besides legitimate, accredited international election observers, African state institutions should stop election interference in African democratic process by foreign governments and their agents.

This is an issue that even the African Union should seriously consider having an honest public discussion about with the EU.

Signed: Mr. Hussein Lumumba Amin

September 4th, 2020.

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