{UAH} Top NGO officials deported for supporting opposition's regime change plans

John, 

Not serious regime. Imagine this, Mr Simon Osborn headed the National Democratic Institute which promotes democracy in the world. He was doing that work for 7 years. 

If true, is it not too late to act after the planting and nurturing of the trees bearing the democracy fruits. Thanks for allowing him to stay! 

Of course he did a good job to create awareness for democracy and now the society has embraced those principles. Isn't democracy what NRM claims to have brought? 

Is the regime saying that the Osborn type of democracy (Western) is at variance with NRM (Bush form) of democracy? 

Deportation is not the solution but discussion would have helped to iron out the differences. 

Peter Simon 

On Monday, November 23, 2020, john kwitonda <kwitonda4@gmail.com> wrote:

when you see such things happening just know the regime is jittery. that is how he deported YVONNE CHAKA  CHAK, OUT OF PANIC. SIMILARLY  HE DID WITH MTN CEO and a French guy. they are panicking just, loss of direction ,whoever they suspact w,they will depose. Surprisinglty, when he needs their money, he is as humble and obedient.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:41 PM 'william Ekwelu' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com> wrote:

At least two heads of the United States and European Union funded non-governmental organisations in Uganda have been deported i on accusations of pursuing or supting an agenda for regime change.

The first person to be deported was Mr #Simon_Osborn who was picked up from his apartment in Nakasero in Kampala, detained briefly and later bundled onto a plane back to his home country.

Mr Osborn had worked in Uganda for seven years as country director of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a United States-based organisation that promotes democracy across the world. NDI is aligned to the US Democratic party.

Also a Kenyan national, Mr Isaack Othieno, who had taken over as the acting Head of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), a US-based NGO that engages in advancement of democracy, had also been deported under unexplained circumstances.

Mr Othieno was reportedly picked up from Sheraton Kampala Hotel where he had been staying temporarily, bundled onto a police vehicle and driven to Busia border with Kenya.

Government also went ahead to block other top NGO officials from returning to Uganda after they had gone out for holiday

Among those whose return has been blocked are Mr Marco Deswart, Ms Roseline Idele and Ms Lara Petrivevic.

Mr Marco Deswart, who heads election programmes at the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), was reportedly barred from returning to Uganda in July.

Mr Deswart was reportedly informed of his fate through the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Uganda considered him a persona non-grata.

Ms Roseline Idele, who is the acting Country Director of NDI in Uganda, had reportedly been at the front of supporting programmes to strengthen democratic institutions. She was also blocked from returning to Uganda.

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