{UAH} STAND UP FOR KARAMOJA AND AGAINST MISRULE

 SUCH A PATHETIC SIGHT IN MANY PARTS OF KARAMOJA...

 It's now a very obliging duty and responsibility of every Ugandan to very strongly condemn and react against the evil torture and deliberate destruction going on in Karamoja! This is terrible!!!

Images of real persecution of the innocent and the torching to ashes of their residences are moving full speed on social media platforms and in the press depicting cruelty and bad spirit exhibited to the poor and deprived people of Karamoja who, if things went well with them, would possibly be now enjoying the highest standard of living in eastern Africa due to the immense wealth the entire region naturally sits on! This is what the very insightful persons like the Great Benedicto Kiwanuka had wanted to see happening in Karamoja.

 Now the images shown very sadly remind the destruction and the ill-treatment of Africans in pre-independence Mozambique where the colonial army would burn huts and kill people whenever they mobilized and claimed their right for independence! Anyway, that was a foreign army imposing on the native people whereas in the case of Karamoja it's the national army,  funded by the taxpayers, Karamojong included, which is now doing destruction and the killings in Karamoja!! The army is very ruthlessly fighting the unarmed natives instead of defending them

as duty obliges them! Of course there are excuses given but no firm source can take them into account, at least seriously! Usually the views emanating from an accurate study of the political situation with all statements made by an authority and with all observations made by the concerned local population are just enough factors that can be adduced to explain or even to give a concrete conclusion regarding any situation.....The Karamojong have had their region exploited for wealth, land, resources, animals, etc and they were recently promised hell. Heavy military vehicles and sophisticated weapons can't be taken to a place in order to quell the disturbances created by cattle rustling!  It's all entirely politics behind the current situation in that region. It's indeed a great pity to see that it's the poor people who are now paying the price for an abandonment by the authorities responsible for Karamoja, including the numerous MPs the region has. When shall we hear their voice? And can't a brave one stand up and advocate for the defence and the rights of his people as Fr Simon Lokodo reportedly wanted to do?

 Poor Karamoja shouldn't however feel abandoned by everyone. Strong voices have already come out to condemn the ill-treatment of the Karamojong. And I salute these voices. In the same way I wave a gracious jambo salute to greet all Ugandans, both inside and outside, for having unanimously shown a heartfelt sympathy towards the people of Karamoja.This is a message which already speaks volumes in anticipation of a real concrete action for Karamoja.

 This solidarity for Karamoja also sums up other good memories of ties of brotherhood whenever

the region faced immense difficulties. We know what Ugandans did in the mid-seventies when the entire Karamoja was devastated by severe climatic conditions which resulted into an acute  widespread famine that hit the entire Karamoja. Relief was raised all over the country and many leading personalities, including especially Cardinal E.K. Nsubuga, travelled to the region with many relief supplies and returned home with several orphans whom they supported in various ways. That period was a real trial to Karamoja and to the world. Even French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went to the point of adopting a Karamojong orphan from Moroto!!  Karamoja shouldn't feel abandoned by the population. Everybody is ready to stand up for the region.Many historic examples can be summoned to the mind to concretize this brotherhood.Sir Edward Muteesa II bequeathed his entire monthly presidential salary to Karamoja. There was the big project of channeling water supplies to the entire Karamoja  and to much of the arid areas of the northern regions and elsewhere in the country.This was the Great Benedicto Kiwanuka's cherished dream if he had won the 1972 general elections. Ugandans never abandon each other and they will naturally team up with Karamoja. They are almost all victims of a certain misrule that causes deep worry and concern in their minds.One can think of the very many innocent youths and two full MPs undergoing torture and all kinds of ill-treatment in prisons, safe houses, and torture chambers, a repeat of Nazism, and this time in Africa!!! And now as we ponder over all this, it's very sad to learn that murders by the panga-wielding groups have resumed in Buganda and the other night the very prestigious Kyengera Town Council locality was invaded by these very silly goons who killed many and injured dozens and dozens. People have nowhere to run to for security and defence. These are the very bad seeds of a remorseless dictatorship that has no pity for the suffering. In any case, this situation will have to be quashed away the day Ugandans will see change at their door. Everything will have to be revamped to the full satisfaction of the suffering masses of innocent Ugandans. Any sub-standard leadership will have to find its path towards a political dustbin. 

Lack of openness and the ardent desire to be frank and smartly patriotic are the things which have contributed so much to current uncertainty. See how this has contributed so much to the Oulanyah question! Speaker Oulanyah has a family and parents who would have loved to get involved into the mourning of their own right from the moment he breathed his last. Instead one hears of SFC doing the work of a funeral service!! Relatives, including his humble father, have no access to the body and yet the deceased is their own person who is going to be buried in their home compound. Why should the father be denied the final ultimate chance to look at his deceased son? At least the coffin should be opened for the good of the family. Did the heroic statement from Oulanyah's dad and his refusal to take a very fat cash envelope disturb and annoy a number of people in some quarters? And the special parliamentary session where very many MPs eulogized the late was also a disappointment, somehow! Why did this time the casket in the parliamentary chambers remain sealed contrary to the regular custom where MPs view the deceased person before they make the eulogies of praises to him / her. Denying MPs a chance to look at their Speaker and colleague was something strange. These are the people who would now be giving correct information to their constituents, the population which regretted Oulanyah.

These big people die and the government controls everything including the body! What's all this fuss about? And secret amounts of money are involved in unrealistic expenditures... What's this? 

  Price hikes on the very essential commodities, mbu because of the war in Ukraine!! I hope they aren't ashamed to say that it's because of the war in Karamoja!! Again taking Ugandans for fools! But the very intelligent but quiescent and calculative population is an intellectual volcano which will one day explode to the joy of a break of a new dawn that will usher in prosperity for all including the persecuted people of Karamoja and all those who have lived it hard under a very terrible dictatorship that continues to exercise gun rule on the innocent people of Uganda.

There is hope for everyone and hope never fades and will never fade into insignificance!

G.H.K.

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