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Tuesday 23 August 2011

Museveni Next After Gaddafi – Mbabazi


By Our Reporters

When Libya is a done deal, Uganda will be ripe for ‘Tomahawk’ bombing menu by Western forces led by the United States, a dossier penned by an NRM insider reveals.
Nina Mbabazi,  daughter to powerful  security Minister Amama Mbabazi claims to have busted several secret agents of the west exchanging notes at Kampala’s expensive hotels on  how Uganda is the best air cargo hub that needs conquering.
“Since 2006, I have chanced upon many British, Americans and Chinese at Serena, Sheraton, etc who have been talking about Uganda as an air cargo hub.
They are ready to build huge air cargo cities outside Kampala,” Mbabazi explains in her dossier which she sent to intelligence agencies that her dad coincidentally heads.
In a thrilling dossier, Mbabazi claims that America’s spy body CIA has crafted a plan of mobilising Ugandans beginning with the upper class via the internet.She explains that it has worked with Ugandans in the diaspora who are ranting and asking nationals to get rid of the NRM government at all costs.
She reveals that the west would not use Museveni’s long stay in power as a rallying point, but rather create an economy of scarcity.In so doing the starving populace will be reminded about the long years of NRM rule and thereby call for Museveni’s exit.“The price of rice has risen from 1,800 to 2,500 per kg.
Almost close to imported basmati rice. I wonder, hasn’t matooke taken a big banana wilt beating and now the high fuel prices have pushed up a bunch to 15,000. Do you remember a few years ago when we spent 7,000 a bunch? What about potatoes, all food.
Is it not true that Uganda’s working class is living off one meal a day? Has anyone seen the transformation at city square at night?”She adds “If you haven’t, please drive and park and see how many people leave their offices in the evening and have a kikomando as their only meal.
What they earn, they leave for their children to at least have a cup of beans for food for the day.
These are all the effects of economic hit men and Uganda can’t do anything about it unless they start to recognise the signs.“This is what causes revolutions that don’t have leaders, they think they don’t have leaders but most times the psychology is the same creating one mindset,” Mbabazi who played a big role in Museveni’s 4th term warns in the two page dossier that was published on her blog on Thursday.
Nina, who is also the chairperson of Kanungu District NRM Youth league has of recent become a critic of the regime her father is serving and has on several for warned of the consequences of  the revolutions that are sweeping across the Arab world .
We have also confirmed that Nina has drawn attention to the intelligence services through her constant criticisms aired on certain blogs.A source said, “Intelligence wants to establish why she has of recent become so rhetorical of the regime,” a source said.
Nina’s comments come a few days after the son-in-law to president had called on him, urging him to start grooming a successor.In a two page dossier published in this newspaper, Banabas Taremwa said Museveni should look for a successor for the sake of continuity and stability within the NRM and the country at large.

BELOW IS THE VERBATIM OF MBABAZI’S DOSSIER
The US and other Western powers have been helped by our ceding rights to government one right at a time and being comfortable with it.
Now the African governments need us to survive and this is in fact the strongest position the citizens of Africa will ever be in. We should talk our intellectual debates off the laptops and actually engage.I have no doubt that Uganda is next.
Not because NRM has overseen Uganda for 25 years but because we are strategically located for world trade and we have oil. It has been an open secret that the US and China have all been looking at African countries that would best suit the air cargo needs of the future.
The Somali pirates have brought that point home to these people that soon, they must move to air cargo and get off the waters. It speeds up world trade and it reduces insurance loses that are in billions.
Also with the ongoing weather changes, we are likely to see more Tsunami’s more unstable weather so air is a safe bet.Since 2006, I have chanced upon many British, Americans and Chinese at Serena, Sheraton, etc who have been talking about Uganda as an air cargo hub. They are ready to build huge air cargo cities outside Kampala.
One program they were targetting was Rakai but it got entangled in religious bickering. But they are looking at Rakai, Ntungamo, Soroti and Gulu as air cargo hubs.
There are huge Macau casino investors that are also willing to come and I personally met with the Italian Formula 1 team that is interested in Uganda now as their new site outside the Arab world. Uganda is situated in the best place.
People, we are the heart of Africa! Take Uganda and you have conquered the African world from Sudan to Libya, Congo to Nigeria, Uganda to Ethiopia, Uganda to South Africa.Uganda is a sweet cookie for all these people and now we also seem like oil shall be added in the package by 2015.
China’s CNOOC would not have paid Tullow so much (which they are trying to shirk taxes for) if they didn’t see Uganda as more than oil.We are the land of honey and milk right now. So anything that they think will give them excuse to step in, they will take it.
Forget about the morality here. They know that in Africa if you say there is a dictatorship with anyone who has been in power for 25 years, all of us Africans will just say yes and make noise and wait for someone else to come do the dirty job.
They are your shoulder to cry on, they are BIG BROTHER.Look at some Ugandans who are openly asking for assistance to get rid of NRM. These are the people they want to hear from. You are the ones who will lead us to second colonisation.
But when someone writes here that a government has become so disconnected that they have nothing to live for, then a serious government will take note and try to build bridges.
I was watching Al Jazeera last week and they run a story saying CIA has increased its budget for Twitter and Facebook and has designed software that will allow an agent to manage ten accounts with one ID but all ten showing up with different names.
So you will think that all of a sudden many people are with you and you shall gain the courage to come out for peaceful demonstrations. They know that you will not come out for Kizza Besigye, but they know that if they touch upon something that is within your self interest and NOT political interest, you shall rise.
So what do they expect? If you remember the Asian tigers and how they had chased away IMF and World Bank, do you recall what happened there? Their money lost value so quickly. Indonesia under Suharto the dollar in a period of 3 months went from $1=2,500 to $1= 10,000. Income remained constant and you can read about all the other economic triggers.
To add insult to injury, Suharto increased taxes for the rich but excluded members of his family who were classified as super rich. It took Suharto 6 months to fall and in the rest of the countries, instability took 6-12 months. These are economic hitmen.
And the IMF is back in full force in the Asian Tigers.In Tanzania, Nyerere was not going to give up power when he did, but after hunger and starvation, he bowed out feeling like a total failure. If you haven’t already been informed, WFP has doubled their budget for your maize, your staple food.
The budget is now $100M. Most of our population Bank of Uganda says 75% do not keep their money in formal banks. They hide it under their beds or in informal sectors so we can’t tap it to increse investment yet now WFP is targetting those as their suppliers.
WFP is building warehouses upcountry under the guise of efficiency but in reality, they always give the lowest maize price. They are going to mop up all your maize and send it as relief to Sudan and Kenya and other countries that are suffering.
We Kampala people who eat porridge and posho, the cost of food will go up, but your incomes will remain the same. Hunger and starvation will set in and that is when your self interest shall kick in.Look at the knock on effects of lack of maize. In Kanungu our villagers are reaping the benefits.
The price of rice has risen from 1,800 to 2,500 per kg. Almost close to imported basmati rice. I wonder, hasn’t matooke taken a big banana wilt beating and now the high fuel prices have pushed up a bunch to 15,000. Do you remember a few years ago when we spent 7,000 a bunch? What about potatoes, all food.
Is it not true that Uganda’s working class is living off one meal a day? Has anyone seen the transformation at city square at night? If you haven’t please drive and park and see how many people leave their offices in the evening and have a kikomando as their only meal.
What they earn, they leave for their children to at least have a cup of beans for food for the day. These are all the effects of economic hit men and Uganda can’t do anything about it unless they start to recognise the signs.

REVOLUTIONS WITHOUT LEADERS
This is what causes revolutions that don’t have leaders, they think they don’t have leaders but most times the psychology is the same creating one mindset. The mindset is the leader.
In Egypt they are wise but will take a long time to recover. They pelted El Baradei with stones and he couldn’t vote in the referendum. What the referendum showed, is that Africans don’t care which dictator is in power, they shall move on when the new dictator comes and they shall do so with gladness in their hearts.
Case in point Egypt elections December 2010 = 7million voters. Egypt Referendum March 2011 = 14million voters.So Uganda, Congo, Zimbabwe, etc. Our leaders are sitting ducks.
Only the citizenry can save their countries from re-colonization because leaders are generally much unfocused on what is the citizenry’s “self-interest”. This is why unless they connect with you, shall fall like a pack of cards, and Africa won’t skip a heartbeat.
It shall move on and the air cargo terminals shall be built and we shall all enjoy colonisation for about 25-40 years until we also get tired of their stories. If anyone does not think this is serious please go study a map and look at the strategic location of Libya.
American has already appointed an envoy to Benghazi so it doesn’t matter how long the civil war will be on. Benghazi will be peaceful and they shall build military bases there and prepare for the Ugandan Invasion.
Now look at Tullow oil in today newspaper (Thursday) that doesn’t want to pay tax, takes you to court and then says they are doing you a favour even to pay the little tax that they have paid. And mark you; they are being helped by your black brothers and sisters. Exactly how colonisation was in the first place.

Sunday 21 August 2011

Two years later, victims of illegal killings still wait to hear the voice of justice


Demonstrators take cover as a soldier shoots in the air after the Kasubi tombs fire two years ago

Rights violations. At least 100 people were killed under unclear circumstances by security operatives but no perpetrator has been arrested or implicated in the shootings.

Kampala. Two years have gone by but 100 families whose relatives were killed under unclear circumstances at the hands of security operatives are still to receive justice.
Despite documentation of these incidences, the most recent highlighted in the US State Department’s Human Rights Report on Uganda 2010, has made human rights activists conclude that a culture of impunity is pervading justice in the country.
In her April 2011 report on human rights practices in Uganda, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailed the killings of up to 100 civilians at the hands of state agents the past two years alone, before noting that there was little evidence to show that perpetrators were punished. The report also documents killings in several parts of the country, where some suspects were either tortured in custody or shot to death by security agencies.
In September 2009, at least 40 unarmed protesters and bystanders were killed when security forces used live bullets to disperse people who were protesting government’s refusal to allow the Kabaka travel to Kayunga District for a youth day celebration.
No accountability
No one has been held accountable for the killings, despite several commitments from the government, a botched attempt by the 8th Parliament to institute an inquiry and a flood of complaints from families of victims.
This incident, the most cited evidence activists are using to accuse President Museveni’s administration of human rights violations, is one of several cases showing government’s failure to punish perpetrators.
Numerous reports have been issued by watchdog agencies both local and international implicating security operatives of the Uganda Police and the UPDF, in alleged indiscriminately killing of civilians.
The US report also profiled the March 14 Kasubi Tombs shooting, when Special Forces Group of Mr Museveni’s advance team, fired into a crowd that had gathered to commiserate over a fire that had gutted the Buganda Kingdom royal tombs a day earlier. Cornelius Kayanja, Haruna Kakumba and an unidentified person were killed during the clashes.
A government commission, which probed the cause of the fire, concluded inquiry four months ago and authored a report, although its findings are yet to be made public. But after the shootings, the army said the President’s bodyguards were provoked. More than a year later, no arrests have been made.
Mr Med Kaggwa, chairman of Uganda Human Rights Commission, argued that it would be wrong “to take one or two or three cases” of rights violations to conclude that there was a culture of impunity. However, Mr Ssewanyana told this newspaper that the gusto with which the government “dragged” to court protesters of the opposition-led April walk-to-work protests, including FDC leader Kizza Besigye, while no security operative implicated in the Kasubi or Kayunga killings has been charged, was evidence to show “a lack of political will to bring to book perpetrators of abuse.”

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1222522/-/bjwv7iz/-/index.html