Activists for Change (A4C) activities were banned by the Uganda government a couple of months back.

But its activities are back in Business as usual on Facebook. Col. Kiiza Besigye, the president General of FDC says that A4C is active online because there are no Cyber Laws in Uganda for Cyber Crimes.

He says that the ban on A4C and 4GC is therefore not affecting opposition activists on facebook.

Besigye says that activists are free to join A4C and fight corruption and Bad Governance in Uganda.

The opposition leader says that “the Status Quo Must Move on!!! Social media is a Human Right, it is a mode of Communication not a crime unless you Cyber Bully your fellow Citizens.”

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The opposition pressure group, called For God and my Country (4GC) says it had strategically scaled down some of its activities for some time in order to give the country an opportunity including political activists to reflect on the events of the past one year and activities of activists for change (A4C) in general.

The coordinator of 4GC who also doubles as Masaka Municipality MP, Mathias Mpuuga says that the leaders of 4GC also thought that the NRM regime had learned from past mistakes and would take advantage of the budget process to put more emphasis on the social-economic ills bedeviling the country.

Mpuuga says that to the consternation of 4GC, the budget was largely anti people and anti development necessitating more activism.

He says that the notion that political and social agitation is now irrelevant because the conditions have ‘improved’; that inflation is down, load shedding has reduced, economy is growing steadily is a lie. Mpuuga adds that the economy has not improved and the ministry of finance is using cooked up figures.

“Schools are half empty all over the country. The budget does not have any provision for lunch in primary schools and expenditure on education is minimal. Children have been sent home, they have not cleared their fees. Electricity is prohibitively expensive, now there is even VAT on water. Health facilities are completely broken down and the country is in a health crisis. Businesses are closing down every single day. People are losing their property mortgaged to banks due to the prohibitive interest rates coupled with an uncertain environment,” he explains.

President Museveni in his state of the nation address recently congratulated the Inspector General of Police, Lt.Gen Kale Kayihura on crushing A4C/4GC protests. But with the resurrection of A4C/4GC activities, Ugandans are waiting to see between the government and the opposition who will have the last laugh.

Mpuuga also alleges that Museveni and KCCA’s Jennifer Musisi are systematically and discriminatively eliminating poor people who have been making their livelihoods in Kampala, in the guise of keeping the city clean, without offering tangible alternatives for their survival. This inhuman and senseless attack on the poor people will soon be a recipe for disaster. We are also aware that it’s a disguised security operation supposedly to prevent a Tahrir style uprising in Kampala and has nothing to do with making Kampala better. He says 4GC will not allow this and they will struggle alongside their people to ensure that their livelihoods are not threatened.

The 4GC coordinator also laments that corruption is still a cancer to the NRM regime and institutions and that KCCA is now a conduit and theatre of corruption, with huge sums of money inexplicably withdrawn from KCCA accounts on an occasional basis.

The MP also adds that “many Ugandans, especially the youths are wallowing in abject poverty and unemployment. The politically initiated youth fund has been undermined by unrealistic and bogus access conditions. The fund is also an exclusive preserve for NRM cadres intended to financially empower them at the expense of other Ugandans. Institutions such as KCCA that had originally been mandated to manage it are corrupt and inept. We there fore enjoin the youths of this country to stand up against such forms of deprivation, discrimination and neglect so that they redeem their image and that of the future generation. The recent research findings that change of the regime is not possible through elections under the current electoral system of a state sponsored Electoral commission was an obvious statement because Ugandans now have no confidence in the electoral system. We shall continue to agitate for the disbandment of the EC, reform of electoral laws to restore the confidence of the people in electoral democracy. Only this will save the country from plunging into violence again”.

Mpuuga says that the land in Uganda is systematically being grabbed by Museveni and his cronies in all parts of the country. The poor are being displaced and dispossessed in the name of fake investors, who are in factual fact Museveni’s fronts for exploitation. In Bunyoro kingdom, he says, the land grabbing has reached alarming proportions. In Karamoja, land with immense mineral resources is being grabbed reportedly using Janet Museveni who was strategically made minister for Karamoja.

“We the 4GC and A4C we are therefore resuming our nationwide activities to sensitize the masses about the immense and enormous maladministration, corruption, nepotism, political and economic injustices among other issues. We will be having activities in Kampala and eventually move to other parts of the country starting with Western Uganda, and the detailed program shall be availed in due course. We will not be deterred in our activities and we will challenge any maneuvers aimed at denying our fundamental rights and freedoms. We have indeed petitioned the constitutional court challenging the illegal ban of A4C and 4GC, and we will continue to challenge other obnoxious and archaic laws,” Mpuuga threatens.

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A source in the deceased’s family told us that the deceased loved President Museveni so much and he would sometimes sob whenever something wrong would happen to the president’s life.

The family member alleges that recently Lumago advised Museveni to look into the demands of A4C and opposition in general but the president declined to listen to him.

So the source alleges that from that time Lumago developed High Blood pressure. He died at Arua regional referral hospital today where he was admitted in the intensive care.

The doctors at Arua regional hospital also confirmed that Lumago succumbed to high blood pressure. According to statehouse sources, Lumago will be buried amidst full military honours and gun salute.

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Upcountry supporters have started arriving in Kampala in various buses to attend a court session on Wednesday and witness the appearance of opposition leaders and Activists for Change (A4C). The president of FDC Col. Kiiza Besigye has kindly requested all those who would like to stand surety for the famous five plus nine FDC supporters to be at Buganda Road Court with passports/IDs and an LC letters by 8:00am. He also called on human rights lawyers to avail their services to the opposition.

Dr Kizza Besigye, together with Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago (DP) have been summoned to answer changes of unlawful assembly in connection with the death of Assistant Inspector of Police John Bosco Ariong.

The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road, presided over by Ms Eleanor Khainza, summoned Besigye and Lukwago with Kawempe Division chairperson Mubarak Munyagwa, FDC women league leader ms Ingrid Turinawe and Kampala Woman MP ms Nabilah Naggayi to appear before her on Wednesday.  Ms Khainza also issued production warrants for the nine people who were last week remanded to Luzira Prison over the killing of AIP Ariong.

The nice suspects on remand are Harold Kaija, Robert Kavuma, Mohammed Ssebugwawo, Hanifah Nakitende, Abdu Mutwalib Kayondo, Malik Nsubuga, Ismail Kirya, Farida Nalubega and Hajj Twalib Kakande. The LC5 woman councilor for Mpigi district, ms Catherine Ddembe, was also summoned. Ddembe is currently in comma over alleged police torture and beating. The government alleges that on March 21, between Kafumbe-Mukasa road, Namirembe Road and Mini-Price building on Ben Kiwanuka Street in Kampala the suspects formed an unlawful assembly with the purpose of inciting members of the public against the police leading to the death of Ariong and injuring of AIPs Wabwire, Police Constable Julius Olweng.

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Members of Activists for Change (A4C) are nonviolent. So we condemn all violence and perpetrators of violence in the country.

Those policemen and army men in police uniform who attack unarmed civilians during A4C rallies and provoke violence are strongly condemned by the A4C leaders.

Anne Mugisha, one of the A4C leaders says that the Police should act responsibly and exercise restraint when controlling crowds of people tired of Museveni’s rule.

She says for police to beat up unarmed civilians with batons and sticks and violent arrests of popular opposition leaders do not promote peace in Uganda.

Violence begets violence and A4C condemns it in the strongest terms. Anne Mugisha says Police should act fast to arrest its violent officials instead of arresting nonviolent peace loving activists.

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Col. Kiiza Besigye says he has heard of calls from NRM government supporters to the effect that the members of Activists for Change (A4C) should be condemned for the killing of a police man on Wednesday.

Besigye however says that he has not heard any supporter of President Museveni saying that the criminal acts of police should be condemned or investigated.

“In professional investigations, we look at the act and the circumstances under which an incidence occurred. NRM supporters should be asking themselves why citizens are reacting to police in such a manner. Why now? And what has gone wrong?

Besigye further says that NRM supporters did not condemn police for the lives that got lost during walk to work I and walk to work phase II, Kasubi tombs firing incident or the Buganda riots of 2009 in which over 27 people died and scores injured.

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Sources within A4C told this informer that this would be their right time to show the dignitaries visiting Uganda for the meeting that in Uganda there is no freedom of expression, opinion and assembly.

The Inter -Parliamentary Union assembly will take place in Kampala from March 31 to April 5 at Serena Hotel. The speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga on Wednesday urged A4C to put its activities on hold until the delegates visiting Uganda for Inter -Parliamentary Union assembly leave the country.

However the A4C meeting that has taken place today in Kampala, it has been resolved that Kadaga or the government have no powers to ask them to put their activities on hold until the visitors coming for Inter -Parliamentary Union assembly leave the country.

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President Museveni has directed police to block walk to work activities whenever the force gets wind of it in any part of Uganda.

The OC Kasangati police barracks Francis Tumwesigye says that he is on standing orders from above deploy at Col. Kiiza Besigye’s home whenever he receives information that the Colonel is planning to walk on foot. The police yesterday deployed heavily near Besigye’s home after receiving false reports that Besigye was plotting to resume walk to work campaigns.

Security sources told our informer that the leaders of Activists for Change popularly known as A4C have received money from donors to resume walk to work campaigns. The police say that some of the activists in A4C rob peoples property and destroy public properties.

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Besigye, also a member of Activists for Change (A4c) was suspected by the government to have had plans of addressing a press conference on police brutality at his offices on Katonga Road in Kampala.

The sources in police told journalists that the force feared that Besigye and his cohorts were going to expose cases of police brutality in which tens of Ugandans reportedly lost their lives. The sources said exposing such information to the public raises peoples’ emotions. However, the police worked on wrong information because the said press conference was set to be addressed by the A4C coordinator MP Mathias Mpuuga but not Besigye.

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A new political pressure group similar to Activists for Change (A4C) has launched its national wide programme in Kampala.

The pressure group of concerned Ugandan citizens has been named the National Action for Awakening Uganda (NAAU ). It officially launched shop at Fair Way hotel in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).

Its national coordinator is businessman Frank Gashumba. The leaders of Awakening Uganda hope to bring on board all political pressure groups in Uganda to stage a joint pressure group against President Museveni’s reported despotic regime.

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