Is Uganda really independent when over 40% of our budget is sponsored by European colonial powers? When people are in causality and ward 3B of Mulago hospital waiting and getting no medical attention, ‘waiting to die,’ when one ‘s freedom can be taken away anytime, like in the case of col. Kiiza Besigye and Kampala Lord mayor, Erias Lukwago.

More still Ugandans still have people being kidnapped, rapped, killed, murdered, and no one knows where they are.

In Uganda someone stays on remand at Luzira prison for over 10 years and later released on grounds that he/she was innocent.

Is Uganda really independent when LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony could kidnap girls, and kill over 200 people at ago at Barlonyo? Recently Ugandans cerebrated 50 years of independence. But to critics it was cerebrating the 50 years of pain. The only difference we have in Uganda is having the likes of president Museveni failing to put a successful war on corruption.

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Uganda’s intelligence believes there must have been a conspiracy into the suspected gun down of the threeUgandajet fighters by the suspected Al Shabaab militants.

Sources within Uganda and Somalia military intelligence networks suspect it that there are some individuals within Kenyan intelligence and forces that do cooperate direct with Al Shabaab and they are not contented at all by the way Uganda is handling its cross boarder businesses with the East Africa region.

It is alleged that during the last presidential elections in Kenya, the Uganda presidential brigade was cited in the post election making- So all these factors lead to the commotion that surrounds the suspected gun down of the three Uganda jet fighters that were destined to Somalia.

Other technical sources say that it is impossible to lose an airplane between Eldoret and Mt. Kenya which is not more than 400 kilometer radius yet these aircrafts were seen on the radar from Soroti (Uganda) to Eldoret (Kenya) where they refueled.

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Recently when president Museveni was explaining to Ugandans his side on the nation ID money which was reportedly mismanaged by some of his key people in government, in one of the statements he reportedly stated that Eriya Kategaya voted eight times during the 1980 general elections! Kategaya is currently Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in Charge of East African Community Affairs.

But Museveni also showed that he went to the bush to stage a war against the legitimate government of Uganda in 1980s with the same Kategaya, well knowing that the latter had reportedly participated in multiple voting during elections.

Basing on Museveni’s own confessions, some people in Uganda have went further to ask how many inadvertent confessions by President Museveni do they need to demonstrate that Ugandans have a sitting president who has serious cases to answer.

It can also be remembered that some years back, Maj. Gen Kahinda Otafiire made a similar confession to the effect that during the bush war, as NRA rebels, they would dress up in Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) T-shirts and create havoc (kill people), after which they would dress up as rebels and come back to the same scene of crime to console their victims and mobilise for their support.

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Recently when president Museveni was explaining to Ugandans his side on the nation ID money which was reportedly mismanaged by some of his key people in government, in one of the statements he reportedly stated that Eriya Kategaya voted eight times during the 1980 general elections! Kategaya is currently Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in Charge of East African Community Affairs.

But Museveni also showed that he went to the bush to stage a war against the legitimate government ofUganda in 1980s with the same Kategaya, well knowing that the latter had reportedly participated in multiple voting during elections.

Basing on Museveni’s own confessions, some people in Uganda have went further to ask how many inadvertent confessions by President Museveni do they need to demonstrate that Ugandans have a sitting president who has serious cases to answer.

It can also be remembered that some years back, Maj. Gen Kahinda Otafiire made a similar confession to the effect that during the bush war, as NRA rebels, they would dress up in Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) T-shirts and create havoc (kill people), after which they would dress up as rebels and come back to the same scene of crime to console their victims and mobilise for their support.

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There is an apparent war within Uganda opposition parties with some sharp allegations to the effect that some member parties like the Democratic Party (DP) have allied with the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

However the spokesperson of DP, Kenneth Paul Kakande clears that there is no such alliance between DP and NRM. There is no resolution of the National Executive Committee of DP mandating anybody in DP to work NRM for any political reasons.

He says that if there are any individual or group of persons doing it, they are doing it in their personal capacity and the party wishes to state that it will investigate these unfortunate and callous turn of events and such people, if any will be dealt with according to DP laws.

There also seems to be a deliberate effort to depict a war of words between FDC and DP leaders. Kakande says that the DP is not in business of attacking other opposition leaders and members. Kakande says that DP believes that the people in FDC are their friends and the party sees them as allies in the fight against Museveni’s leadership. He challenges FDC and all other opposition parties to concentrate their fire on the liberation struggle.

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Why Ugandans should not support Bishop Ssentamu to head the Anglican Church even if he is a Ugandan, as long as Bishop Ssentamu believes and even went to extent of removing his dog collar that President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has done more and worse crimes against his people and humanity than his family friend President Museven of Ugandanhe deserves on support from us.

I challenge Ssentamu to tell the world one thing that Mugabe has done that Museven and his bush war crooks have not done. If this man Ssentamu is not working for western powers and or has personal vendetta or hatred against Mugabe the person, let me tell Ssentamu that the latest thing Museven has done is forcing poor Ugandans who have continuously refused to vote for him in Kampala out of the city and destroying their businesses.

When Mugabe did it you talked because and after your pay masters in London condemned it the only small difference is that in Uganda it affected black people and more so your tribe-mates the Baganda. In Zimbabwe it also affected white people who are also relatives of your pay masters in UK and the western world- Shame on you Mr. Sentamu to pretend that you love Zimbabweans more than your fellow Ugandans. I think Museven is worse than Mugabe because his crimes moves beyond boarders and countries and many are graving because of him.

Recently the international court of Justice found Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor, for arming Sierra Leone’s rebels and pronounced him guilty of aiding and abetting of war crimes or crimes against humanity. But he was acquitted of criminal responsibility and “joint enterpise” the civil war claimed 120,000 lives. What does this require of you Ssentamu where Museven has accepted, confessed & bragged openly to arming, aiding and abetting more than two wars, one in Rwanda claiming over a million lives, another in DR. Congo claiming more than 7 millions and still counting not to talk about the more than 300,000 death in Northern Uganda. Where is fairness & justice in this world if there is any God any where then you should not be God’s messanger.

By Moureen Nakyanzi

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Lukyamuzi, who is also the MP for Lubaga South, adds that Museveni abused state funds through Corruption, nepotism, extravagancy, buying teargas and Fighter jets.

He says that Museveni’s ministers have defrauded the state. Some ministers in Museveni’s government such as Amama Mbabazi, Sam Kuteesa, Khiddu Makubuya and Syda Bbumba were recently asked to resign over corruption. And indeed some of the ministers have resigned.

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Justice G. W Kanyeihamba has today barred the secrets on the crevasse of his mind. Justice Kanyeihamba says that the government should recognize Late Andrew Kayiira (he was a military man and a member of the Democratic Party) for his work in the liberation struggle.

While he was moving out from Mr. Frank Gashumba’s Awaken Uganda seminar at Hotel Fairway in Kampala yesterday, Kanyeihamba said that if it was not late Kayiira president Museveni and his NRA rebels would not have won the war against the now defunct UPC government.

Justice Kanyeihamba was the guest of honour at Gashumnba’s Awaken Uganda seminar. Other guests included former ethics minister, Miria Matembe. The seminar was not political but most of the speakers sounded so political.

Kanyeihamba says that He and Andrew Kayiira escaped death while coming from the famous Moshi Conference in Tanzania. The Kenyan government had wanted to hand them to late president, Idi Amin. He says that it was that meeting where Kayiira was the biggest facilitated that partly contributed to President’s Museveni success in military struggle.

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Many people across the world have expressed mixed reactions about the content of the video about LRA war and its commander Joseph Kony being played in USA and Europe. Some Ugandans and Africans have welcomed USA’s interests in ending the bloody LRA war.

But others complain that when Joseph Kony was maiming people in the northern Uganda, killing them, forcing them out of their homes for years, kidnapping people, selling young girls and boys as slaves and at one time forcing some village to cook corpses and then forced them to eat them and then summarily killed everyone in South Sudan, the Americans and Europeans were almost mute and could only send in help in form of military trainers to the UPDF.

Now when Joseph Kony is no threat, the Americans have taken an active interest in him but some Ugandans suspect that the Americans might be targeting new oil discoveries in northern Uganda. It is rumoured that there is huge oil deposits in some parts of Northern Uganda.

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In the documentary Russell does mention that Joseph Kony has moved on from Northern Uganda. Russell simply mentions that LRA war is one of the neglected conflicts in Africa. This is true; LRA is one of the neglected insurgencies in Africa.

Russell mentions that the Ugandan army (UPDF) is still trying to rout Joseph Kony and needs US help. This is also very true even if we (Ugandans) may not like the USA support.

If the UPDF has indeed made Kony a money-making machine for themselves using Kony as a trap, is it not better that Kony is neutralized so that the UPDF loses that particular escape goat? So Russell is the ‘white man’ saving Africans again – well if Africans will not do it why can’t we let humanity prevail whatever its color?

I hear Russell spends most of the money he raises on salaries, travel and other fun projects and not on the children of Northern Uganda. That is abominable and unfair, but this movie has given us the chance to expose him and perhaps improve accountability. We hope that unlike the Ugandan government he has a conscience! But again, what is making everyone hoping mad about Russell’s documentary?

By Anne Mugisha

Senior Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) official

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