Daily Monitor
Sunday April 18 2021
Summary
Looking back, immediately after the arrival – by force – of NRA/NRM into State power in 1986, word had it that civil servants were being forced or rather, instructed to go for ‘training’ at Kyankwanzi.
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As I was preparing to pen my next piece for these columns, a photo – almost certainly from Kyankwanzi – and, almost certainly of incoming NRA/NRM legislators being ‘baptised’ as part of their ‘orientation’, hit my inbox. Immediately, thoughts raced; here is a new season for electoral and parliamentary charade.
Looking back, immediately after the arrival – by force – of NRA/NRM into State power in 1986, word had it that civil servants were being forced or rather, instructed to go for ‘training’ at Kyankwanzi.
Daily Monitor
Sunday April 11 2021
Summary
Uganda had been liberated – the last liberation. At the time, Gaddafi’s Libya was considered the most powerful militarily on the continent (outside apartheid South Africa) and the loud Amin, considered himself the second most powerful.
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On April 11, 1979, a combined force of Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) and Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), in an operation that shook the African continent at the time, saw the official collapse of Idi Amin’s regime when then Lt Col David Oyite-Ojok announced on Radio Uganda that the regime of murder and terror was no more; Kampala had fallen and Amin and his henchmen - backed by Gaddafi’s Libyan mercenaries and machinery - were on the run.
On December, 17
th 2020, the faction’s electoral commission chairperson, Hamza Sewankambo declared Walubiri as the faction president defeating three others after garnering 278 votes of the 593 delegates from 98 districts.
However the presidential runner up Joseph Ochieno is contesting the poll results and has vowed to go to court before the end of next week.
Ochieno who is also the former spokesperson of the Milton Obote government tells Kfm that the election was marred with a number of irregularities and rigging adding that the figures do not add up since Walubiri won him with just 7 votes.
He is demanding access to all election material details so that he can prove his facts or else he will go to court.
Daily Monitor
Monday March 08 2021
Of the days that mark and that UPC members should ideally celebrate are March 2, the date on which in 1952 Uganda National Congress (UNC), the precursor to UPC, was launched; March 9 the date on which in 1960 the UNC and the splinter group UPU re-united to form Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and of course, independence day October 9. With many others, I celebrate December 28, former president Milton Obote’s birthday.
So while we look forward to March 9 in two days’ time and whereas I am aware that various units of the party are due to have special events, it is unfortunate that once again, the day will be marked without a national president duly elected by members and, accepted by all members.