Before the 2011 General
Elections, I decided to resort to prayers given the evil that I was
clearly seeing in NRM under President Museveni's leadership. It came to
dishing shs 20m to MPs for NAADS programme, I could not believe,
however, my advice to MPs was to leave the money as that was robbery of
the tax payer. I warned them that on taking the money, many were not to
regain their seats. It came to President Museveni and I have advised
him to do things as a honest leader would, the President is not heeding
to advice, instead, everyday things are worsening. The country has got
to its knees to beg donors to put the tap on!
It is Easter time. President Museveni should reflect on his message when he prayed for the country, "
President Yoweri Museveni has repented his sins and the sins of Uganda
as a nation in a move aimed at establishing Uganda as a God-fearing
nation." If he does not,we are yet to see worse developments in the
country as nearly everything has gone wrong. On Wednesday night at
7.00pm to 8.00pm, I listened to KFM radio, and Uganda is indeed a sad
country. To hear from an MP how Chairmen of districts have to return
some money to the centre when it would be used to help the districts is
most unfortunate. The case of Kirumira can be cited, how the man
managed to draw cash in circumstances that are hard to explain. It does
not stop there, the President is in bailing people on resources whose
source is not clear. After business messes, some people know that they
have a President who can cushion them. All this is wrong. The country
needs to get back to proper footing, surely we can not keep on that
trend.
Hopefully,
this Easter the President will get to realize that to everything there
is a beginning and the end. he cannot do things his way when he is
advised otherwise and he simply ignores.
Happy Easter to the Suffering Ugandans
William Kituuka Kiwanuka
| When a leader blames others: M7 and the New Year message |
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| Sunday, 06 January 2013 21:30 |
Eric Kashambuzi
This
is what a good leader does. When things go well, he/she shares credit
with his/her team. When things go wrong the leader takes full
responsibility.
In Museveni's Uganda things are done differently. When Uganda was
described as star performer in structural adjustment program; when
Uganda was congratulated for confronting HIV & AIDS boldly and when
Uganda was praised for its efforts to bring about peace and stability in
the Great Lakes region, President Museveni took all the credit. He
attended all the Summits at the United Nations in New York and G8. He
spoke with confidence that Uganda would end poverty and suffering and
would become an industrialized nation within fifteen years. And nothing
would stop Museveni in these endeavors.
When things turned sour, Museveni has blamed everyone but himself. He
is known for blaming Ugandans as lazy and drunkards, blaming Ugandans
as empty tins, idiots and bankrupt. He has blamed opposition groups for
sabotaging NRM worthy efforts, civil servants for incompetence and
corruption although he is the one who appoints and promotes them. He has
blamed development partners for donating insufficient funds and foreign
experts for giving wrong advice. He has blamed slowdown in economic
growth on external factors including weak developed country markets and
"Acts of God" beyond NRM control. His New Year message is a repeat of
what Museveni does when things have gone wrong.
Museveni blamed Uganda's economic hard times in 2011 and 2012 partly
on weak demand for Uganda exports in Europe and USA. The other part of
the problem was leveled at internal indiscipline of some politicians
particularly in the opposition camp and the unfriendly media. But
Museveni knows that there are countries that have continued to export to
Europe and USA. The difference between these successful exporting
countries and Uganda is that the former export manufactured products
whereas Uganda exports raw materials with a lower effective demand
especially during economic hard times. Museveni didn't realize that by
setting interest rates so high, depreciating Uganda currency so much and
liberalizing Uganda economy so wide he was making it virtually
impossible for Uganda manufactured products to compete in domestic
markets. Consequently Uganda has de-industrialized: factories are
closing down, others have relocated outside Uganda and yet others are
operating far below installed capacity due to expensive imports and high
interest rates. This is due to NRM's inappropriate policies that have
made it difficult for Uganda's small and medium enterprises to expand
and/or start new enterprises that would have created jobs, grew the
economy and produced manufactured products with value addition.
Because there isn't much to report in productive sectors such as
agriculture and social sectors especially education and healthcare,
Museveni devoted much of his message describing what has been done and
is planned to be done particularly in infrastructure such as roads and
energy. While these are necessary, they are not sufficient in improving
the quality of life of Ugandans. The success or failure of the economy
is judged by the extent to which it lifts people out of poverty and
impacts life expectancy at birth. That Museveni focused on boda-boda,
hair salons, video houses, petrol stations and housing estates etc as
success areas shows the extent of NRM desperation. It is agriculture and
agro-based manufacturing enterprises which NRM has neglected that will
transform Uganda - not hair salons and boda-boda enterprises.
That Uganda has not reached the general standard of living level
attained in 1970 demonstrates that NRM performance has fallen far short
of expectations. Contrary to promises made, many Ugandans don't have
shoes and live in dusty shelters that have created conditions for
jiggers to thrive and deform Ugandan physical appearance. Because many
Ugandans can't afford soap, scabies have reappeared. Uganda is nowhere
near becoming a middle income country as Museveni has tried to make us
believe. Uganda is regressing toward a fourth world country. Uganda is a
failed state. This is bad news for NRM and for Museveni in particular
who boasted that his was a fundamental change that would metamorphose
Uganda from a country of peasants to middle income earners. The only
metamorphosis we have witnessed is re-emergence of diseases that had
disappeared. Donors and experts that had prematurely pinned hopes on
Museveni as dean of a new breed of African leaders and champion of a new
development paradigm are silently withdrawing support.
There are areas that Museveni has become uncomfortable reporting about including education and healthcare as well as East African community. He didn't say anything on education and healthcare promising to do so in the State of the Nation address which he will deliver in June or July. The shocking news that a woman died giving birth at Mulago Hospital because she was neglected for not paying bribes to the medical staff was so hot that he decided to avoid mentioning the health situation in the country. UDU has demanded in its January 2 press release that the medical staff concerned be held accountable and the minister of health resigns. The president also avoided mentioning education presumably for fear that he would be grilled for personally refusing to provide school lunch that has forced primary school children to drop out of school in large numbers jeopardizing Uganda future development prospects.
President Museveni has also been silent for sometime on the East
African political federation possibly because he has realized that East
Africans now know that he is using the community to push his Tutsi
Empire dream. But he hasn't eased on the project. The recent meeting of
Uganda and Rwanda delegations in Kigali and agreement on creating a
borderless East African community still signifies his efforts to carve a
Tutsi Empire by any means possible including doing it bit by bit
starting with annexing Eastern DRC and later southwest Uganda to Rwanda
and Burundi. East Africans should therefore keep their eyes and ears
wide open on this matter of creating Tutsi Empire disguised as East
African political federation.
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Museveni dedicates Uganda to God
Publish Date: Oct 09, 2012
President Museveni and wife at Namboole prayers. Photo by Rogers Okwany
By Moses Mulondo
President Yoweri Museveni has repented his sins and the sins of Uganda as a nation in a move aimed at establishing Uganda as a God-fearing nation.
The President made this historic move at Mandela National stadium Namboole in the early morning of today (Tuesday) at 2:00am during national prayers for dedicating Uganda to God.
“I denounce witchcraft and satanic practices. I repent on behalf of Uganda. We confess our sins. We repent of the sins of shedding innocent blood, corruption, bribery, sexual immorality, drunkenness, rebellion, insubordination, tribalism and sectarianism,” Museveni repented amidst ululations from the Christians.
The president dedicated Uganda to God to be his nation anchored on his principles and values.
The President, indicating that the next 50 years belong to the young generation, advised the young people to be God-fearing referring to the Biblical verse in Proverbs 9:10 which says, “The fear of God is beginning of wisdom.”
For the young people who are still in school, he used Ecclesiastes 3:1 which says there is time for everything to advise them to concentrate on their books and abstain from sex.
For those who have completed studies, he advised them to look for more skills, jobs, and start families established on God’s principles.
He advised the youth to keep fit through physical exercises and sports activities and to help their parents.
The prayers were organized by Uganda Jubilee Network, an association of Anglican, evangelical and Pentecostal churches.
The network, coordinated by Dr. James Magara of Intercessors for Uganda, has been guiding Christians to fast and pray for Uganda to be a God fearing nation in the next 50 years.
“The jubilee season provides us with an opportune time to seek and return to the Lord. It is a time for liberty, amnesty, family reunion, justice, debt release, economic emancipation, restoration and chance to reset the clock and start over again,” Magara said.
The President’s seeds of wisdom to the young people fell on the fertile soil which had been already cultivated by the church leaders.
Earlier, the church of Uganda archbishop elect, Stanley Ntagali, called upon the religious and political leaders to repent and put right what had gone wrong arguing that jubilee is about restitution and attaining God’s eternal life after forgiveness.
Drawing from Exodus 4:22 where God said Israel is his first born son, Born Again Faith leader, Dr. Joseph Serwadda, prayed to God to make Uganda his second born son established on his values and principles of love, righteousness and justice.
Apostle Alex Mitala, who became the most captivating preacher, preached a radical message lambasting the young people over indecent dressing like miniskirts which expose their wickedness.
At the end of his speech, hundreds of youths came out and repented of indecent dressing which does not glorify God and recommitted their lives to God.
Rev. Simon Peter Emiau said no matter how many times Ugandans pray, God will not intervene in the affairs of our country without fulfilling the conditions in 2chronicles 7:14 of repenting and turning away from wicked ways.
Calling upon church leaders and Christians to repent, Apostle Charles Tumwine attributed the current high level of immorality in the country to the wickedness/darkness in the church arguing that what happens in a nation is usually a replica of the state of the church.
The believers were entertained by various choirs and artists who included American celebrated singer Judy Jacobs of Days of Elijah song and Pastor Wilson Bugembe who thrilled the gathering with his Biribabitya and Nangirira Omwaka Gwamukama Ogwemirembe.
The believers also prayed for Uganda’s media and communication, arts and entertainment, the judiciary, parliament, cabinet, the president, local governments, churches, and the education sector that they will all be revived on God’s principles and values of righteousness, love and justice.
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