The
2009 Buganda riots had not been organized but were destructive. This time round, the electorate who believe that
the NRM Government will do whatever is possible to suppress the will of the
people are ready to fight it out.
The
Buganda riots were a Buganda (tribal) affair.
The wish for CHANGE is a Uganda affair.
Many statements have been made not only by Candidate Museveni saying
that he is not ready to give power to opposition. These have been complimented by statements by
a number of people in authority in Uganda.
This
communication is therefore to put the matter straight to the international
community so that the situation is saved before it gets out of hand. The people of Uganda are ready for whatever
happens, it is a life or death affair should the NRM infrastructure tamper with
the votes.
The
NRM Government has recruited thousands of ‘Crime Preventers’ who otherwise
would not be called for if the elections were to be expected to be free and
fair. Because NRM fore sees possible
eruption by the people given the preferred outcome of the election which stands
at 71% in favour of their candidate Museveni, they have organized in advance
and provided a budget of Ushs 37bn to cater for the operations of the illegal
crime preventers who they imagine will help contain the situation.
It
will not help to start organizing intervention when the lives of Ugandans are
gone.
I cannot leave power to wolves, says Museveni
President Museveni has said he is not ready to hand over power to the Opposition leaders because they are like wolves ready to tear Uganda apart. Speaking in a mixture of Runyankore and English, Mr Museveni said the Opposition has failed to give alternatives for wealth creation but only oppose what the NRM does.
“The Opposition are like
wolves lurking around to tear Uganda apart. I will not allow them because I
have support of the majority of Ugandans and my army. Why can’t they tell
Ugandans alternatives on wealth creation instead of preaching the gospel that I
must leave power? If I go, will you get out of poverty?” Mr Museveni charged
before adding: “I will not give them chance,” he added.
Museveni: I can go, but I won’t hand over to Amama
President
Museveni yesterday said he will hand over power if defeated in the general
elections next February, but not to people who do not have a mission or targets
such as FDC presidential flag bearer Kizza Besigye.
Addressing
journalists at Arua state lodge, the incumbent said he will not lack what to do
if he is not president.
“I
have got my job. I am a cattle keeper,” said the NRM presidential candidate,
who is seeking a fifth elective term in office to take his total tenure as
president to 35 years.
Museveni
has previously said that he will not hand over power to anyone who has no
vision of where the country should go. Yesterday, he dwelt on the same topic,
saying he would not abandon Uganda to people without a mission.
“If
these fellows like Besigye, if I was sure that they would have those targets,
maybe I would say OK, let them continue. But they don’t have those targets.
Even when I am in charge, you find them doing their own different things. So,
how can I abandon Uganda to people who have no mission?” he asked.
Addressing
a public rally in Kabale in January this year, Museveni described the
opposition as “emishega” (wolves) whom he could not entrust with power.
Museveni won't handover power,
says Ugandan academic
A law professor at
Makerere University Oloka-Onyango has said that long-time time President Yoweri
Museveni would not handover power if he is defeated in the upcoming 2016
election.
The Daily Monitor quoted the academic as saying the
opposition parties, particularly the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) led
by Kizza Besigye, and Independent candidate Amama Mbabazi stood a good
chance of winning the elections next year, but it would be futile because the
country would be led into a bloodbath as Museveni’s ruling party the NRM
unleashes violence.
“I
do not believe that any opposition candidate in Uganda today can win this
election, which is highly in favour of the incumbency… [If that happens], then
you will have chaos or a military coup,” Prof Oloka-Onyango was quoted saying.
http://uganda.news24.com/National-News/museveni-wont-handover-power-says-ugandan-academic-20151214-2
A
FACEBOOK STATEMENT BY HON. WAFULA OGUTTU FOLLOWING IGP KAIHURA’S REMARKS:
So
Police IGP Kale says his NRM mafia will not hand over power to us the opposition
when we win elections on Feb 18, 2016, my sympathies to him. Power is sweet and
intoxicating to many. But he will live
to regret that statement all his life. He
wants to arm and endanger the few so called crime preventers in villages? Has
he got capacity to protect them against the masses when they rise up to protect
their vote or hard won power or both? The Crime Preventers (CPs) are already
merely few floating elements in the sea of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC's)
Power 10 vote protectors. And then even Prime
Minister (PM) Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda says that they will not hand over power to
us if elections are rigged, surely by whom? Does the opposition have the capacity
to rig elections in Uganda? Would that be after Court or what? Yes, I hope they
know that they have now set the stage for confrontation. Why would they expect
us to accept the same elections if they rig it?
ANNE
MUGISHA IS DISTURBED AS HER FACEBOOK STATEMENT REFLECTS:
And
then Kayihura disturbs my self-imposed apolitical discipline (of a few days)
with this: “We shall not hand over power to the opposition to destabilize the
peace which we fought for...We are going to change you from having sticks to
rifles...The constitution gives police powers to protect the nation in case
there is war and I want you to get prepared for this...,” he said - at the
passing out of crime preventers.
How
is anyone expected to remain in silent reverie after reading these remarks?
Joseph Kamugisha :
It's a matter of time and when that time comes,
Kayihura and his militants will have to give way for freedom to take course and
prevail. Once upon a time, Gadafi, Mobutu, Bikassa, Mubarak, Sadam and many
others, had what they thought were personal armies. But... . That is what Kayihura
and his boss needs to sink in their milky heads.
Why Museveni needs 'crime preventers'
Officially,
the thousands of so-called crime preventers being passed out by President
Museveni and police chief Kale Kayihura across the country are an effort by the
police to fight crime.
However,
the timing, the people behind it and the sheer numbers being recruited has
raised concerns that this could be a well-orchestrated political scheme to help
the incumbent win next year’s elections.
Writing
in his weekly column in The Independent magazine recently, Andrew Mwenda, its
owner, described crime preventers as Kayihura’s brilliant idea to use police
resources to mobilize for President Museveni and destabilize the opposition.
Reagan Okumu, an FDC Member of Parliament for Aswa county, recently told
parliament that crime preventers were campaigning for NRM and intimidating
supporters of other parties.
Indeed,
many crime preventers we have interviewed claim they are NRM supporters and
fondly referred to President Museveni as ‘Mzee’, a reference commonly used by
NRM cadres.
Go hang- Kayihura tells off critics on crime preventers
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gen Kale
Kayihura, has told critics of the increasing recruitment of crime preventers to
go hang.
Gen Kale Kayihura said police will continue to
recruit crime preventers regardless of consistent criticism from people he
described as political opportunists.
“I am tired of people vulgarising the concept
of crime preventers. It is not the first of its kind in the world and they are
not militia groups. We shall not stop recruiting crime preventers. You can
hang, if you are ignorant over their importance,” said Gen Kayihura at a
two-day police sports gala at Sebei College, Tegeres in Kapchorwa District at
the weekend.
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