Category Obote and UPC

OBOTE’S PRESIDENCY: CONSTITUTIONAL KICHUPULI,where did Obote get the authority to appoint or disappoint anybody?


UPC Annual delegate conference 1969 .A procession led by Ministers march past the President'.It looks like the Cricket pavilion at Lugogo Stadium (Oasis is now on the right of the picture) and marchers are on the Cricket Pitch. This must be a day or so before Milton Obote was shot near the Indoor stadium (Behind this one).

UPC Annual delegate conference 1969 .A procession led by Ministers march past the President’.It looks like the Cricket pavilion at Lugogo Stadium (Oasis is now on the right of the picture) and marchers are on the Cricket Pitch. This must be a day or so before Milton Obote was shot near the Indoor stadium (Behind this one).

What moral right did AM Obote have to nominate ministers, or to be president. Who voted him to be president? According to the constitution of Uganda, the Chief Executive of state is a President and not a Prime Minister. It is in prime ministerial or cabinet systems that the head of the party that wins most seats in parliament automatically becomes the head of state. Ever since 1967, Uganda has operated a Presidential system. Indeed, that is why AM Obote was called the President.

In presidential systems like Uganda’s, not only do MPs win their seats but the presidency is also directly contested. Where did AM Obote present himself to the people to be elected either as an MP or president, let alone Muluka chief or clan head?

Paulo Muwanga should never have been in Parliament in 1980 as a member because he did not contest any parliamentary seat. He was also not specially elected by parliament to sit there as a member nor was his elected by his party to sit in parliament.
So, it seems the 1995 constitution erased the irrationality of the 1967 constitution by opting to call a spade a spade: Let the President be a President, instead of having what was essentially a Prime Minister being called a President. And it seems the 1995 constitution has strenghtened the institution of the presidency by ensuring that the occupant does not free-ride on the backs of MPs, but is independently subjected to the electorate’s choice. Now I can see why perpetual flukers dislike the 1995 constitution. A president should not whiskey his way into State House on the back of MPs. That is fluking. Given the powers that the president eventually gets, it is proper that he should go to every constituency and market himself, and get independent endorsement of the majority of electors.

Indeed, in countries that are still saddled with weak vertical integration between the political elite and the populace, one of the avenues of enhancing state legitimacy is by processing the occupancy of key public offices through the crucible of majority choice, whenever possible (i.e, excluding extraordinary circumstances like 1979 or 1986

Therefore, the first order question is to do with where AM Obote get the authority to appoint or disappoint anybody. I think for countries like Uganda that are still low on the scale of political development and institutional evolution, a directly elected chief executive is imperative. No fluking.

The flipside of democracy is a fiscal contract between the populace and the political elite. Our mechanical notion of democracy (especially our tendency to conflate it with some of the rituals that it’s commonly associated with) tends to cloud that linkage.


Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick

I like Obote and UPC but I cannot forget the Stench at Kireka because of Human bodies!


In all honesty, Kireka barracks was a house of sadists who had no regard for another person’s life. This is not to vindicate the NRA or other rebel groups that were then operating in and around Kampala. Let’s not bury our heads in sand for what happened in the barracks was nasty. I moved from a house in Bweyogerere to mid Kampala because the people killed in Kireka Barracks were sending a very terrible stench towards Kireka Bweyogerere and surrounding places. It was massive.

Therefore, anybody standing today and state that the UPC government was not killing Ugandans then you need to question its ability to control its forces. I want you to ask anyone that lived from Nakawa all way to Mukono about the commander that was in Kireka barracks and his name was Otto. Don’t say my name just ask about his history. This man entered a shop in Kireka in day light and instructed his escorts to pull out a wife that was selling in the store, they pulled her out in day light as she was firkin screaming, and he took her into the barracks and screwed the brains out of her. He ended up killing the husband for he refused to shut up.

If you stood on Kireka Seventh Day Adventists Head Quarters after midnight, you would hear the screams of Ugandans getting murdered in Kireka barracks. These were very bad days man. And especially when a man like myself that was arrested and thrown into Makindye for months, yes the government was killing Ugandans. Do you actually know how many people that died in my face?
Why do you think I lost this attitude of one mwaana waffe? Why do you think I refused to belong to any political party in Uganda?

I cannot love a party to a point of lying……… We rather stand up and clean up but what happened in Uganda way passed a fuck up. And excuse my French sir. The government failed to show the population the difference between its self and Museveni, thus Ffe kasita twebaka Kutulio.

EDWARD MULINDWA
UAH member in Canada

Who is Col. John Ogole?


Colonel John Ogole was the officer of Uganda National Liberation Army [UNLA] WHO spearheaded the ejection of Kaguta and his rebel peasant army,from the bushes of Luwero between 1983/84.

Before taking Command of the then Mobile Brigade;he had completed successfully a counter-insurgency officers training at Fort Lavenworth Kansas United States . It is of no wonder that Colonel John Charles Ogole became a brilliant battle Tactician and chief Strategist during the peak battle against Kaguta and his NRA/M.

By 1984 Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had fled in panic and promptly sought asylum in the ”safe” sanctuary of Sweden as Colonel Ogole dispersed and unleashed superior fire power on what remained of Kagutas’ peasant army,many surrendered,some fled in great panic in the Rwenzori region of Western Uganda,some crossed into Zaire now renamed Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC. Actually , those who were fleeing to the DRC were mainly Rwandese of Tutsi descent. You should recall that many of them had been violently expelled from Ankole and so being uprooted from Luwero meant that they had to go some where else .

Zaire was the only natural choice because of its’ vast deep forests. Since they had hope to resume/continue their struggle against Habyarimana, that is when they moved towards Rwenzori mountains and had expected to cross through Fort Portal, Mitandi into Congo when lady luck struck. Instead they moved on into Kasese, Mbarara Katonga and eventually Kampala. Four years later, on October 1st, struck Mirima Hills/ Kagitumba and after a disastrous start in which they were completely annihilated, the remnants headed out again towards DRC settling in Virunga mountains were many of their comrades died of cold, hunger and diseases. It would again take them four years to bring the hutu regime in Kigali on their knees, thanks to Yower Kaguta Museveni pay back.

It is said that even former Zairean President Mobuto Sseko had contacted Obotes’ government to arrange for repatrations of the national resistence fighters through United nations Refugee Section but as fate would have it , the Okellos coup against Obote was staged on 27th July 1985 and a LIFE LINE was thrown to Kaguta .

When Museveni {aka Kacumita} got an early morning call in Sweden as he waited on his asylum application, that UNLA had overthrown itself, he could not believe his ears thinking that it was a joke. But no, it wasn’t. I can only bet that it still is news in his ears considering how he has had to stay in power for all these years using any means.
For someone who had lost all hope and then is handed power on a silver plate, relinquishing it, is going to be a huge problem.
Col John Ogole is now a grey haired retired man whose appearance and demeanor does not seem like the man NRA dreaded most lives in London , UK.

Greetings from Gisoro.
Turikumwe Ijana kwijana.

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Allow me to spice it a little, by1985 because of the causalities that UNLA had incurred, the divide between the Acholi and Langis officers and men widened so much that suspicion brewed up that it was on purpose to exterminate them,if you may recall this was the same time when long serving Lt. col. Otheino was Ambushed and killed in western Uganda on his way from Kasese exhasubeting the already bad relationship.

Who was Lt. Col Othieno?

Lt. col Otheino was the commanding officer in Mbarara between 1982 to 1985 i do remember that Cpt.Smith Opona Achac served under him,as you may recall Cpt. Smith was harrydly promoted to replace the late Brigadier David Oyite Ojok. This hurried promotion for a Langi to replace A fellow Langi did not go well with so many senior Acholi Officers who felt more experienced , it widened the already existing cracks much of it caused by massive pressure on UNLA locally and internationally, in the mean time a plan was hatched in 1985 to get rid of all the negative forces before the general elections, most top brass army officers and opposition politicians were to fall suit.

It’s alleged that the plan was to stage a fake military coupe by loyalist troops based in Nakasongola to temporarily overturn the Government of Obote as he toured the Eastern region with then minster of internal affairs Luwuliza Kirunda.
This failed coupe turned up to become the great uncoordinated movement of troops as code named by the Late VP Paul Muwanga, the rest is now history. Those of you with good memorry should recall by this time VP Muwanga and his boss were standing on opposite sides of the pond , he also reshuffled his escort detail replacing all the Langi officers with Acholis and people from other regions in fact there was a young Assistant inspector of police on his detail i wonder where he is today ,what of Makanya who almost looked like his boss.

In conclusion, yes NRA did suffer a blow when Katushas and helicopter gun ships were introduced in the battle field, NRA made a tactical withdraw to western Uganda Rwenzori Mountain ranges, UNLA made attempts to dislodge them from the hills but failed resulting in many UNLA Recruits recruited by then Cpt. Namiti being Mascared in hundreds. If the late Namiti was a live today he would be called to explain.

The push towards Kampala was UN stoppable as so many players had taken the stage in Kampala, this was followed by the great Nairobi peace Jokes.


joseph magandazi

joemagandazi@hotmail.com

1980 elections:on 9 December 1980, Mr Ssekono’s personal assistant was shot dead at his home in Makindye when he was invaded by 10 UNLA soldiers


It seems some UPC members think that the DP had legal channels of redressing their grievances after the rigging of the 1980 elections because there was a Mr Ssekono in the EC to manage their complaints, and that Mr Ssekono was the Chairman of the EC and therefore a powerful individual capable of neutralising the manoeuvres of P Muwanga and AM Obote. When Mr Mulindwa and Mr Ochieno of UPC assert that Mr Ssekono was the Chairman of the EC, they are lying…as usual.

Contrary to the piles they are feeding us on, Mr Ssekono was the Administrative Secretary – the big clerk of the commission. The chairman of the EC was the card-bearing UPC diehard Mr KMS Kikira who was strategically appointed into that position as part of the implementation of AM Obote’s plan titled “Proposals For strategy Before, During and After Elections”. AM Obote scripted this plan on 12 th August 1980: http://semuwemba.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/obote-strategy-for-1980-elections.pdf
Recall that, on December 12 1980, handed back authority to the EC to manage the election process…this meant only announcing the results. By that time, 3 out of 7 electoral commissioners had been hounded out of their offices and they had disappeared, leaving behind 4 UPC diehards, including Mr Kikira himself, SE Egweu, A Akera and Haji YB Birali. Mr Ssekono togehter with MB Matovu, A Tamale disappeared during the polling process. Mr Ssekono disappeared in fear for his life after receiving threats when he refused to succumb to Mr Muwanga’s pressures to be party to rigging.

According to Mr Ssekono himself, earlier on during the polls, he had been hurriedly summoned to Obote’s home at Kololo to meet AM Obote. AM Obote told him that if he, Ssekono, interfered with the UPC’s victory he would pay with his life. AM Obote told Mr Sekono that he and the UPC had fought against Amin and they therefore had to come to power at any cost. Mr Ssekono had to abandon the exercise and flee the country. Mr Muwanga took over the powers of the commission on Mr Kikira’s advice when it was realised that it would not be possible for the EC team to be unanimous on rigging.

Note that, the UPC were already weary of Mr Ssekono, and they had him in their sights. In fact, on 9 December 1980, Mr Ssekono’s personal assistant was shot dead at his home in Makindye when he was invaded by 10 UNLA soldiers. So, when some UPC members keeps referring to EC chairman MR Ssekono, do they really know what he is talking about or it is rigging as usual?
By virtue of Section 20 of the National Assembly (Elections) Act 1957 according to which the 1980 elections were conducted, every nomination required to be proposed, seconded and supported by at least 12 voters registered in the constituency. A voter is registered when his name is present on a register. There was no ammendment of the law by which that legal requirement was waived. Therefore, the declaration of the 8 West Nile constituencies as won by UPC “unopposed” was a case of a lame duck laying a putrid egg.

There was no registration of voters in the whole of Westile, i,e., the zone covered by the four Arua constituencies, the two Nebbi constituencies and the Moyo constituency that made up the 8 “unopposed” seats in West Nile. Because there were no registered voters in those 8 constituencies, there could possibly have never been any proposer, seconder or supporter of any nominee. Accordingly all nominations in Arua, Nebbi and Moyo were void ab initio.

Attached on the link below is a copy of the numerical summary of the national voters’ register produced by the EC. The number of registered voters in the 8 W/Nile constituencies is a loud blank.

http://semuwemba.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/voters-register-1980.pdf

So, who proposed, seconded and supported those 8 UPC candidates? When you make a mockery of the law so brazenly, then, no one will waste their time appealing to the courts. UPC was clearly spoiling for a fight.

Paulo Muwanga’s proclamation which was to form the legalistic cover for UPC’s fraudulent triumph in the 1980 elections. Attached is a transcript of that proclamation that subsequently became Legal Notice No 10 or “Moribund UPC’s Will”. Look closely at Article 3: that is the real substance of the intent for that legal notice.

http://semuwemba.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/muwanga-proclamation-8pm-11-dec-1980.pdf


Lance Corporal (Rtd) Otto Patrick

Snippets from History (Obote):”You just can’t come from London and say ‘I AM NOW PRESIDENT’.


Busoga College prefects including a young Milton Obote (second row, second from the left)

Busoga College prefects including a young Milton Obote (second row, second from the left)

A. Milton Obote, on the campaign trail upon return from Tanzania.

“You just can’t come from London and say ‘I AM NOW PRESIDENT’.

Lule wants to be Prezident! (pronouncitation stressed).
Binaisa wants to be Prezident!
Museveni wants to be President!
Who else? (laughter from crowd)
Ssemogerere wants to be President!
But if they don’t want to come and ask you for your votes, why should you allow them? The president of huganda’s role is spelt out in the constitution of huganda”

a young Milton Obote as one of the prefects at Busoga College, 1947

a young Milton Obote as one of the prefects at Busoga College, 1947


Billie Kadameri

Abu Mayanja has never been a cabinet or other minister in any Obote regimes


In this photo:Abubakar Mayanja (C), Badru Kakungulu (2R), K. Nakibinge (R).(Courtesy of the Daily Monitor)

In this photo:Abubakar Mayanja (C), Badru Kakungulu (2R), K. Nakibinge (R).(Courtesy of the Daily Monitor)

For record purposes, Abu Mayanja has never been a cabinet or other minister in any Obote regimes. Despite the fact that he was a founder UNC Secretary General in UNC, and a founder member of UPC in 1960 when he was a Kabaka’s minister for Education, he became an MP in 1964, and was one of the KY members crossed to UPC on orders of Sir Edward Muteesa, to fight Obote from within, was detained without trial for criticizing the regime in ”Transition” magazine, was appointed Labour and later Education Minister by Idi Amin until he was dropped in 1974, and was DP MP representing Mityana from 1980 to 1982 before he went into exile.

Abu never served Obote as minister, for Obote feared him too much. He later served as Legal Advisor to Interim NRM Chairman, Yoweri Museveni during Nairobi Peace talks, became Information Minister, Third Deputy Premier, Minister of Justice / Attorney General, until he was dropped in 1994. He was however a French Talleyrand who served almost all regimes of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Era and Post Napoleon.

Buganda has many enemies but the arch enemy is some of the Baganda’s autocratic rulers. They have not learnt a lesson for 1953 Kabaka’s crisis and 1966 Uganda Crisis.

The politics of Museveni-dynasty arguably started when term limits were dropped from the constitution. So, Ugandans just opening their eyes now because Tinyefunza has spoken as just that: a bit blind, sometimes!

AHMED KATEREGA

These leaders carried so much hope for their nations in 1960s but they let us down. And Obote wasn’t a fuckin nationalist!


These leaders carried so much hope for their nations in 1960s but they let us down

These leaders carried so much hope for their nations in 1960s but they let us down

These leaders carried so much hope for their nations in 1960s but they let us down, and that’s why Africa is having all these problems. In the photo, recognize Mwalimu Nyere,Milton Obote,Jomo Kenyatta,Haile sailasie. Behind between Kenyatta is Kaunda,one with A hat is Mobutu,near Haile Sailasie is Bokasa.

As for AM Obote your so called nationalist, his words in the Uganda Herald of 24th April 1952 might help you to show his true credentials. He, the ”nationalist”, was reacting to formation of the UNC. Here went AM Obote the your nationalist:

“I shall be highly obliged if you would allow me space….to express the feelings of young enlightened Semi-Hamites and Nilotes about some of the aims of the congress. Not long ago, Mr Fenner Brockway, MP came to Uganda and concentrated his activities in and around Kampala. He returned to England and gave his version of the “Unification of all tribes in Uganda”….his version is a direct negation of the established traditions of the Semi-Hamites and the Norsemen (Nilotes) and…we are worried about it. It will, therefore, be of great interest to us if the Uganda National Congress will point out exactly what they mean by the “Unification of all tribes in Uganda”….Co-operation with the government is also recommended but we Semi-Hamites and Norsemen of Uganda feel that the congress is aiming at “Self-Government in Uganda,” is hastening and thereby leaving us behind. Because of our present inability to aim so high….it must be pointed out to the congress here and now that with us [Semi-Hamites and Norsemen], the question of questions lies in education and rapid development of African Local Governments…..the height of folly [on Musaazi's part] is the apparent omission ….of a definite aim to the slogan of “immediate Local Sel-Government in Uganda”

Those are the words of AM Obote, the great nationalist, the father of the nation. As you can see, national self government was none of AM Obote’s business. His was African Local governments! To the Doctor, independence was IK Musaazi’s folly.

You will recall that on 3rd February 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made the declaration that, “The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”

By that time, colonial powers had settled for the fact that they had to let go of the colonies. With or without people like AM Obote, the decision had already been reached. But listen to the UPC claiming that Uganda may never have become independent without Mr Obote’s sacrifices!

UPC’s is like the opportunism of a house girl whose tenure as the yaya coincides with the growth phase of the baby when it starts standing. Such a clueless house girl then hollers on and on that if she had not sang the song, “Butengenene, omwana ayimilidde” the baby would never ever have stood!….es[ecially when the baby eventually turns out to be Obama.

Typical housegirlish opportunism is what makes them think that they had a part to play in Uganda’s reversion to the current pseudoliberalism.

OTTO PATRICK

Obote with late Indira Gandhi.His party was also called congress and Indira Gandhi gave him a lot of material support.


oboteasiansObote with late Indira Gandhi.His party was also called congress and Indira Gandhi gave him a lot of material support.In 1980,the party got a lot of textiles from indi which it used during the campaigns! The Uganda Asian problems was not an Indian problem.The Asians were brought to Uganda by the British through the aegis of the IBEA Company as coolies to work on the Railways. When they reached Uganda,these Asians saw themselves as British subjects.Infact most of them had cut off their relations with India.

Now after Independence,the workforce in Uganda was to be representative of the Ugandan population. The British-Asians like all non indigenous Ugandan African were asked to take up Ugandan citizenship.A good number of them did,others opted to remain British-Asians and held on to their British passports.

Mwalimu,Gandhi and Obote.this is the Singapore Conference, that DR. Milton Obotte attended, in 1971, when General Idi Amin took full advantage, and became the President of Uganda, and later after about a year threw all ASIANS out of Uganda, with a 90 day Notice

Mwalimu,Gandhi and Obote.this is the Singapore Conference, that DR. Milton Obotte attended, in 1971, when General Idi Amin took full advantage, and became the President of Uganda, and later after about a year threw all ASIANS out of Uganda, with a 90 day Notice

When the nationalization program started,that is when their orderly repatriation to other British commonwealth countries began.This was around 1968. However when Idi Amin came,he decided to have a precipititious exodus and caused a lot of problems for the British government.Infact the majority of those British-Asians from Uganda were resettled in Canada.They still proudly call themselves Ugandans.

As regards to Obote and Indira’ party having contacts,it is more based on the ideology of the two parties.So,you can see why UPC and Congress I in India remained friends.

Dr.Awor Kipenji

Paulo Muwanga was anti Buganda establishment and he ‘stole’ the 1980 elections. He may not have been anti Baganda.


That white beauty dancing with Obote is actually the late Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

That white beauty dancing with Obote is actually the late Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

I think we need to be a little inhibited in our attempts to whitewash the shortcomings of the UPC and its key operatives like Mr Muwanga. These chaps were wicked and they knew it! It becomes a problem when we go to all lengths to rehabilitate them, even to the point of economising the truth.

Paul Muwanga was anti Buganda establishment or at Mmengo. He may not have been anti Baganda. I think he was pro-Baganda who are only UPCs. One of his victims was his brother the late Kafuuma, who was working with Masaka Cooperative Union, who died in Masaka barracks, even when Muwanga was defence minister. His crime was refusal to join UPC.Muwanga was a killer. As Vice President and Defence Minister. Over a half a million people were killed in a state inspired violence in Luwero Triangle and West Nile . He sided with killers like Milton Obote and Bazilio Olara Okello.

Paula Muwanga was the only Uganda ’s Vice President who had a wide ranger of powers other than appointing and sacking ministers. He at one time said that he had powers of live and death. He released a detainee and ordered the killing of another to demonstrate those powers. Muwanga was very powerful. In Masaka there was a UPC Haji, Kateregga, who had been convicted of an offense by the Magistrate’s court. He jetted in , summoned the Chief Magistrate and the District Commissioner and ordered the release of Kateregga with immediate effect. Muwanga was powerful, very powerful, as Vice President and Defence Minister. It is due to Obote’s weakness that Muwanga, with the Okellos, undermined Obote and cause the 1985 Saturday July 27th coup having met Ssemogerere and Museveni in Germany early that byear.

On the clampdown that was contained in Mr Muwanga’s proclamation of PM Thursaday 11 December 1980,The fact is that, each returning officer was to communicate results only to Paulo Muwanga himself and to provide him with a confidential report on “various aspects” of the poll.the Chairman of the Electoral Commission was knocked out of the reporting channels.

Remember that, Paul Muwanga’s proclamation was retrospective, and it gave him the power to declare the poll in individual constituencies invalid, as happened in the case of Mugwiisa/Sebuliba, Nakendo/Mwonda, Katama/Kitariko and Luwuliza/Wangola. It is horrible to be banned from celebrating; but even worse to be told that what you celebrated yesterday was rubbish.muwanga

In the 90s, I remember reading the report of the observers and I think under para. 140, must have been page 31, it was indicated that Mr Muwanga’s justification for giving himself extraordinary powers was something to do with the alleged incompetence of Returning Officers. He claimed that the ROs performed incompetently on 10 December, by opening polling stations late, and failing in distribution of polling materials. He claimed that he was worried that if reporting of results was left in the hands of such incompetent individuals at a crucial stage of the conclusion of the count, there would be serious problems. Yet he was supposed to base his judgement on the confidential reports of the same incompetent Returning Officers!

The Common Man’s Charter – Luganda version


Ekiwandiiko The Common Man’s Charter

Akatabo ka The Common Man’s Charter, mu Luganda aba UPC kyebavvuunula nti Okununulibwa kw’omuntu owabulijjo, mu bufuunze kaali kefanaanyirizaako bwe kati:

Kaalimu obuwendo oba ebitundu ebyawuliddwamu 44 nga bikubiddwa ku mpapula 18. Ku lupapula olusooka munda, kwaliko ekifaananyi ky’Obote n’ennyanjula gyeyali awandiise ng’omukulembeze w’ekibiina. Ku lupapula olwokubiri, kwaliko enkola y’ekibiina kya UPC. Olwokuba nti ekibiina kino kye kyali mu buyinza, enkola eno yali eraga nga bwe kyali kyezizza enkiiko za disitulikiti, ez’ebibuga era n’enkolagana eyaliwo wakati w’ensi za East Africa. Wano nno mbu kye kyava kisalawo okuwagira Charter mbu olwo ebyagendererwa mu kwefuga biryoke bissibwe mu nkola nga tugoberera enkola eya Nnaakalyako-ani (Socialism).

Akawendo akokubiri, ku lupapula lwe lumu, Obote yannyonnyola nga UPC bwe kyali kigenda okumalawo okutya kwonna n’oluvannyuma wabeerewo obwenkanya, okwenkanankana, eddembe n’okwesiima eri abaana ba Uganda ab’omu mirembe egiribeerawo nga bayita mu kutambulira ku kkono.

Akawendo akokusatu, Obote yategeeza nga bwe bakkiririza mu nfuga eya Republic (awatali bwakabaka) era nga kino kyekyali ekinyusi mu kusalawo okutandika okutambulira ku kkono basobole okuziyiza omuntu yenna oba akabiina konna okusajjalaatira ku bantu abalala n’okubafuga bonna oba ekitundu ekimu ekya Uganda, nga bwe gwali mu mirembe ng’Obwakabaka bukyaliwo. Bo aba UPC baali baagala abantu ba Uganda be baba beramulira ebintu byabwe ebibakwatako!

Akawendo akokuna, Obote yategeeza nga ye n’ekibiina kye bwe besammulira ddala mu birowoozo ne mu bikolwa, Uganda oba ekintundu kyayo ekimu okubeera ettwale ly’omuntu omu; okusikira ebifo olw’obuzaale bw’omuntu nga bwe kiri mu b’olulyo olulangira; obwabifekeera oba obunyunyuunsi nabyo nga muziro! Abagwira okujja mu Uganda ne babeera n’ebintu byabwe ebikusike oba okugezaako okuwugula abantu b’ensi eno, ogwo nagwo nga muziro. Ebintu ebikolebwa okuvaamu amagoba agagenda okugasa abantu abatono nga nakyo muziro.

Akawendo akokutaano, Obote yategeeza nga UPC bwetakkiririza mu kitundu ekimu ekya Uganda okwesalako okuva ku Uganda oba yadde Uganda okweyawula ku nsi eziri mu mukago gw’obuvanyubwa bw’Africa (East African Community) okutwalira awamu.

Akawendo akomukaaga kaali kagamba nga bbo aba UPC okuviira ddala ku ntandikwa bwe baali bakkiririza mu buyinza bw’abantu (empowerment of the masses) era nga balagirwa nti buli kintu kyonna ekikolebwa mu Uganda kiba kirina kukolebwa ku lwa bulungi bw’abantu bonna era n’olw’ensonga eyo kye bava bakakasa bino wammanga:

i) Okuzimba Uganda ng’ensi emu erimu abantu bamu, olukiiko lumu ne gavumenti emu nga ya Republic;

ii) Okutaasa obwetwaze bwa Uganda n’okukuuma eddembe n’obutebenkevu wamu n’Entegeka y’obufuzi eya 1967;

iii) Okutereeza ekibiina kya UPC abantu bannansi basobole okubaako kye bakola ku ebyo ebikwata ku nsi yabooffe;

iv) Okulwanira ddala obutassa ngabo mu kugoba Obwavu, Obutamanya, Endwadde (Poverty, Ignorance and Disease) wamu n’obufuzi bw’amatwale obw’obumbula obutakubwa ku mukono n’okusosola okwa langi;

v) Okukulaakulanya eby’enfuna ya Uganda nga gavumenti yeyamba amakampuni gaayo, ebibiina eby’obwegassi, amakampuni g’abantu ge betandikira ku bwabwe, amakolero, abasuubuzi n’abalimi;

vi) Okutaasa buli muntu ali mu Uganda kasita abeeramu mu mateeka, awatali kusosola mu langi, eddiini oba olulyo lwe; asobole okweyagalira mu Uganda;

vii) Okukakasiza ddala nga tewaba muntu yenna munnayuganda aweebwa buyinza obukusike, oba embeera, oba ekitiibwa okusinziira ku buzaale bwe oba olulyo lwe mw’asibuka;

viii) Okulabira ddala nga mpaawo muntu ayinza kwekiika mu maaso g’emigaso gy’eggwanga, oba eddembe ly’omulala;

ix) Okuwagira ebibiina oba amawanga ebirina ebigenderwa oba ebiruubirirwa ebifaanana n’ebya UPC;

x) Okukolanga ebintu ebirala ebiringa ebyo UPC bye kigenderera okukola.

Akawendo akomusanvu kakkaatiriza nga Uganda bwe yamala edda okufuuka Republic okuva ku nfuga eya Federo era n’ey’ensikirano ey’obwakabaka. Obote yaggumiza ng’okulwanirira n’okukuuma obwetwaze bwe bitaali byakukoma, era ng’olutalo luno lwatandika nga 09/10/62. Yagamba nti olunaku olwo kyali kikyamu okulufuula kkome-kkome ng’ekkubo ly’e Bubebbere (end of the road) abantu webagabanira ebintu okusinziira ku ndowooza zaabwe.

Akawendo akomunaana kaali kanyweza ebigendererwa bya UPC okwewala enkola n’endowooza ey’obufuzi bw’amatwale n’okulekera awo okulowoolereza mu mawanga, okusuula ebbala endowooza y’okubeera n’ebintu ebikusike ebitakwatibwako.

Akawendo akomwenda, Obote yasojjasojja abafuzi ab’ensikirano mu lugezigezi bwe yagamba nti yali talaba nsonga yali ebobbesa bantu mitwe ng’ebiseera eby’okwefuga bisembera. Yagamba nti ebintu ebyayogerwangako ennyo nga bino:

a) Uganda bw’erimala okwefuga, tulifuna gavumenti ya ngeri ki?

b) Ani alibeera omutwe gw’eggwanga nga tumaze okwefuga?

Obote yagamba nti ebintu ebyo byazimbulukusibwa nnyo ne bituuka okulabika ng’ebikulu ennyo eri eggwanga. Wano Obote weyagambira nti amagezi ag’okuvvuunuka ebizibu ebyo bwe gaazuuka si ge gaali ag’okulongoosa embera y’omuntu owa bulijjo; naye olw’okuba ng’abo abaali abanyuunyuunsi (abafuzi ab’ensikirano) baali ng’abantu babalina mu ngalo, baalaba ng’okwefuga kyali kijja kuba kya kabi eri ebifo byabwe ebikusike. Awo nno mbu abafuzi bano kwe kusala amagezi ebifo byabwe babifuulire ddala eby’omugaso eri omuntu owa bulijjo, kwe kugamba nti ng’okwogera ku bifo byabwe ebyo nga kitegeeza kugendana n’omutindo gw’omuntu owa bulijjo. Obote mu kawendo kano yagamba nga bwe wataali kubuusabuusa nti ebifo by’abanyuunyuunsi bano byali bitangira omuntu owa bulijjo okwenyigira mu by’obufuzi bwa Uganda eyali yeefuga nga 09/10/62 kubanga abanyuunyuunsi (bakabaka) baayagala okwongera okufuga nga bwe baakolanga edda ng’Omungereza tannajja, ne bataagala omuntu owabulijjo okubaako ky’agamba mu kutereeza embeera ya Uganda eyeefuga. Kyokka kati embeera eyo mbu yali eggyiddwawo era ng’omuntu owabulijjo wa ddembe okwesalirawo ku mbeera ye n’atabeera muddu wa muntu munne. Abantu kati baddembe okwogera kaati kyonna ekibaluma kasita bakikola nga bayita mu mateeka g’ensi agatakolebwa mu nkiiko njawufu, wabula mu lukiiko olumu; National Assembly, abantu mwe balina eddoboozi erimu nga bayita mu babaka baabwe.

Akawendo akekkumi, Obote yagamba nga okufuulibwa kwa Uganda okuba Repabulika bwe kyali kigisembezza okumpi ne ggoolo ey’okwefuga okujjuvu era n’okwetakkuluza ku Bamwanawaani okuva mu 1966. Abantu abo bwe baali nga bakyali mu by’obufuzi n’eby’enfuna bya Uganda, kyali kizibu obutabafaako. Kisaana kimanyibwe nti abantu abalina enkola eya mwanawaani mu by’obufuzi n’eby’enfuna tebalema kusigala mabega mu bintu ebikwata ku nsi yaabwe n’ensi z’ebweru. Kati nno nga tumaze okuggyawo enkola eya mwanawaani mu by’obufuzi n’eby’enfuna tuteekwa okukola ebintu bibiri:

1. Okukkiriza ebifo ebyalimu bamwanawaani ab’edda okuddamu bamwanawaani abapya;

2. Okwewala okuleetawo bamwanawaani abapya abalina endowooza ya mwanawaani.

Akawendo akekkumi n’akamu; Obote yagamba nti okugoberera enkola ya Nnaakalyako ani kwe kutandikawo endowooza y’eby’obufuzi empya n’embeera empya etegeeza nti bannayuganda bonna awamu, ebintu ebikwata ku by’obulungi bwabwe ne ku ddoboozi lyabwe mu gavumenti y’eggwanga lyabwe ne ku bukiiko obulala obw’ebitundu nga byonna babitwala nga bikulu ddala. Enkola ya Nnaakalyako Ani ewakanya enkola eya Mwanawaani.

Akawendo akekkumi n’obubiri; Obote yajjukiza nga mu 1968 ekibiina kya UPC bwe kyayima mu lukiiko lwabwe ne kiyisa ekiteeso ekiggyawo enkola ezimba eggwanga erimu n’enkola ya Mwanawaani okusobola okussaawo enkola eya Repabulika. UPC kyasiima nnyo abakulembeze ba gavumenti olw’okutandikawo enkola empya eyali egenda okukyusa ku by’enfuna n’okuleetawo obwenkanya mu by’obufuzi n’embeera z’abantu ababulijjo. Ekibiina kya UPC kyasalawo abantu n’ebintu bissibwe ku mulimu gw’okuzimba eggwanga era ne kiragira olukiiko lwakyo olwa ttabamiruka (National Council) okwetegereza amakubo n’amagezi ag’okussa ebibiina byonna ebya gavumenti n’ebitali bya gavumenti okukolera awamu ne UPC mu kuzimba eggwanga.

Akawendo akekkumi n’obusatu; Obote yagamba nti baali bakimanyi bulungi nga bwe waaliwo abantu bangi abaali tebamanyi bulungi oba abaali bawubisibwawubisibwa ku mulimu gw’okuzimba eggwanga n’okutegeera obukulu bwagwo. Wano kwe kugamba nti kyali kibakakatako bbo ng’ekibiina okubuulirira abo abaali balimbibwalimbibwa n’okubatangaaza nga bwe kyali kisaanidde ebibiina byonna okukolera awamu n’abantu bonna mu kuweereza eggwanga.

Akawendo akekkumi n’obuna; Obote yagamba nti UPC bwe kiba ne kyekiteekateeka okukola olw’obulungi bw’abantu, kiba kitegeeza Abantu bamu, mu nsi emu, abalina gavumenti emu. Yagamba nti mu myaka omusanvu gye baali bamaze mu kwefuga UPC kyali kifubye nnyo okunnyonnyola nti omuntu okuba ow’ekika gundi, oba akawanga gundi, oba okwogera olulimi gundi, oba okusoma eddiini gundi, tekirina kye kimwongerako. Naye okuba munnayuganda kyo kirina kye kyongerera ddala ku muntu kubanga kimufunyisa byonna byateekwa okufuna n’asobola okukolera ab’ekika kye, akawanga ke, eddiini ye, ekitundu kye by’ateekwa okubakolera kasita biba nga tebiziyizibwa mateeka agayisibwa mu lukiiko lw’eggwanga.

Akawendo akekkumi n’obutaano; Obote yagamba nti mu myaka omusaavu bukya bannayuganda bafuna bwetwaze, UPC yali erabye nga bannayuganda bakwasi b’amateeka era abantu abaagala ennyo abantu b’omu maka gaabwe n’emiriraano ne Uganda yonna awamu okubaamu eddembe. Yayongera n’agamba nti bannayuganda era baali bategeera bulungi nga bwe kyali kisaanidde okugaziya eby’enfuna n’okusitula omulembe ogw’omuntu owabulijjo. Baali beegomba nnyo okusitula embeera z’obulamu bwabwe nga beetabira mu bibiina bya gavumenti era nga babirinamu eddoboozi erimala. Kyokka UPC yali erabyewo akabi akaali mu kirungi ekyo; ab’amawanga ag’ebweru okutulondera abakulembeze n’okweyingiza mu by’obufuzi bwa Uganda ng’ekigendererwa kwe kufunyisa amawanga gaabwe ebirungi kyokka nga beeyambisa bannayuganda okutuuka ku bye baagala. Tekyali mu nkola ya Uganda okugumiikiriza empisa ey’okwonoona ebirowoozo by’abantu n’okubaterebula mu byetaago byabwe.

Akawendo akekkumi nomukaaga; Obote yagamba nti UPC kati kyali kiraba ng’ekimu ku bintu Uganda bye yali eyolekedde okulowoozaako nga bye biseera by’abavubuka eby’omu maaso. Kino okusobola okukifumiitiriza obulungi, omuntu yali asaana okutunuulira omuwendo gw’abavubuka abali mu Yunivasite, amasomero ga ssekendule, aga pulayimale ne mu matendekero agatali gamu kyokka okwo ng’abaana abatudde obutuuzi eka tobagasseeko. Mukutunuulira emiwendo gy’abaana abo omuntu yali asobola okumanya ng’abo be bannayuganda abateekebwateekebwa okwetikka obuvunaanyizibwa obw’okwongera okunyweza obwetwaze bwaffe n’okuggula amakubo amalala agalituusa bannayuganda ku kwefuga kwennyini mu by’enfuna n’embeera z’abantu.

Akawendo akekkumi nomusaanvu; Obote yagamba nti singa abavubuka batendekebwa kukolera mu gavumenti za buwanga bwabwe zokka (wano yali akoona Bwakabaka – Omuwandiisi) e mu nkiiko zaabwe mu mpisa zaabwe; ng’ebintu ebyo byeyambisibwa okwesalaasalamu obutundu n’ebibiina; olwo UPC yandibadde terina ky’eyambye ku mulimu gw’okukyusa Africa era n’abavubuka abo bandibadde tebaweereddwa ekyo ekibagwanira okutunuulira Uganda yonna mu kifo ky’okulowoolereza mu katundu akamu kokka. Uganda yali teyinza kukolera bavubuka baayo ttima lyenkana awo.

Akawendo akekkumi nomunaana; Obote yagamba nti UPC teyalina kulowooza ku bavubuka bokka, naye n’abakulu nabo baali ba muwendo ng’abavubuka. Yagamba nti abakadde n’abajenjebu nabo baali batekwa okulowoozebwako kubanga obuwanga (tribe) bwabwe bwokka ku bwabwo bwali tebukyasobola kubawa byetaago byabwe eby’omulembe guno oba n’okukuuma obulamu bwabwe n’ebintu byabwe oba okubayisa ng’abantu mu nsi yaabwe eyeefuga.

Akawendo akekkumi nomwenda; Obote yagamba nti akiddamu lunye nti olutalo lw’okwefuga terwalwanibwa kawanga kamu era terwali lwa bantu ba ddiini emu. Yagamba nti abafuzi Abangereza baawulira enduulu nga ziva mu nsonda za Uganda zonna. Olutalo terwalwanibwa okuzza ebitundu bya Uganda ebimu mu nnyombo z’obuwanga ez’edda (kirabika wano yali akoona Buganda ku masaza g’e Buyaga ne Bugangaizi – Omuwandiisi) ne mu butatabagana era n’entalo, wabula lwalwanibwa okuleetawo embeera empya abantu ba Uganda bonna mwe bali obumu, mu nsi emu era n’okweddiza ekitiibwa kyabwe bayisibwenga ng’abantu.

Akawendo akaabiri; Obote yagamba nti kyali kimanyiddwa bulungi nti Uganda yali nsi ekyakul era nti mu kukkiriza entegeka ey’enkola ya Nnaakalyako Ani UPC yali esoose kwetegereza nnyo ebintu nga bwe byali mu kiseera ekyo. Yagamba nti emyaka enkaaga mu omwenda (1894 – 1962) egy’enfuga y’abazungu bannayuganda gye baamala nga bayigirizibwa okumanya era n’okunywereza ddala enkola y’ekingereza gyali giviiriddemu abantu baffe okukulira mu ndowooza eyo era nga n’ebikolebwa bikolebwa mu ngeri eyo. Ebintu ebyaleetebwa Abangereza mu bbanga ery’obukuumi bwa Bungereza (British Protectorate), bannayuganda baabitwala nga byebisingira ddala obulungi mu kukulaakulanya eby’obugagga bwaffe ne mu nkolagana n’abantu. Bwe kityo ne kibeera nti mu bufuge ne mu kwefuga abantu baasigala mu mbeera y’obulamu eyaleetebwa abagwira. (Bannange kambuuze, olwo lwaki Obote yali takkiriza Buganda okwetakkuluza ku nfuga ey’ekipooli eyaleetebwa Abangereza? – Muwandiisi)

Akawendo akaabiri mu akamu; Obote yagamba nti UPC yali teyinza kukkiriza mawanga abiri okukulaakulanira mu Uganda; kwe kugamba erimu nga ggagga, liyigirize, ly’Afrika mu ndabika naye nga mu ndowooza ggwira (wano yali ategeeza Baganda – Omuwandiisi); ate eddala nga lye lirimu n’abantu abasingira ddala obungi kyokka lyo nga lyavu era n’okusoma nga terisomyeko. Yagamba nti bo aba UPC baali tebalowooza nti byonna eby’obuwangwa bwaffe obw’eky’Afrika kati bikkirizibwa ng’ebigoberera enkola ya Nnaakalyako Ani (wano yali ku bwakabaka n’empisa z’Abaganda); gamba UPC tekkiriza nti abakulembeze b’obuwanga bandibadde n’ebbeetu okukozesa abantu b’obuwanga obwo byonna bye baagala olw’obulungi bwabwe bo ng’abakulembeze. Obote yayongera okugamba nti mu ngeri y’emu baali tebakkiriza ng’enkola eya Mwanawaani (obwami n’obulangira – omuwandiisi) newandibadde nga enkola eno yali ebadde mu Uganda n’emu Afrika okumala emyaka mingi nnyo yali esaana esigale bwetyo. (Wano Obote yeerabira nti buli ggwanga n’ebyalyo. Ova otya e Lango gye basuusuuta akalo n’ojja e Buganda okubagamba nga amatooke bwe gataliimu? – omuwandiisi). Obote wano kwe kugamba nti Uganda yalina okulondawo ekimu ku bibiri: okusigala ku nkola eyasangibwawo ng’abafuzi b’amatwale bazze era netuyigirizibwa okugoberera eby’abagwira ebitalina musingi gutegeerekeka; oba okugoberera entegeka eya Nnaakalyako Ani egendera ku bintu nga bwe biri mu nsi yaffe. Bbo nga UPC baali basazeewo okugoberera enkola eya Nnaakalyako Ani.

Akawendo akaabiri mu obubiri; Obote yagamba nti bbo aba UPC baali tebakkiriza ekigambo ky’okubaawo akabinja akasoolooba ku balala era n’akabinja ako okukozesa obuyinza bwa Mwanawaani. Obote ne banne era baali bakkiriza nti okuva okuva mu byafaayo byaffe, si ntegeka ya bya njigiriza yaffe yokka ye yagoberera omusingi ogwaliwo nga tetunneefuga naye n’eby’obusuubuzi, n’amakolero n’abantu bennyini abaali mu gavumenti oba ebweru waayo; byonna byagenda biteekawo enjawulo wakati w’abaggagga n’abantu abalala abasinga obungi. Enkola ya Nnaakalyako Ani ye yokka eyali egenda okumalawo enjawulo eyo.

Akawendo akaabiri mu obusatu; Obote yagamba nti baali balabawo engeri bbiri eziyinza okuyamba n’okukuza ekitundu ky’abantu abamu ne baba n’enkizo ku balala:

1. Entegeka y’eby’enjigiriza egenderera okuteekawo abantu abalowooza nti olw’obuyigirize bwabwe bo be bafuga abo abatali bayigirize era n’okubalowoozaako ng’abaweereza baabwe.

2. Abayigirize, ate nga be batono, be basinga okuba n’emikisa egy’okufuna emirimu egy’okwekozesa bokka mu by’obusuubuzi n’eby’amakolero era n’okuweebwa emirimu mu gavumenti n’awalala. Kyokka abantu bano mu kifo ky’okukola kyonna ekisoboka okuyamba abo abataayigirizibwa okusobola okubenkana, badda mu kuyamba ba ηηaanda zaabwe. Enkola eno eviiramu ddala obuteesigwa mu by’emirimu era n’okukozesa obubi obuvunaanyizibwa.

Akawendo akaabiri mu obuna; Obote yagamba nti munnayuganda owabulijjo okukula kw’ensi yali akulowooleza mu kweyongera kufuna nsimbi mu nsawo ye. Ssente ezo ayinza okuba nga yali aziggya mu bibye bye yeekolera oba mu kukozesebwa. Wabula omuntu owabulijjo ky’asinga okulowoozaako ng’ekikulu ye gavumenti okumuteerawo ebintu eby’obwereere ensimbi ze zireme okugenda kw’ebyo bye yeetaga mu bulamu bwe naye zidde mu nsawo ye asobole okwekolera ebibye by’ayagala. Akabi akali mu kino kali nti omuntu oyo yeerabira nti mu kukulaakulanya ensi, gavumenti eba erina ebintu ebirala bisatu by’eteekwa okufaako era nga bye bino:

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