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Presidents Statement On Buliisa Conflict
2007-09-06
By ppuSome few weeks ago, the Commander of the Field Artillery Division in Masindi, Colonel Fred Mugisha, sent me a message on the military radio saying that there were cattle-keepers in Buliisa who were misbehaving and disturbing the indigenous Bagungu of Buliisa. He said they were misbehaving by allowing their cattle to trample on the Bagungu’s crops (kwonesa) and, sometimes, beating the Bagungu. That same night I spoke to Colonel Mugisha on phone in order to get details. I asked him why the civilian authorities in Masindi were not taking action. As you know, since 1997, the authority in Uganda was decentralized: Veterinary, Agriculture, Education, Land matters, etc., are all handled at the district levels. Somebody cannot, for instance, acquire land for agriculture or ranching unless he gets it from the District Land Board. ..more
President Meets Kamuli District Leadership
2007-03-24
By ppuPresident Yoweri Museveni has told leaders in Kamuli district to always avoid tendencies that could jeopardize the unity of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). The over 70 member delegation was led by the Minister of State for Regional Affairs Mr. Isaac Musumba. The President hosted them at State House, Nakasero last week. President Museveni and the Kamuli district delegation discussed ways of consolidating the unity of NRM in the area. He told them that as leaders they should champion issues that build the Movement ..more
“Conserve the environment” – Mrs. Museveni
2007-03-27
By ppuThe wife of the President Mrs. Janet Museveni has called upon all Ugandans to join hands and work to bring about a good environment and in order to make the country very habitable. She was speaking today at Entebbe Mayor’s gardens in Wakiso district shortly after officiating at a tree planting campaign held at Kitubulu along the Kampala – Entebbe highway. The function is a follow up of her recent campaign to beautify the Entebbe - Kampala corridor. ..more
1st Lady Makes A Community Mobilization Tour
2007-02-26
By ppuThe wife of the President, Mrs. Janet Museveni who is also the member of parliament for Ruhaama in Ntungamo district, yesterday made a community mobilization tour in Ruhaama constituency. The tour which aimed at mobilizing communities to engage in modern agricultural practices as a way of over coming household poverty took Mrs. Museveni to the Ntungamo Town council sub-county and Nyakyera sub-county in Ruhaama ..more
How To Accelerate The Transformation of Uganda
2007-01-06
By ppuHon. Members of the Movement Caucus
HOW TO ACCELERATE THE TRANSFORMATION OF UGANDA FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST WORLD DURING THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OF NRM LEADERSHIP
When we launched the 2nd phase of the revolutionary armed struggle in 1981, on the 6th of February, we had only 27 guns. We were facing an Army of 40,000 rifles, initially supported by the remaining elements of the Tanzanian Peoples’ Defence Forces (TPDF) Expeditionary Force of 11,000 with APCs, Tanks, etc. ..more
Blame loadshedding on FDC, foreigners and drought
2006-02-15
By ppuAs you all can see, there is an acute power-shortage in Uganda. The whole modern sector of Uganda is suffering: factories, hotels, offices, homesteads, butcheries, etc. Those who are able are forced to buy standby generators which increase their costs of production and, therefore, undermine the competitiveness of our businesses in the international markets. What is most annoying is that all this was not necessary or unavoidable. I predicted all this, foresaw it and planned for avoiding it. ..more
“Support Movement and Museveni” – First Lady
2006-02-02
By ppuThe wife of the President, Mrs. Janet Museveni who is also the NRM Parliamentary candidate for Ruhaama County in Ntungamo district has hailed the people of the area for showing a lot of support to President Museveni and the NRM government. Addressing thousands of Movement supporters in Rukoni in Itojo sub-county early this week, Mrs. Museveni said the support of the people of Ruhaama to NRM is justified because the Movement has caused tremendous changes and development of Uganda. She said that the Movement government brought about peace, unity and fought sectarianism in the country, among others. ..more
How can FDC say I bribed judges?
2006-01-17
By ppuI have read the blatant lies contained in a letter written by the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and its leaders Winnie Byanyima and Jack Sabiiti to the Chief Justice. The letter was published in New Vision and The Monitor on December 31, 2005 and it alleges that I, through the Chief of Military Intelligence, bribed Justice Remy Kasule of the High Court and Deputy Chief Justice, Leticia Kikonyogo. The lies and concoctions are not new. For long, the opposition and especially the FDC have engaged in a desperate and futile bid to tarnish the image of the Movement Government and its leaders. ..more
LET THEM GO – MUBALEKE BAGENDE
2005-07-26
By ppuDear Countrymen and women, This is a summary of my statement on the Referendum that is due on the 28th of July 2005. As we prepare to hold the referendum, it is important that we appreciate the history of our country. Long before colonialism, our communities had evolved a very sophisticated civilization in terms of language, culture and governance. The only great weakness of our traditional rulers was their inability to get together to confront the foreign invaders ..more
1st Lady commissions Mutungo MFI
2005-07-13
By ppuThe wife of the President, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has appealed to women in particular and Ugandans in general to utilise the much available natural resource and work hard to eradicate poverty from their families. Mrs. Museveni was speaking at Lweza in Makindye Sabagabo, Wakiso district this afternoon where she launched a women micro-finance organisation. The organisation known as Mutungo Micro-cash Uganda Limited has over 600 members from 7 women groups in Makindye Sabagabo. ..more
1st Lady visits Entebbe Municipality
2005-06-28
By ppuMrs. Janet Museveni, wife of the President has launched a tree-planting exercise that is geared at the betterment of the Entebbe-Kampala corridor environment as a way of promoting tourism and also to enhance poverty eradication. The ceremony took place today in Entebbe Municipality, Wakiso district. She said that all people in Entebbe in particular and Uganda in general should join hands to make the Entebbe-Kampala corridor clean because it is the gateway to the country. ..more
1st Lady meets Indian envoy
2005-05-13
By ppuMrs Janet Museveni, wife of the President, today held a meeting with the news Indian High Commissioner to Uganda, Mr. Sibabrata Tripathi who called on her at State House, Nakasero. Mrs. Museveni and his guest deliberated on the need to strengthen co-operation and share experience in projects and programs in the two countries, especially those that are rural based. ..more
1st Lady receives Bangladesh envoy
2005-05-13
By ppuThe wife of the President, Mrs. Janet Museveni, today received and held a meeting with the new Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Uganda, Major General Syeed Ahmed. The meeting took place this morning at State House, Nakasero. Mrs. Museveni and the envoy discussed ways of strengthening co-operation and sharing experience between the NGOs in the two countries that are devoted to fighting poverty in rural area. ..more
Is it true that there is “a threat to Africa’s success story?”
2005-05-11
By ppuI have felt called upon to say something about this “threat to Africa’s success story” as a member of my family since President Museveni happens to be out of town touring rural Uganda. I believe that this attempt to bring bad light to the President’s reputation is not just wrong; it is a real insult to the whole of our family, to say the least. Mr. Carson, the former Ambassador of the USA to Uganda, was, of course, known to both of us and he was somebody we both had respect for while he served and lived here in Uganda. ..more
Bush wisdom not for Muntu alone
2005-02-28
By Ofwono OpondoUGANDA’s politics is becoming more dishonest, unsophisticated lies by the day and politicians must be wondering why they are believed as they tell bold lies each passing day.
Now NRM ‘bush wisdom,’ appears to exclusively belong to Maj Gen (rtd) Mugisha Muntu, who is spending his energy in angry outbursts claiming the “refusal, or failure,” by President Yoweri Museveni to state his stand in 2006 has created “apathy, uncertainty and decline in investor confidence,” in Uganda. ..more
Below please find a FEDERO Statement for you to publish:
2004-09-10
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.1.0 As the country is aware, Government has published the road map to take us to 2006. Cabinet will soon present to Parliament a White Paper and a comprehensive Bill regarding the thinking of the Movement administration about desirable changes in our 1995 Constitution.
1.1 As part of the process of constitution review Government has been negotiating with the Kingdoms of Uganda. Consensus has been reached on most points that were under discussion. The Mengo leaders, however, have made further progress difficult. I find it necessary now to inform the country about this development. ..more
Politics of mergers…1
2004-08-11
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.AUTHOR William Hazlitt wrote in a little book, The Character of Mr. Fox, 1807 that where “the love of power is the ruling passion, principles will be sacrificed at every turn, and is inconsistent with its shadow.” And since the only people who can talk point blank at politicians other than journalists, are other politicians, it is time we face down those trying to run away from past responsibilities in the hope they will re-brand themselves. Only three months ago, former NPC and deputy premier Eriya Kategaya was widely quoted in the media alleging that if President Yoweri Museveni stood for the 2006 elections, the Banyankole would suffer political retribution. ..more
MENGO federo seeking to fuse monarchism with democratic political power ought to read Germany history of 1870.
2004-08-04
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.In that year, the Vatican Council proclaimed the dogma of Papal infallibility which declared that when the Pope, in discharge of his office, states a doctrine in regard to faith and morals, he is infallible, and does not require Church consent. However, a minority of Catholics in Germany refused to accept the new doctrine, whereupon the Bishops excommunicated them and tried to remove similar minded university professors and school teachers from their posts. But Prince Otto von Bismarck rejected the dismissals, and instead stopped religious inspection of schools. He then forced religious colleges to accept examinations set by the state, and also made civil marriages legal thus reducing the extent to which the church could control the family. This has remained the world practice to-date!
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YOUR editorial “Do not dismiss the old guards off hand,” and lead story “You cannot kick out Bidandi-Kigongo,” (July 27)
2004-07-28
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.YOUR editorial “Do not dismiss the old guards off hand,” and lead story “You cannot kick out Bidandi-Kigongo,” (July 27) were attempts to absolve Mr. Bidandi Ssali from his false allegations that he is being sidelined in the NRM organization, by President Yoweri Museveni. Firstly, as by law, Museveni is not yet a registered member, let alone office bearer in the NRM organization and therefore cannot “sideline,” anybody. As NRM interim chairman Alhaji Kigongo has said, all is normal and smooth in the organization, and when the constitution is amended to allow fully blown multiparty politics, Ugandans will be treated to what is in stock. ..more
IT is politically refreshing to hear from the Katikiro,
2004-07-21
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.IT is politically refreshing to hear from the Katikiro, Joseph Ssemwogere that Buganda is “ready,” for negotiations with the central government over federalism and other matters, they consider not yet resolved. We hope the Katikiro as the Kamala byoona will restrain the federo fanatics from insulting others, and prepare them for any outcome from the debate, although “a fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won’t change the subject!”
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Powers…1
2004-06-15
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.THE recent tongue-lashing in the media between the IGG Jotham Tumwesigye, and Solicitor General (SG), Lucian Tibaruha over operational supremacy calls for deeper reflections. And, President Yoweri Museveni, and Justice Minister Janet Mukwaya’s intervention, although intended to calm the waters was deliberately misrepresented by various parties, the media inclusive. But most worrying and to keep watch on is the fact that it is spreading in public administration as seen from the tongue waging among MPs, between MPs and the executive, and even in the judiciary. ..more
NRM revolution…1
2004-06-02
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.NEXT Wednesday, June 9th, 2004, will be the official heroes day, declared so, to commemorate the sacrifices of many people towards the present phase of the liberation of Uganda. On that day, Edidian Mukiibi Luttamaguzi was brutally murdered by the primitive hands of Milton Obote’s regime and UPC party functionaries. And, his proverbial Luganda name, “Luttamaguzi,” which loosely translated means “brotherhood kills business,” may, aptly apply to struggles, including the NRM! ..more
DR Joe Oloka Onyango of Makerere Law School, and other political critics
2004-05-19
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.DR Joe Oloka Onyango of Makerere Law School, and other political critics have invested a lot of energy in the media trying to spread half ideological, political, and even legal truths about the current democratization debate. Their pre-occupation is to portray the Movement leadership as obstructionist or manipulators of constitutional procedures merely to secure crude, corrupt and absolute power retention for President Yoweri Museveni. Every lawyer is now a constitutional expert but American author Henry David Thoreau’s warned in 1849, “The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” ..more
Pulkol outburst…1
2004-05-05
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.THE refusal, so far by President Yoweri Museveni to state his political position post May 2006, has given some people a blind notion that they can roll him, and the Movement down the drainage. See, in 1954, the US Supreme court in Brown vs. Topeka ordered the integration of white and Negro children in public schools with speed. But, Arkansas state governor, a red neck, Orval Faubus defied that order. I instead, Faubus called out his Arkansas national guards to prevent the entry of Negro children into Central High school in Arkansas.
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Ofwono-Opondo’s “Talking points,” on the topic; Challenges of managing the politics of transition in Uganda
2004-07-17
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.Origin and basis of the Movement:
The Movement is a mass liberation system (organization) whose strategic objective is transformation of Uganda from a backward-pre-industrial to a stable, democratic, peaceful and modern society based on the rule of law. The Movement arose as a direct and immediate answer to state inspired fascism and dictatorship of the past particularly presided over by Idi Amin and UPC under Milton Obote as agents of neo-colonialism.
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Judiciary…1
2004-06-29
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.THE frenzy caused by last week’s constitutional court nullification of the Referendum Act 2000, and its results is un-called for, especially, when the same petitioners, Paul Ssemogerere and group had earlier won similar decisions. After-all, in the earlier three cases, the petitioners claimed that the Movement system had vanished, a political vacuum existed, parties were free to operate at will, and that, they had dismantled the “dictatorship,” for good. ..more
General. Mugisha Muntu…1
2004-09-07
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.FORMER Russian president Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin used to say that even a great fire eventually burns out. Only time will tell how long former senior officials turned critics, like Maj. Gen. (rtd) Mugisha Muntu and ESO’s David Pulkol will burn on. Muntu, a former UPDF Army Commander (AC) for ten years, and so far the longest serving, is now the strong flag bearer of the re-branded Reform Agenda, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). In the quest to built political carrier outside the military, Muntu seems to have joined the long list of those rising through calculated half-truths. Only last week, Pulkol tried to put a political twist to the arrest of the estranged UPDF Lt. Charles Koryang claiming he was the target. Yet records show, and Pulkol knows that Koryang was never officially attached to him but used tribal connection to get the officer as his ADC until the rules caught up them. Pulkol knows that his wife cannot be entitled to a UPDF Lieutenant for a driver, even if we were to accept that Koryang was seconded to him. This is a clear indication of abuse of facilities attached to him! ..more
Response to Kakande…1
2004-08-30
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.MR. John Kakande’s column “NRM elections not democratic,” (New Vision August 30,04,” at page 10, contained deliberate and obvious distortions.The NRM organization takes his assertions seriously and hereby states that it has no deliberate intention to flout its constitution, the Political Parties and Organisations Act 2002 (PPOA), and the Uganda constitution.
Kakande raised a number of issues, which I, would like to respond to as follows: Firstly, the NRM organization has not elected any office bearers, but took political advantage and assumed election structures some of its leaders and supporters used previously to form the nucleus of “The promoters.”
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Ofwono-Opondo Nec…1
2004-03-25
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.Acting as both shield and spear, the movement’s broad based principle, where individual merit and consensus building is key, it has been to maintain stability in this very difficult country.By the time you read this article, The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Movement political system would be winding its three-day intensive discussion on the political future of Uganda. The political borderline would have been drawn between opponents and friends and a setline in the sand. ..more
A Coram of seven Supreme Court judges: News 1
2004-02-11
By Offono Opondo, Director Information, Movt Sec.a Coram of seven Supreme Court judges unanimously ruled in favour of DP leader Paul Ssemogerere and others that the Constitutional (amendment) Act 13 of 2000 was null and void. According to them in a lead judgment written by Justice George Kanyeihamba the Act was invalidly passed because parliament failed or ignored to comply with specific procedures laid down for amending certain provisions of the constitution. The petitioners were also awarded costs.
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