Uganda Release Bond for a FDC Member today (22.10.2015)

Muhamad Ssegirinya Bond Paper 22.10. FDC Member

He was one of the Youth that was adressing the digitalization and still most people having old equipment. So it wouldn’t be for the people. That is why he got jailed. And finally he got released. What a journey and for so long since it happen! This is the justice of the Uganda law system for the moment. Peace! 

EALS/UG/10/15 – Re: Call on Your Excellency to Reign in State Sanctioned Police Brutality that is stiffling the enjoyment of Democratic Rights and Freedoms in Uganda (22.10.2015)

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Reports on the FDC Mobilization rallies in the Eastern Uganda today

FDC Mobilization 21.10.15 Bugiri

Today the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) had planned to have rallies in Bugiri and Tororo. They would also head to Malaba if everything would go after plan. And prepare for the rallies tomorrow.

“We must recognise that us the politicians have been turned into fugitives in our own country and you the ordinary people refugees. We know it and so we must reclaim our dignity. To reclaim our dignity from the oppressor, we must defy him and not comply with the dictator.” – Dr. Kizza Besigye

A thing that the Party also did before travelling to the East they dropped off or filed a case at the High Court against the Electoral Commission and the Attorney General, where the Party is represented by the Senior Council Rwafuzi. The High Court will not hear or listen to the petition made the party on regards to the actions of the Police in the Western Uganda.

Road Block from Police

On the road to Bugiri the Police had again set up metal trenches or teeth to stop cars on the road. Like the Police trashed the cars on the road to Rukungiri on the 10th of October. They had set it up at Nakalama this morning. It was good that the FDC convoy made it through today.

Police in Bugiri 21.10.15

The FDC was to open their Mobilization office in Bugiri town at 11 AM and also meet the locals. Police was around in town, actually in big trucks and heavy weaponry. Supporters and friends of the party attending the opening the venue, but the police was also a part of the opening even though they was not invited. It was open with Dr. Kizza Besigye and Hon. Nandala Mafabi. Also at the venue was Hon. Wafula Ogutu who organized the journey.

FDC in Bugiri 21.10.15

At 3 PM the FDC continued in Tororo and had a massive rally in town. Where the FDC was planned to open the District Office today, the FDC had a convoy into town. Even Hon. Nandala Mafabi was walking in front together with the police in to town. The public really showed up some party members saying up that hundreds had showed up to lift up the event. It occurred at the Children’s Park. After what it seems and reports there has been a uplifting event and positivity not a town sieged by the Police, people harassed or tear-gassed. Congratulations to the UPF and the local DPC, also in general the Police for acting civilian in Tororo. About time! They we’re only allowed to be in town for an hour! They let them in after opening the roadblocks into town.

Nandala Mafabi walking into Tororo 21.10.15

But not all police in the country was like this. On the road from Tororo to Malaba Dr. Kizza Besigye was stopped and wanted to pull him out of his car. The Police didn’t pull him out, because he didn’t comply too and the good thing that it didn’t happen. The Police had set up a road block as they had done in other roads today. The other was there was Hon. Nandala Mafabi, Wafula Ogutu, Godfrey Ekanya, Nasser Mudibole, Wanaha Kevinha and Sadiq Amin. So there was a lot of witnesses at the ground and at the road block.

On the road for more rallies and in Iganga where the local people wanted to show appreciation for the FDC Flag-bearer while driving through on the road to Kampala. The Police have actually thrown tear-gas into the public who was passing by and watching the FDC convey! This was about an hour ago!

Uganda Police 21.10.15

So the Police actually had the ability to act a bit civilized today. This is the even if the police did block the towns that were already mentioned in the writings from the party and it’s the flag-bearer. So the public knew about the planned and times at the venues in both Bugiri and Tororo. They showed heart and stopped. Even took part of the Bugiri opening in the Mobilization office there. As they also stopped the convoy into the Tororo and Nandala Mafabi walked in-front of the convoy into town today together with the Police and the local public. There will be more security checkpoints from the Police in the next days. Hope that the incident in Iganga doesn’t become the norm as they have been in recent weeks and months. There been enough harassment and issues from the Police towards the opposition parties and even in the NRM primaries that isn’t looking good.  We can hope that the Police might have some sense and show the public the right to mobilize for somebody else the Mzee and his loyal cronies in the NRM. Peace!

FDC informs on the Public Rallies in the Eastern Uganda in Bugiri and Tororo tomorrow

FDC Mobilisation Program

I wish to inform Ugandans and all democratic forces that our planned political mobilization activities in Eastern Uganda start today.

We will hold a rally in Bugiri town, Taxi Park at 11am and thereafter head to Tororo to address a rally at Children’s Park at 3pm.

As a registered political party, FDC is legally mandated to mobilise without restrictions. Therefore, in line with our party elections road map, we commit to move to Eastern Uganda to recruit, mobilize, interact and galvanise our supporters to regain their power and invoke their self belief to pursue and achieve our goal of political change.

I urge the security agencies to cooperate with us by shifting away from being hostile, confrontational, militant and aggressive towards the opposition to a professional force as enshrined in our constitution.

Kizza Besigye.
FDC Presidential Flag Bearer

Uganda – TIC letter: Urgent Call for National Dialogue before 2016 General Election (20.10.2015)

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Bank of Uganda’s Monetary Policy Statement for October 2015 (20.10.2015)

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Press Release: USAID Partnership cuts Maternal Mortality in half in target facilities (19.10.2015)

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MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners released a new report today showing an almost 50 percent reduction in maternal deaths in target facilities in Uganda and Zambia. Equally as unprecedented as the reductions in mortality, these results were achieved in just two and a half years.

The Saving Mothers, Giving Life Mid-Initiative report, released at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Mexico City, demonstrates the impact of a public-private partnership led by the U.S. government that includes the Ugandan and Zambian governments, Merck for Mothers, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Every Mother Counts, and Project C.U.R.E.

The results of the report include dramatic progress in just the first half of the initiative:

Maternal mortality fell by 53 percent in target facilities in Zambia and by 45 percent in Uganda.
Zambia saw an 81 percent increase in the number of women receiving treatment to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS to their infants.The number of women giving birth in a facility rose by 30 percent in Uganda and by 43 percent in Zambia. A 29% and 37% decline in perinatal mortality and stillbirths in Zambia, respectively.
Saving Mothers, Giving Life makes high-quality, safe childbirth services available and accessible to women and their newborns by focusing on labor, delivery and the first 48 hours of postpartum when most maternal deaths and half of newborn deaths occur. The initiative addresses the critical delays that cause maternal deaths: delays in seeking services, reaching services, and receiving quality services. Saving Mothers, Giving Life applies a district wide approach by linking communities to all facilities in target districts.

Due to the unprecedented success of this partnership, Saving Mothers, Giving Lives is expanding to 16 new districts in Zambia and Uganda and one state in Nigeria. The model can help achieve the global vision of ending preventable child and maternal deaths.

CP Fred Enaga warns opposition about having public meetings

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To give you a feeling on how the Police will act this coming week and weekend when the FDC has again planned to have public meetings in the Eastern Uganda like in Bugiri, Mbale and Tororo. First what FDC themselves has said and what the UPF spokesman Enaga said. Nothing that is said is surprising. We can expect more tear-gas, more FDC people jailed and even convoys with troubles during the next days. Especially with the words that is coming from Mr. Enaga. So there is still only one person who is allowed to run a campaign and he is enjoying the sun and state-visit in Algeria right now!

FDC Mobilisation Program

The FDC Spokesman Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda said this on a press conference on Monday:

“This week we will be going to Bugiri, we will also go to Tororo on the same day and wind up with Mbale. We will go to open offices and speak to our FDC supporters in those areas” (Walswa, 2015).

CP Fred Enaga said this at a press conference today:

“We are already aware of broths and conspiracies, but we are committing to promote rule of law, peace and stability. We want to warn this unpatriotic Ugandans that which mix politics with our nations security. That such anarchy an act of recklessness, by suffocating the media and the public with falsehoods will actually be failed their political mileage. You cannot achieve any political mileage by triggering violence and chaos” (NBS Sunset, 2015).

CP Fred Enaga said this also:

“If FDC continues with their planned meeting in Bugiri they will have given us work to do. Then we will know if they are following their own laws or Uganda’s laws. Their meetings have not been cleared by Electoral Commission” (Walswa, 2015).

Calling the other parties UNPATRIOTIC shows how you already giving the other parties their place on the map. That their only one party who is truly PATRIOTIC. NRM and its flag-bearer are allowed to start campaigning and travelling around the country. This while FDC is unlawful and will have more trouble with the UPF. We also see that the opposition is being said to spread falsehood to the media, because of their dire situation they are in. I am sure we are soon seeing Dr. Kizza Besigye is soon under either House Arrest or at a Police Station in Wakiso District or Kampala Metropolitan because of the need for a “Preventative Arrest” and the same with other candidates in the party. It has to be under a blue moon before the Government of Uganda actually keeps the truth about a Multi-Party Democracy, right now it’s a sham!

The Multi-Party system in Uganda is for the moment like this. The NRM is the Ruling party with the hands and control all the institutions. The men who are leading government run business and organization is loyal cronies of the NRM elite. The other parties has a few seats in the Parliament, but not meaning they have any essential power and the independent seats there is just for show and could in general just be another NRM candidate. The FDC, DP, JEEMA, UFA, UPC and CP is just for show when Yoweri Kaguta Museveni needs to prove to the world that he open the system for more than the NRM. But initially the rest of the time, they are just a hazzle and meddlers that are as Fred Enaga acutally said today: “Unpatriotic”. This shows the difference between NRM and the rest as he concerns. Also what the Police is thinking and why they are doing what they can to shut down opposition parties when they try to campaign.

DP had issues this week in Luweero and FDC made demonstrations in Mbabara after the chaotic weekend earlier in October. That still proves how the Police is systematically working to keep the elite and NRM-Regime in order. Not to open for a real Multi-Party system with free and fair elections. This is why I am worried about the next days planned events from the FDC and how it will transpire and evolve. Hope that nobody gets hurt and the police doesn’t shot anybody this days. Peace.  

Reference:

NBS Sunset – ‘EC Boss Death Threats, Police Beefs up his Security’ (20.10.2015) link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coX7npqlqvY

Walswa, Baz – ‘Police Vows To Crush FDC, Besigye In Bugiri’ (20.10.2015) link: http://news.ugo.co.ug/police-vows-to-crush-fdc-besigye-in-bugiri/

UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner – Alleged execessive use of Force and Degrading treatment by Uganda Police Force (20.10.2015)

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Press Release: The African Union and the European Union sign an agreement for 165 Million Euros Funding support for AMISOM (16.10.2015)

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