“ZANU PF activist Acie Lumumba has recorded yet another hard-hitting video where he openly dares President Robert Mugabe to take stock of his 2013 election promises to check if any of them have been achieved. Video Credit (c) Facebook 2016″ (Alpha Media Live, 2016)
Category: Economic Measures
Press Release: Ecobank and Old Mutual announce enhanced strategic agreeement (20.05.2016)

LOME, Togo, May 20, 2016 – Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) (Ecobank.com), parent company of the Ecobank Group, and Old Mutual Emerging Markets (OMEM) (OldMutual.com), a part of the Old Mutual Group, today announced an enhanced strategic agreement that will strengthen existing ties between the leading pan-African bank and the insurance and asset management giant.
Old Mutual Emerging Markets currently has a bancassurance partnership with the Ecobank Group. This latest agreement will grow the existing strategic alliance by offering seamless insurance services to Ecobank clients across selected countries where the two groups have operations. Clients will benefit mutually though access to a range of financial services that include life insurance, savings and short-term insurance solutions across a greater network on the African continent.
Ecobank Group CEO Ade Ayeyemi said plans for the integrated model include providing access to Old Mutual solutions for Ecobank’s banking operations across selected countries. “This is a productive and valued partnership between two pan-African institutions to provide complete financial services solutions to our customers,” he said.
A productive and valued partnership between two pan-African institutions to provide complete financial services solutions to our customers
Ralph Mupita, CEO of Old Mutual Emerging Markets, said: “It is in our mutual interest to ensure that this alliance grows from strength to strength, as we now look to complement Ecobank’s range of banking services to its customers with Old Mutual’s trusted financial products across the Ecobank network on the continent.”
Signed by both company chief executives at the Ecobank Group’s Lome head office yesterday, the enhanced agreement goes into immediate effect.
Documentary Soicety – Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth (Youtube-Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEdu2nxd8g
“Millions of Congolese have lost their lives in a conflict that the United Nations describes as the deadliest in the world since World War Two. Rwanda and Uganda, invaded in 1996 the Congo (then Zaire) and again in 1998, which triggered the enormous loss of lives, systemic sexual violence and rape, and widespread looting of Congo’s spectacular natural wealth. The ongoing conflict, instability, weak institutions, dependency and impoverishment in the Congo are a product of a 125 year tragic experience of enslavement, forced labor, colonial rule, assassinations, dictatorship, wars, external intervention and corrupt rule. Analysts in the film examine whether U.S. corporate and government policies that support strongmen and prioritize profit over the people have contributed to and exacerbated the tragic instability in the heart of Africa” (Documentary Channel, 2016).
Safaricom Statement Regarding Allegations on Corporate Governance (20.05.2016)

IGAD signs LAPSSET corridor development MoU (19.05.2016)

The IGAD Executive Secretary Amb (Eng.) Mahboub Maalim on 13th May 2016 in Nairobi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kenya’s LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority (LCDA) Director General Mr. Silvester Kasuku.
The MoU details cooperation by the two authorities towards development of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). The overall goal of the LAPSSET Corridor Program is to interconnect the Republics of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan among others. Once implemented the Program will link the landlocked regions of South Sudan and Ethiopia to Lamu Port in Kenya promoting regional integration in the Horn of Africa, and providing trade opportunities. The LAPSSET Corridor is also part of Africa’s Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI).
According to the signed MoU, IGAD and LCDA will work together in mobilising funds towards detailed engineering design studies of the LAPSSET Railway component of the Corridor (Lamu-Isiolo-Moyale-Addis Ababa/Isiolo-Nadapal-Juba, approx. 2,900 km). The design studies of the standard gauge railway will be spearheaded by IGAD Secretariat.
Donald J. Trump we’re paid for Speaking Engagements in 2015; the same as Hillary Clinton, but she is the problem for being paid, while when he was paid it was okay?

As the GOP Presidential Nominee Donald Trump wild ride on Hillary Clinton of Democratic Party for her Speaking Engagement at Goldman Sachs. Let me show what the other Presidential Candidate have disclosed in his Financials, as his Vanity and his IRS Audit cannot be released, because he cannot show his real wealth and his real monetary status. But that is just the proud of his heritage Trump. Let me show you the foolishness he is proud of that is similar to Hillary Clinton, who he tries to take down while he have done the same for the money.
If you wonder why Donald Trump the GOP candidate doesn’t drop his IRS Taxes, here is my thought on that:
Opinion: Why Donald Trump won’t release the IRS Tax Returns? It is because of his Vanity!
Well, let’s get back to the orginal facts on Donald Trump earned money on speaking engagements in 2015 and why it is interesting as he is attacking Hillary Clinton. take a look!
The first is the speaking engagements for A C N INC on the 5/3/2015, 6/28/2015 and 2/14/2015 where Trump was compensated with $110,228, $14,222 and $450,000. So with the speeches with A C N INC in 2015 he earned $ 574,450 with them alone. What can be a three speeches worth over half a million dollars from Trump where the words tremendous and great 100 times?
Well, let me continue, A C N INC is not alone paying to have Donald Trump to speak at their houses and such. As the Donald likes to speak and be the Central Attention of the World with the proof of that he had a Speech to the International Council of Shopping Centers INC on the 8th December 2015 worth the $ 50,000; where he most have spoken about the value of marketing his name and using golden sharpie.

Donald Trump as stated likes to speak, so with for engagements was not enough for the Donald. Donald likes his own voice and especially when he can speak even to the National Multifamily Housing Council, whatever they stand for or what they cause are since he attended and spoke their on 22nd April 2015 and cashed in $ 100,000 for that speaking engagement.
He was not done so he had to speak to the Peoples Reality Company LLC on the 23rd January 2015, earning a $100,000. That company who lives in a virtual reality needed the vision of Trump to inspire them for a hundred grands.
Also as I covered before from this Public Financial Disclosure on his vanity, is the Speaking Engagement for Samsung; to be correct IMSMFL Incorporated for Samsung Elections America on the 4th March 2015. On that Speaking engagement alone Trump earned $ 150,000 on this.

So let me put all the speaking engagements together we’re grossing $974,450 close to $1,000,000 United States Dollars for a 7 speaking engagements in 2015, that he has bragged about in his Financial Disclosure. So Donald Trump shouldn’t be too harsh on Hillary Clinton, the other Presidential Candidate for her Goldman Sachs speeches, as he has done something significant; the significant is that it’s practically the same, though not to a giant bank, but speaking for Samsung, A N C INC and so on.
Let me say, if he can earn close to a Million USD on Speeches, why can’t Hillary Clinton? I am not a man for Hillary Clinton, but the nonsense attacks on her for doing it, cannot come from a man who has done the same. That doesn’t make sense, like most of his campaigning and stances politically except for his xenophobia and hatred that are explained that inside his brain is a tired mad-man who is not getting his lolli… Peace.
Reference:
Donald J. Trump – Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) – 2015 JUL 15 PM 4:14
COPE’s Lekota shares his thoughts on Parly unrest (Youtube-Clip)
“The President of the Congress of the People (COPE), Mosiuoa Lekota shred his thoughts on the EFF’s refusal to be addressed by President Jacob Zuma in Parliament as well as their forceful removal on Tuesday” (Jaracanda FM, 2016).
Hon. Nsereko for Deputy Speaker was flawed from the get-go; we knew the paid NRM MPs would honor their Executive by voting for Hon. Oulanya; and my comments towards the Empty Suits!

I am sorry to say this, it’s the spirit of Olara Otunnu that is running through me; the 10th Parliament is running on the same veins as the end of the 9th Parliament. A rigged and well-fueled spirit of the Executive, as the bribes from above high set the standard.
Even Judge Stephen Kavuma, the man behind the decree suspending and abolishing the FDC Party, solemnly swore in Rebecca Kadaga, the loyal bird with feathers for the Executive into Speaker of Parliament, as she speaks and thinks like the Executive. Who knew right?
And you the run for Nsereko is not fair one when the National Resistance Movement even get people like Col. Kulagye to step down for Hon. Oulanyah who has no scruples to gain certain levels of power. As Jacob Oulanyah knows and all who follows knows is that he is elected on ghost votes and not on the local voters as they shunned him.
Hon. Joshua Anywarach wanted to suspend the secret ballot on the Deputy Speaker rally between Oulanyah and Nsereko as then the NRM could check who ate the money fairly and who might not be loyal to the party line under the Executive, though the Speaker Kadaga did not accept that ruling.
That Hon. Oulanyah becoming the Deputy Speaker is not surprising as the money was thrown to the NRM MPs to buy “Suits” and be loyal to the party line, and select the men who the Executive had handpicked for the affair, as he knows that he can control them and their decisions, by throwing pocket-chains while the Executive clears the Bank of Uganda and all other funds for himself. As he keeps the Members of Parliament Ignorant and silence the Opposition… those who don’t believe that ask either FDC or JEEMA about that recently?
Even if Nathan Nandala-Mafabi was a part of the opening of the House and the Parliament, still the Forum for Democratic Change is not in a peaceful place and in a honorable position, while they are either in courts, detained or harassed by the Police Force.
So the news of this today shouldn’t surprise you:
“Only 398 members of 427 MPs have so far registered for the sitting today. Voting delayed as Clerks counter check” (NBS TV Uganda, 19.05.2016).
I am sure 20 of them is either on house-arrest or even detained as we speak, because they surely parts of the few MPs from the FDC that the NRM Regime and their Police Force have silenced as the crackdown on the opposition, that went into high gear in the days running up to the swearing in of Museveni for his seventh term.

“Hon. Rwamirana and UPC’s Hon. Betty Amongin second nomination of Hon. Oulanyah as deputy Speaker of the 10th parliament” (NTV Uganda, 19.05.2016).
While the Uganda People’s Congress, was as expected acting as a NRM branch of token loyalty, something Otunnu 2 years ago spoke about that the NRM had paid several of the leadership to follow Museveni instead of the Party Line, so the historical party have switched from being a one of kind and instead is as loyal to the Executive as the other parts of NRM-O and the NRM CEC. That is sad sight and shows what price the agreement between Hon. Jimmy Akena and his central leadership in the UPC have done with the NRM during the Election.
Just as the Executive have crashed the opposition, he has also done everything in his power to succumb the Media as he hated the release of the obvious Muhoozi Project that even escalated this week, as he sieged Daily Monitor and shut down the paper for days after a letter was released through the paper and from Gen. Sejusa’s files. People forget that so fast. So yesterday’s announcement should be put into the space:
“President Museveni has appointed former Daily Monitor Managing Editor Don Wanyama as his Presidential Press Secretary replacing Tamale Mirundi” (NBS TV Uganda, 18.05.2016).

So the Daily Monitor who has been less of an opposition paper and been more in favor of the NRM, shows it’s true face as in the reality they have been shadowed by the regime ever since. So with this in mind, that an opposition like Muhammad Nsereko tries to become Deputy Speaker is flawed, as the UPC and Daily Monitor is not really opposition anymore, you have to fly birds with Chimps Reports. While just let the boggled mind still believe that Andrew Mwenda is think-tank on his own, while sounding the horn of the corruption and his own corrupt mind, that is fitting with the ush. 5M suits of 19th May that gave way to Jacob Oulanyah and his gracious ways.
So my mind went like this while the MPs we’re voting in the Parliament. This is what happen after the secret ballot that even certain MPs was afraid about, since the NRM MPs gotten more money to vote for the candidate that the Executive have decided for them. As Hon. Rebecca Kadaga: “If everyone has voted I now invite MP Nsereko and MP Oulanyah to nominate atleast 2 agents”.

Kadaga and the Parliament are after two hours voting as the Speaker didn’t’ need a vote, since she was unopposed. While the Deputy Speaker between Hon. Oulanyah and Hon. Nsereko. Even as the counting was going on, the Executive wanted to control the voting and tallying as he wants his vision on everything and that has gone stronger with his age, soon he will tell the cooks at the parliament how much bananas they need in the matooki to make it the Western Ugandan way; President Museveni: “I would like to raise a point of order”.
Speaker Kadaga: “No your Excellency. As this happen”.
As they count Daily Monitor recounts the tallying like this:
“CORRECTION: MP’s jeer when Nsereko’s name is read out. Well It is Oulanya, Oulanya, Oulanya and they reply yeeee” (Daily Monitor, 19.05.2016).

So seems like this set the standard and that Oulanya or Oulanyah is the one to be the deputy speaker in Parliament, as I expected when I woke up this morning and would be the same when I was going back to bed tonight. President, the Executive Museveni had paid the NRM to be his puppets in the house and Parliament and he will continue to pay them to act in his stead in Parliament. It cost to be an empty suit in the Ugandan Parliament first of the verdicts and bought choices of the Executive is 5 Million Shillings and surely give way for Hon. Oulanya.
The results of voting in the Parliament on the Deputy Speaker were this:
Oulanya – 300 Votes,
Nsereko – 115 Votes,
Invalid – 1 Vote.
The one invalid vote must be somebody special, who do you think is the fellow who made the bo-boo in Parliament today?
As the NRM Party wrote seconds after the announcement:
“300 votes cast in favour of Jacob Oulanyah for Dep Speaker of #10thParliament” (NRM Party, 19.05.2016).

With this result is there some way that Eng. Badru M. Kiggundu the voting genius can cook this result to a massive result, and make it even more aggressively win in the Parliament, as the Executive believes he should have sanitized the whole of the Parliament.
So my thoughts from this morning was justified, as the Executive had to be there and spread his fear and intimidate the newly selected NRM MPs who doesn’t know his procedures and his rule. In the Parliament in Uganda, you are if you are a NRM Member there, you are a mouthpiece of the President Museveni and not your own mind, just look at Otafiire, did he sound like a wise-man or somebody who thought on his own? The same will be with his new cabinet, where people will work for the Executive, not for the grand state or the progress of Uganda, but to centralize the Power amongst the Executive, nothing else, and the Opposition who is there, is so that he can pin-point at them and smile to the Donors, “We have sort of Multi-Party Democracy, but they got no party in decisions, but they are there, remember give me and my Government money!”.
Enough of the nonsense at Parliament while Dr. Kizza Besigye ferment in Luzira, and is charged with treason, while the Opposition is harassed and treated as criminals, because they stand-up against the Executive and does not follow his mission, sorry vision. To the Executives way to gain wealth for himself and his family that he has worked on over time. Still, I will leave with the statement from the FDC Secretary Harold Kaija as he was freed today after days on days in SID Kireka. Take a look!

Harold Kaija’s statement after being released from SID Kirek Prison:
“FREE AT LAST
I want to thank all that stood with me when the Dictator jailed me for 9 days at SID Kireeka for defying Justice Kavuma’s order!
In the Kireeka cells I found Ariho Sam well known in the FDC circles at MUK. He is charged with treason. He inserted my name and that of Michael Kabaziguruka in his statement as one of the people he consulted while starting his activities. I asked him why, he told me he had been beaten. I find this strange!! The truth is that I had not seen him for 7 years. He called me one day and u invited him to office. I told him that our party was only involved in Non Violence Actions.
I want to thank my Brother Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi I made a One Man Protest at the SID offices until I was released yday. He asked to be jailed with me if they didn’t allow him to go with me.
From what we gathered, all FDC cases, the IGP has the final case.
I can’t forget those who didn’t fear to come to Kireeka to visit me. Hon. Mwiru Paul, Hon. Adeke Anna Ebaju, and her sister, Hon. Wafula Oguttu, Hon. Ibrahim Nganda Ssemujju, Dr. Odwer, Senior Counsel Rwakafuzi.
Activists Kigongo Ayub, Fred W Mutibwa, Ayub, Kalule Sam, Namutebi, Richard Nyombi Byemalo, Musitwa, the NRM Poor Youth,
My family David, Ruth and Edna.
I also want to thank the Social Media Activists for demanding for my release that one day the Kireeka leadership had to come to my cell at mid night to find out if I was keeping my phone. There was Punic allover the place for two days.
Lastly I thank Ingrid Turinawe and Doreen for the mobilisation.
What I can authoritatively tell u is that we have a lot of support in the forces” (Harold Kajja, 19.05.2016).
That’s enough for now. Peace.
NRM MPs Get 5M to Buy Suits (Youtube-clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7rxYaKRzeA
“The ruling NRM legislators in the 10th Parliament have each received sh5 million from President Yoweri Museveni to help them buy suits and organize small parties for their supporters after swearing in. Also from Parliament, legislators are expected to meet tomorrow to elect a new Speaker and Deputy Speaker to steer the country’s 10thHouse. Whereas the incumbent Speaker Rebecca Kadaga is poised to retain her seat, the race for the Deputy Speaker is wide open, with two of the three candidates all having equal chances” (NTV Uganda, 2016)
Sand painting on fighting corruption goes viral in China (Youtube-clip)
“Chinese local authorities are using sand painting to illustrate anti-corruption campaign. This video, promoted by the commission for discipline inspection in north China’s Hebei province, includes an image about holding wrongdoers accountable and eight images about behaviors or practices that should be banned or punished” (New China TV, 2016)

