Burundi: Declaration de l’Assemblee Nationale – Relatif aus Poursuites Judiciaries Engagees contre les Personnes Presumes Auteurs/Plainficateurs de l’Assassinat de son Excellence Melchior Ndadaye, Premier President Democratiquement Elu (05.12.2018)

South Sudan: Termination of membership of defectors from FDP/SSAF (05.12.2018)

Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda letter to Parliamentary Committee on Presidential Affairs – “Meeting With the Prime Minister on the Bulambuli Resettlement Project” (05.12.2018)

RDC: Union Democratique Africaine Orginelle (05.12.2018)

Brexit: Attorney General Cox letter to PM May – “Legal Effect of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland” (13.11.2018)

Uganda Peoples Congress: IPOD First Summit, 2018 (05.12.2018)

EFF Statement on Johann Rupert and His Arrogance (05.12.2018)

Besigye’s Criminal Record: Who will follow suit?

Arrested 1,023 times.

Incarcerated 217 times.

Indicted of 894 offenses.

Never convicted of any

Seemingly abandoned at the last minute.

The futility of trying to serve Ugandans.

(Chris Mwesigye Bishaka, 04.12.2018).

There is a cost fighting dictatorship, there is cost fighting a tyrant and military government, that is something someone like Dr. Kizza Besigye knows. He doesn’t just know, but he has meet the force, been house-arrested, been detained, been indicted and charged. Besigye have meet everything, seen any prison-cell and been in any kind of trial. Therefore, nothing is new to Besigye, he has been there and tried. He has taken the pain, the cost and torture, he has been mentally challenged and physical by the authorities. However, that haven’t stopped his attitude and will to continue the struggle.

This is a man who has battled the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ever since he left the party, ever since the cabinet and the government position. As one of them who rebelled against the Resistance Party. He rebelled against the NRM and President, who he considered to forget his place and his mission, as it became self-serving and self-interest, not being a government by and for the people.

That is why he has to pay the price of being arrested over a 1000 times, incarcerated 217 times and indicted for 814 offenses. If this isn’t seen as a massive number, than nothing is. What is more striking is that Besigye have achieved this by leaving the NRM by 1999.

That is only 19 years to be in legal trouble. By this rate he has been arrested 53 times each year. Incarcerated 11 times each year and indicted 47 times each year. If you don’t find this stats staggering. I don’t know what will.

What is more special, is that he isn’t a criminal or felon of petty crimes. He isn’t a pickpocket or a terrorist. Even if he has numbers that would seem so. He is just the arch-nemesis of the President. The man who has gotten into trouble, by being the total opposite of the President. That is why he has landed in so much legal trouble and the state has used all tools to suppress his voice and work. Therefore, expect more to come.

This is a proof of what extent the NRM regime and state does to one person. How much of the freedom, liberty and lack of justice there is.

Besigye is the proof of that. Just look at the numbers alone. They have been created by a margin of 19 years. That is surely some amazing stats. But also sad too, as this is one mans life and his cause. To rebel not only against a dictatorship, but also being a political operative in the midst of tyranny. Where people are even mocking for being detained and house-arrested, because it is so common.

They should understand it and swallow the idea. See the amount and wonder if this could happen to them. Sadly it could, but would they dare to stand beside Besigye in the fight? Would they? Or are they leaving him be in the fight against oppression?

Seemingly, the People Power are working for the same, hopefully Besigye and Bobi Wine can work together, dismantling this oppressive regime. Because all forces of hope needs to work together to reach the destination. But will they and are they ready for the cost?

Besigye has already paid the dividend for years, are other people ready to follow suit? Peace.

Bosco’s fight against Corruption gets old real quick!

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There is something about a man who has run the Republic since 1986. The Republic which is now made in image and with his institutions, with his appointed men and woman. Where his cronies, businesses, lobbyist and friendly voices are living close connected. It is in a Republic with various of bodies working on Corruption and ensuring a legal remedy against it. However, none of them is able, none of them has capacity to follow the Ministries, the Cabinet, the Members of Parliament, the Government Organizations or the Bank of Uganda for that matter. They are all falling short, as the corruption scandals are in all corners of the state and still, the President says he has new remedies to ancient problem of eating on people’s dime without a recite.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has had the opportunity since 1986 to fix this. That is if he really cared about it . Mzee would have done with already, but he doesn’t. Because, he knows the eating of his cronies and himself is rampant. That is why he even sanctioned, the Presidential Handshake and other deals behind the scenes at the State House. That is the way to do business, that is why the Attorney General, Inspector General of Governor, PPDA or the Police Force for that matter. Cannot touch the corrupt souls, because they can walk. Abraham Byandala walking free after ripping away money from UNRA like M&Ms wutg the Mukono-Katosi Road Scam. While the Courts couldn’t find significant evidence and had let him go. Therefore, believing that the President cares about fighting corruption isfar fetch. If he cares he has to capture himself first and we know that is a fish he doesn’t want to fry.

On Monday December 10th, I will announce new measures and the direction we shall take in our renewed fight against corruption. That said, there is corruption in Uganda. It stems from the colonial times. However, when we undertook the liberation struggle of this country, there were more pressing problems than corruption” (…) “However, corruption will now be defeated. The corrupt civil servants have exposed themselves. The population is angry with them. Also, we now have more educated young people. The pool from which to pick their replacements has grown. The problem now is the law manipulated by corrupt civil servants. We now need quicker methods of accountability to deal with the corrupt. I have the political will but I do not want to deal with them outside the law. There must also be a reflection on the morals of our young people. When setting up the Uganda Revenue Authority, we carefully identified young people to work there. But now, URA has kawunkumi (weevils). We need to deal with it” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 04.12.2018).

To believe the President now is naive, as the deals and arrangement that matters are done behind closed doors. The same is done with the Oil Refinery, Petroleum Pipeline, the licensing for oil exploitation and so on. These are major deals and been postponed. It is already a tax case concerning the oil industry that unleashed the Presidential Handshake. There are already other major donor scandals, not only the recent UNHCR and OPM, who has messed up the allocated aid money, there been the GAVI-FUNDS and CHOGM Funds. There are so many corruption scandals, that the National Resistance Movement, has always found a short-cut to eat of the public plate.

Not only when building road, building buildings, but everywhere. Ghosts of all kinds, expenditure that cannot be found or plans that are only made in the thin air, but would never ever exist. That is the manner of how the NRM and the President are eating on people’s dime. They are not accountable, neither really transparent. That is why there are leaks and documents surfacing proving the ills of society and the misuse of money. Which again and again show the Top Officials and ordered from High Above, who steer the money in their way. They are securing their cut and then the businesses can set-up shop or get the land for a factory, hunting ground or some sort of project. While the people are becoming landless and Internally displaced People in some NGOs Camp. That is how the government have fixed the matters and it happens, again and again.

That is why I have little or no faith in the President and his battle against corruption. If he was serious, he would hurt himself, even go after the likes of Amama Mbabazi, Jim Muhwezi, Salim Selah or Sam Kuteesa, but they are untouchables. Just like the Master himself. Peace.

Zimbabwe: A County for Old Men!

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”Groucho Marx

Today, there is proof again, that the old patriarchy is still alive and kicking it. Even as the advanced age Goblin, who are told cannot move and is in hospital care in Singapore. As that is happening, the ZNLWA are still on their game. They we’re revoking the rights of Mugabe to help usher in President Emmerson Mnangagwa in November last year. However, now, they are just sounding like old-folk who forgotten their origin. But before I dig into that, let us look at what the War Veterans wish for.

First the quote of the day:

The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has called for a constitutional amendment to raise the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years to ensure anyone who contests for the presidency is mature enough to fully grasp the gravity of what it means to run a country. Speaking at a press conference in Harare today, ZNLWVA secretary general Cde Victor Matemadanda also called for laws to deal with people who call for sanctions on the country or those accused of economic sabotage” (The Herald – ‘JUST IN: War vets seek to raise Presidential age limit’ 04.12.2018).

When the War Vets are saying people have to be old to be President. Their liberators, the leaders who freed them from the toils of previous dictatorship and colonization, the likes of Father of Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo was born in 1917 and established Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) in 1961, which means he was leadership material at 44. While Robert Mugabe, the Prime Minister and President from 1980 to 2017. He established Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) in 1963 out of ZAPU. Mugabe was at that point 39 years old, as he was born in 1924. Last, but not least, was Morgan Tsvangirai who was born in 1952 and established Movement for Democratic Change in 1999. Which means that he was 47 years old when he formed his party. Therefore, with this in mind. The age of the leadership doesn’t fit the War Vets. All of them would have been to young for the current War Vets and their paradigm shift of old.

It is surely with someone in mind, that they are targeting the likes of Nelson Chamisa and others up-starters, as they want their old cronies and older generation to keep power. Instead of opening up the door for the next generation. Because the War Vets knows that Operation Restore Legacy cannot last forever and their rampant cronyism cannot last until infinity.

That the WNLWVA was positive to the older generation is only natural. They have lived through it and are loyal subject to the ZANU-PF, the Junta government who are feeding them. They want to serve Mnangagwa and secure his reign. This is a token in that regard.

I just took the examples of Nkomo, Mugabe and Tsvangirai as they are top-notch and long-standing leadership of the Republic. They have been part of it or has made significant impact to it. Which is shown today. If it wasn’t for them, Zimbabwe wouldn’t be as it is today. Therefore, when the War Vets are saying you have to be over 50 years to be President. That means, when these leaders was starting their parties and being in their mid-age, they wouldn’t have been fit to challenge the powers. They would all fall flat as consequence, that they hadn’t been breathing long enough on planet earth. Which is a stupid excuse to stop people from seeking the highest office.

Maybe the War Vets doesn’t see that, because they are old themselves and think they are bloody geniuses. However, your not, you have just breathed longer than plenty living on Gods Green Earth. Peace.