DCJ Stephen Kavuma Interim Order on IGP Kale Kayihura #PoliceBrutality Case (25.08.2016)

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“Du sable et des cailloux” pour lutter contre l’armée congolaise – RDC #Reporters (Youtube-Clip)

RDC – Mesure de Decrispation Politique (26.08.2016)

RDC 26.08.2016 Free Activist

RD Congo – Nord-Kivu: Note d’informations humanitaires no 16 du 25 août 2016

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Faits saillants

  • Insécurité grandissante à Beni : Environ 50 civils tués par des hommes armés dans la ville de Beni
  • Réduction de l’accès humanitaire au sud Lubero suite à l’insécurité.
  • Près de 2 200 nouvelles personnes déplacées à l’ouest de Beni.
  • Près de 39 500 personnes déplacées vulnérables assistées dans les territoires de Beni et Masisi

Le massacre d’environ 50 civils le samedi 13 août à Rwangoma et Mbelu, deux quartiers périphériques de la ville de Beni, a occasionné une série de marches de colère et de protestation organisées le 17 août par les bureaux de la société civile de Beni, Oicha et Butembo après trois jours de deuil national décrété par le Gouvernement central. Dans la ville de Beni, des sources hospitalières ont rapporté trois décès et au moins huit personnes blessées pendant les manifestations de colère. Selon la Société civile, plus de 1 000 personnes ont été tuées dans le Territoire de Beni depuis octobre 2014. L’insécurité qui prévaut dans la ville de Beni et ses environs immédiats empêche les populations d’accéder à leurs champs.
Ce contexte précaire aggrave la situation humanitaire déjà fragilisée. Les activités humanitaires (accès et autres interventions) ont été paralysées à la suite de trois journées villes mortes décrétées du 15 au 17 août par la Société civile.

Pendant ce temps, les mouvements pendulaires des habitants sont constatés dans la ville. Les habitants des quartiers périphériques touchés par ces tueries hésitent à retourner dans leurs maisons.
Certains préfèrent passer la nuit au centre-ville de Beni et retourner chez eux dans la journée. D’autres ont préféré se déplacer vers d’autres zones. Ainsi, l’ONG nationale ACOPE rapporte qu’il y aurait 839 ménages déplacés à Butembo, 422 à Halungupa/Mutwanga, 677 dans la commune rurale de Bulongo, à Mangina et dans des familles d’accueil à Beni.

L’insécurité persistante au sud-ouest du Territoire de Lubero ne permet pas aux organisations humanitaires d’accéder aux personnes déplacées. Quelque 2 140 nouveaux ménages déplacés (chiffres à vérifier) seraient récemment arrivés dans cette zone, selon des sources humanitaires. Ils sont répartis dans les localités de Bunyatenge (850 ménages), Kasugho (1 050 ménages) et Kagheri (240 ménages). Ils sont arrivés des localités et villages de Masekeseke, Fatua, Bingo, Yama, Makokwando, Kabili, Patalmo, Musumbu et de Katenderwa, entre juin et juillet, suite aux exactions perpétrées par des hommes armés et aux affrontements entre groupes armés.

C’est dans cette zone que des agents humanitaires et des opérateurs économiques sont souvent pris en otage par des hommes armés.

Uganda: Letter – Withdraw of the Case Against Gen. Kale Kayihura (25.08.2016)

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RDC: Arrete Urbain No 3072/28 MCL/Viben/2016 Modifiant l’Arrete No. 3072/26 MCL/Viben/2016 du 18/08/2016 Portant Instauration d’Un Couvre-Feu en Ville de Beni (25.08.2016)

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Uganda: Motion to Introduce a Private Member’s Bill; Presidential Age Limit & Cheif Justice of Supreme Court (25.08.2016)

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DP Statement on current affairs Omoro Election, Kifeesi Police, Parliament Amendments and Police Reshuffle (23.08.2016)

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Kampala August 23, 2016– The Elections for the Omoro District Woman MP will be held next week Monday 29th August 2016. We wish to retaliate that our Candidate Pamella Grace Lanyero is still a front runner in the race. We have finalized all efforts to protect the vote and this week we shall round up the campaigns with three Main Rallies. We shall with effect from tomorrow send our teams led by Members of Parliament; DP Whip Hon Ssewungu Joseph Gonzaga and the Women President Florence Namayanja. The Party President Norbert Mao will be the overall Field Commander. We have mapped the Constituency to the effect that the DP District Leaderships are to be deployed in respective sub-counties. This therefore puts a straight forward warning to all those with ill intensions of pandering in malpractices. The Kifeesi teams, crime preventers and police should therefore limit themselves only to the constitutional provisions pursuant to Electoral laws. We wish to participate in a free and fair process and we shall not be liable for any repercussions pursuant to contradicting the process.

Constitution Amendment Bill 2016

We are also concerned about the proposal, which is part of several amendments proposed in the Constitution Amendment Bill 2016 and is spearheaded by the Nakifuma County MP to provide for an open term of office for Commissioners under the Electoral Commission. The Bill seeking to extend the term of office of the Commissioners from the current ten-year non-renewable term to an open in a guise to allow for the Commission to retain more experienced individuals to run it is a blunder. This move by all means serves interests of Government and the President in particular. The appointment and permanent retention in such a move is ploy of recycled inefficiency and reward for stealing a vote at a period when no one has trust in the Commission as the President’s employees. This is evidenced in rewarding Eng. Badru Kiggundu in his new appointment as in-charge of Karuma and Isimba Power Dams Construction for the job well done in the EC. We are aware that this is a pilot plot to pave way for Life Presidency and we ask the President and his team to put their hands off the destiny of Uganda.

Police Public Relations Office Reshuffle
The country received the news of the reshuffle of the former Police PRO Fred Enanga. It is never astonishing that the Police Spokesperson is reshuffled because we have seen many come and go. What is startling is how a one Fred Enanga is replaced by the cantankerous Andrew Felix Kaweesi. The move saves Fred Enanga from living a life with his foot perpetually in his mouth. The Party is convinced that this reshuffle at such a time is uncalled for, diversionary and a political move from the IGP to cover up his recent mess in the Police but worse still; the organized mob he aided to attack the Courts of Judicature. We wish to stand clearly and state that the appointment of Kaweesi as the Police image, whether in interim or utilitarian capacity is not welcome at all. The personality of the Spokesperson brings out the entire image of the institution and that cannot be Kaweesi. We have a track-record of him from the days when he was in charge of the Police training school in Masindi. All Police officers who were passed out during his time have messed up the institution and haven’t acted any different from Aron Baguma, Arinaitwe Bwana among others. These are the fruits of Kaweesi!

When he was appointed Kampala Metropolitan Zonal Police Commander, his rough, inhuman and deadly actions as an individual are still fresh in the minds of the people of Kampala and the Metropolitan. This was a bit covered up when he was transferred to head the Human Resource Department and AIGP Director of operations. We have for long known that this is the true image of the Police, but the appointment of a person of such calibre will leave all Ugandans weeping whenever he appears in the media to justify police positions. Whereas the entire institution is rotten, we are convinced there is a better rot than Kaweesi! As a Party, we task Kaweesi in his new capacity to parade IGP Kale Kayihura instead of parading lower officers such as the truck driver. The IGP is at large and he disobeyed Court Criminal Summons.

Kakande Kenneth Paul
Publicity Secretary

 

Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (23.08.2016)

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The Secretary-General continues to follow closely the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in particular the political dialogue process. He takes note of today’s meeting of the preparatory committee to the national dialogue convened by the Facilitator of the African Union, Edem Kodjo.
The Secretary-General recalls that in resolution 2277 (2016) the Security Council underlined the importance of a credible and inclusive political dialogue to ensure peaceful, credible, inclusive, transparent and timely presidential and legislative elections, in line with the Constitution.
The Secretary-General once again calls on all political stakeholders in the DRC to engage in an inclusive political dialogue in good faith to overcome the impasse in the electoral process. He notes that there is no alternative to a credible political dialogue in the DRC and further urges all actors to refrain from any action that could increase tensions or lead to violence.

Opinion: It’s a House of Cards when it comes to the KCCA and the Elected Kampala Leadership

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House of Cards: “a complicated organization or plan that is very weak and can easily be destroyed or easily go wrong” (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus, Cambridge University Press).

Kampala 22nd July 2016 is a house of cards. It is evident, it’s in the wind, it’s a maze of joy and crappiness as the President wished it to be. As he let it rots and is a giant toll of unstructured tool of public an institution that doesn’t co-exist or co-operate ordinary as the selected and elected men and woman doesn’t even know their duty or their job. Hard to work when you don’t have a specific workload or deadlines, aye?

There been much speculation between the Chief Executive Jennifer Musisi, Cabinet Minister Betti Kamya, Presidential Advisor Singh Katongole and Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. But today more stones started to roll for the already hectic enterprise as NRM like bloated and un-facilitated organizations to represent their past and present achievements.

If you though it was too irrational between the heads on the top it continues to next level. The City of Kampala has 5 Division Mayors who are actually feeling like “Lame Ducks”. Not so strange when Lord Mayor Lukwago is “Ceremonial Mayor”, what should the leader of Nakawa or Kawempe do?

These Division Mayors who feels like extras in Kampala are: Kasirye Nganda (Makindye), Ronald Balimwezo (Nakawa), Joyce Ssebugwawo (Rubaga), Emmanuel Sserunjogi (Kawempe) and Charles Musoke Sserunjogi (Kampala Central). These five Divisions Mayors seems to not have any powers, just the way the Lord Mayor feels and feels overruled by the Executive Director of KCCA and the Cabinet Minister. So when you have Three leaders over you and you are supposed to run it isn’t much left. Not like Dr. Jennifer Musisi is interested in giving way to Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, why should she give ways to authority’s legal and operative management of Kampala to the elected leaders in the Divisions?

This is a “House of Cards” for the Authorities as the divided and unsecure placement of the different government bodies and institutions, the Local Councilor’s in the Divisions must have less to do when even their Mayors are complaining about their ability to authorities anything in their constituency as Mayors. When already Lord Mayor has complained about his position and his role in the hierarchy of Kampala; how wouldn’t anybody under him feel?

The system is set-up for the fixed unelected men and woman of KCCA to overrule the Divisions and City Hall as the Chief Executive Musisi can just sweet talk with the Cabinet Minister Kamya as she did with Hon. Frank Tumwebaze. So for her it is nothing new and the Institutions are there, but the how operative are they really, that should be questioned and secondly; which ones does the President wish to work? Because he wants to silence the Opposition of Kampala and make them look bad. So they might picks his leaders instead of their own. Peace.