Age Limit: NRM CEC is officially all behind the Magyezi Bill (24.10.2017)

Opinion: The Draconian State will blame Besigye for the deaths at Rukungiri! [Taken from Naggalama Police Station to Rukungiri Magistrate Court and rumored detained at Luzira]

Police have refused to take court summons for a petition filed by Dr Kizza Besigye over his continued detention. Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago says that the DPC and OC CID refused to sign documents…” (Daily Monitor, 24.10.2017).

Police investigating Besigye’s role in Rukungiri man’s death. The force is also holding, Dr Kizza Besigye, Ingrid Turinawe, Patrick Amuriat and a district councillor Innocent Tashobya on various charges including murder” (NTV Uganda, 24.10.2017).

As we speak there are uncertainty, but some knowledge that the Opposition leader and former Presidential Candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye is taken from Mukono and Naggalama Police Station. Where he has been detained since Thursday evening, together with Patrick Amuriat Oboi and Ingrid Turinawe. They have all been there on various charges and not allowed bonds or bail. They have all been put in vans earlier today and reported to be taken back to Rukungiri Magistrate Court. Who are prepared to file charges and send them directly to Luzira after the trial. The same is most likely happening in Luzira , where the magistrate court is prepared for a short trial, before putting them in Maximum Prison facility there. Somewhere Besigye was last year awaiting his treason charge, a case that is yet to processed and finished by the courts.

So Besigye are continued prosecuted and his freedoms are taken away. This together with his fellow opposition leader, the FDC Presidential Candidate POA and activist Ingrid Turinawe. They are all taken as high risk criminals and murderers. While they we’re only part of a peaceful rally and planning to continue the internal election of Presidential Election inside the FDC.

You know something is wrong when someone who was shot at while driving without weapons we’re able to kill and secondly, that someone who came in peace for a rally. Would kill with his car, when it was bullet wounds that killed the citizen. The one crime they are putting on Besigye. We all knows that the State feels the pain of their decision, since the state wouldn’t pay damages of 10 million shillings to the family of the deceased if they we’re innocent. That would just be foolish, they we’re trying to patch up their hurt. And would the IGP Kale Kayihura sack his DPC of Rukungiri, if he was innocent in his actions and his officers? Seemingly, their message and their arrest of Besigye doesn’t make common sense and the evidence against him must be fake or fraud, if they have any.

While I am saying this, the van has stopped and there are reports that Besigye is airlifted to Rukungiri. If you feel similar as he was last year, when he was airlifted from Moroto to Luzira. Most likely similar activity will happen from the state. Since they are acting with swift force and will make sure he can be locked-up in a Maximum Prison Facility that the Luzira has. This is to make sure he cannot spread his idea or his position towards stopping of the age limit. The NRM and Police wouldn’t act like this if they didn’t fear him and his popularity. They would have let him be and given him space. Instead, he is now taken and charged on forged charges.

This is the draconian state, he has been kept of 48 hours, the same with fellow opposition members. Who deserves as much justice as Besigye, but Besigye is the key suspect and key target of the state. They will make this ill accusation to make way to silence his efforts and take away his liberties and freedom. Even if they cannot even make a case in the wildest dreams. Still, this is a nightmare that continues, as the man of defiance will be behind bars. Just the length of it and how much it will cost this time. Is something we can question. As the state continue to torment him and torture him without any proper charges.

There are reports that some have planned to assassinate Besigye, I hope that will not happen. They already aimed very well in Rukungiri, as the back-window of his white van. The placing of the bullet is showing how much the police officer aimed last week. Therefore, the idea isn’t far fetched, but that Besigye is airlifted should be safe, even if there are reports in the past that President Museveni has used excuses and not released other news for sudden fall of airplanes and helicopters of his enemies. Like there are rumors of others Museveni has made fall this way. Therefore, if that would happen, we would know that ones in the past would his orders too.

We better hope that the people’s president is flying safe to Rukungiri and that the he will return safely as first reported. That they will forge a murder charge and stifle him in Luzira, as the Age Limit motion is soon flying high in Parliament. So that the NRM can kill the Constitution and make in the flesh of Museveni, instead of being document made for all citizens and not just for the President.

We just have to hope, it is enough hurt to again arrest and detain him without proper procedure and without caring about rule of law. There are new reports that the Judge at the Rukungiri Magistrate Court, does not want to rule in favor of the state. So he has run away from charging Besigye. This is happening right now.

We just have to wait and see. What will happen is certainly not anything positive because the state wishes Besigye and his comrades ill. We just have to wait. Peace.

Age Limit: What if I told the Life Presidency Consultations cost only about the same as one Aston Martin!

We know now the value of the trade-off between having limits to age of the President and lifting Presidential Age Limits. The ones who wants to lift it and consult their constituencies will be wired 29 millions, that to members who already get between 30 million to 40 million a month. So that is close to a monthly bonus pay. That for trading their souls and republic to one man, they are able to sign of 29 million each and the total cost is 13 billion shillings.

Members of Parliament will each receive Shs 29 million each to be used as facilitation for consultations on the ‘age limit’ amendment bill. In total, Shs 13 billion will be diverted from the MPs’ emoluments (allowances) to facilitate the age limit consultations according to Parliament’s director of Communications and Public Affairs, Chris Obore” (… )”Obore says if Finance doesn’t reimburse the money by December, the MPs may have to go another month without their allowances. “The clerk to parliament has provided Shs 13 billion from the members’ emoluments. Emoluments are allowances they pay, fuel, transport – all those things. So we have picked Shs 13 billion to pay them to go out, because this thing has a time frame. Each MP is going to receive Shs 29 million to go to their constituency to consult”, he said” (Kaaya, 2017).

To put the 29 million in perspective is about $ 8000 United States Dollars or £ 6000 Great British Pounds. So it is not a big fortune, but still is money in country of unemployed youth. That they are already well earning in the republic as they earn the same each month. Proves the difference between MPs and ordinary Ugandans. The whole cost of the bill in $ 3,553.660 or or about 3,5 million United States Dollar. That is the cost of the MPs and the payment they are totally getting for making it possible for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to rule for life.

Life Presidency at this point is either worth 13 billion Uganda Shillings or about 3,5 million US Dollars. That is big amount of money, but also show the little value of the shilling at this state. Still, that the President and the state can afford this, while medicines is lacking in hospitals and other facilities. That even civil servants are lacking salaries and pay increases. There are lack of good governance, when the state can afford this, but not the other.

National Resistance Movement are really showing what is their key priority and what is vital for their existence, for the moment, that is Museveni and nothing else. That is why they are doing this and are working to so hard to seal the deal and secure his life project. So that the President can die in the chair and leave a legacy of looting, inflation and oppression. President Museveni are now becoming everything he fought against or said he fought against. There is not left of his old self, than relics and quotes in books. He is a damaged self-controlled dictator, who wants to stay like that for life. Nothing left to chance. That is what the republic has sunk too, because of him.

So the cost of the life presidency is now set and it’s cheap. It is costly, but to be able to drain the state reserves for life and be able to loot the resources for life. It should cost more and should been more expensive if it would make sense. Is President Museveni that cheap or worth so little after 30 years in power? He should be worth more and not cost so little.

Life Presidency cost about the same as an Aston Martin DB10 or a Luxury Estate in Miami. So its not like it is expensive enough. He should at least cost more than Gareth Bale to Real Madrid or Neymar Junior to PSG. I know this isn’t international football trading, but a life President who has all powers of a republic for life should cost more than them. It is meager and cheap if he only costs 3,5 million USD. President Museveni should be more costly if he trades the rest of his life in the supposed service for the state, it shouldn’t be this cheap.

He cost the same as a luxurious Aston Martin, nothing more really… Its disappointing, by all means it is bad that the MPs are getting this cash and it is wrong. But if they are doing this for the wrong reasons, then they deserve more. Are their ideals, their legacy and their destruction of the constitution have the same value as an Aston Martin! Is that all it takes to kill a constitution and build laws for only person? The value of destruction is the same value as the life presidency….

Just think about that for moment. And then react and you should because your constitutional amendment is should for cheap. Peace.

Reference:

Kaaya, Sadab Kitatta – ‘MPs given Shs 13bn for age limit consultations’ (23.10.2017) link:http://observer.ug/news/headlines/55577-mps-given-shs-13bn-for-age-limit-t-consultations.html

Age Limit: The Key Protocol from the NRM is now “Limited Freedom”!

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”Benjamin Franklin

It is not hard to imagine this as Dr. Kizza Besigye lingers in prison together with fellow FDC leadership at Naggalama Police Station. This after a horrific week and weekend. Where the Police has silenced more consultation meetings and stopped more radio stations in the country. Ironic isn’t it, that the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is currently on a radio campaign tour around the republic spreading message of good governance towards land reform. While in the same country, the rights to assemble and to have meetings are squashed with force.

Well, the limited freedom, taking away the freedom for those who questions the Age Limit and the lifting of it. That is what is happening, it happen earlier this month, when broadcasters was obliged and ordered not to have any of the 25 suspended Members of Parliament on any of their broadcasts. This with the banning of concerts hold by Robert Kyagulyani MP aka Bobi Wine. Certainly, the state do what it can to limit the freedoms and free speech in favor of keeping the age limit in the Constitution.

When Kanugu Radio and Pearl FM is suspended and certainly more will follow, as they have had the guts to question the need and have had guest who is not Age Limit removal friendly. This is the beginning of severe oppression. For not only Besigye and his fellow brethren, but also a bigger picture will elope. These Radio Channels and Broadcasters are just proof of the limit freedom that persist right now.

The stories and the tales will be there, but if they are to hard-hitting and straight-forward they might even close Daily Monitor, the Observer and Red Pepper. Not too long ago someone broke into the Observer and stole a lot equipment. Nobody has been arrested or charged on that matter.

We know the state has already embarked on the trip of assaulting and questioning the Civil-Society Organizations and the Non-Governmental Organization, the CSOs and NGOs are under attack and siege, three has already had their offices turned into crime scenes. The Police has already besieged JEEMA, Democratic Party and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) during the last few weeks. Overall, this is limiting the freedom and intimidating society as whole.

The police is a partisan in oppressing the society and the people, they are target selected few and at random on the consultant meetings, detaining leaders, MPs and activists, but next time it might be you. They are not sparing anything in their duty of assaulting the basic freedoms and expression of dissent. They even charged an over 70 year old in Bushenyi for collecting signatures. Just breathe and think about that, collecting signatures makes you a criminal.

In addition, you should know something is wrong, when just to get the Raphael Magyezi bill passed to Legal and Constitutional Committee for review; it had to be at gunpoint and with Special Forces Command breaching the chambers and clear the court. This should not be accepted and be the way it is done, but apparently it is okay in the state of affairs. Certainly, with the knowledge of the praising session in the aftermath of speaker Rebecca Kadaga. You know there limit freedom is the mantra and the way the NRM operates. Limit the freedom of the ones that dissent from the view that fits the President.

So the towns, the consultations will be filled with harassment, the courts will be a mockery and the activists will linger in jail. The innocent might die at rallies and the police will call the organizers criminals, while they was the aggressor pulling the trigger. This is the state of mind, the mad reality of the age limit. The rush, the hurry and the oppression. The quest of deliberately giving the republic a President for Life!

If you think, this will be beautiful and story of hope, than things has to change. However, for now the government will the police and soldiers to intimidate, and make sure they bill be passed in Parliament. Nothing will stop them, unless the activists and opposition garn all the support and create a real uprising as never seen before.

So if you accept limited freedom, which is the program of the state. That is what you is served and that is the order of the state. That is why joint-MP Consultation meetings are banned and so many other public gatherings is dismissed.

Certainly, this age limit thing is not dying. It keeps breathing and shuffling hard fists at the public. I just wonder how much beating and harassment will the public accept, how little freedom and how limited their representatives will accept. We can question it now as it is going on. Certainly, you know that this will not stop, as it goes now it benefits the President. Moreover, get the ones standing in his way silenced. They will do this until they stop and gives up. That is the will of the state and at all cost.

Therefore, the question now be. When has the NRM crossed a bridge that is too far?

Peace.

UCC letter to Pearl of Africa Radio Limited – Pearl FM – “Breach of Minimum Broadcasting Standards – Suspension of Broadcasts” (17.10.2017)

Gen. Mugisha Muntu: Statement on Police Brutality and Interference in FDC Presidential Election Process (23.10.2017)

Burundi: EU renews sanctions until 31 October 2018 (23.10.2017)

These measures consist of a travel ban and asset freeze against four persons whose activities are deemed to be undermining democratic governance.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 23, 2017 – On 23 October 2017, the Council renewed the EU restrictive measures against Burundi for another year until 31 October 2018. These measures consist of a travel ban and asset freeze against four persons whose activities are deemed to be undermining democratic governance and obstructing the search for a peaceful political solution in Burundi. These activities include acts of violence, repression or incitement to violence and acts which constitute serious human rights violations.

The EU remains profoundly concerned by information on continuing extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, forced disappearances, torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and gender-based violence, including sexual violence committed in Burundi since April 2015. The EU has repeatedly and continuously called on all parties to refrain from and to firmly condemn any acts of violence and to end the cycle of impunity of perpetrators. The respect for the rule of law, built on  effective, accountable and inclusive institutions is essential to achieving a lasting political solution to the crisis.

The Council considered that the absence of progress in the situation in Burundi justified the renewal of the sanctions for another year.

The names of the persons concerned and the reasons for listing them are included in the annex to the decision of 1 October 2015 published in the Official Journal.

Age Limit: Besigye have been detained this weekend and expect him to be in trouble until the Magyezi bill are PASSED!

After the troubles that has consistent of the state monitoring and following Dr. Kizza Besigye, his defiance and resistance of the state orders. His issues has persistent, since the fatal Anti Age Limit rally in Rukungiri, that was supposed to be at the Rukungiri Stadium on the 18th October 2017. The life of the people’s president has since been in the powers of the police. They have decided his faith. So on the 19th October he drove from Rukungiri towards Kabale. When the Police blocked his white van, the car that had been directly shot at with live bullets.

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) was detained on the spot with no knowledge of his whereabouts or his charges. He was arrested suddenly a day after the police had harassed and killed two civilians who was attending the rally. This acts been so bad that the IGP Kale Kayihura has sacked the DPC of Rukungiri, but don’t expect any of the police officers to be punished. They will walk free, they follow orders from above.

On Saturday, the 21st October it was clear that Besigye was locked up in Mukono and Naggalama Police Station and was charged with murder. He was seen by the authorities as a killer, even if he didn’t carry a gun or knife, but a traveling and preparing a rally in Rukungiri. Clearly, this is forged charges, like the last years treason charges. That he still hasn’t freed from, so he is still under investigations for treason, as we speak.

The Police are clearly trying to send a message, that the biggest and most popular leaders who are against the Age Limit. Will be incarcerated and spend time in jail. For now he is not allowed bail or pay bond. Besigye is just behind bars, because him and Patrick Amurait Oboi was planning rallies. Not because of violence and killings. That is state sanctioned violence we have seen so many times before.

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) are really trying to strangle the republic. They are doing it again, just like they did in he months before the general election in 2016 and within months after, until the President was again sworn-in for his seventh term. Therefore, the President knows this will not bring fear into Besigye, he has been here before and is not stressed by it. The FDC and former Presidential Candidate, deserves credit for all of the times he has served without being criminal. For all the times he has been behind bars without any proper charge, and all the time he has been court without having any proper case built against him. Besigye has proven his resilience and mentality to stand against oppression and dictatorship. The FDC leader has no fear and proven, again and again, that he will not stop.

Another forged and fake charge will not scare Besigye, but what the world do need to know. Is that Besigye has now spent 3 days at Naggalama Police Station and we can just start to count how long the state will keep him. If he is freed, expect him to be House Arrested and be blocked from public gatherings, until the Age Limit is settled in Parliament. Peace.

Opinion: Amama Mbabazi chosen silence is a token of his loyalty to the NRM!

I have never left the NRM. I just happen to be an NRM member who wants change” Amama Mbabazi

I wonder if some has to put a sign or use one of those big posters by the Constitutional Square or the Square in Central Kampala with a giant picture of Amama Mbabazi and have a quote over it saying: “this guy has been missing, if have any information, give it to the proper authorities”. Maybe, then he will reveal himself and actually speak in public. Its like he is paid to be silent, that after a long campaign since 2015 and the takeover of The Democratic Alliance (TDA) under the political umbrella of Go Forward. He just has gone missing after his election petition was dismissed. He had some days of siege and was under house arrest, but he haven’t been vocal. Utter silence. Nothing.

Mbabazi, the former notorious devious character within the National Resistance Movement, the man who was a giant supporter and organizer, the man who fought cases abroad and internally. The man that pushed the NRM in the direction that pleased the President. Was suddenly to ambitious and the man clipped his wings. Not like Gilbert Bukenya will ever play a vital role anywhere. He is a stooge and massive bouncing balls of jello, moving where the envelopes are given. Not sure if the same is now the activity of Mbabazi. But his silence is a statement.

Amama Mbabazi rocked the scene and made himself a viable candidate for many, even got the Democratic Party Norbert Mao supporting his candidacy. Mbabazi seemed like a real contender and used massive funds to use Go Forward and even build up offices around the country. Even as his consultation meetings met the same fortune as the FDC and Besigye. Met with tear-gas and often harassment by the police. He got the taste of the Public Order Management Act (POMA), that he had supported and used against Besigye. So he got the feeling of being on the fringes and standing on guards against his former President and party. Even if he said he was still a member of it. The former Prime Minister and Secretary General of the NRM.

Mbabazi silence on all matters is visible, it is a token of his dying loyalty to Museveni. The man that built him up and later destroyed him. Mbabazi was a loyal subject, but when he started to show ambition, he was thrown to the dogs. That is why Vice-President Edward Ssekandi just existing and not even in the public much. He is just collecting his salary and not saying much, if anything at all. Seemingly, like the outcast Mbabazi.

Mbabazi might do this in solidarity with the President. Just sitting in his home and saying nothing. Not acting, just living and taking care of his spoils. His businesses and whatnot he has. Only mentioning the Uganda Cranes of late, other than that nothing.

We knew you traveled through desert between 2015 and 2016, even passed through a den of thieves and came out with scratches and humiliating results. Still, you didn’t expect fanfare and being called a legend after what you passed while being a NRM cadre and leader?

Let’s be clear, the silence is a token of your loyalty. That is why he doesn’t say or do anything. He is a NRM Member and NRM loyal subject, who still wants to show that to the President. Mbabazi don’t have the character or the guts to do anything else. He wont risk his ill-gained wealth or proposed possible authority, that could be given him at a later stage. Since he knows how the President operates and he is anticipating his next move. Peace.

Age Limit: The Police continues to arrest and oppress Red-Ribbon Consultations across the Republic!

These Age Limit Consultation from the ones who oppose usually leads to their leaders being arrested. The demand for free speech and rallies is insane, but for some strange reasons the Police are not touching Gen. Mughisa Muntu, but the others should be in fear. The ones that easy to mention that has been or still detained somewhere in the Republic on various charges is Patrick Amuriat Oboi, Dr. Kizza Besigye, Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, Ibrahim Kasozi, Ingrid Turinawe, Ibrahim Ngenda-Ssemujju, Erias Lukwago, Robert Kyagulyani and Muwanga Kivumbi. It is a heavy list and heavy-weight, this isn’t all of them who has been behind bars or are still in jail for fighting the lifting of the Age Limit.

The National Resistance Movement and their President are using their force to silence the opposition. All the clear indications of merciless attack on freedom of assembly, free speech and even movement. Are now in the open. The Police are so involved in the matter, that the partisan free police is a relic of the past. They are for some reason giving space to Muntu, but he is a rare flower in the political spectrum in Uganda. Museveni can do as he pleases, the same with the ones that favors the Constitutional Amendment, they can do whatever to push the agenda. The agenda that fits Museveni.

While the ones opposing it will be in trouble, will get detained and get silenced. To say anything else, when you see the record of the police and the havoc they create. They are blocking roads to stadiums, coming with guns and tear-gas. They are coming to stifle the people and intimidate them from assembling. So when Mwenda says this just happens to Besigye, but not Muntu. That is because the NRM needs a precious flower to show the world, while the others are lingering and being under fire.

The IGP Kale Kayihura loyalty to Museveni is so overbearing, that the laws and jurisdiction, the clear impunity and manhandling politics is insane. They are not fighting crimes, but silencing the opposition. This has been going on for decades, but with more striking force. The NRM only has this, because popularity they don’t have. That is well-known, that is why the Besigye and Bobi Wine are getting positive feedback, while its cronies and paid-praise that is spread by the NRM.

Because the Police are banning joint MPs rallies and over County levels that is not the ones they are elected to represent. They are banning so much, even claiming music shouldn’t be into partisan politics. But they can make songs that fits the state needs. It is so ironic and so foolish. The state can do the same, but the opposition cannot.

The Red Ribbons has been outlawed and can be taken away, while the NRM are now wearing Yellow Ribbons, which is okay. It shows their lack of tolerance and respect of the civil disobedience. The ones sticking to the program is allowed, while the rest is silenced. That is the way it is. Not that it is justified, but just how the NRM operates. Be clear, until the dust is settled, until the dusk is coming. There will be dozens more arrested and the opposition will be heavy monitored. The Police will use all means to stop the assembly of the opposition leaders. They have done so and will continue to do so.

So don’t be surprised by the Police vindictiveness towards the opposition and activists, they cannot do anything else. They are ordered to do so. The NRM cannot handle real questions to their authority and their President for Life! Peace.