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The Prime Minister Dr. Rugunda Ruhakana has clearly not lost the touch of deception or lying to the International Community for a buck. Here is yet another scheme made up to make the numbers sky-rocket!
“More than 1000 Ugandans living in areas neighbouring Kyangwali refugee settlement were forced to attain refugee status in order to retain ‘ownership’ of their land. The scheme was reportedly crafted by Charles Bafaki, the principal resettlement officer in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Jolly Kebirungi, the camp commandant Kyangwali refugee settlement area, in the newly created Kikuube district and Lutaaya Vianney from ministry of Lands” (URN – ‘OPM forced Ugandans to register as refugees in Kyangwali’ 02.01.2019, link:https://observer.ug/news/headlines/59562-opm-officials-forced-ugandans-to-register-as-refugees-in-kyangwali).
With this in mind, the government are putting lives in jeopardy, making the citizens play as refugees, and not being citizens themselves. Supposed to seek refugee in a camp instead of living their ordinary life. This in a way to get higher numbers of refugees and more need of aid to take care of them. If this isn’t misusing resources and also reckless behaviour against own citizens. Nothing is. This is what Steady Progress means in the NRM land.
The OPM are already known for inflating numbers, but now they cheating also by making Ugandan citizens into refugees. That is really ensuring the UNHCR and all agencies for fools. As the GoU and OPM have no trouble risking their own citizens as pawns in a scheme to secure funding. While, also using this scheme to scare locals of losing their land, if they didn’t play along. That is how far they take it.
No mercy, no problems ensuring suffering for people, as long as the OPM secures more funds to itself. Peace.

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” – St. Francis Of Assisi
When the tallying is done in darkness, when the government are telling the world. Don’t tell us how to do this, but the same government asked again and again for funding to this. They are deliberate in their actions. That Minister Lambert Mende is attacking the foreign media, isn’t strengthening the belief of just count of the ballots. As the days after the polls. As CENI pushed the counting from 2nd January to 6th January for the Preliminary Results. Clearly, a message that the Electoral Commission is busy cooking.
They are over the stove cooking the numbers, so they seem real. As the Internet is blocked for days now and the SMS Services too. They are clearly doing this to stop the transparency of the counting operation. CENI doesn’t want to be questioned and neither the ones in-charge in Kinshasa.
We know something is weird too, when one of the running, the supposed heir, Emmanuel Shadri is promising to not take the Presidential Palace, but rule from the Prime Minister’s Mansion in Kinshasa. If that isn’t a weird, nothing is. As AU EOM and SADC EOM is saying it was smooth. So, they have sort of validated the process. In a way, that the International Community needs. Therefore, recent events shows the dire need for change.
The polls, the ballots are just a show, a mere facade, as the reality is happen afterwards. As CENI is stalling the process. Just like Kabila postponement of it since his term ended. They have pushed and now trying to seal the fate, so that anyone will not question the truth. Mende is busy shielding his associates. CENI is busy finding ways to look credible. While we all know their deal. They are there to serve the heir of Kabila, the man who will continue and let Kabila work in the murky shadow. That is why the President of today, can live in the Presidential Palace, also tomorrow.
We can wonder, if the FCC or the Kabila regiment are thinking of how this looks like. If they think they look smart. They don’t, if they think they can count in darkness and in silence. They are wrong. If they first want to be totally sovereign in this matter, the CENI shouldn’t need foreign funding for their operations, secondly the government shouldn’t need direct donor aid. However, it does and therefore, the state should be less reckless. They should be more diplomatic and think of their actions.
This makes them looks small. This makes them look stupid. CENI, Kabila, Shadari, Mende and all of the people in the inner-circle, are not moving wisely. They are instead, making smoke and we are just awaiting fire. Peace.