----- Original Message ----- 
From: The Fugee 
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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Mwananchi] Museveni outlines NRM achievements?


Chifu wa wapi?

What achievements have been listed?

What is this restoration of Constitutionalism he is talking about? That a bunch of megalomaniacal people decided to overthrow the Constitutionally elected government by unconstitutional means leading to destruction and devastation where they had reconnoitred and staged the rebellion so as to institutionalise "aims and objectives" which stated: -

"THE ESTABLISHMENT, BY FORCE IF NECESSARY OF A ONE PARTY "POPULAR   DEMOCRACY" IN UGANDA UNDER THE NRM."

This desire for a one Party dictatorship has undergone many cosmetic changes such as calling it "broadbased all inclusive government" to "no Party movement democracy" but the essence has never changed and as such we have a one Party dictatorship.

The Odoki Constitutional Review Commission carried out its consultations when as required by the NRM/NRA REVOLUTION there was a situation where "ONLY THE NRM IS ALLOWED TO OPERATE IN THE COUNTRY SUCH THAT THE OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES, I.E., UPC, DP, CP, AND NLP WILL CEASE TO EXIST AS REQUIRED BY THE REVOLUTION." While the UPDF then known as the NRA were required to "FIGHT[S] FOR AND DEFEND[S] THE REVOLUTION  AT ALL TIMES AND AT ALL COSTS".

Democracy was now "TO BE DEFINED AT ALL TIMES SOLELY BY NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AND THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE ARMY." While the fundamentally recognised human rights and freedoms were now "POLICIES REGARDING SUCH MATTERS AS HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS ETC ETC WILL BE DETERMINED AND FORMULATED SOLELY BY THE NRM AND THE HIGH COMMAND OF NRA. SUCH POLICIES WILL ULTIMATELY BE PASSED BY NRC AND ENFORCED BY NRA."

All these matters were "Constitutionalised" since the Law for Constituent Assembly did not allow for competition and were held under the one Party model. The Uganda Constitutional Court recently declared that the "Movement" another name for the NRM operated as a political Party and not a system which it claimed to have become. It has since registered as a political Party now known as the NRM-O.

It is now almost a year when Museveni claimed though not to have seen the light but was bowing to donor pressure and had now recognised that Ugandans have differing political opinions which find expression through voluntary political associations commonly known as political Parties. The deception can be seen in the fact that rather than returning the rights and freedoms which the NRM/NRA took and purported to lord over, the main thrust of the Constitutional changes are for the removal of the Two Term limit for Presidents.

The Supreme Court has now also ruled that the Law under which a Referendum was purportedly held which is supposed to have "Constitutionally" ushered in the "movement political system" which as seen earlier was a "one Party democracy", then "broadbased all inclusive government" then a "no party system" and now a system which has a state funded "Movement Secretariat" with only ONE registered political Party where all other Parties even when registered are not allowed to operate outside of the Capital, Kampala.

If this is the sort of Constitutionalism which deserves praises, I am either totally mad or that you are heartlessly hypocritical or just being cynical.

If you swallowed the partisan/patriotic army bull***t then you need to look at the Proclamation the NRA made in 1986.

Proclamation No. 1 of 1986 states:

"WHEREAS on the 26th day of January, 1986, the National Resistance Army[NRA], for reasons given in the Statement to the National Resistance Army[NRA] and the National Resistance Movement[NRM] on that day, TOOK over the powers of the Government of the Republic of Uganda and vested those powers in the National Resistance Council[NRC]:"

The NRM/NRA REVOLUTION document defines the following organs as:

     2.1     NRM - POLITICAL WING OF THE REVOLUTION. 

       2.2    NRA - MILITARY WING OF THE REVOLUTION.

             2.1 (a)    NATIONAL RESISTANCE COUNCIL (NRC)
                                = LEGISLATIVE ORGAN OF THE REVOLUTION AT NATIONAL LEVEL

        = MEMBERSHIP BY APPOINTMENT, ALTHOUGH INDIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBERS OF RC V MAY ALSO SIT IN THE NRC.
So when the partisan military took over the powers of the government it gave its reasons to itself and to its political wing and vested those powers in its legislative organ. This situation continued until the enactment of the 1995 Constitution. Under the 1995 Constitution Article 271(1) carried it forward. The Constitutional provisions states: -

"Notwithstanding the provisions of article 69 of this Constitution, the first presidential, parliamentary, local government and other public elections after the promulgation of this Constitution shall be held under the movement political system."

Clearly this should show you that there was in fact "no change" (Museveni's campaign slogan) from what previously obtained albeit a little semantics here and there. 

Article 69 of the 1995 Constitution describes the "political system" which the people of Uganda can adopt but supporters of any other "system" were restricted from any political activities as they still are. Article 271(3) sets out the provisions for a referendum which was purportedly held in 2000. Purportedly because the Supreme Court has annulled the 'law' under which it was held and now throws into doubt the validity of the one-Party elections held in 2001.

Constitutionalising dictatorship is not what we should be doing.

The Fugee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chifu" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:38 PM
Subject: [Mwananchi] Museveni outlines NRM achievements?


> Lisa, Mulindwa, etc..your comments? just lies, propaganda or the 
> truth?
> 
> Here we go..........
> 
> Museveni outlines NRM achievements
>  
> 2004-02-07 23:02:34 
> By Stephen Oumma, PST,Kampala
> 
> 
> Presedent Yoweri Museveni and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda 
> People's Defence Forces (UPDF), has said that the greatest 
> contribution the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has made to 
> Uganda is the restoration of constitutionalism in the country. 
> 
> Museveni was yesterday presiding over the 23rd Tarehe Sita 
> anniversary celebrations that were held at the UPDF headquarters in 
> Bombo, Luwero District. The theme of the celebrations 
> was "Rectification and Rejuvenation of the UPDF". 
> 
> The celebrations were marked by a colourful and spectacular march 
> past parade commanded by Lt. Col. Byarugaba and comprised officers 
> and men of the UPDF, the Uganda Police and Prisons. 
> 
> The celebrations were also witnessed by visiting delegations from 
> Kenya led by the Chief of General Staff General Kibwana, the Chief of 
> Staff of Rwanda`s RPA Major General Kabareebe, the Chief of Logistics 
> and Training of Tanzania's People's Defence Forces Major General 
> Luzire and a delegation from Algeria led by Mohammed. 
> 
> Representatives of the Local vigilantes, namely the Arrow group from 
> Teso sub-region and Amuka group from Lango sub-region, also attended 
> the ceremony. 
> 
> Lt. General Museveni pointed out that after the NRM took over power 
> in 1986, it embarked on the empowerment of the people through 
> elections of RCs. 
> 
> He said that in 1993, the Constituent Assembly was elected to prepare 
> the 1995 Constitution that is now operation. 
> 
> Turning to development, Lt. General Museveni noted that some 
> challenges still remain to be addressed although great achievements 
> have been registered in various areas such as education and health. 
> 
> He also pointed out that there is no army anywhere in the world that 
> has no ideological line. He said emphasis must be placed on politics 
> of patriotism and not partisan politics. He strongly advised officers 
> and men of the UPDF to guard against contracting the deadly HIV/AIDS 
> pandemic. 
> 
> The Minister of State for Defence, Ruth Nankabirwa, reported that the 
> defence policy that will address the needs of the Ministry has been 
> approved by Parliament. 
> 
> She disclosed that the strategic defence review has been completed 
> while the computerization exercise that is aimed at 
> eliminating "ghost soldiers" payment from pay rolls is making good 
> progress. She also announced that a new loan scheme in the UPDF has 
> been set up. 
> 
> Speaking on the same occasion, the Army Commander, Major General 
> Aronda Nyakairima, reported that security in most parts of the 
> country is good adding that LRA banditry incursions would soon be 
> contained. 
> 
> He paid tribute to the Arrow group in Teso and the Amuka group in 
> Lango for the support to the UPDF in fighting the LRA terrorists. He 
> also stressed that the UPDF will remain focussed on its 
> constitutional obligation and ensure the security of the people and 
> their property and the sovereignty of the State. 
> 
> The Vice-President, Professor Gilbert Bukenya, the Speaker of 
> Parliament Edward Ssekandi, cabinet ministers, Military attaches of 
> foreign missions sin Uganda, among others, attended the celebrations. 
> 
> SOURCE: Sunday Observer 
> 
> 
> http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/observer/2004/02/07/5189.html
> 
> 
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