We from Uganda salute him and hope others will be able to copy him.   Yet
again, NEVER trust a military man.  He could easily use this as a trick
whereby he could also remove the next civilian leader rule for a short time,
and they (the military) make yet another coup only to say civilians have now
failed, so the military should take over for the "best of the country and of
the people".

It is too early to conclude anything.  Who ever knew Museveni would have
spent even two weeks in power?  - Twenty years are almost over with excuses
after excuses - right now he has forged yet another "three years" after the
coming elections 2006 (which will mean 2009).

What does this tell us?  That the 2006 election is already won before it is
done!  Because, if he wants three more years after the 2006 elections, it
means he is 100% the winner of that election - add three more years to that
and God knows when his quickly army-trained and quickly promoted son will
take over!!!

Best regards
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Sambou" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:14 PM
Subject: Coup Leaders Let a Civilian Become Interim President


> Folks, below is what I call citizens carving out their destiny.  None will
> hold a country hostage to eternity and the people are not going to wait
> until a dictator dies naturally or becomes senile, only to be replaced by
> another dictator.  No, the people are going to effect change and put in
> controls that would send any feature crooked leader to the cage.  This is
> bad news for dictators, for they cannot anymore hide with their loot and
> crimes abroad and they cannot stay in power till their death or sickness.
> Please read on.
>
>
> Coup Leaders Let a Civilian Become Interim President
>
> UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
>
> September 22, 2003
> Posted to the web September 22, 2003
>
> Bissau
>
> The military officers who seized power in Guinea-Bissau a week ago, have
> agreed in principle to let a civilian take over as president of an interim
> government for up to two years while fresh elections are organized.
>
> General Verissimo Correia Seabra, who declared himself acting head of
state,
> told visiting Senegalese interior minister Macky Sall on Sunday that he
was
> willing to step aside to let a civilian become interim president.
>
>
> He also gave the same pledge to Mozambican parliamentary affairs minister
> Francisco Caetano Madeira, who arriived as an envoy of the African Union.
>
> But military leaders remained locked in discussions with the leaders of 17
> political parties on Monday over what form the new government of this
small
> West African country should take and who should become president and prime
> minister.
>
> Sources at the meeting said there was a general consensus that Henrique
> Pereira Rosa, a respected local businessman with no political afiliation,
> should become interim president.
>
> However, opinions were divided over whether Artur Sanha, secretary general
> of the Social Renovation Party (PRS) of deposed president Kumba Yala
should
> become prime minister, they added.
>
> The sources said Sanha was the clear favourite for the job, but some
> participants objected that he was not politically independent. Others
> meanwhile expressed concern over charges that Sanha had killed Florinda
> Baptista, a woman with whom he reportedly had a relationship, while he was
> interior minister in 2001. Sanha was sacked by Kumba Yala soon after her
> death, but court proceedings against him were dropped for lack of
evidence.
>
> Correia Seabra, the chief of staff of the armed forces, ousted Kumba Yala
in
> a bloodless coup on 14 September to prevent this former colony of 1.3
> million people sliding into political and administrative chaos.
>
> Kumba Yala was elected with a strong majority in early 2000, but soon
> alienated most of his former supporters. He dissolved parliament in
November
> last year after it passed a vote of no confidence in him and then delayed
> four times the holding of fresh legislative elections. Kumba Yala also
> engaged in endless cabinet reshuffles and his bankrupt government owed
> soldiers, civil servants, teachers and hospital workers several months of
> pay arrears.
>
> An ad-hoc commission of political leaders and military officers chaired by
> Jose Camnate Na Bissign, the Roman Catholic bishop of Bissau, proposed on
> Friday that fresh parliamentary elections should be held in six months
time
> and presidential elections a year later.
>
> It also recommended that the interim government be held accountable to a
> Transitional National Council, a broad-based council of civilian and
> military representatives which would act as a nominated legislature and
> consultative body until the holding of parliamentary elections.
>
> Sall told the Senegalese news agency APS after meeting Correia Seabra on
> Sunday that he had passed on a suggestion from Senegalese President
> Abdoulaye Wade that the Guinea-Bissau army should establish a military
> watchdog committee to ensure that the transition process was properly
> implimented.
>
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