September 2011
Paesants in suits should not be allowed to sign away Ugandans future!
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 10:23am
Dear Nina,
Things are moving really fast! I knew your guys were way out of your depth and things would spiral out of control! These days, every new day brings a new surprise! I wonder whether Uncle Kaguta sleeps at all these days as it seems like everyone is on strike against him! And the only response is the old bush responses -we shall crush them!
I told you that daddy dear was handed a poisoned chalice! How he gets out of this one will determine whether daddy has a political future or not! I am sure that he too would like to sit in the chair but all evidence suggests that by the time Uncle Kaguta is through with him, he will be made to look incompetent like Nsibambi and Bukenya before him! That is if his loyalty is not rewarded by being dragged through the courts on corruption charges in order to insure that he never makes any political comeback! You know these too have now become a political tool to be used selectively against those that the president wishes to destroy or no longer finds useful! I hope daddy has got eyes in the back of his head!
I wonder how daddy dear is getting on with those Tullow people who ‘reported’ him to the American embassy and sought to have sanctions imposed against him for according to them being corrupt! You know Wikileaks outed the sneaky Tullow weasels who sought to manipulate the American embassy and American foreign policy in their favour by claiming that daddy had been bribed by another company against their interests! One wonders is American embassy policy in Kampala run by the interests of corporate interests? Is this not a form of corruption?
Of course the corruption and hypocrisy of Tullow is revealed in the fact that they used this piece of information for blackmail and leverage in their bid to gain an advantage against another company they claimed had bribed the prime minister! If they were really genuine, they should have turned over this information to our IGG for further investigation and charges! It is a pity that your incompetent NRM government continue to be pawns manipulated by these foreign companies and embassies for their gain at the expense of Ugandans!!!
The Bunyoro oficials are squabbling over a few peanuts thrown to them by Tullow! Shouldn’t Tullow and Heritage be paying taxes instead of demeaning our people with peanuts as “charity”? Shouldnt they be paying suitable royalties when they start exploiting our oil? http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1229858/-/bjrxj4z/-/index.html
Shouldn’t Ugandans be rising up against these predatory foreign businesses here to fleece off Ugandans?
How can a foreign company after making billions off Ugandan resources decline to pay capital gain tax?
Is there any country in the world where they would be llowed to operate without paying taxes? Did they bring any oil to Uganda?
Now our poor brethren in Bunyoro are squabbling over peanuts while the thieves in Tullow and Heritage bask in the reflected glow of being “donors”!!!
The poor Omukama was recently in London hat in hand seeking audience with Tullow officials. Shouldnt it be the other way round?
While the shareholders of Tullow and Heritage are already cashing in on Uganda’s oil, Ugandans are yet to see a cent! And between them and out thieving and incompetent government, which has already spent the expected windfall on baubles and modern beads and mirrors aka fighter jets, Ugandans will never see a cent!
How does our government get away allowing foreigners to fleece Ugandans on its watch? How does Mehta get away without paying tax for 26 years while receiving government subsidy and is even offered more of our natural resources for his benefit? How did Umeme get away with the clauses in its contract that guarantee it earnings regardless of its performance while making it virtually impossible for the government to demand its compliance with the terms of its contract or terminate it of it failed to deliver as it has?
How does Tullow and Heritage even dare to suggest that they can make a profit of billions of dollars for their foreign shareholders but Ugandans whose oil and environmental health they are selling are not entitled to a cent?
And how does our government get away with allowing foreigners to get away with contracts that favour them even in something so clear as capital gains tax? Where is the ethics, the morality, the social justice in western companies coming to steal from third world people? For this type of corporate behaviour has got to be called what it is -robbery!
How will Africa ever develop when western companies continue to steal their resources in modern white collar crime?
Whoever signed up Uganda to these contracts with Tullow and Heritage that allow them to even argue over an issue like paying tax on their windfall really need to be sacked! Better still they should be sued for negligence and corruption! Politically, someone should pay for this glaring omission! Who allowed these companies to get away with including a clause that demanded that disputes would be arbitrated in London on Ugandan resources?
How do we continue to claim sovereignity when we cannot even demand taxes from foreigners exploiting us?
These kind of skewed relationships allow Europeans and Americans to continue posing as donors while failing to mention that if they did not put their corporate interests first and paid fair price for African resources as well as stopped propping up dictators who allowed them to get away with daylight robbery, Africans would be able to enjoy more benefit from their resources and depend less on their “charity”!
Tullow should continue to contribute to the Kingdom of Bunyoro as a part of its corporate and community responsibility! But their charity should be rejected if its at the price of not paying tax on capital gains made by exploiting Ugandan resources.
Ugandans need to take these issues seriously and demand that the government reveal the details of the oil contracts with these exploitative foreign raiders out to rob Ugandans. Ugandans should take a greater interest in how many foreign companies are not paying tax and name and shame them as well as sanction them!
This government has once again proven itself to be incompetent in allowing Ugandan interests to be overidden and be made subservient to those of foreigners!!!
As for the foreign western press that is itself an extension of western imperial and corporate interests, who are always warning Africans against dealing with China because it supposedly has lower ethical standards, where are they when such stories of exploitation by western companies break? Would a chinese company really be allowed to get away with refusing to pay capital gains to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (almost 500 million dollars) without it becoming a newsworthy item on BBC, FOX news or CNN?
Experience has shown that Ugandans cannot leave it to the peasants in suits in the NRM government to sign away our future in exploitative contracts to foreign companies!
Oil contracts need to be made public!
Banange what has Nagenda been drinking?
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 10:18pm
My dearest Nina,
It has been a while since I last wrote you two letters in one day but events are moving so fast, I couldn’t contain my love for you today!
I really need to share my excitement! You see as I have told you before I am well and truly a seer! And none other than old man Nagenda has crowned me one!
You see I grew up reading Nagenda’s column! Whenever my dad came home the first thing I got off him was all of the days papers!
For a while now I have been wondering what happened to the word smith I grew up reading. in his place was this sycophant writing inane things in support of every whim of the man in the hat however off the hook it maybe! A hired hack, he descended to the depths and could not be distinguished from the ‘dregs of society’! It is ironical that he chose this phrase to describe good Ugandans who disagreed with his bosses ongoing abuse of Ugandans and their goodwill!
Interestingly old man Nagenda is now speaking like a rat and a cockroach! His language in his recent interview in the monitor suggests that he has spent too much time with dregs of society! He actually sounds like he was criticising the man in the hat! Is that allowed? I thought all vision came from the man in the hat and all are just supposed to follow suit! Isnt that the meaning of autocratic?
I wonder what the cause of Nagenda’s epiphany could have been! Is it perchance his age catching up? Or is it that he has realised he is not really adding any value and no really cares about his ramblings anymore? Is this a crisis of conscience or an attemt at getting some relevance back?
I noticed that he used his five minutes of fame to criticise everyone! I loved the one about that mukiga Otafiire! When is that one going to go back to his ducks and goats! After mismanaging the Ministry for Environment, he was posted to the ministry of Justice! The man in the hat really holds Ugandans in contempt! How could he appoint a man who has previously made it clear he despises the law and the judiciary to head the Ministry of Justice?
He even threw a jab at daddy dear! Mbu daddy dear ‘sees his job as doing what the old man in the hat wants’!!! Now that is below the belt too! I could think of a few choice words to translate this but I will hold my tongue! I may have to sleep on the couch, he he he!!! Mbu no one can stand up to the man in the hat! I wish that Nagenda was telling us something we do not already know!
I wonder why Nagenda has decided to come out now! Could he be doing the man in the hats bidding once again? If the man in the hat has chosen this way to signal his retirement to his goats and ducks, then it is an interesting way! But surely he is not going to run away now like that George Bush and leave his mess to be cleaned up by someone else!
He he, I was most amused by that jab aimed at Tamale Mirundi! everyone knows the guy is a dunce but did he have to say so out loud? Now the man who brought us ‘bolo kontulo’ is going to be mouthing off for weeks! I wonder why Museveni surrounds himselef with these unmuzzled attack dogs! In the past it used to be one Kakooza Mutaale! Nagenda as good as said that Tamale is an idiot!!! And the tone with which he said that suggests that that would be an insult to idiots!!! Banange! The man does not have a kakumunta!!! Me at least when I insult a man I kubika bika ko!
Nagenda confirms one thing that the whole country knows -that the man in the hat listens to no one! And I really do believe him! If you do not wait and see who comes out to resolve mabira, Makerere, the dispute with teachers, who will contradict the KCCA Executive director on the expulsion of hawkers from the city! Anyone could tell you that this management style is old hat and innefficient!
What do the minsters do? What exactly is the role of the NRM caucus except to act as a rubber stamp to the whims of the man in the hat? Will they grow some spine this time? Will we hear someone initiate a bill to bring term limits back? I notice that Nagenda stayed away from that one! What does he know that we do not?
Naye banange let me ask! Nagenda says that he ‘put himself’ on katebe! I interprete that to mean that he withdrew his services dsite not having resigned yet still drawing a salary and using government perks. Is that not a form of corruption? For him to be drawing government emoluments while not delivering a service? Nevermind for the last few years he has not really been doing his job of “advising’ as he had no access to his boss and no one listened to him! Honourable men in this situation would resign their positions and throw their hat in! Is Nagenda a homourable man?
But seriously, I would really like to know what illegal substance Nagenda has been imbibing so I could get some for myself! I swear I may even give up being a teetotaller who imbibes no intoxicant!
I am going to get me a ringside seat and watch the catfight betwen Nagenda and Tamale Mirundi! This is bound to get interesting!
I told you before the rats are deserting the ship! http://ddembe.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/letter-to-nina-when-rats-start-to-desert-a-sinking-ship/ Anyone in the know knows what that means -Museveni’s ship is sinking!
And Nagenda is just another rat getting out while he can!
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The rats are burning down the house!
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 8:59am
Dear Nina,
Munange I had to wake you up to share in this cinema! My grandmother would say of the situation between Nagenda and his insubordinate subordinate, that “obukokolo bugeyaana”! The clowns are continuing to entertain and Iam buying me a whole popcorn making machine!
Tamale is quoted as saying that, “Mr Tamale says the senior spin doctor has fallen out of favour; is rarely asked to give opinion on any matter and his choice of a newspaper he once tormented to criticise the Head of State shows he is a weakened man without access to the President.”Surely this upgrades me from a seer to a prophet! As in the past, I would not be surprised if suddenly Nagenda’s bank forecloses on an outstanding loan. Standard modus operandi!
Tamale admits that he is not really a full bottle but he comes back with salvo! I need to check, is Uncle Museveni really at home? The house staff appear to be pulling the house down and I must admit we are all entertained! Like Kayihura who went on riot with less entertaining results and like the rest of the country, the State House staff appear to be on strike!
As Nagenda said, the emperor is naked -ouch! I have been saying that for a long time but boy is it good to finally see an emperor’s counselor confirm it after years of him telling the emperor that his was the finest cloth in the world? If this was Ssekabaka Mwanga, some pages would be burnt at the stake!
Only a few weeks ago, Nagenda called Museveni’s critics the scum of the earth and dregs of the earth! But now he has joined them and a glorified scum of the earth and former subordinate, Tamale is reading him the riot act for ‘being frustrated”! Mbu he was broke and was given a job to help him pay school fees! Kyokka banange! Tebagwa! Abaana abobukadde yali abazalira ani?
Tamale reveals what we already knew -that this government and president is really taking Ugandans for a ride! Quote, “Spokesman Tamale Mirundi, whom Mr Nagenda said neither had the right upbringing nor fine brain to speak for the President, called this newspaper yesterday to say Mr Nagenda’s appointment was to help him get some perks for his “welfare purpose”. “What is the seniority in advising a President? Senior or junior adviser, you are all the same. Appointment as a presidential adviser is political for welfare purposes,” he said.
According to Mr Tamale, the President in most cases appoints people his advisers when he is told of their financial difficulties, including inability to pay children’s school fees.”
Seriously, does the job description of “presidential advisor” include needing welfare? Isn’t this waste of taxpayer money on armies of ‘advisors’ who do nothing to earn their keep? Is it not an insult to Ugandans that the president hands out perks and huge salaries to cronies for “welfare purposes”? Of course the fact that Tamale Mirundi says this is proof of his inferior intellectual acumen! This is a sackable offence! Does he clear anything that he says or is he allowed to just mouth off “kigere kimbadde” like the village soccer teams? Does he even understand what he just said?
Tamale adds further of his boss that, “Coming out in the media means you are a reject. It’s like a jilted lover making noise in public about her husband’s evils but said nothing bad during good times.” Of course we know that Nagenda is frustrated. I await Nagenda’s response to this slight on his honour. I still do wonder when Nagenda started to see things the way all of us see them!
Mbu, ““That I am arrogant is true and I know it because I was not inducted into Baganda social norms. I was brought up independently and I am a liberal.” says Tamale! Now did Tamale grow up on Mars? How can he insult Baganda by implying that those “not brought up on Baganda social norms” whoever those maybe, are rude and abnoxious like himself? His use of the words independent and liberal are of course incorrect and certainly cannot be used to refer to him just like his use of the word ‘intellectual’ to refer to himself! As they say, kakyama mameera!
This exchange has just started. Am waiting for the next installment from Nagenda and various other apparatchiks!!!
Banange Mukula is really raining on Museveni’s party!
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 8:29pm
Banange Nina dear,
Kale nga ekuba omunaku tekya! Now I know why your eyelid was twitching!! Its like all the Gods are lined up against Uncle Kaguta!
Can you imagine after that duo of psycophants Nagenda and Tamale came out with a slugfest in the media that promises to be even more entertaining over the next few days, Mukula now comes in with a wikileaks “leakage” to beat all leakages!!!
First was old man Nagenda mixing up his guiness with I do not know what! Whatever it is it must be illegal and am very sure that Uncle Kaguta will soon be tabling a bill to make it illegal just like he plans to ban the right to bail and a fair trial!!! Then came in Tamale -Mirundi to prove that the aspersions cast upon his intelligence by Nagenda were actually true! I am very sure there are a few people in government wishing the man had shut his trap and not showed us what was in his brain!! But Nagenda’s ramblings did do us a public favour -they confirmed that the emperor is really naked! Not that we did not already know that! Everyone who does not need glasses has been able to see this for a while -and I do need glasses but even I have been able to see this!
You know after that man Kayihura tried to bring down the government by ordering his policement to go on riot, a lot of people have come out to talk! First were the Bakiga -Kanyeihamba and that man who runs the bank and has been giving our money to Basajjabalaba as well as releasing it for dodgy projects like buying votes Mutebile! You see Mutebile saw the pile of cards toppling down and sought to distance himself by getting the first word in! But by now we all know what he saw -the total collapse of the economy! Now Kayihura is quiet and his deputy Turyagumanawe has become the fall guy! Rwego too was sacrificed along the way!!!
I have no idea where Mukula is going to hide himself after the most recent wikileaks revelation! I can see those GAVI scandal trials that were on hold suddenly being reinstated! Could he perchance be the first victim of those anti bail laws that Uncle Kags wishes to introduce?
I really laughed when I saw the part where Mukula fancies himself president in 2016! Banange ka nesekere kko, muzukulu wa Gabunga! The man sounded like he was auditioning for the post of president -to the American embassy!
He did make some revelations that are interesting even though they are obvious! It is obvious that the prosecution of former Vice President Bukenya was a case of selective prosecution. The real question of course was why. In my opinion that I have already stated several times here, it is to ensure that Bukenya has a criminal record and can never stand for president in future -effectively eliminating a potential rival for the post of president as well as a potential challenger within the NRM! Mukula confirms this several times.
He then plays a regional gamble that is going to backfire in his face big time with his comments regarding Odinga! After this wikileak, his name for all its worth is mud on both sides of the border!
I do agree with him about the significance of the 2009 Buganda riots. If there was one sign of impending trouble, it was those riots. Who knew that Ugandans could spontaneously erupt in that way -not in Gulu but in Kampala! And events since during the walk to work have shown that the NRM is sitting on a boiling hot cauldron, ready to errupt at short notice without warning!
I can see that your daddy is stirring up just such a cauldron in threatening teachers with getting sacked if they do not report to work today! Anyone who has worked everyday for the last 25 years for less than 200,000 like teachers have is fed up and is an angry man looking for a spark! While you people in the NRM have been feeding yourselves and awarding yourselves fat salaries and perks as well as selling yourself everything that can move as well as some that cannot move, many Ugandans have been eating patriotism and hoping for a break! I think the prime minister like Kayihura did is about to find out what true peoples power means!!! http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1230474/-/bjcqliz/-/index.html
The recent strikes in all sectors are an interesting pattern. Coupled with the riots as well as the recent ‘desertions’ of the NRM ship by spooked rats like Nagenda, a pattern seems to emerge that confirms that the centre can no longer hold! The wolves are smelling blood and circling their prey soon will be attacking! do you think that it is coincidence that we are being drip fed on the wikileaks files? From your own rather interesting revelations to Mukula’s recent ones! I await the next wikileaks instalments from Muhwezi and Bukenya among others!
As I have said before, the rats are deserting the ship! At the very least, they are spooked! And the emperor is naked! And the peasants are restless!
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09KAMPALA1096.html