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Captain Vincent (State House - Entebbe)
After weeks of silence and apparent disengagement from the NSSF Temangalo scandal, president Museveni has now come out swinging on behalf of his security minister Amama Mbabazi.
He not only defended and explained away the illegal acts but went further; those who are seen to be giving evidence unfavorable to Amama are being investigated and could face punitive measures.
The ironies in Museveni-land come so thick and fast that watchful Ugandans should be forgiven for having moments of utter despair.
To help you get a sense of what is happening behind the scenes, today we pull back the curtain just a little, to reveal the murky, hidden world of intrigue and treachery that rules our politics today.
In a show of who is boss, Mbabazi has made Museveni publicly signal which side he is. To borrow an analogy from chess, Mbabazi called a checkmate, which shall be explained as:
Checkmate: To attack an opponent in such a manner that no escape or defense is possible, thus ending the game.
As to why and how this was even possible, we have alluded to in the recent past. Regular readers will recall reports like Muhoozi sounds off on Amama's troubles - 12 Sep 2008 and
The questions and strong chains that bind M7 to Amama - 15 Sep 2008
Without further ado, we invite you to add today's report to this body of information :-
Dear fellow Ugandans and readers of Radio Katwe.
I salute all.
As those of you who keep up with such things know, we have been in western Ugandan where our so-called "revolutionary", the one and only Yoweri Museveni had taken time off to engage in the activity he knows and enjoys most, which is lying.
Our absence made it impossible to make timely updates, for which as always we tender apologies.
There we were in Rukungiri with a person who denounced Dr Besigye for allegedly telling lies "because the president is second to God and a President should not tell lies", but in the same breath himself told a shocking lie that "there is no UPE in Rwanda". I leave it to Ugandans to judge if the same is fit to be their President.
Well, we are back in Entebbe but I will be brief, there is not much time because we have to prepare for the upcoming Heads of State Conference this coming week which will again be a very busy one.
Now I am strongly and permanently against all forms of criminality but allow me to play devils advocate for a moment: from what I have observed in life, I advise those who choose to live a life of crime that it is better to do it alone, otherwise you may end up being a prisoner of your partner(s) (in crime).
For all intents and practical purposes, General Yoweri Museveni the "great warrior", "visionary" and "revolutionary" leader of Uganda is now a prisoner to the so-called "Mr. Clean", one (no army rank) Mr John Patrick Amama Mbabazi.
Before he set off on the tour to mesmerize the people of Rukungiri with his empty talk and lies, Yoweri called for a meeting in the President's office at the Parliament buildings. In attendance were only four people: vice president Gilbert Bukenya, prime minister Apollo Nsibambi, security minister JP Amama Mbabazi and of course the one and only all time revolutionary and "freedom fighter", who as the proceedings later revealed, had badly miscalculated by assuming he could get rid of Amama by forcing him to resign over the Temangalo scandal.
But to his surprise, Amama bluntly told him off to his face and said the only option he was open to was for both of them to resign and retire after 2011 (I gather during our absence some few weeks back when we were in New York, Amama stated that he will only retire when the Revolutionary also retires).
For those of us who have worked closely with these two men, Amama has always been the smarter of the two and since in the larger scheme of things brains ultimately trump brawn, Yoweri needs him more than he needs Yoweri. And of late it appears Amama has become increasingly fed up of playing second fiddle as Yoweri defeans the world with blasts from his own trumpet.
Ugandans should know from today that without Amama's brains, Yoweri is just a mediocre, second or even third rate thinker, and it is Amama ruling the country. Amama has always been the brains behind their schemes as Museveni put his expertise in the use of violence, brute force, raw power, recruitment and deployment of people to execute their plans.
During our days in Fronasa, Amama was always the one bringing up the ideas and doing the planning in his comfortable home in Nairobi whereas Yoweri and the rest of us were busy carrying out the dirty work, living hand to mouth without food and electricity in Tanzania.
As Yoweri was busy chasing people's chickens and stealing cassava from the banana plantations in Moshi (and later the bushes of Luwero), "Mr. Clean" was busy shopping for his sausages and wines in Nakumatt and Uchumi super-markets in Nairobi, as a clear demonstration of his superior status and brain power.
The same happened when we were fighting in the bushes of Luwero. He always told us whenever we visited that we should always appreciate the difference between him "the lawyer with brains" and "Museveni the gunman". Therefore, went the logic, as a man who was doing the thinking, he deserved to live comfortably in a fine apartment in Nairobi as Museveni - the owner of a lesser brain - did the dirty work in the bushes of Luwero. That Ugandans, is "Mr. Clean" for you. Those of us who have been with him for long call him "Mr. Smarts."
Being the smarter of the two Amama noticed at an early stage that he could harness Yoweri's dominant traits and character weaknesses (rife with inferiority complexes, strong tendency to treachery, ruthlessness, cowardice, superstition and greed etc) to his advantage, but was also alert enough to realise that living with a tiger could mean you wake up dead one morning. After all if he could betray, lie and kill with such ease, it was only a matter of time before Yoweri's driving ambition dictated he do away with him too. So he took prudent measures to shield himself against the very characteristics that he found useful in Museveni.
That defensive shield consists in part of a Will in which Amama Mbabazi has instructed a law firm in France to release a dossier containing evidence of all the crimes they both committed, should he die before Yoweri. Ever mindful of Museveni's cunning ruthlessness, the smart lawyer stipulated that even in the case of his death being officially ruled as "due to natural causes", the law firm has a responsibility to release this document.
During the meeting at the Parliamentary buildings, Amama assured Museveni that as president it is his responsibility (and interest) to ensure that he (Amama) remains both a Minister and Secretary General of NRMO, otherwise they go down together. All this was said as VP Bukenya and PM Nsibambi listened in stunned silence, shocked at what they were witnessing.
The so-called "Visionary Leader" thought this scandal was a golden chance to finally sideline "Mr. Clean" but his nemesis has once again outwitted him. Amama's willingness to mention the existence of their darkest secrets in front of Bukenya and Nsibambi indicated he is ready to tell his side of the story. It was to use military analogy, like cocking the gun. "I mean business".
So dear citizen, I hope that now when you see a certain General and "king of kings" jumping up and down moving heaven and earth to save Amama - who as the evidence laid out over these past weeks shows is clearly and beyond reasonable doubt guilty as charged - this snippet of their history will help you make some sense of the otherwise bizarre situation.
"Mr. Smarts" had the last laugh at the end of the meeting. And for those wishing to see him go, he has already told you he is going nowhere, and will only retire when his partner in crime also does so.
Bottom line: Yoweri is a prisoner of Amama and that will remain so till he dies.
Readers Comments:
19 Oct 2008
1.
Dear RK,
I'm an ardent reader of your stories and my recent visit to Uganda just served to strengthen my trust that your stories are true. The rate at which the first family and their cohorts are looting the country is alarming.
In fact it would seem that if Uganda ever had a serious government that cared for the welfare of the citizens and was committed to development, there's enough resources to go round.
Keep up the good work of exposing some of the rot. There's little that can happen to change things unless God Himself intervenes.
Regards,
Tim B
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Dear RK,
Its brilliant of you to enlighten fellow of the rot that is going under their noses unchecked. I belive there is little you can do at this but hand over the batton to the citizens (political leaders and the "balimi". You have brought out the truth about the the two fighting bulls and the stalmate which happened in the president's office.
Then my question comes: Why doesn't the opposition now capitalise on this loophole and mobilise workers who contribute to NSSF to go on strike not until the culprits mentioned in the probe have either been punished or resigned?
Its really ashaming to always read about probe reports that are eventually rubbished by our arrogant leaders who have long lost their sanity. Then can wonder why the brainy juniors who are being led by a university drop out can't even raise a finger against these wrongs and only wait to sound alarms if things go against them. The "PEASANTS" could be more brainy than some of the professors that we have monitoring the country being eaten to ruins by a semi-illiterate.
Prof Apollo Nsibambi lied under oath, Prof Gilbert Bukenya said he was having mafias against him but he can't be modest by resigning to avoid the mafias and currently one senile being paid lump sums of people's money yet he is long past the contribution age.
There is no way we can find peace without putting an effort because i know we are not willing for another round of blood shed in Ug. A strike would paralyse the country and at least something would start forming up. Mark you "The bigger the jigger is, the easier to remove it".
Please RK, start up a mobilisation drive through this media, never know it could be a source of liberation of the country. No guns, but thru people's power.
Thanks RK
OC. Wilson
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Dear RK,
Please accept my message of congratulations for yet another well investigated and predicted outcome of the bull fight between two evil bulls in the kraal. I am referring to your article entitled "Amam Mbabazi checkmates Museveni", dated 19/10/08, and the three other previous articles on this subject, especially the one entitled, "The question and strong chains that binds M7 to Amama" dated 15/09/08. To use a chess parlance again, nice to see that his "bishops" were powerless to prevent the checkmate, as it will most probably be the case, come the day of reckoning. May I add that when (not if) this evil regime collapses; RK will have singlehandedly brought about our liberation without firing a shot, just by the stroke of a pen, as it were!
I must also register my support for to the two patriotic commentators on this topic, one Tim B and O.C Wilson, respectively.
You revealed in your article that, "Amama Mbabazi has instructed a law firm in France to release a dossier containing evidence of all the crimes they both committed should he die before Museveni. ... even in the case of his death being officially due to natural causes". I must admit that such ingenious idea could not have been revealed to Amama Mbabazi by man but by the supreme boss of the underworld, the prince of darkness. A brilliantly conceived idea! I must take off my hat for him, not for his successful looting of our resources and the killing of thousands of our gallant citizens, whose presence might have changed the course of the destiny of this country, but for successfully wrong-footing the one who has recently crowned himself second to God.
What struck me most was that there is a cunning resemblance of Mbabazi's escape plan to a similar incidence in Roman classical history: This notorious Roman Emperor immediately on ascending to his throne set out to rid Rome of all fortunetellers to the surprise of all his citizens. The reason was off course was not because the pagan emperor was more upright than the others before him, but because Rome in those days was awash with stories of, conspiracies, intrigue, regicides, backstabbing, mysterious deaths by poisoning, etc. just as it is today in the court of Emperor Yoweri Kaibanda (aka Kaguta) Museveni, pm(post Mayombo). Unfortunately for the Roman Emperor, those soothsayers were notoriously accurate at their predictions of deaths of their leaders and major future events in the courts of imperial Rome . The Emperor was so scared of his future that he set out to banish the culture of gossips in Rome. For fear of their lives Roman Senators and stalwarts moved with their eats and drinks, plus a "pinch of salt (anti-dote)", just likes our MPs and big-wigs in Uganda today!
On coming to power the Emperor lost no time. He ordered that the most famous, (or notorious) soothsayer in the city to be brought before him. The man was quickly dragged before him. The Emperor, who was about to put the soothsayer to death, wanted to test if the soothsayer knew what was about to happen to him; teasingly he asked the soothsayer, "What more predictions do you have?" Before he could answer back he went on to add, "tell me. What is your fate?" Shaking with fear the soothsayer answered, "As I stand before you Lord, I am in grave danger". Then tell me, the Emperor roared, when do you think you will die?" Quick witted as he was, the soothsayer answered humbly, "only days before your own death, my Lord". Shocked by this prediction, the Emperor realized that he could no longer risk bringing about the death of this soothsayer, whose own death is now so inextricably linked with his own. Therefore it became in his own interest to ensure that the man outlived him! Thus the soothsayer became the most protected man in the sate of Rome .
So by drawing this very, well crafted and witty will, a lesser warlock Amama Mbabazi has not only bequeathed a strange testamentary disposition, worthy of a place in law (Succession ) text books, but he has also bought for him cast iron insurance, against the mighty Lucifer. If only the fallen NRM stalwarts took up this type of insurance policy, they might still be with us today. Those who are still alive would do well to take up this type of "Mbabazi" insurance policy.
R K Fan
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