FRAUD ALERT!
These 5 Honourable colleagues (Joyce Bagala, Kakembo Mbwatekamwa, Juliet Kakande, Lumu Richard & Najjuma Sarah) obtained an invitation in my name from some organization in Kenya, for them to attend some random workshop in Mombasa next month for 2 weeks. One MP even lobbied for his name to be added using a pen after the letter was received by them.
They then forwarded it to the Speaker for clearance for them to be facilitated for the 2 weeks trip.
The challenge is that they didn't inform/consult me that they would use my name to obtain this invitation, so they impersonated me. Even more problematic, the list includes an NRM MP (Najjuma Sarah-Nakaseke Woman MP) on the "Opposition delegation" which apparently is to be led by myself as LOP.
All this while, I had no knowledge about this supposed trip or the entire scheme of these members, until I somehow landed on this letter.
Why would "Honourable" members choose to behave fraudulently like this!!
Someone commented about Kyambogo Guild President Politics. He said:
"Naye lwaki tebajja Politics mu masomero?"
Someone replied on his comments like:
"Ignorance is part of you Sir."
WHAT A HUMBLE SAVAGE!!
Ugandan Journalists, you are 5 years too late. That boycott should have happened a long time ago. And: If you want to do it, just do it. Don't announce. Problem is you will want to eat the little crumbs given to you in form of Transport and Per Diem.
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT
Mr President,
Much of what was said during your address last night could also be true, but it misses the point in the debate over UCDA and coffee. Much of your effort was put on showing how UCDA is incompetent and corrupt. About its corruption, I have indeed heard about much of what was testified by the people who spoke alongside you. I have also witnessed some of it in my village in Masaka. Many people in the coffee growing villages actually know it. But they will also tell you that they’ve changed from practices such as drying coffee on the bare ground, mixing coffee with stones to boost weight, picking raw coffee, etc due to ‘harassment’ by UCDA.
You conveniently avoided talking about the several initiatives that have died in the hands of the Ministry of Agriculture. Go to the villages and ask farmers whether/how the Ministry of Agriculture is present in their farming. Why did you have to take the army into NAADS? Wasn’t it after acknowledging that the Ministry (civilians) had failed it? How about now? In short, your evaluation was very prejudiced, dressed in confirmation bias, thus shrewdly selective. Yet moving from UCDA to the Ministry might only be like the journey from the mortuary to the cemetery. A cannibal can’t be the one to save me from a witch.
But that’s not my main point. First, you should have asked yourself why many people are resisting your move. Perhaps you did, but you limited yourself to a small part of the answer. You seem to think that coffee farmers are simply being misled by politicians and Mengo (in Buganda). This implies that you doubt the judgement of the farmers. They can’t make informed decisions on their own, they are just swayed like twigs in wind. That’s a wrong assumption.
The actual problem you are faced with is that of TRUST. Every passing day, fewer Ugandans trust your government. And you surely know the cause, but you avoid it because you are now captive to it - having left it to grow over the years for your conveniences. It is THEFT. It is grand theft. It is long fingers.
You surely know that you reign over a grossly thieving uncaring government. Having witnessed the blatant thieving that accompanies almost every initiative you passionately defend, do you expect people to trust your motives another time? It is the reason why everything you start now, even in good faith, people will be asking: ‘What do they want to steal this time?’
No amount of force is going to fix this public attitude. No number of speeches is going to change the public’s opinion over government projects. And, unfortunately, even if you shove Bills down the nation’s throat at gunpoint, without their cooperation, those Bills won’t work. They can only help facilitate more thieving, but not improve the wellbeing of those they’re forced onto.
Just reign in on your known thieves, if you still can (I doubt). Simply announcing good intentions while the public doesn’t see them in action against their exploiters won’t solve anything. It will only make you feel good for having asserted yourself.
Poor people have been alienated from Lakes under your watch. My village is close to a once booming landing site called Ddimo. We used to enjoy fish during my childhood. Now, most locals only hear about fish and watch trucks (firiigi) taking them away for export. Do you call this development no matter what it might add to the GDP figures you love?Would such people feel that you care for them, and that you are now extending your hand into coffee in good faith? For almost everything that generates incomes and facilitates livelihoods, when the hand of your government is extended into it, it is often to alienate the communities in it and capture it for a few special greedy ones around you.
Mr President, it is this side of the coffee debate that you either do not see or have chosen to ignore. Some of us actually don’t really care about UCDA, we only worry about something worse.
Jimmy Spire Ssentongo
@ISABIRY03199256 @SpireJim Joe, they (Moslems) gave food (fish). You (Joe), go give them the ability to make food. You can't judge one giver when you haven't given anything at all.
@eddykenzoficial@KagutaMuseveni Shut up! You didn't look at population relatively, neither did you ask where all the production goes. To Rwanda. Now you know. Did your wife copy and paste for you?
@FrankGashumba You day you are Ugandans 100%. And in the same breath you say you are Banyarwanda. Can you settle with one please, as you even gave the percentage that leaves no room for another?
We should give flowers to this MP. We need more that do not sacrifice people’s concerns at the alter of trips.
Which constituency does he represent? Thanks to those voters.
@nickopiyo@SpireJim@JoelSsenyonyi Poor Joel!
You guys acquire houses by Bluetooth. You don't even know where they are located. That's positive witchcraft which the redundant payroll bloggers and spin doctors should use to get themselves mansions. Such reverse exposè!!🙆♀️
@Mutamba256 @DailyMonitor Who asked him to rule for 40 years? It is not like we want him to. He is imposing himself on us and thus, he takes the trophy of the worst.
@AnitahAmong And also stop bullying MPs. They don't belong to you. You don't own them. Speak with dignity and integrity. You shut them up as if they are your children. You don't look good in that dictatorial garment. Use REASON, not EMOTIONS.