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Date: May 26th, 2010
Name: Mukiibi
Subject: Ignorant Tom
Comment: People like Tom say what they say because they are worried that the end of the gravy train is in sight. Regardless of what anyone says, M7 has done damage to Uganda that will take years to change. He has ushered a corrupt system which is now engrained in all Ugandan systems be it social, political and even cultural. The patronage system that he has created will take years to be changed. Besides, the national resources that these people have stolen will take years of serious investigation to be
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Date: May 25th, 2010
Name: Rev. Jessica Nakawombe
Subject: Mr. Museveni should retire and spare bloodshed of innocent Ugandans
Comment: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Mr. Museveni should retire before the 2011 Elections. He has become a joke to justice and peace loving Ugandans, Africans and the world at large. USA and Britain have tried to cover him for the last 20 years because of vested interests, but he should retire to spare them the embarassment!. He has become a liability for Ugandans have arisen to condemn him of gross violations of human rights not only in Uganda but in the Great Lakes region!
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Date: May 21st, 2010
Name: tom jabwe
Subject: museveni should retire
Comment: You think Uganda is a colony of USA! Are you aware that Uganda is a sovereign state? You should be proud that we have a President who can stand on his legs and challenge USA and the British. You should come out of the colonial cacoon where you think that without USA UGANDA cannot exist just like Olara Otunnu thinks.
Editor's Note: Tom you must stop imbibing. It's General Museveni who has turned Uganda into a neo-colony of the US and U.K. More than 50% of the government's budget is subsidized by the U.k. and E.U. countries. The army is equipped by the U.K. and U.S. (and trained by the Americans). Former president Bill Clinton orders Museveni into Rwanda in 1990 -and one million civilians end up dead - and then into Congo -and seven million people end up dead. The only irony is that now it's Madame Clinton who is trying to clean up the mess created by Bill Clinton and Museveni
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U.S. Prefer Ugandan Leader To Retire? |
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By Milton Allimadi
05-20-10
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Uganda's Yoweri Museveni--too long in office? |
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[Global: Africa]
Johnnie Carson, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs will ask Uganda's president Yoweri K. Museveni to consider the "long term stability" of the East African country, before next year's presidential elections, The Black Star News has learned.
Asked whether this meant the United States will ask the Ugandan to consider retirement, a U.S. lawmaker said, "President Museveni should consider all options that would ensure Uganda's continued, and long-term stability. Uganda's partners are interested in truly democratic elections."
The lawmaker did not want to be identified.
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, who meets the Ugandan president this week, will also urge Museveni to pave the way for the replacement of his hand-picked Election Commission with a new one, after allowing opposition parties to participate in the appointment of a new Commission, the lawmaker said.
Museveni has been in office since 1986 and for decades had received uncritical backing from the U.S. and the U.K. His government is seen as a useful Western proxy in Africa, for example, supplying thousands of troops to prop the U.S.-backed government in Mogadishu.
U.S. lawmakers were alarmed by the tone of a report issued by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in April in response to a Congressional Directive to Clinton to monitor preparations for the elections, the elections itself, and the aftermath.
In blunt language, Secretary Clinton in her first report said the credibility of the Uganda elections next February was "damaged" since all the members of the Election Commission had been appointed by president Museveni.
The report was also critical of the Uganda government's failure to prepare a credible voter role; allowing the opposition access to media; and allowing the opposition freedom of movement to campaign.
The U.S. State Department tried to block the dissemination of the report, which was published exclusively by The Black Star News. "This report is a privileged communication with Congress," Russell Brooks, a State Department spokesperson had told The Black Star. "The Administration will not publicly release the report."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30655494/Clinton-Report-42710#about
Secretary Clinton is to issue a report updating the status of the election preparations every four months; and a final report one month after the election.
Please post your comments directly online or submit them to milton@blackstarnews.com
"Speaking Truth To Empower."
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