KANUNGU SET FOR ADYNAMIC CHANGE COME 2010/11-2016 GENEGRAL l

BY; RWEBISHENGYE LAWRENCE BYAMUKAMA TO CONTEST FOR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REPRESENTING KINKIIZI EAST 2011-2016 Lawrence is an inspirational and transformational leader with high level of liveliness on personal development. He has been interviewed on BBC radio live, East African Television & Radio , about his life and how east African youth can live to their full potential respectively , Africa Report and has as well been speaking to university students both in Tanzania and Uganda. He is currently authoring a book on personal development to be released soon. He has done several vedio and audio interviews with AIESECERS from different countries about his unique background that has propelled him to be where he is today. He is a result driven professional. He holds an honors bachelors degree of business administration from Makerere University. He is among the founders and currently serving as the spokesman Kanungu Graduates association (KAUGRA) started in 2006. A professional association which includes many prominent Graduates and Undergraduates from Kanungu District . He is as well an alumni of AIESEC, a non – political, independent, not for profit organization, run by students and recent graduates of higher education. Its members are interested in world issues, leadership and management. It values activating leadership, enjoying participation, striving for excellence, demonstrating integrity, living diversity and acting sustainably. Until recently on his return to Uganda from his thrilling 1.5 years AIESEC exchange experience in Tanzania . where he participated in a global learning environment with other interns from US, Europe, Africa and Asian origins and this has challenged his world view .He has been appointed to be Board member for AIESEC MUBS . After several contributions to Tanzania at University of Dar es salaam where he has been as first country coordinator who introduced xpress success forums in Tanzania, UDBS inspirational days, contributed tremendously to the launch of University of Dar es salaam Business School. He also helped in branding and marketing the association to over 5,000 members who have settled all over the world. He has held several leadership positions including right away at a young age in high school with now 12 years experience; Hon GRC (Guild representative member/ MP) -Bachelor of business administration Makerere University Business School He became a pioneer as the first year student to be voted as speaker Bakiga students association Makerere University He was very instrumental in organizing the dynamic Career Guidance in Kanungu District visiting most high schools and using other medias like radio. When he was the vice chairperson Kinkiizi Makerere University Students association Executive Member under the ministry of Health students’ guild Makerere University Business School Currently working in a great diverse team at EAGM (East Africa Glassware ware Mart U ltd) in charge of corporate customers/Leisure and Hospitality industry. We are the partner of choice for all Hotel, Bar and Restaurant tableware table top suppliers in East Africa. After several calls to come back to his country by the great giants of kanungu such that he can represent them come 2011 for a new, strong and United Kanungu District. He made a tough decision and came back to Uganda in 2009 to continue with preparations for a new Kanungu .With a 12 year experience in leadership , he has confirmed that he is ready for the challenge and he expects a healthy competition and the people will decide. He will run as an independent candidate though many parties support their ideologies. With his team ,they are committed to make Kanungu to be one of the best modal districts in East Africa in terms of democracy, education, health, Trade and commerce, agriculture, environmental conservation, youth empowerment and jobs creation. bf.lawrence@yahoo.com Rwebishengye Byamukama Lawrence on facebook +256-782-556-078/ +256-702-431-313 May God bless Kanungu and the whole world, For God and my country

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Museveni must go, says Kanyeihamba

President Museveni, in power since 1986, is way past his sell-by date and shouldn’t stand at the next election if Uganda’s political stability is to be guaranteed, a Supreme Court judge and former political ally has said. In the final part of an interview with Daily Monitor, Justice George Wilson Kanyeihamba, a former Attorney General who retires from the bench in November, said Mr Museveni had reached his “academic political ceiling”. Justice Kanyeihamba said: “I must be honest and say President Museveni is exhausted. I won’t talk much about his exhaustion but the evidence is clear; when you see him on TV, when he is in meetings, you see the man is totally exhausted.” Mr Kanyeihamba’s comments come after President Museveni, who is preparing to stand for his fourth election in 2011, told MPs from his National Resistance Movement party that he was yet to identify a suitable successor from within the party’s top officials. The Supreme Court judge’s comments are likely to draw a strong response from President Museveni who has always insisted, especially as he worked to lift the two-term limit on the presidency in 2005, that he should be allowed to remain in office for as long as most Ugandans vote for him. Senior NRM officials have also repeatedly said the decision of the party’s presidential candidate should be left to its members and their delegates’ conference. Whereas President Museveni’s supporters say he has achieved political stability, economic growth and improved standards of living, his critics argue that many of those gains are being lost as the government’s attention shifts to regime survival. In the final part of the interview that has been serialised in this newspaper since Monday, Justice Kanyeihamba accuses President Museveni of personalising the achievements of the NRM government, and failing to build institutions and groom suitable successors to take over the party and the country. Justice Kanyeihamba, who is set to retire after 13 years on the bench, was the brains behind the extension of the NRM government in 1989 as well as part of the team in the Constituent Assembly that helped draw up the Constitution. He fell out with the government after he started openly criticising its governance credentials – the reason, he says, he was blocked from two prestigious jobs at the African Court of Human and People’s Rights and as Chief Justice of the Republic of Seychelles – and was one of three judges who ruled, unsuccessfully, for the annulment of the disputed 2006 election.

Great Leaders ;Nyerere fit to be a saint -Museveni!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nyerere fit to be a saint — Museveni Monday, 1st June, 2009 E-mail article E-mail article Print article Print article Mkapa, Lwanga, Baharagate and Magige after the prayers. Behind them are President Museveni and First Lady Janet Mkapa, Lwanga, Baharagate and Magige after the prayers. Behind them are President Museveni and First Lady Janet By Raymond Baguma PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has supported the ongoing campaign in the Catholic Church to have former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere recognised as a saint. The campaign to bestow sainthood on Nyerere began on January 26, 2006 when the Vatican accepted a request from the Bishop of Musoma in northern Tanzania to canonise the late leader. The Vatican then granted him the title of ‘Servant of God.’ Museveni yesterday praised Nyerere for uniting the different religious groups in Tanzania and advancing Swahili as a common language to unite the ethnically diverse country. Today, Tanzania is the most peaceful country in Africa with no civil wars, Museveni observed. He was speaking during special prayers, held at Catholic Martyrs’ shrine in Namugongo, for the beatification of the late Mwalimu. Mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, and Bishop Emeritus Edward Baharagate. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was among the dignitaries present. The Nyerere family was led by the widow, Maria Gabriel Magige. The family and many Tanzanians donned scarves with Kiswahili messages calling for Nyerere’s canonisation. They also wore uniform wrappers. The choir from Marian Faith Healing Centre in Dar-es-Salaam sang Kiswahili hymns. After mass, Museveni narrated his first meeting with the former leader when he was still a student at Dar-es-Salaam University in 1968. “He was blessed with extraordinary wisdom and compassion for the oppressed. He loved freedom and unity for all people, and he was a fearless freedom fighter.” He said during the 1970s, Nyerere supported freedom movements in Vietnam, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, Namibia as well as Uganda. Museveni also pointed out that Nyerere’s role was instrumental in the restoration of peace in Burundi. “He was like the Ugandan martyrs who stood for truth against sin; even at the expense of their lives. I join those who are praying for the canonisation of Mwalimu as a saint. He was not only a freedom fighter, he was also a man of God.” Mkapa, who was Tanzania’s third President, praised the fact that Nyerere always remained humble. “I stayed with him from 1966 until his passing away. He was a leader of the independence struggle. He abhorred being worshiped. He knew he was human and lived like any other being.” Prayers for Nyerere’s canonisation, organised by the widow, have been conducted at the Namugongo shrine since 2007. Hundreds of Tanzanian, Kenyan and Rwandan pilgrims are currently in the country to commemorate Uganda Martyrs’ Day, celebrated annually on June 3.

Uganda’s democracy in reverse - Kanyeihamba

Kampala Supreme Court judge George Wilson Kanyeihamba yesterday said the country’s democratic journey had taken reverse strides for the worse and cited examples of the Executive’s overbearing influence on Parliament as evidence to back his assertion. Officiating at the launch of a watchdog report that assess the overall individual performance of Members of Parliament in Kampala, Justice Kanyeihamba tore into President Museveni’s democratic credentials after he charged the ruling NRM regime of not only undermining Parliament, but usurping the Legislature’s power. Justice Kanyeihamba, who was once Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in President Museveni’s first post-bush war government, said the framers of the 1995 Constitution, including himself, had deliberately given Parliament enormous power to act as a check on government excesses, but recent events had shown that Parliament had failed in executing its oversight role. “We made sure that no government policy can pass without debate and sanction of Parliament, no judge, no minister, no ambassador can be appointed without Parliament actually saying so. What has happened over the years? The reverse has occurred.” The judge added: “Today Parliament waits for the word of the Executive and when the President has spoken, let he who speaks be condemned....For goodness sake what has happened to this country?” The judge, who retires from the Supreme Court in November, questioned the system of caucusing under a multiparty parliament, picking issue with the ruling NRM which boasts a majority in the House, discusses and debates national issues behind closed doors of the party’s parliamentary caucus, and suggested that the requirement to toe party lines was hurting the growth of democracy in the country. “If you look at the British Parliament, they go in the lobby when there is a controversial measure and people who spoke for it or against that measure are known that very evening. In Uganda we don’t know how many members of the movement opposed or supported a particular proposal because they are told to keep silent when they are in Parliament,” he said. Addressing himself to the contents of the scorecard report compiled by a leading think tank, the Africa Leadership Institute (Afli), Justice Kanyeihamba said while the report had suggested that the performance of Parliament had improved the past year, there “is a general perception in the country that this Parliament has let us down.” Afli chairman Elly Karuhanga said democracy and accountability in the country is often undermined because the electorate is usually not informed about the function and processes of Parliament, let alone the performance of individual MPs. However, with the publication of the scorecard which shows how MPs have fared, Mr Karuhanga said the Ugandan electorate now has a new window in which to hold their MPs accountable. He also said the “innovation of the scorecard” will not only stop at assessing Parliament, but that torch will be shot at the Executive and the Judiciary as well. Attendance by MPs was dismal, with less than 10 MPs showing face, even though the entire House had been invited for the event. Their absence reflected the dread and apprehension that MPs have greeted the release of the report. NRM Vice Chairman for Eastern Uganda, Mr Mike Mukula, who represented the Chief Whip Daudi Migereko, said the scorecard offered the “an opportunity to deepen democracy and uphold constitutionalism in this country.”

WHAT HAS EAST AFRICA PREPARED FOR 2010, CHECK ZIMBABWE

2010: Making Zimbabwe a Marketable Brand THIS week Tourism minister Walter Mzembi was on a trip courting Brazil to set base in Zimbabwe for 2010. Quite noble considering Brazil is one of the premier teams and will not only feature in the 2010 Fifa World Cup but also in the Confederations Cup next month. There are huge financial rewards for South Africa’s neighbours if they can position themselves to reap benefits from these tournaments. Mzembi said: “If it can happen that they (the Brazilian team) come and camp in Zimbabwe, together with their contingent, that would be a boost for tourism.” The state coffers could use the forex and the media attention would be a chance for Zimbabwe to showcase itself as a safe destination. While the marketing junket to Brazil may be an honourable intention, the minister’s sweet words and coaxing alone are not enough. There are fundamentals that need to be made right if tourists and soccer fans are to set foot in Zimbabwe come 2010. The real work is at home. Efforts to get service delivery back on track are taking too long and may not bear fruit in time for 2010. While the 10 million euro grant extended by Germany may go some way in purifying water, there has to be a long-term plan to put to an end to the water woes. Harare’s proximity to Johannesburg means it’s only about 90 minutes by air — but upon landing, the dilemma of potholes that seem only to increase in width and depth confronts visitors. The politics of outstanding issues, disagreements and haggling that continues to dog the new government also do not augur well for image cosmetics; it makes Zimbabwe stand out like a sore thumb in the region. If the violence of the last elections is anything to go by, then there is trouble on the horizon. Bad news travels fast and it stays long in people’s minds. Lawlessness must not be allowed to reign in any sector of the society, including the media, but the recent arrest of Independent editor Vincent Kahiya, news editor Constantine Chimakure, human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama, and the re-arrest of civil society worker Jestina Mukoko and 17 other MDC activists is bad news. Admissions by the Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono that he dipped his hands into other people’s cookie jars have been well publicised abroad and in neighbouring countries. The credit crunch is not a joke. Money is scarce out there. Ask Finance minister Tendai Biti what he experienced with his begging bowl in Europe and the United States. Fans and their teams need to know that their precious pennies for living expenses will be secure if they transfer them to Zimbabwe. They can’t take chances with money. In attracting takers, the brand-building concept of product associations must apply. Who does Zimbabwe associate with? Does getting into bed and massaging the egos of human rights abusers, in particular North Korea, align well with the envisioned customer experience? The reported continuation of land invasions does not promote the Zimbabwe brand. Property violations based on racial lines raise questions for visitors of other races. Atop a tourists list is safety. That needs to be guaranteed with no question marks. South Africa has started the process to legalise the oldest profession, prostitution. The three main reasons being the safety of sex workers who protest harassment and rape at the hands of police officers. Second, the state also wants a share, in the form of taxes, from that multi-million dollar industry. And lastly, to accommodate and ensure the safety of fans who will venture out for that service during their stay come 2010. Zimbabwe, a more conservative society, may not necessarily need to go the same route, but visitors will ask questions such as how will they be treated on that side of the border. What about bisexual and gay people? Are they welcome? What’s the plan? These may be uncomfortable questions but are issues that affect the brand and need addressing. Also, attributed to the minister were disturbing comments that Zimbabwe is targeting Brazil because it is the “best woman”. He was further quoted by media as having said: “We have managed to position our case very very well. If you are looking for the most beautiful woman in the village, even if she says ‘no’ to your overtures… you will eventually get a woman next to her in terms of beauty…” Is he serious? There is increasingly little approval the world over for comments that seek to commodify women. His comment is an extremely poor example that will not sit well with those working to advance the rights of women so that they are viewed for their fair contribution to societies, not just as objects of beauty. And women make up a sizeable number of fans that he is begging to put up in Zimbabwe in 2010. Soccer fans and teams need concrete reasons to convince them that Zimbabwe will be the best brand and place to stay. Tourism is not a product free of issues of service delivery, safety and the rule of law. If a customer does not believe in a brand promise, then it’s marketing will be useless. If the issues affecting the Zimbabwe brand are not addressed in time for 2010, Mzembi’s energy will be wasted. lMawarire is a senior sub-editor at the M&G in South Africa.

NOTHING BEATS HOMEGROWN SOLUTIONS

We welcome plans for the establishment of an African Standby Force and a Central Bank of Africa to guarantee territorial and financial independence. We call on African leaders to ensure that all these plans reach fruition so that the continent cannot continue relying on outsiders for the resolution of its challenges. We in Zimbabwe, however, celebrate the lead taken by Sadc in resolving the political standoff that gripped our country over the past 10 years. This is a template the AU should use to resolve the multifaceted challenges confronting our continent. Nothing beats homegrown solutions.