CORRIDORS OF POWER

Mar 22, 2007

Kamuli ‘mahogany’<br>Salaamu Musumba, Kamuli district chairperson candidate never tires of blowing her own trumpet. The FDC vice-president recently told journalists that she is the most ideal candidate for Kamuli district chair. “I am a warrior. I am not afraid of anything. My strongest weapo

Kamuli ‘mahogany’
Salaamu Musumba, Kamuli district chairperson candidate never tires of blowing her own trumpet. The FDC vice-president recently told journalists that she is the most ideal candidate for Kamuli district chair. “I am a warrior. I am not afraid of anything. My strongest weapon in the district elections is that I am born, grown and married in Bugabula, Buzaya and Bulyola all in Kamuli district. I have ancestors in the whole of Kamuli and my roots are anchored in that district, who can stand in my way,? History will answer that question.

Smart loser
Martin Wandera, the FDC secretary for labour, social services and industrial relations was not very smart in his campaign strategy for the Bukooli South Constituency in the 2006 Parliamentary elections. but this did not stop him from bragging about his smartness, at a party press conference recently. Rated as one of the best performing MPs in the 7th Parliament, Wandera said that he was the only person who could lose an election and remain smart. He quipped: “Please members of the press tell me this, how many losers look like me? They are all worn out.”

NRM’s virtues
State minister for youth retired Maj. James Kinobe last Saturday on CBS scoffed at opposition MPs Issa Kikungwe and Erias Lukwago. he said they were freely criticising the NRM government but do not appreciate that it is the democratic values that the NRM government is practising that is allowing them all this freedom. “In Zimbabwe Mugabe is ordering the police to thoroughly bash opposition members. While in Uganda FDC president Kizza Besigye’s supporters are allowed to wipe his tears after being tear-gassed.”

Acid-tongued
UPC officials are acid-tongued. At the Wednesday press briefing, Chris Opoka referred to the alleged mismanagement and grabbing of land by government as an infamous land bonanza. “This portrays the government as a mercenary force involved in primitive accumulation. No serious person can negotiate with land-grabbers,” he said.

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