UPC should first apologise for the terror it visited on Ugandans
Jan 29, 2010
I am surprised that Dr Olara Otunnu can dare make a mission statement as a UPC presidential hopeful to “take back our countryâ€! in order to win an election in Uganda. Take our country back where?
I am surprised that Dr Olara Otunnu can dare make a mission statement as a UPC presidential hopeful to “take back our countryâ€! in order to win an election in Uganda. Take our country back where?
Back in the 1980s when as a little boy all I saw with my small eyes were daily massacres in Kampala that will never be erased from my memory?
All I saw was fear because of sporadic shooting by dancing drunkards and broad daylight looters called soldiers! And Otunnu was a key cabinet minister! Take back our country? UPC does not own Uganda. Otunnu spoke in Bushenyi as if Uganda was a piece of property once owned by his party which now wants to repossess it! Back from who that owns it now?
No political party owns Uganda. UPC should at least craft a mission that make sense, adding value to this ‘property’ of yours, adding value to the lives of people who lives in it. Indeed UPC members can hold their heads high when the government let their soldiers come to my home and rape my cousin while my mother and I hid in the ceiling.
This was Otunnu’s UPC and he is still part of it! Indeed UPC members can hold their heads high when in the 1980s, soldiers of the government looked for Museveni in women’s, men’s and children’s pockets. And if there was no Museveni in the pocket, it was enough to attract a summary death sentence through the gun.
Ambassador Otunnu, your UPC intimidated me when I was a little boy, bred fear in me, and the fear you bred in me is still a nightmare to this day. When I hear the word UPC, I still quake although UPC is no more.
UPC should first apologise to Ugandans and appreciate that people like Otunnu can fly in and out freely without fear for their lives.
As a New Yorker, Otunnu has experienced ethnic diversity and this diversity signifies development which he has enjoyed for so long. he should therefore not stir the sentiments of Buganda. That is obsolete politics and shows he is not on the ground.
Godfrey Sseruwagi
Massachusetts, USA
Back in the 1980s when as a little boy all I saw with my small eyes were daily massacres in Kampala that will never be erased from my memory?
All I saw was fear because of sporadic shooting by dancing drunkards and broad daylight looters called soldiers! And Otunnu was a key cabinet minister! Take back our country? UPC does not own Uganda. Otunnu spoke in Bushenyi as if Uganda was a piece of property once owned by his party which now wants to repossess it! Back from who that owns it now?
No political party owns Uganda. UPC should at least craft a mission that make sense, adding value to this ‘property’ of yours, adding value to the lives of people who lives in it. Indeed UPC members can hold their heads high when the government let their soldiers come to my home and rape my cousin while my mother and I hid in the ceiling.
This was Otunnu’s UPC and he is still part of it! Indeed UPC members can hold their heads high when in the 1980s, soldiers of the government looked for Museveni in women’s, men’s and children’s pockets. And if there was no Museveni in the pocket, it was enough to attract a summary death sentence through the gun.
Ambassador Otunnu, your UPC intimidated me when I was a little boy, bred fear in me, and the fear you bred in me is still a nightmare to this day. When I hear the word UPC, I still quake although UPC is no more.
UPC should first apologise to Ugandans and appreciate that people like Otunnu can fly in and out freely without fear for their lives.
As a New Yorker, Otunnu has experienced ethnic diversity and this diversity signifies development which he has enjoyed for so long. he should therefore not stir the sentiments of Buganda. That is obsolete politics and shows he is not on the ground.
Godfrey Sseruwagi
Massachusetts, USA