Kivejinja plots my fall â€" Kadaga reveals
Aug 26, 2007
THE Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has revealed that information minister Kirunda Kivejinja is plotting her downfall. While addressing elders and political leaders on Friday at Bugembe in Jinja, Kadaga said a rift between her and Kivejinja had been going on quietly since 1996.
By Moses Nampala
in Jinja
THE Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has revealed that information minister Kirunda Kivejinja is plotting her downfall. While addressing elders and political leaders on Friday at Bugembe in Jinja, Kadaga said a rift between her and Kivejinja had been going on quietly since 1996.
She told the leaders, who had gathered at the Busoga Lukiiko hall to form an elders’ institution for Busoga, that the row needed their urgent intervention.
Kivejinja and Kadaga are members of the ruling National Resistance Movement and come from Busoga region.
“What has always baffled me is that we represent different constituencies, but my brother Kivejinja has always kept on my movements. I can no longer stand it
and I am earnestly seeking your intervention,†stated a visibly irritated Kadaga.
Kivejinja was not available for comment.
Kadaga’s outburst comes barely three months after President Yoweri Museveni accused her and Kivejinja of fuelling intrigue in Busoga.
The president, who was in the region to campaign for Kamuli LC5 candidate Fred Mubiru, said he had learnt that Kivejinja and Kadaga were behind the leadership crises in Busoga region.
“There is urgent need for party members to observe discipline, otherwise the party will crumble. I am not going to tolerate indiscipline. I am not going to wait for the worst to happen. This habit must stop forthwith,†the President had warned.
Kadaga, who is also the Woman Member of Parliament for Kamuli district, regretted that for a long time Kivejinja had demonstrated that he did not wish her well.
Present were opposition Forum for Democratic Change party vice-chairperson Salaamu Musumba and Busoga Kingdom prime minister Martin Mukasa Musumba.
Others were Members of Parliament Asuman Kiyingi (Bugabula south), Patrick Mbagadhi (Kagoma) and David Mukose Mutabali (Namutumba).
The proposed elders’ institution will constitute personalities of integrity, wisdom, non-partisan and with diverse potential to harmonise conflicts among Busoga leaders.
Kadaga told the meeting chaired by the former managing director of Nile Breweries and former Bugabula Constituent Assembly delegate, Brewer Abaliwano, that Kivejinja was currently in her constituency, “planning for my downfall come 2011.â€
“When I went back for re-election, he was quick to support my lone opponent, one Kalikwani, including meeting her campaign expenses. The same thing happened in the general elections 2001 and 2006.â€
She said she regretted that for a long time Busoga has lagged behind because some of its politicians promote intrigue.
“Why should people of the same region engage in politics of pulling others down? If this is not brought to an end, Busoga is doomed and we shall lose out in the sharing of the national cake,†Kadaga warned.
“The idea of forming an elders institution, is timely because it’s bound to give the region a sense of direction on how best it can realise social-economic development, instead of wasting time on primitive politics,†she said.
Abaliwano promised to reconcile the two parties at the next sitting slated for September 28.
in Jinja
THE Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has revealed that information minister Kirunda Kivejinja is plotting her downfall. While addressing elders and political leaders on Friday at Bugembe in Jinja, Kadaga said a rift between her and Kivejinja had been going on quietly since 1996.
She told the leaders, who had gathered at the Busoga Lukiiko hall to form an elders’ institution for Busoga, that the row needed their urgent intervention.
Kivejinja and Kadaga are members of the ruling National Resistance Movement and come from Busoga region.
“What has always baffled me is that we represent different constituencies, but my brother Kivejinja has always kept on my movements. I can no longer stand it
and I am earnestly seeking your intervention,†stated a visibly irritated Kadaga.
Kivejinja was not available for comment.
Kadaga’s outburst comes barely three months after President Yoweri Museveni accused her and Kivejinja of fuelling intrigue in Busoga.
The president, who was in the region to campaign for Kamuli LC5 candidate Fred Mubiru, said he had learnt that Kivejinja and Kadaga were behind the leadership crises in Busoga region.
“There is urgent need for party members to observe discipline, otherwise the party will crumble. I am not going to tolerate indiscipline. I am not going to wait for the worst to happen. This habit must stop forthwith,†the President had warned.
Kadaga, who is also the Woman Member of Parliament for Kamuli district, regretted that for a long time Kivejinja had demonstrated that he did not wish her well.
Present were opposition Forum for Democratic Change party vice-chairperson Salaamu Musumba and Busoga Kingdom prime minister Martin Mukasa Musumba.
Others were Members of Parliament Asuman Kiyingi (Bugabula south), Patrick Mbagadhi (Kagoma) and David Mukose Mutabali (Namutumba).
The proposed elders’ institution will constitute personalities of integrity, wisdom, non-partisan and with diverse potential to harmonise conflicts among Busoga leaders.
Kadaga told the meeting chaired by the former managing director of Nile Breweries and former Bugabula Constituent Assembly delegate, Brewer Abaliwano, that Kivejinja was currently in her constituency, “planning for my downfall come 2011.â€
“When I went back for re-election, he was quick to support my lone opponent, one Kalikwani, including meeting her campaign expenses. The same thing happened in the general elections 2001 and 2006.â€
She said she regretted that for a long time Busoga has lagged behind because some of its politicians promote intrigue.
“Why should people of the same region engage in politics of pulling others down? If this is not brought to an end, Busoga is doomed and we shall lose out in the sharing of the national cake,†Kadaga warned.
“The idea of forming an elders institution, is timely because it’s bound to give the region a sense of direction on how best it can realise social-economic development, instead of wasting time on primitive politics,†she said.
Abaliwano promised to reconcile the two parties at the next sitting slated for September 28.