Amama Mbabazi handled Stephen Sackur very well on BBC interview
Jun 14, 2005
SIR — I was brought up in Bukoba, Tanzania close to the Uganda border and subsequently lived in Nairobi Kenya. In 1991 I migrated to Toronto, Canada.
SIR — I was brought up in Bukoba, Tanzania close to the Uganda border and subsequently lived in Nairobi Kenya. In 1991 I migrated to Toronto, Canada.
I watched Mr. Amama Mbabazi’s interview with Stephen Sackur on the BBC Hard Talk programme. I must offer kudos to Mbabazi which he rightfully deserves. He was eloquent, graceful and and diplomatically answering Sackur’s ‘hard’ questions. Uganda, the pearl of Africa and always regarded by the West as a shining example of democracy on the continent is now being viewed suspiciously because of the wish to change her constitution to allow President Yoweri Museveni to run for a third term.
The constitution belongs to Uganda and it is up to Ugandans to do what is good for them by making changes they deem fit. Uganda has done well under Museveni’s presidency. he took over power when the country was in ruins and no nation in the West bothered giving her any assistance. Likewise, no Western country bothered helping Rwanda during the genocide in 1994. Now that Uganda is seen to be doing well, everyone wants to have an officious say in it.
The UK and USA are among the Western countries hailing Hosni Mubarak, a 77-year-old autocrat who has won four uncontested referendums. Egypt, continues to remain a second major recipient of US aid after Israel, because it is a partner in Bush’s war on “terrorâ€. once upon a time, Jomo Kenyatta, Nelson Mandela and other Africans fighting for independence were all defined as terrorists!
No one in the West asks why Egypt has taken in the highest number of suspects, about 200, to torture them under her Orwellian programme of “renditionâ€. They also turn a blind eye to all the despotic Arab and other allies of other nations.
Not only do they turn a blind eye, but they go further praising Mubarak and other Arab tyrants.
The US and British governments concocted charges against Iraq to
justify a war — a war that has now proved to be illegal, unnecessary,
unwarranted and catastrophic. It has so far killed some 100,000
Iraqis and Americans, cost $275b! Ugandans must take care of their own country.
Neither Britain nor the rest of the West has any interest in the development of Uganda or for that matter any other African nation. Once again I offer Mbabazi my congratulations for the manner he handled Sackur’s interview on Hard Talk. Uganda belongs to Ugandans. It is up to the Ugandans to build their own destiny. don’t rely totally on foreign aid and protect it from the the face of modern tyranny we see dominating the world at large.
Hussein Kasmani
Toronto, Canada
I watched Mr. Amama Mbabazi’s interview with Stephen Sackur on the BBC Hard Talk programme. I must offer kudos to Mbabazi which he rightfully deserves. He was eloquent, graceful and and diplomatically answering Sackur’s ‘hard’ questions. Uganda, the pearl of Africa and always regarded by the West as a shining example of democracy on the continent is now being viewed suspiciously because of the wish to change her constitution to allow President Yoweri Museveni to run for a third term.
The constitution belongs to Uganda and it is up to Ugandans to do what is good for them by making changes they deem fit. Uganda has done well under Museveni’s presidency. he took over power when the country was in ruins and no nation in the West bothered giving her any assistance. Likewise, no Western country bothered helping Rwanda during the genocide in 1994. Now that Uganda is seen to be doing well, everyone wants to have an officious say in it.
The UK and USA are among the Western countries hailing Hosni Mubarak, a 77-year-old autocrat who has won four uncontested referendums. Egypt, continues to remain a second major recipient of US aid after Israel, because it is a partner in Bush’s war on “terrorâ€. once upon a time, Jomo Kenyatta, Nelson Mandela and other Africans fighting for independence were all defined as terrorists!
No one in the West asks why Egypt has taken in the highest number of suspects, about 200, to torture them under her Orwellian programme of “renditionâ€. They also turn a blind eye to all the despotic Arab and other allies of other nations.
Not only do they turn a blind eye, but they go further praising Mubarak and other Arab tyrants.
The US and British governments concocted charges against Iraq to
justify a war — a war that has now proved to be illegal, unnecessary,
unwarranted and catastrophic. It has so far killed some 100,000
Iraqis and Americans, cost $275b! Ugandans must take care of their own country.
Neither Britain nor the rest of the West has any interest in the development of Uganda or for that matter any other African nation. Once again I offer Mbabazi my congratulations for the manner he handled Sackur’s interview on Hard Talk. Uganda belongs to Ugandans. It is up to the Ugandans to build their own destiny. don’t rely totally on foreign aid and protect it from the the face of modern tyranny we see dominating the world at large.
Hussein Kasmani
Toronto, Canada