WHO IS LUZINDANA ADAM BUYINZA

WHO IS LUZINDANA ADAM BUYINZA

He was born on 7th July 1982 in a predominantly peasantry family to Mr. Sowedi Rwabizi and Ms Jaliat Nakibuka in Butakoola village,Bwetyaba Parish,Kayunga Subcounty,Bugerere County in Kayunga District, the then Mukono District. He was named Buyinza because the first 7 (seven) children of his parents died before making one year. When he made it to 1 year, he was named Buyinza literally meaning the Power of God. He started his primary education at Namagabi UMEA Primary School in Kayunga, the then Mukono District where he attained the Uganda Primary Leaving Examinations Certificate. He completed his Ordinary level Certificate of Education at Ndeeba Senior Secondary School, and joined Kololo Senior Secondary School in 1998 and attained the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education from Muyenga High School. He later on joined the Faculty of Arts, Makerere University to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Secretarial Studies.

While at Makerere University, the genius and vibrant youth joined active politics and became a centre of University Politics. He formed and spearheaded a number of student’s
movements. He founded the Professional Development
Agency, principally to provide career development services
to students and professionals, provide education and
employment services, job placement, selection of
university, international students exchange, visa
acquisition, talent support and development, support scheme for students from poor families, airport assistance, brokering of traineeships and apprenticeships for employers, curriculum development, capacity building and training for Government,NGOs,Corporates,etc,strategic planning, consultancy on HR issues, proposal writting,data anaylysis,speech writing, evaluation and monitoring, conference management,outsourcing,etc.

He formed the Revolutionary Movement Vision 2025 (RMV-2025) which at a later date succeeded in invalidating the negative trend of University Politics which was dominated by tribalism, high degree of malice and sabotage, assault, abuse, etc.

His Organization predominantly mobilized students in all Universities to ally behind the ruling National Resistance Movement of Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the President of the Republic of Uganda. He introduced techniques which resulted to the disintegration of a number of opposition political groupings at the University. He introduced Interparty Political dialogues at the University, developed a network of student’s leadership in many universities in Uganda.

He became a symbol and the light of the ruling Government at the University but this did not stop him from founding and building an organization known as Public Opinions (www.pubopinions.org).

While LAB was a proponent of the ruling NRM regime, at many occasions, he openly critiqued the NRM leadership. He vehemently opposed the transition from the broad based and all inclusive movement political system to a new multiparty political system urging that it was un planned, premature and that Ugandans are not ready for the real values of Mult-party democracy. He referred the move as a ploy to avert the positive trend of the growing democracy of Uganda. He envisaged that 5 years from the referendum, Uganda would achieve nothing, but will lose greatly as far as the democratization process is concerned.



Following the referendum in which the people of Uganda endorsed the return to the Mult-party political system, Adam formed a short-lived mass political organization known as the National Salvation Movement (NSM)/Movement for National Salvation (MNS) which was to lead the new and old generations, rich and poor, the peasants and the working class of Uganda to restore a broad based and all inclusive government.

In the wake of the demand for federal by the people of the Kingdom of Buganda, Luzindana Adam Buyinza,together with Mr. Benard Luyiiga the then Chairman of the Council of Chairpersons,Makerere University, now Councilor- Kampala City Council, the Late Vincent Lugonvu Byansi (the then Chairman of the Uganda Young Democrats), Lugolobi Hamidu then Speaker of the Great Lumumba Hall, currently with the Uganda Electoral Commission, Waisswa Kassim Balabyeki the then Minister for Mess Affairs and Advisor to the Opposition Political Parties-Makerere University, now at the University of Reading in UK formed the Advocacy for Federal Governance in Uganda (AFGU) a pressure group that advocated for a federal system of governance for the whole Uganda if federal is to be granted but recommended that traditional institutions be empowered.

He met and made many friends. He opposed tribal and other secretarian tendencies, calling for unity and community empowerment. With such a vision and aspirations, together with the late Lugonvu Vicente, FOLA Foundation (Friends of Lugonvu and Adam Foundation) was founded which later on with Nakabale Patrick renamed Goodwill Fraternity which is now an Organization providing special need Services for Children with Intellectual disabilities, Anti-Sexual Abuse programs, Household Hygiene and Sanitation programs, HIV/AIDS programs, Road Safety Awareness Campaign, etc. Goodwill Fraternity operates one of the fastest growing clubs known as the Goodwill Executive Club.

He introduced and strengthened debating clubs in all Halls of Residences and students Hostels at Makerere University. He promoted community outreach programs, study groups and meetings for which students leaders could address the community on a number of topical issues.

Adam is kind, friendly and a down to earth person. He has succeeded in building a formidable network of friends within and outside Uganda and it’s upon such a foundation that he is looking at the future as brighter than today. Though Adam was a proponent of the NRM regime, his closest associates were the leaders and members of the opposition Political Parties. While at Makerere University, he exhibited the highest degree of
loyalty to the NRM establishment/government. Indeed he has made enormous achievements for the NRM establishment. He became a victim of the internal infightings of the National Resistance Movement both at the University and after university. In 2004, he was declared dead by un know people purportedly the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) Gurus.

He was loved by many and opposed by many students at the University, but at no time, was he hated by the community. Nevertheless he met strong resistance from the opposition political parties, but he smartly out competed them, resulting to mass defection to the National Resistance Movement.

He worked as a Research Assistant in the NRM Parliamentary Caucus from 2002 to 2004.
He worked as a volunteer with Rtd Major Kinobe in the Local Government Standing Committee-Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.

He was deployed by Ndugu Hon Ruhakana Rugunda the Minister of Internal Affairs of Uganda and the Chairma of the NRM Electoral Commission to work at the NRM Electoral Commission.

During the November 2005, NRM National Delegates Conference at Mandela National Stadium, Adam worked closely with the Chairman of the NRM National Taskforce, Hon Amama Mbabazi ,then Minister of Defense and currently Minister of Security and accomplished a number of assignments.

Adam worked as a Research Fellow in the NRM Parliamentary Caucus (2006-2007) in the Office of the Government Chief whip and he developed a number of policy papers. He worked as Research Officer in the NRM Parliamentary caucus hence accomplishing a number of assignments.

He worked as a Focal Research Administrator at the NRM Secretariat during the 2006 general elections in which NRM emerged the winner. Working under the Committee Chairmanship of Hon Daudi Migereko the then Minister for Tourism, Trade and Industry and currently Minister for Energy and Mineral Development, Adam took charge of the day to days operations of the NRM Central Research and Analysis Desk, coordinating
NRM Districts Research Assistants, receiving political reports on a daily basis and analyze them, receiving public complaints/reports, field monitoring, assessment of the election scores of the NRM flag bearers, etc.

Adam worked as a Research Officer at the NRM Secretariat and accomplished a number of strategic assignments and developed a number of key policy documents and policies which the Central Executive Committee of the National Resistance Movement adopted. Among others, he developed policy guidelines to effectively constitute and allocate NRM Members of Parliament on standing and select committees of Parliament, committee member on drafting of the document to raise funds for the National Resistance Movement, Member of the NRM Study Group to the People’s Republic of China, Secretariat Staff of the high profile Inter-Party Political Committee meeting regularly at Hotel Africa under the Chairmanship of Hon Amama Mbabazi Minister for Security-Republic of Uganda,Rapporteur at the First National Resistance Movement Parliamentary Caucus which met at Hotel Africana under the Chairmanship of H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda and National Chairman of the National Resistance Movement, contributor to the first draft document to originate a government bill for political parties to be funded by the government according to their numerical strength in Parliament, managed the registry for the allocation of the NRM members of Parliament onto different committees of Parliament,Rapporteaur at the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Resistance Movement which met at the Commonwealth Speke Resort in Munyonyo in which together with one Kasoga Olivier convinced H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda,Rtd General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to sign the attendance book and the President accepted to wore the official identification tag as a pre-requisite to get access to the conference hall, Member of the Six member Committee chaired by Hon Amama Mbabazi,Secretary General of NRM to design and produce the NRM Diary,2007 by the World Point Group, witnessed the Signing of the Agreement between the world point Group and the National Resistance Movement, drafted the Message of H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda/Chairman of NRM to be published in the NRM Diary, through the Principal Private Secretary to H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda, he secured a fully signed message from H.E the President of Uganda and handed it over to the World Point Group, he prepared many official memos for the party to key party leaders, prepared and submitted political and research briefs to the Secretary General, received correspondences from within and outside Uganda for the party, keeping the contact book of the Party, keeping all the officials research documents of the Party, making appointments for the Secretary General, meeting NRM Mobilisors on the daily basis, strengthened contact between the NRM Secretariat and other leaders of the various party structures,NRM team member to meet the International Republican Institute on the Post election dialogue, prepareds official documents and reports for discussion in the Central Executive Committee meetings, delivering such reports to the State House, preparing documents of the NEC and CEC of NRM, to prepare documents for the NRM Parliamentary Caucus, informing and inviting the NRM members of Parliament for the Parliamentary Caucus meetings, recording and keeping records and proceedings of the meetings of the Central Executive Committee, National Executive Council and parliamentary caucus of the National Resistance Movement, ensured that Members of Parliament friendly to the National Resistance Movement signed the memorandum of understanding with the National Resistance Movement, prepared the guidelines for conducting LC 1 elections, Prepared document on raising funds for the construction of the NRM House, etc.

He worked with the Late Brig Noble Mayombo in key sectors in different parts of the Country.

Adam has organizational skills and competence. He is a person of high self esteem and integrity, adoptive to all situations. He can work under minimum supervision.

He has got skills in Research, organizational management, corporate/institutional support, supervision and monitoring, report writing, documentation, administrative and Executive services in big organizational setups. He is thus equipped with skills to offer quality services to well structure organizations.

He is working principally to advocate, promote and strengthen core values of democracy and good governance, human rights, peace and development, participatory budgeting, etc in the Great Lakes Region through PUBLIC OPINIONS.

LRA/NORTHERN UGANDA REBELLION

US Sanctions on Ugandan Rebel Joseph Kony is a Plus
By Steve Paterno

The US government newly additional sanctions imposed on Joseph Kony, the leader of Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is an encouraging effort, which in concert with other measures will ultimately bring peace in the regions devastated by the LRA.

For two decades, the LRA is causing havoc in at least four countries of Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Central African Republic (CAR). In addition to these latest sanctions, which carry severe penalties and also specifically targeting LRA finances—the LRA has for long time been designated by the US government as a terrorist organization—a label that puts the LRA out of favor from dealing legitimately with anyone.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) even went further by issuing arrest warrants against five of the top leaders of LRA, which included Kony who is awaiting extradition to The Hague for trial on crimes against humanity.

Despite terroristic designation, international arrest warrants, wide condemnations, and brutal nature of the LRA, the Government of South Sudan (GOSS) about two years ago erroneously decided to engage in what it dupes as negotiation with the LRA.

This so called negotiation proven to be a total failure since the LRA continues with its brand of brutalities and in the process resulted into LRA reorganization, relocation, reequipping, retraining and refusal to settle peaceful.

However, the latest measures taken by the US government in specifically targeting LRA finances and increasing severe penalties against or in dealing with the LRA can add more pressure so as the LRA menace is eventually eliminated.

The US under the Treasury Department have been tremendously performing outstanding job in combating rogue states, global terrorism, international traffickers, and other illegal international transactions involving US dollars.

The Treasury Department is equally doing a superb job against illegal international transactions processed through financial systems connected with the US.

As for Joseph Kony, his name is now prominently featured in the US government list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT)” along infamous internationally wanted terrorists like Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, Abdul Rahman Yasin and many more others of the same kind.

Kony may not have much finances or assets like his international jihadists counterparts to be directly targeted; nonetheless, those who support and sponsor him automatically become primary targets of the US Treasury Department.

Among those LRA supporters who become automatic targets are GOSS, Khartoum Regime, and some individual Ugandan Diaspora.

For the last two years and so, GOSS, under the leadership of its Vice President Riek Machar has been supporting the LRA financially and materially; managing a multimillion dollar fund for peace with LRA; accommodating the LRA; and facilitating the LRA movements and travels, both regionally and internationally.

With these stringent measures now in place, the financial dealings of GOSS, particularly the financial dealings among some individuals within GOSS such as Riek Machar are going to be thoroughly scrutinized by the US Treasury Department. Such may not only block further supports for LRA, but can also help in combating the much publicized practice of corruption in GOSS.

The process in a long run will result into LRA losing any financial and material support coming from GOSS. Even though it will not eradicate the practice of corruption in GOSS altogether, it will at least result into severe penalties against some individuals from GOSS who will be caught in the act of corruption.

Another target is going to be the Regime in Khartoum. Khartoum has been the long supporter and major sponsor of the LRA, molding the LRA into a brutally renowned terrorist that it is today.

However, since then, Khartoum has lost its strategic position to deal with LRA directly and effectively as the regime lost the control of the Southern Sudan territory where the LRA is based.

Khartoum dealings with LRA become logistically difficult with the LRA further isolated in remote parts of the country and pushed in hiding at the DRC national park alongside the animals. Not only that, Khartoum is already suffering great deal on similar sanctions imposed on the regime for its involvement with the global Islamic fundamental terrorists.

Therefore, the members of US Treasury Department have most of their jobs already cut out for them as they will be required to exert only little effort in cutting off LRA supports coming from Khartoum.

And then there are those individual Ugandan Diaspora who have for long time been providing financial, moral, and advice to the LRA. Since the so called LRA peace talk began two years ago, those individuals have already been fragmented along their ambitions, with some returning back to Uganda to settle down; others getting discouraged from the whole LRA affairs; and few still sticking around with LRA.

Hence, there are going to be only few individuals to be targeted, making the job of the US Treasury Department easier to execute. Targeting these individuals is going to be significantly important, because it will not only deny the support for LRA, but it will also expose corruption within those entities that deal with the LRA, mainly Khartoum Regime, Government of Uganda, GOSS, and some NGOs.

This is so because corrupt officials from within those entities use individual LRA members as covers for money laundering and also bribing them at times.

There are already several allegations of bribery by these LRA handlers on some of the LRA Diaspora members—the allegations which have partly contributed to the collapse of the LRA peace talks in Juba and resulted into the death of some LRA top leaders.

If the US Treasury Department measures are executed perfectly, in a long run many of the LRA Diaspora supporters will quit dealing with the LRA as they will fear facing corruption charges on their newly found foreign lands.

They will also fear the risk of associating with a terrorist outfit, because the penalties of which are severe. Otherwise, those who will continue supporting the LRA will do so at their own perils.

This eventually will mean that the LRA will not only lose one of its financial bases, but that it will also be deprived of its moral support from the Diaspora.

In conclusions, these measures will serve many noble purposes among which, the measures will exert much pressure against LRA by denying them their much needed supports as well as the measures will combat corruptions within the entities that deal with the LRA.

The measures will also help in holding accountable those who in one way or another assist with advancing impunity by supporting lethal terrorist groups like the LRA.

If other measures such as drawing regional strategic military operation plan are added along these measures, it will mean an end to the LRA menace.

Nonetheless, as of now, the measures in place are good enough to inflict as much damage to the LRA and its handlers, but short of eradicating the LRA once and for all, meaning the LRA though will be seriously weakened, they can still cause havoc in regions they operate in until a comprehensive strategic plan is drawn to eradicate the threat altogether.

Steve Paterno is a Research Intelligent Analyst and author of Fr. Saturnino Lohure: A Roman Catholic Priest Turned Rebel.

SUDAN CRISIS

BASHIR: AFRICAN LEADERS CAUGHT IN ETHICAL DILEMA

By Hon Christopher M.Kibazanga

With the indictment of Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, the President of the Islamic regime in Khartoum-Sudan, African leaders have found themselves in ethical dilemma.

Ethical dilemma refers to the situation where by the alternative available to resolve a conflict, breach an ethical rule.

African leaders led by Tanzanian President and AU Chairman Jakaya Kikwete, want to protect the so-called sovereignty of Sudan and Africa as whole by prevailing over the ICC, to stay the indictment of Bashir.

Tanzania, during the time of the former President Julius Nerere (RIP), had distinguished herself as country that was not going to tolerate dictatorship and impunity on the continent.

This led the country to engage in liberation struggles on the continent. The ethical dilemma here notwithstanding, the contradictions of Tanzania, is love for African sovereignty and accepting impunity to rule the African continent.

It is in the public domain that the struggle against colonialism and imperialism was on the solid premises to ensure freedom and the protection of the fundamental human rights of people on the continent; to ensure justice for the African people; to ensure equitable distribution of natural resources and to ensure security for all.

This was the essence of the struggle for independence. We thought in order to achieve the stated goals, more emphasis was to be put on the struggle against disease, poverty and ignorance for obvious reasons - an informed and health society is an engine for national development and advancement.

The promise that Africa shall rise and shine again has turned out to mean the opposite. Fifty years down the road, the continent is almost in oblivion, almost trapped in the cobweb of failed states. The abuse of fundamental human rights of our people forms part of the definition of our beloved continent.

It s trapped in the fourfold cobweb of poverty, disease and ignorance as result of senseless wars and violence caused by good for nothing idiots posing as leaders and liberators. Why should African leaders pretend? .

Show me a single person who does not know that Bashir exported his war theatres to other parts of the continent? Who does not know that the people of northern Uganda were being raped, killed, and forced into displaced peoples camps with full knowledge of Sudanese government led by Bashir? Who does not know that Bashir held Southern Sudan in a state of war for two decades on the basis that the population was there is Black and are not muslims?

Who does not know that the killing machines captured in western Uganda during the ADF insurgency had the descriptions of Sudanese’s government?.

Today, there is a state of war in the Darfur on based on resource exploitation and distribution. What crime have those women and children committed a part from that they were born in an area rich in natural resources?.

Now that the AU is a paper tiger, how else do we ensure freedom and justice for our people if people like Bashir can be protected in the name of the continent sovereignty?.

Ethically and morally, how do you protect and save a people who export their violence to innocent people of Africa who finding themselves ruled by idiots and dare devils? What is more sinful - indicting a criminal or allowing a criminal continue killing, raping and displacing our people.

It does not matter who comes to your rescue when you’re drowning, African leaders have shown us that it doesn’t make any difference who rules you. Under normal circumstances, one would have expected that the AU would be an alternative to the ICC in the protection of our people on the continent.

But as things stand, the organisation is suffering from sameness - it is an organisation of the same people who have little regard for Africa and its people.

On January 26, 1986 when President Museveni was being sworn in at parliamentary building, he posed a question, “where were they when we were killing each other, where was the Organisation of African Unity, where was the international community and how can the principle of non interference in the internal matters of sovereign state be the basis of the world to looking on when people are killing each other.”

Sirs, the international community is here in Durfar-Sudan, trying to stop the madness of African leaders.

Hon Kibanzanga M Christopher,Member of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda and

Opposition Shadow Minister for Anti-Corruptionand Presidency

NATURAL RESOURCES

WHY NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION IS A CONCERN OF GOVERNMENTS … PART I

By Mugyenyi Cyril

A number of articles on this subject will be published for the benefit of our readers and I wish to begin with Water as a very important environmental resource.

Of the total global water only 2.5% is fresh and only about 0.5% of this may be available for human use, the rest being locked up in the Antarctica ice cap.

Perhaps most importantly, fresh water is a fundamental requirement of all living organisms; plants, animals and humanity included. Life evolved in water and since then all living organisms have continued to depend on it for all life processes.

Biologically speaking all living organisms live in water because all their living cells are surrounded by a film of water. Because of overpopulation, mass consumption, misuse, and water pollution, the availability of drinking water per capita is inadequate and shrinking.

For this reason, water is a strategic resource on the globe and an important element in many political conflicts. Some have predicted that clean water will become the "next oil", making water-rich countries richer. Water available to everyone is predicted to decrease by 30% in the next 15 years (UNESCO World Water Development Report, 2003).

About 40% of the world's inhabitants currently have insufficient fresh water for minimal hygiene. Fresh water is now more precious than ever in our history for its extensive use in agriculture, high-tech manufacturing and energy production and is increasingly receiving attention as a resource requiring better management and sustainable use.

Water scarcity is caused by uneven rainfall, runoff due to deforestation, pollution, falling ground water table, global warming and wetland drainage. Water rights and associated issues like global warming and desertification have become issues in international diplomacy, in addition to domestic and regional politics. World Bank Vice President Isamil Serageldin predicted, "Many of the wars of the 20th century were about oil, but wars of the 21st century will be over water".

The control of water resources is considered vital to the survival of an individual, household or a state; has political, security and economic connotations. When important water sources dry for any cause, destructive conflict is the immediate result.

A local animal watering point for instance in a water scarce area is often a source of conflict as owners have to protect it from use by other farmers. Such a single watering point is often a source of disease epidemic out breaks requiring mass vaccinations, control or treatment where government has to spend many millions of shillings to put the epidemic under control.

When important water sources dry, say in a region, human migrations and mass death of animals take place. Death of livestock means loss of livelihood to the people and revenue in taxes to government. Such pastoral communities that loose their livelihood will need government support in form of relief food which is still a cost to government.

Some times government may have to fork more money out of its pockets to construct artificial valley dams at a great financial cost let alone posing other serious problems like serving as breeding grounds for disease vectors such as mosquitoes. Such experiences where government had to spend many billions of shilling to construct valley dams are not alien to Uganda.

Mother nature has endowed us with resources of lasting value like rivers which have enormous potential to generate cheap, affordable hydroelectric power.

For whatever cause when the river dries or reduces in volume, this potential degenerates and capacity to produce cheap and clean power wanes bringing the economy to the brink of collapse. A lot of the hard earned dollar must be used to import petroleum products to sustain growth at a very high economic and environmental cost.

The unit cost of power increases beyond the reach of many people. This is also associated with pollution of the atmosphere by greenhouse and acidic gases.

Internationally, water is a resource of particular importance. For instance Egypt has a natural historical right on the Nile River, and principles of its acquired rights have been a focal point of negotiations with other upstream states.

The fact that this right exists, means that any perceived reduction of the Nile water supply to Egypt is tampering with its national security and thus could trigger potential conflict.

There have been occasions when Egypt has threatened to go to war over Nile water. In a once published interview Dr. Mahmoud Adu Zei, Minister of Water Resources of Egypt said “a drop of water is becoming more precious than a drop of blood” according to Alahram News Paper, 1998.

The little global and thus national water available is constant yet the demand increases every second with every birth of a human being. The need to conserve national water resources in form of lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers should be given more attention than ever before.

Mugyenyi Cyril

mbjcyril@yahoo.com

THE KENYA CRISIS

REAL CAUSE OF ATTACKS AND KILLINGS IN KENYA

OPEN LETTER TO THE WAKI COMMISSION IN KENYA

By Isaac Newton Kinity

For two consecutive years before the bloody attacks which started in 1991 in Kenya, former President Moi persistently warned both Kenyans and the entire international community of war and chaos once the multiparty political system was allowed in Kenya.

Moi predicted that the introduction of a multiparty system of governance in Kenya would cause war and chaos. The former president addressed numerous meetings of missions accredited to Kenya, warning them of the dangers of introducing a multiparty system in Kenya.

Mois predictions appeared in both electronic and printing media in Kenya almost every day in 1989 and 1990. He held very many public meetings in different towns in Kenya to deliver his warnings to the Kenyan people.

All Kenyans above 18 years of age in 1988, 1989 and 1990 must have heard the former presidents prophecy. In the first four years of the 13 continuous years of the Kalenjin attacks of other communities in Kenya,[ from 1991 to 1994], the Kenya media referred to the attackers as cattle rustlers.

In the second round of attacks, from 1995 to 1998, the Kenya media referred to the attacks as ethnic cleansing and from 2003 to 2008, the attacks were referred by the Kenya media as Land conflict.

The coincidence that the attacks in 1991 came just at the same time the former President had predicted war and chaos, leaves a lot to be desired. Also the coincidence that in all those 13 years the attackers were the Kalenjins, Mois Tribe, is the other peculiar puzzle.

Having predicted the chaos which coincided with the introduction of the multiparty system in Kenya and his subsequent abrupt silence about his predictions and warnings immediately after the first Kalenjin attacks in 1991, President Moi should explain to Kenyans what he knew about the attacks.

If the attacks which continued to take the lives of innocent Kenyans for more than 13 years were not related to Mois predictions and prophecy, then when will the chaos related to President Mois prediction begin?

Are Kenyans still waiting for the war and chaos predicted by the former President? These are the questions any sensible Kenyan with a sound mind would ask.

I hate to see all Kenyans and the entire world accept to be fooled into believing that the attacks and killings which continued to take away lives of thousands of innocent Kenyans since 1991, were related to land differences.

It is obvious, the attacks and hence the killings of Kenyans by the Kalenjins were never ever related to any land differences. The attacks were effected to prove a prophecy and a prediction.

The attacks were pre-meditated to disapprove the introduction of the multiparty system of governance in Kenya. They were to prove the previous Moi warnings of war and chaos once the multiparty system was introduced in Kenya.

They were to disapprove the crusaders of change in Kenya. The Waki Commission investigating the post election chaos should consider President Mois predictions and warning of war and chaos he advocated prior to the first attacks in 1991.

The commission should examine the relationship between the attacks and those warnings. The former President who was entrusted with the protection of Kenyans and their properties, should be held accountable for the deaths of all Kenyans who died from the attacks since 1991, because, from his predictions and/or prophecy, he knew of the attacks two years before, and he refused to act to protect the Kenyans.

Just as Moi Predicted killings, war and chaos which came to being, I predict an unstoppable revolution in Kenya, which will come to being, if the past political crimes and atrocities are not properly addressed and solved accordingly.

Isaac Newton Kinity
PO BOX 4365
Hamden CT 06514
USA

Email: ink38@yahoo.com

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Health

BAN PUBLIC SMOKING
By Phillip Karugaba

WASHINGTON, DC

A study published online July 31 in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine provides new, strong evidence that laws banning smoking in workplaces and public places have a rapid and significant impact on health.

The study found that after Scotland implemented a comprehensive smoke-free law, there was a decrease of 17 percent in hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome, and 67 percent of the decrease was among non-smokers. This research adds to a growing body of scientific evidence that shows two things:

1) Secondhand smoke is a proven cause of serious disease and premature death.

2) Smoke-free air laws provide significant and immediate benefits to health. Public health authorities around the world have concluded that secondhand smoke has been proven to cause lung cancer, heart disease, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), low birth weight and serious respiratory conditions.

TEAN calls upon NEMA to take firm action to enforce the ban on smoking in public places and protect the health of the public. As the evidence suggests, a smoking ban can only help protect the health of Ugandan’s and ease the burden on an already stressed healthcare system.

A growing number of countries, regions and cities around the world (Kenya, France , Thailand , and Turkey , Ireland, Norway, United Kingdom and cities including Mexico City and Abuja) are adopting strong smoke-free laws.

Although Uganda passed a law banning smoking in public places in 2004, NEMA has taken little or no action at all to enforce the law and public compliance with in restaurants and office buildings has been largely voluntary.

'Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.' - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


Phillip Karugaba
tean@globalink.org

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT GETTING DEGRADED

By Nyeko Martine

I read with concern the article by Mr. Cyril Mugenyi. I don't want to say Mr Cyril is very right or very wrong, rather I would like to be more explicit.

We are all aware that our environment is getting degraded every second of life and we are responsible to this.

The truth is Eucalyptus as pointed out in the article, produces biomass very rapidly and this is associated to water consumption.

Although Eucalyptus is not rated highest as reported by Davidson (1989) in water consumption, because of its huge plantation, the aggregated effect on water resources can be severe.

According to Davidson (1989) most eucalyptus species need on average 785 litres of water/kg of biomass produced as opposed to other crops like cotton/coffee/banana (3200), sunflower(2400), field pea(2000), cow pea(1667) soybean(1430), potato(1000), sorghum(1000) and maize(1000) liters/kg biomass produced.

These other crops are all seasonal, lasting between three to four months but Eucalyptus is perennial and ever green. Secondly, the total biomass produce by this crops is much less compared to Eucalyptus.

If we use simple mathematics, one young eucalyptus tree weighing 50Kg take 50x785 (litre) of water and this is equivalent to many heads of sunflowers.

This does not mean putting a ban on Eucalyptus, but rather watching the potential effect of this trees on our environment. We need to conduct research to find out the best way forward.

Being a complex system, it is not Eucalyptus parse, that is causing water level decline in Western Uganda or Uganda in general, but a combination of factors including Eucalyptus.

Alot of concern have been raised about the potential negative impact of Eucalyptus on water resources, although without scientific backing, intuitively one gets concern if he/she sees a tree surviving very green even under odd condition. Let us define how eucalyptus should be managed, to avoid negligence.

Nyeko Martine
Lecturer Gulu University/PhD student (Italy)

Email:nyekomartine@gmail.com