The true colors of America’s Neo-liberal Tyrants: I hear some people saying that I am their servant; I am not a servant of anybody. I am fighting for myself, for my beliefs; that’s how I come in. If anybody thinks you gave me a job, he is deceiving himself…”: Museveni’s Government threatens to sack striking medics

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Museveni gives finance AID to Catholic Charismatic group in Mbarara

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Museveni donates Shs5 billion to 110 groups in Rukungiri

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Museveni-donates-Shs5-billion-Besigye-110-groups-Rukungiri/688334-4395440-9modrs/index.html

Monday April 16 2018

By PEREZ RUMANZI

RUKUNGIRI- President Yoweri Museveni has donated money, trucks, mini buses and an assortment of machinery worth over Shs5 billion to 110 groups of people in Rukungiri District, ostensibly to help them fight poverty.

The beneficiaries received the items on Sunday at Rukungiri Stadium.

Rukungiri is the home of Dr Kizza Besigye, the four-time presidential candidate, a political nemesis of Mr Museveni.
Rukungiri Municipality is represented by Mr Roland Mugume Kaginda, a member of the Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), a party that was founded by Dr Besigye and a group of other politicians.

Mr Museveni explained that he picked the money from the State House purse not from the national treasury.
The items that were donated by Mr Museveni included motorcycles, mini-buses, sewing machines, tents, chairs, garage equipment and motor vehicle spare parts among others.

“The money I am using here; I have taken it from my pocket as President but there is a lot of money in your government but you don’t know how to get it. You don’t know each other and you don’t care. The young ones [people] have been caught up in FDC which is deceiving them,” Mr Museveni said.

On March 22, the Court of Appeal nullified the election of Rukungiri District Woman MP, Ms Winnie Masiko (National Resistance Movement) citing irregularities during the 2016 polls.

FDC’s Betty Muzanira petitioned the court accusing her rival of donating various items during the campaigns. The Electoral Commission (EC) has set May 31 as the day for the by-election to elect the next district Woman MP.

Mr Museveni said he rushed to the district to deliver the donations so that he doesn’t “get caught up” with electoral laws which bar candidates and their supporters from giving out donations during campaigns.

“When I was still in Kampala thinking of how I will reach to these groups, I heard your confusion starting again, that the woman who has been representing in Parliament has been brought down and that you will be going for another election,” he said. “I thought these people will destroy my thinking because according to electoral laws, [I am] not allowed to drive people from poverty. When these people of elections have started, they distract me.”

He advised Ugandans to give birth to children they can adequately provide for.
“Lack of family planning makes a person poor. You find a person giving birth to too many [children] without planning on how much [wealth] he has. He later dies and the children are left with nothing,” he said. “I don’t say you don’t give birth to many children because for me, I want soldiers. But give birth to those you can [support].”

Groups that benefited
Rukungiri Special Hire Pickup and Car Association- 5million
Kibimbiri Tukorere Hamwe Group – 5million
Kagashe Bamwe Development Association – 5million
Nyakihanga Tukore Namani- 5million
Rukungiri Salon Association- 10million
Rukungiri Municipality NRM women- 10million
Nyakihanga (4 groups) -10million
Rukungiri Goodwill Ambassadors- 10million
Rwakabengo 2 groups- 10million
Rukungiri cattle sellers and buyers butchery- 10million
Rukungiri Tukorere Hamwe Group – 10million
Nyakabingo RUDIFA Beika Oguze – 10million
Rukungiri Transporters Cooperative Society- 20million
Rudifa Groups – 20million
Rukungiri Municipality Boda boda Association 22 motorcycles
Kitimba Youth Drama Association- 1 mini bus
Kagashi Bamwe Development Association – 10 tents and 500 chairs
Rukungiri Garages- Garage equipment (including toolboxes, spare parts, generators) and a breakdown vehicle.
Rukungiri Municipality Tailors Association- 5 sewing machines
Rukungiri Municipality Timber Traders and Carpenters Association – Wood work machines worth 193million
Rukungiri Municipality Washing bay- 10 car washing machines
Rukungiri Welders Association- Assorted welding machines
Rukungiri Lorry drivers, Loaders and Awners Association – 20million
Kigaga – 20million
Community based Organization Farmers Association- Karangaro 20million
Mobile money groups- 20million

Uweso Tukore Namani- 20million
Uweso groups (10 clusters) 30million
Ndorero Tukore Namani Women Group – 30million
Kahororo Development Association- 30million
Rukungiri Tukorere Hamwe Food Vendors- 30million
Western Division Women Groups in Karangaro- 30million
Rukungiri Central Market Development Association- 50million
CBOT Karangaro Cluster – 50million
Kanyinya 17 groups- 50million
Ndorero 9 groups- 50M
Rukungiri Youth Development Association- 50million
Kebisoni Youth Association-5million
Kebisoni Drivers Association- 5million
Kebisoni Matooke Tuhwerane- 5million
Kebisoni Roadside Kwetungura Group- 5million
Kebisoni Coffe Farmers’ Cooperative- 6million
Uganda Association of Mushroom Growers for Export- 10million
Boona Bagaigahare Nyekundeire Onion Growers- 10million
Ababeiji ba Kebisoni – 10million
Nimu Community Initiatives- 10million
Kebisoni Women’s Sacco- 30million
Kebisoni Boda Boda Association- 9 bodas bodas cycles
Rwenkuba Bakyara Tukore- 10million
Katungu Women Farmers Coffee Traders- 10 million
Mabongo Central Bataka Kweyamba- 10 million
Kahoko Association (19 groups) 20 million
Nyakagyeme Boda Boda Association – 15
Boda bodas Bigangari Bateganda Group- 2million
Bugangari Piggery Group- 3million
Bataka Twezikye- 5million
Nyabitete Youth Groups Association- 5 million
Nyakinengo Tukwatanise Youth Group-5 million
Rumira Twimukye youth group- 5million
Nyakinengo Tukore Women’s Group- 5million
Tukorere Hamwe Group-5million
Byenjero Bugangari Association- 5million
Bugangari Bakyara Tukore Namani- 10 million
Bugangari Devine Widows, Ophans and Elderly Association- 20 million
Bugangari Cadres Association – 20million
Buyembe Kwetungura Group- 20 million
Nyarwanya SACCO- 100 million
Bugangari Boda Boda Association- 23 boda boda motorcycles
Kanyankyende Paradise Development Group- 2 source pans, 4 food warmers, 200 chairs, 4 tents
Good Talent Youth- Music system and a truck
Rwamiraburanage Bataka Group- Pickup double-cabin truck
Nyakishenyi Youth Empowerment- 3 million
Buyangwe Development Association- 5 million
Nyakishenyi FC- 5 million
Nyakisoroza Youth Development Association- 10 million
Nyakishenyi Constructors and Carpenters- 10 million
Nyakishenyi Twombekane- 10 million
Mihenvu SACCO- 100 million
Nyakishenyio Bamukaka group- 15 tents, 750 chairs
Katonya Women Development Association- 8 tents and 450 chairs
Nyakishenyi Boda boda Association- 13 boda boda motorcycles
Engabo za Kigezi Youth Cultural Performers- Truck
Nyakishenyo Coffee Growers Cooperative- Truck
Ruhinda Women Group Making Soap- 5million
Nyamwimuka Development Association- 20 million
Rwamugoma Development Association- 20 million
Ndere Development Association- 20 million
Rwenshaka Sacco- 100 million
Rwoya Central Group- 200 chairs, 4 tents
Nyakitabire Catering- 2 source pans, 4 food warmers, 30 dozens of plates, 5 tents, 250 chairs Burombe Development Association and Catering- 4 source pans, 88 dozens of plates, 350 chairs, 5 tents
Ruhinda Boda boda Association- 10 boda boda motor cycles
Ruhinda Nyakitabire Development Association- Truck
Kicwamba Development Association Farmers- Truck
Nyarushanje Karama Bakyara Twimukye- 5 million
Bwanga Women’s Development Association- 5 million
Bwanga Universal Disabled Group 5 million
Rubabo Peoples’ Sacco- 100 million
Nyarushanje Boda boda Association- 17 boda boda motorcycles
Ndago Gospel Singers Association- Mini bus

‘Wake up’ – Museveni Tells Rukungiri as He Commissions Shs193m Workshop

http://chimpreports.com/wake-up-museveni-tells-rukungiri-as-he-commissions-shs193m-workshop/

By Rehema Namuli

April, 15^th, 2018

President Yoweri Museveni has said that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government plans to have machine, carpentry, ceramics and textiles tools made in Uganda to further facilitate the availability of such tools at a low cost.
The President was today speaking at the commissioning and handing over ceremony of a common user timber workshop in Rukungiri District South Western Region.
The Presidential donation that is valued at Shs.193 million, is intended to benefit 5,000 members of the Rukungiri Municipality Carpenters’ and Traders’ Association.

President Yoweri Museveni has said that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government plans to have machine, carpentry, ceramics and textiles tools made in Uganda to further facilitate the availability of such tools at a low cost.
The President was today speaking at the commissioning and handing over ceremony of a common user timber workshop in Rukungiri District South Western Region.
The Presidential donation that is valued at Shs.193 million, is intended to benefit 5,000 members of the Rukungiri Municipality Carpenters’ and Traders’ Association.

“I have helped you but wake up. If you work well, you will achieve a lot. NRM enabled you to choose people so that you may be served well. I want the district leaders to prioritize so that the various sectors such as carpentry, textiles and others, are facilitated with the goal of ensuring that people have the capacity to generate income,” he said.

Some of the equipment that were donated

Some of the equipment that were donated

President Museveni called for collaboration between Government and Italian-based Wood Machinery Ltd, who are manufacturers of machines, to establish a machinery workshop in Uganda.
He noted that under this arrangement, machine tools would be manufactured in Uganda. He observed that the workshop would serve the East African Region and go a long way in cutting costs of importing machines thereby facilitating the reduction in production costs.
He also disclosed that Uganda shall soon start the refining of iron ore in Tororo beginning with the local casting of materials from the country’s minerals.
The Chairman of Rukungiri Municipality Carpenters’ and Traders’ Association, Mr. Emmanuel Gumisiriza, saluted President Museveni for the donation of the common user timber workshop.

I am not working for anybody but heaven- Museveni

http://nilepost.co.ug/2018/03/17/i-am-not-working-for-anybody-but-heaven-museveni/

Nelson Bwire Kapo

Mar 17, 2018,

President Museveni has said that he is not working for anybody but for God’s reward in heaven.
Museveni was addressing locals at Kasoroza playground in Nyakagyeme Sub County, Rukungiri district, on Friday afternoon, the president said that there is no way voters can remain believing in FDC, yet NRM party is the one that fought for Uganda’s stability.
“I’m working for heaven that’s why am I using these young people not the district bosses or Member of Parliament,” he said.
Museveni vowed to woo all voters in Rukungiri district, who had defected to the opposition Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party, back into the ruling NRM party. He vowed to help locals in Rukungiri get out of poverty, the moment they start supporting NRM.
Museveni said during guerilla war, they never used bishops or other church leaders to penetrate Luwero and capture power. “Jim Muhwezi here knows very well we used very small people to penetrate larger group until we reached where we were going, this is what am using again to reach FDC power ten who went astray,” he said
The President donated Shs 30 million to Nyakagyeme Bodaboda group, Nyakagyeme Development Savings Credit and Cooperative Organisation and Nyakagyeme Banana Traders’ Group. He also donated a FUSO Lorry to Nyakagyeme Banana Traders’ Group to help in transporting their produce. He also donated 50 million Shillings to group of onion growers from Ntungamo district.
Rukungiri is the ancestral home of Dr Kizza Besigye, Museveni’s former ally and personal physician, but who fell out with the president in 1999 and went on to challenge him in elections in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016. On all the four occasions, Besigye has come second to Museveni, garnering millions of votes but not enough to dislodge Museveni’s 31-year-rule.
Besigye, who retired from the army in 2000 at the rank of Colonel, has always claimed the ruling party has rigged him out of victory. He challenged the election results twice, in 2001 and 2006, with each time the Supreme Court judges agreeing that there was rigging, but not significant enough to influence the final outcome.

According to followers, Fr Bashobora reinforced the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church at a time when it was being resisted.

According to followers, Fr Bashobora reinforced the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church at a time when it was being resisted.

The mystery of a priest known for healing

Sunday June 30 2013

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/The-mystery-of-a-priest-known-for-healing/688334-1899190-lx9uxz/index.html

By Alfred Tumushabe & JOHN K. Abimanyi

Kampala

While Fr John Baptist Bashobora carries a reputation for miraculous healings and philanthropy, he shies away from media interviews.

He is scheduled to lead a retreat of more than 40,000 people in War Saw National Stadium in Poland next week. “His preaching and healing prayers have attracted followers from all faiths,” Alex Kibirige, a representative of the marriage ministry at Parish Service Team of charismatic at Uganda Martyrs Church in Mbarara District, says.

Fr Bashobora heads the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Mbarara Archdiocese, where he has become renowned for extra ordinary acts such as miracle crusades.

Ailed people who have attended the crusades have been fully healed of their infirmities. Besides that, the cleric has extended a hand of compassion to sponsor students’ education.
In a world where human affliction is endless, especially caused by disease and mortality, the tales that abound about Fr Bashobora create a mysterious air around the man.

They take the form of a sense of wonderment at how his prayers manage to loosen the healing graces from above and deliver ailing people from their bondages below, even when other people can pray to God too.

The fact that he refuses to talk to the press, therefore, only compounds this sense of mystery, even the more. His handlers, employees and associates say the cleric believes that such publicity would be misconstrued as showing off. “He does not like to publicise his life story. He says he is just doing the work of God,” says Dr Godfrey Mugyenyi Rwambuka, one of the managers of his several projects in the archdiocese. “He said he should be written about after he has died. He has turned down all press interviews,” Dr Rwambuka adds.

The archdiocese social and communications officer, Sr Jeremina Keneema, last week said Fr Bashobora was the only qualified person to tell his life story. However, his relatives, friends and beneficiaries gift speak out. Those who have benefitted from his healing speak with a gripping conviction that his prayers deliver miracles.

The Catholic priest’s assignment as the head of charismatic renewal in the archdiocese springs from his gift of preaching, healing and commitment to serve the vulnerable.
This is where his persona wells into the mysterious.

Mr Kibirigye never misses Fr Bashobora’s crusades, especially the one at Yesu Ahurire Karama, which takes place every year in January. The week-long praising and praying crusade at the seat of the Charismatic Renewal attracts many people.

“People believe that what he prays for happens. He has healed the sick and prayed for the barren that have produced. That is why he has a following of the rich and the poor,” Mr Kibirige says.

Mr Kibirige says he was healed by the priest’s prayers. He says he had chronic backache that had tormented him for a week in 2009. But when he attended one of the priest’s crusades in Nyamitobora, Kakoba Division, Kibirige says he was prayed for and the rest is history. “When he was praying, he said, ‘there are people being troubled by backache, you are healed. There are women who are barren and have been looking for babies, you will produce’, Mr Kibirige says.

“Those women were there, five raised their arms. When I went back home, the next day I did not have any backache. From then, I believed in his prayers,” he adds.
Mr Nkwatagye Benon of Kishami Ruhaama County, says: “A daughter of my relative was battling with goiter for over 10 years. We took her for prayer to Father Bashobora at Yesu Ahureire Karama. The thing that had expanded on the neck ceased to exist and the girl is living now.”

According to supporters, Fr Bashobora’s mobilises funds locally and from foreign donors to support the needy. He has established a babies home, secondary and primary schools, hospitals and technical schools across the region.

“He does not support only the Catholics but any person who is vulnerable. In some cases, he supports established schools by building them classrooms and asks them to take care of a certain number of poor students until they finish school,” Mr Otushabire Tibyangye, a journalist, who was taught by the cleric.

New face
Mr Frank Katubeho, a graduate from Makerere University and beneficiary of Fr Bashobora, says he has changed the face of Catholic Church. “He reinforced the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church at a time when it was being resisted. But when the church leadership saw the benefits, he was allowed and his way of doing things was accepted,” Mr Katubeho says.

While in Senior Three at Sacred Heart Mushanga in Sheema District, Mr Katubeho was picked by Fr Bashobora who paid his school fees and other necessities until he finished his university education.

He is now a programme facilitator with Compassion International.
In a world where spiritual abilities to deliver healing have been assumed by miracle merchants who sell their gifts, real or fake, to the highest bidder, the mystery about how Fr Bashobora manages to deliver his miracle laden prayers is likely to still hold, especially now that he refuses to speak openly about it.

His followers only attribute it to Supreme being. “I don’t know where he gets the healing powers from. I believe it is the Holy Spirit that works through him,” Mr Kibirige says.
“He was the youngest priest in the archdiocese. At Kitabi he taught us RE (Religious Education) in Senior Three and Senior Four. Before he came, there was a gap between students and priests. He, however, would come to class, listen to students’ views,” says Mr Tibyangye,

Fr Bashobora discouraged chasing away of students from school over alleged or proven misconduct. “Chasing a student in a seminary is not a big deal. Even if they suspect that you went out of the school, they can chase you. He discouraged that practice,” Mr Otushabire says.

In 1977, he is said to have saved a student, the son of the Internal Affairs minister in the Obote I government, Basil Bataringaya, from being killed by President Idi Amin’s government agents.

The school administrators had learnt that Kenneth Bataringaya was wanted. They closed the school and sent all students home on the pretext that it did not have food and water.
“The night we left, Fr Bashobora kept the boy at school with a few friends. The following day, he drove him to Kampala and hid him. When Amin agents arrived at the school they found it closed and were told the reasons,” Tibyangye says.

Who is Fr Bashobora?

The cleric is said to have been born in Bushenyi, District on December 5, 1946, to Matyansi Mabara and Veronica Kangobe. He grew up as an orphan because his father died when he was two years old. He was taken to his paternal uncle, Sypriano Waruhitsi, where he was raised under the close supervision of his sister Purikiseda Bakanyihaho.

It is said Fr Bashobora did not know that Waruhitsi was not his father until later in life. He studied at Kitabi Seminary, the only school around at that time.
“He was a very disciplined child. He never used to indulge in bad behaviour, like drinking alcohol and smoking,” Ms Bakanyihaho says in an interview she gave to the Orumuri, newspaper, on June 3, 2013.

After school, Fr Bashobora would walk home without loitering anywhere. He would get busy with household chores and would wake up early to arrive at school in time. He liked school and church. He would at times lead prayers at home,” she says.
His classmates say he was a very brilliant student, which sometimes earned him envy from people.

At Kitabi, he chose priesthood. His relatives had discouraged him on the grounds that it was a tough calling that required a lot of dedication.
“Some people fail to live up to this calling,” his relatives are said to have argued. They later endorsed his choice because he had proved a very disciplined character in his childhood.

Fr Bashobora then went to Katigondo Seminary where he studied a degree in theology and laterwent to Gaba National Seminary to study philosophy.
In 1972, he was ordained a priest at the age of 27 and was deployed at Kitabi.

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