Roman Catholics and the Spirit of Fornication : Uganda's Catholic Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga thanks Ancestral devils for helping her Win the position of speaker of Parliament
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Kadaga visits Busoga shrine for thanksgiving
Added 23rd May 2016 09:12 AM
Kadaga comes from the royal Baiseigaga clan, the biggest in Busoga,
which is believed to have its roots at Nhenda hill, where all clan
members are mandated to visit at least once a year to either pray for
their desires or to thank the gods
Kadaga (wearing blue jeans) climbing Nhenda hill. Photo by Moses Bikala
A day after retaining her position as
the Speaker of the 10th Parliament unopposed, Rebecca Kadaga on Saturday
went to her clan roots (Enkuni) at Nhenda hill.
Nhenda hill is found in Nakigo
sub-county, Iganga district. Kadaga comes from the royal Baiseigaga
clan, the biggest in Busoga, which is believed to have its roots at
Nhenda hill, where all clan members are mandated to visit at least once a
year to either pray for their desires or to thank the gods for their
achievements.
Witchdoctor sues Speaker Kadaga for failure to pay for the services he rendered to her, demands 200m in damages
January 31st 2019
February 2017, Addressing the president, the chief guest at the end of the 77 DOGS (Days of Grace and Salvation), Pastor Robert Kayanja said: “Your Excellency, witchcraft is everywhere, in Parliament and in the State House…’’
In a suit filed before Jinja High Court on January 28, the traditional healer alleges that on I September, 1990, Ms Kadaga approached him at his shrine in Buwala, Buganda Zone, Lulyambuzi Parish in Kamuli District, seeking his services to help her attain a successful political career.
“The defendant requested the plaintiff (traditional healer) to work on her so that she would be given a big job in government and also be driven in a convoy like a president. The defendant did not have money to pay the plaintiff at the time. So the plaintiff accepted to work on her on condition that she would pay as soon as she got the job,” the traditional healer alleges
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“The plaintiff worked on the defendant (Ms Kadaga) for two
nights of September 1 and September 2, 1990, and the defendant
acknowledged the good care that the plaintiff gave to her,” –the Daily
Monitor reported.The traditional doctor says, since he worked on her, Kadaga has never been the same.
Kadaga has served as East African Assembly delegate, Woman MP Kamuli district, minister and currently as the Speaker of the Parliament.
“Immediately on the 3rd day of September 1990, the defendant was called by President Museveni and appointed minister and has since then held big positions in government,” he adds.
President Museveni has in the past been quoted saying witchcraft was good because it helped them to win the Liberation War of 1981 to 1986
“When we were fighting Obote, the Baganda fighters in NRA told me that to win this war, we shall slaughter a cock and you jump it holding a gun, when the dead cock is facing East, West, South and North and I jumped it four times and we won the war, we defeated Obote”
witchcraft in High offices
The Speaker of Parliament and Woman Member of Parliament for Kamuli District, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, visited ancestral shrines on Nendha Hill in Nakigo Sub-County, Iganga District in Busoga Kingdom and thanked her ancestral spirits for helping her to be elected the Speaker of Parliament aswell as Member of Parliament.
In 2006, newspapers carried a story and a picture of Prof Gilbert Bukenya, when he was still the Vice-President, kneeling before a medicine man offering money in a small kiganda basket appealing to the gods to enable President Museveni win the elections that year.
MPs Evelyn Anite (Youth Northern) also state minister for privatization and Peter Ogwang (Youth Eastern), camped at Liru Mountain in Koboko to seek blessings from their Kakwa ancestors ahead of the 2016 general elections.
In 2004, former Vice-President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya visited a shrine in Masaka for political blessings
In Tororo district, former resident district commissioner Kennedy Adhola Otiti was recently accused of performing rituals in his office to block his transfer to a ‘dry area’. Otiti was transferred to Alebtong
In 2011 in Kaliro, the then newly-elected district chairman, Wycliffe Ibanda, found fetishes under his chair, which his predecessors had used. Ibanda refused to sit on the chair.
In 2015, the sacking of the Busia district chairman, Ouma Adea, aborted after Police dogs sniffed fetishes in one of the chairs in the district council chambers. In 2010, fetishes that included included herbs, coffee beans, brown powder, dead fire flies and decomposing bats, were wrapped in dry banana leaves were discovered in the ceiling of an office at the National Forestry Authority (NFA) headquarters. That was at a time when NFA was struggling with financial scandals, some of which had resulted into the sacking of top administrators.
December last year, the chairman of Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Children and Ayivu County MP, Mr Bernard Atiku, revealed that he was preparing a Private Member’s Bill seeking to regulate traditional healers and ban witchdoctors
Coronavirus: Ugandan doctors slam Kadaga for introducing ‘quack scientists’ to Museveni
Uganda
Medical Association took aim at the Speaker of Parliament in a Tuesday
statement for announcing that she had talked to an American inventor who
will collaborate with a Ugandan counterpart to make a disinfectant for
coronavirus.
According to the statement from the medical association, at the moment no medicine of coronavirus has been discovered and misleading people can have severe consequences.
“To put the records straight, the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (the cause of COVID19) is a new strain of coronaviruses which was only discovered to cause human disease less than 3 months ago in Wuhan, China,” reads the statement.
“To date, there is no single medicine that can cure this disease or a vaccine that can prevent it, much as many are being tested. Any unevidenced claim of a treatment or cure without due scientific evidence and corroboration by a competent institution mandated to regulate medicines is not only incorrect, gives false hope but may also be dangerous. Instead, it diverts the population from known and effective preventive messages.”
Kadaga said on Monday that Prof. Safraz K. Niaz, who on Saturday met President Yoweri Museveni — is to work with Mathias Magoola, a Ugandan biochemist — to manufacture a disinfectant that kills coronavirus.
According to the speaker, Prof. Niaz donated the patent of the sanitizer to Uganda.
Doctors questioned the authenticity of this announcement.
“We express particular displeasure about the quack cadre scientists who desire to misinform the leadership of our country. From what we understand, whatever was purported as a treatment, cure or vaccine is actually a disinfectant meant for external body use,” the medical association said.
“It’s unlikely the same has approval by the USA Food and Drug Administration where it is claimed to have come from. Why would the USA give the patent of a potential cure to a country with not a single case when it has several thousand cases?”
Stages of testing a drug
(Adopted from the press release)
For any medicine to be deployed in Uganda, it should have undergone rigorous testing for safety and efficacy by highly trained persons.
This testing or research is called a clinical trial.
There are a minimum four stages of this research.
First, the medicine is tested in animals usually mice or rats in what we call animal studies.
If it emerges as safe and can do what it is meant to do, then the first human study or Phase 1 Clinical Trial is conducted in a handful of adult young men under extremely controlled conditions.
Medicines which pass Phase 1 studies go to Phase 2 in which the drug is given to between 40 and 160 people and compared a look-alike also called placebo or the current standard.
If again it emerges as safe and is better than placebo or the current standard, it then goes to a larger study or Phase 3 in which it is tested in several hundred or thousand people.
It is only medicines that pass all these four stages that are released for human use.
These stages last a minimum 18 months.
Moreover, the medicine should also have been manufactured in a factory that fulfills specific criteria called Good Manufacturing Practice.
In Uganda, the only competent authority that can give permission for the entry and use of medicines in the country or oversee the testing of any medicine is the National Drug Authority.
To our knowledge not any such testing, scrutiny or oversight of the medicine the speaker talked about has been undertaken by the National Drug Authority.
According to the statement from the medical association, at the moment no medicine of coronavirus has been discovered and misleading people can have severe consequences.
“To put the records straight, the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (the cause of COVID19) is a new strain of coronaviruses which was only discovered to cause human disease less than 3 months ago in Wuhan, China,” reads the statement.
“To date, there is no single medicine that can cure this disease or a vaccine that can prevent it, much as many are being tested. Any unevidenced claim of a treatment or cure without due scientific evidence and corroboration by a competent institution mandated to regulate medicines is not only incorrect, gives false hope but may also be dangerous. Instead, it diverts the population from known and effective preventive messages.”
Kadaga said on Monday that Prof. Safraz K. Niaz, who on Saturday met President Yoweri Museveni — is to work with Mathias Magoola, a Ugandan biochemist — to manufacture a disinfectant that kills coronavirus.
According to the speaker, Prof. Niaz donated the patent of the sanitizer to Uganda.
Doctors questioned the authenticity of this announcement.
“We express particular displeasure about the quack cadre scientists who desire to misinform the leadership of our country. From what we understand, whatever was purported as a treatment, cure or vaccine is actually a disinfectant meant for external body use,” the medical association said.
“It’s unlikely the same has approval by the USA Food and Drug Administration where it is claimed to have come from. Why would the USA give the patent of a potential cure to a country with not a single case when it has several thousand cases?”
Stages of testing a drug
(Adopted from the press release)
For any medicine to be deployed in Uganda, it should have undergone rigorous testing for safety and efficacy by highly trained persons.
This testing or research is called a clinical trial.
There are a minimum four stages of this research.
First, the medicine is tested in animals usually mice or rats in what we call animal studies.
If it emerges as safe and can do what it is meant to do, then the first human study or Phase 1 Clinical Trial is conducted in a handful of adult young men under extremely controlled conditions.
Medicines which pass Phase 1 studies go to Phase 2 in which the drug is given to between 40 and 160 people and compared a look-alike also called placebo or the current standard.
If again it emerges as safe and is better than placebo or the current standard, it then goes to a larger study or Phase 3 in which it is tested in several hundred or thousand people.
It is only medicines that pass all these four stages that are released for human use.
These stages last a minimum 18 months.
Moreover, the medicine should also have been manufactured in a factory that fulfills specific criteria called Good Manufacturing Practice.
In Uganda, the only competent authority that can give permission for the entry and use of medicines in the country or oversee the testing of any medicine is the National Drug Authority.
To our knowledge not any such testing, scrutiny or oversight of the medicine the speaker talked about has been undertaken by the National Drug Authority.
