Political crime

Press release. Office of the chairman. In a just received information extended to Political Crime desk from  Nyarji Jermlili Roman, the Deputy Spokesperson in office of Chairman of SPLM/A Dr. Riek Machar.The statement says that there were some elements interested to trigger a serious rift by promoting intrigue and infighting between the leaders of SPLM/A –IO ranks who hail from Equatoria region. Previously, information has been circulating around of the reported defection of Gen. Alfred Lado Gore who is the deputy chairman of the movement, however this has been discovered to be the machination of a few members within the ranks who are interested in causing disharmony in the movement due to old grudges. Therefore among other tasks for the chairman of SPLM/A and C-in-C, Dr.Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon to resolve in Nairobi was to manage this conflict brewing among the comrades based in Nairobi, as it was reported on the 21 st June 2015, Some senior members of SPLM/A ...

Have the demons of authorizing the use of chemical weapons on the people of northern Uganda finally began to inflict justice upon president Museveni? For over 25 years of war, which you forced on us,your regime employed all dirty war tactics over the period of 25 on people your government had the responsibility to protect , from scotched ea ... rth policy to biological and chemical warefare tactics in most cases affecting the civilians instead of the rebels you are pursing. Mr. Museveni the buck stops at none other than you as a commander in chief your solely responsible for the suffering of our children in the north, at the height of the insurgency in the north ,you authorised the use of warheads armed with both biological and chemical substances to win the war against Joseph Kony`s LRA outfit. The people of South Sudan have also become your latest victims of violence,unlawful use of banned weapons in combats as witnessed in Bor-Juba road in January 2014. In northern ...

The tireless diplomatic shuttle to bring peace in South Sudan ,this week had a meeting brokered by President Uhuru Kenyatta organize a face to face dialogue between the two heads of the spilt SPLM/A in Nairobi. The meeting convened under the auspices of Kenyan government had Dr. Riek Machar freshly jetting from South Africa after addressing a summit of African heads of st ates meet with President Salva Kiir who for unknown reasons did not attend the AU presidents’ summit in South Africa but sent his defense minister. The meeting is in the pursuit of the recent reappointment of Pagan Amum as the secretary general of SPLM by Salva Kiir in Juba, President Kenyatta attempted to take advantage of the conducive momentum to persuade the warring parties to end the conflicts and reunite the country, however the information emerging is, there was no breakthrough from the face to face dialogue. As reported by the spokespersons ‘The meeting between Former Vice President and L...

In an official response to the criticism from peace initiative to reunite the SPLM/SPLA brokered by the party of Tanzanian president Julius Kikwete, SPLM-IO Chairman Dr Riek Machar writes the principle reasons to why they shunned the ceremony to sign the reunification of SPLM in Juba. This week a team of former detainees known as FD ,led by the reinstated secretary general Pagan Amum, jetted into Juba in company of South African Deputy President and Tanzanian Foreign Minister as witnesses to the signing ceremony. There was notable absence of SPLM-IO team to sign the Arusha Agreement to  SPLM (IO) are signatories.

1956: Born 1975: Went to Kampala 1979: Joins Museveni's movement 1981: Imprisoned 1982: Becomes Museveni's doctor 1986: Named minister 2001: Challenges Museveni in elections. Flees Uganda after losing 2006: Charged with treason and rape before election - later acquitted on both counts 2011: Participates in a sham elections and starts street style civil defiance campaign Walk to Walk 2012: Almost died in the hands of Uganda police, later to be flown for treatment in Nairobi ,thousands thronged the streets to cheer opposition leader Kizza Besigye on his return from Kenya, where he was recovering from a beating by Ugandan police two weeks ago. Across town, crowds waving tree branches began flocking to Mr. Besigye’s three-car convoy as it slogged its way from the Entebbe airport toward the capital, Kampala. The charismatic Dr Warren Kiiza Besigye Kifefe was born in Rukungiri, southwestern Uganda, in April 1956, the second child in a family of s...

Ayume Petition "Yoweri Kaguta Museveni: Stand up and tell the truth about my father's death" Evelyn Anite is a daughter to the late Francis Ayume a former speaker of parliament of Uganda, among other portfolios he held was Artoney general. The Late Ayume died in a mysterious car accident. At the time of his death, the police had reported that his car collided with another car in an accident in Nakasongola. Surprisingly, its wreckage was found in Ndeeba on Masaka Road. Ayume's death shocked the nation and some MPs refused to accept the government's version of the events, because in normal circumstance, the car would have been taken to any police station. Alex Onzima (then representing Maracha), openly told Uganda Parliament that Ayume's death was the work of Museveni government. and the government of Uganda has shied from telling the family the truth but step in Evelyn ,she feels her questions have not been answered satisfactorily therefore she ca...

Extremely rigid and conservative Museveni is waking up to a real dilemma of how to handle the “Power of social media “gradually there is a shift in the balance of power,the influencing factor has arguably been the social media, the state has been adamant to embrace the applications of internet based media platforms to counter its opponents and therefore for a longtime the social media has been dominated by opposition figures and sympathizers. The state's ability to use violence has  been weakened, by power of the social media during Buganda riots and Walk to Walk protests the political activists faced the brunt of  violence from the government but with time we learnt our lessons and retreated to form stronger political voice by utilizing the social media where the political contestation is taking place in the new age .Over the same period, social media has become a fact of life for civil society organizations ,local actors, regular citizens, activists, nongovernm...

The decision Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), undertook to isolate Uganda's dictator Museveni from playing a key role in the peace mediation process between the warring factions of South Sudan, looks like it has paid dividends in producing a compromising peace agreement document. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) assembly of heads of states and governments on 27th December 2013 arrogated to itself the mediation role in the conflict in South Sudan, amidst overburdening questions of neutrality of key state members like Uganda. Uganda led by the dictator Museveni being a party to the dysfunctional politics in South Sudan feels it’s being undermined and her historical contributions to the birth of the new country negated. This is partially attributed to Uganda's president Museveni over reliance in violence as an instrument of bringing peace all over the continent, consequently he has wagered the same remedy to invade Uganda's s...