Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo

Thousands of residents of Migo poured themselves into the streets of the tiny frontier town demonstrations, during which time, they castigated Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over his recent outburst and slur on members of the Kenyan Luo community and his stance on the disputed Migingo Island.

Waving placards, the more than 3,000 protesters led by civic leaders marched through the busy border town streets last Saturday while chanting anti-Museveni songs.

The demonstrators demanded an apology from the Ugandan President over his coined word” Mad Jaluos” slur saying his comments on the Luo amounted to an affront on Kenyans.

Many Luos in Kenya, particularly the intellectuals and political elite say they were not only puzzled, but also shocked by what they terms Museveni anti Luo sentiments.But most of those interviewed within Kisumu city and its environs, but were quick in reminding the Ugandan dictator not to forget so soon the hospitality of the Luos who hosted
in him in Kisumu. This is what happened about 25 years ago.

Yoweri Museveni was secretly hosted in a secret hideout in Kisumu amd Nairobi by his Luo friends when the then President Milton Obote of Uganda ordered his security agents to” seek an destroy him”.He had remained holed in secret hideouts in Nyalenda and Milamani peri-urban areas of Kisumu during the full length of the his insurgency war
against Obote by his rug-rug NRA bush fighters.

Museveni had taken refuge in Kisumu, and this is a known fact. And finally Kenyans, articularily the Luos have been able to see for themselves the political machinations and man oeuvres of the mad genocidal man who has presided over Uganda for nearly a quarter of a century now.

It is now wonder and ironic when the former secret guest of the Kenyan Luos issues a libelous statement in Tanzania against an entire ethnic people-the Luos of Kenya has also been elevated since the chaotic elections hoping that he will find many Bantus tribal allies among Kikjuyus, Kambas and other Kenyans.

And of course this has turned to be not only gross miscalculation, but contemptuous underestimation of the intelligence of Kenyans. Kenyans should not allow themselves to be deceived into destroying their prevailing hard won unity and political stability.

At some point it’s worthy burying the hatchet and dealing with a common threat. I am glad our Ugandan brothers and sisters know what he is doing. The dictator is simply diverting attention of the disgusted and excessively oppressed and suppressed Ugandans.

His is the man who had demonized the Acholis in Northen Uganda who are cousins of the Kenyans Luos under the guise of fighting Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army
{LRA}, and the strategy sustained his despotism for years. But now he can’t use that strategy in Uganda because all then groups now knows that he is the Ugandans main problem.Museveni won’t take chances with the elections in his backyard coming up in that country in 2011..The Kenyan crisis is an excellent diversion.

Ugandan dictator’s remarks disparaging Kenyans as reported by the BBC., with the audio clearly available stems from dispute over the Kenyan Island of Migingo on Lake Victoria, which he has quickly disowned and retracted, but only after serious damage is done. Kenyan parliamentarians, did a wonderful job by setting aside their political party’s differences and proscribing the dictator the sweetest dossier which he needed. Our MPs had acted maturely and in unity despite of tribal and party differences and this is how Kenyans should behave no matter which community is unfairly being provoked.

The instant debate is focused on whether the tiny fishing island belongs to Kenya or not, it has always been Kenyan territory until 2004 when Ugandan despotic ruler decided to try and annex it.

Yet Museveni’s real intention goes is not the tiny island as such.

His true aims and objective is to exacerbate internal animosity between the Luos and the kikuyus in Kenya after all there were credible reports that he was fuelling some of the ethnic violence that accompanied and followed the disputed Kenyan presidential election.
Overwhelming evidence is that the presidential votes was stolen in favor of one candidate. It was rigged by the disbanded ECK against Raila Odinga in favor of President Mwai Kibaki.

A shaky grand coalition government now runs Kenya, with Kibaki a Kikuyu as the President and Raila Odinga a Luo as the Prime Minister,but I am in agreement with the recent sentiment expressed by the retired President Dr Daniel Arap Moi that Kenyan should not
expect much from this coalition government which is full of political intrigues and indiscipline on the part of Ministers and Permanent Secretaries.The animosity remained and Ugandan dictator wants to light a match and throw in more fuel.

Museveni is obviously the most unhappy man after his stage managed mediation efforts was out rightly rejected by Kenyans, particularly the ODM which suspected it to be mischievous, biased and deceitful. Uganda leader thrives on chaos and massacres in surrounding countries ;that is the best way to distract from growing domestic problem,
arising from his genocidal dictatorship at home.

Kenyans of goodwill should be aware of his machinations and maneuvers.. This man is not shy when it comes to massive bloodshed. Let us read the chronicle, of Museveni.We should all recall that he seized power in Uganda through violent insurgency after his NRM party
lost the elections in 1980 elections badly. Uganda’s famous Lwero Triangle become a killing field as his insurgents fought protracted bush war with President Milton Obote’s army..

Later, the skulls of the dead tens of thousands of Ugandans were displayed, and Museveni himself claimed all these people were all victims of Obote’s alleged ruthless army. Yet.skulls can’t speak ;so how could observers know which ones were victims of his own
ruthlessness? If there was doubt about hius propensity for blood, his Rwanda intervention put matters to rest.

Museveni later allowed part of his Ugandan army to invade Rwanda on October 1,1990, they were led by the alleged US-CIA trained Ugandan military officers including the current President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, who was then chief of the military intelligence.

Massacres against Hutus were committed from 1990 to 1994.Then in 1994, the Uganda seized an opportunity. Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana was returning home from a meeting in Tanzania to conclude a peace pact with the Ugandan army- by now called the Rwanda Patriotic Front- which, with CIA backing had pushed Habyarimana’s back against
the wall.

Habyarimana never landed in Kigali on that fateful April day. His light plane was shot and hi from the sky, according to some new accounts by a missile allegedly provided by Ugandan army..

And of course the Ugandan dictator knew what would be the outcome of the death of Habyarimana and the Burundi president who was also aboard the same plane. All the two leaders perished in the planer crash that occurred and whose cause has remained a mystery to -date.

The outcome of the air-crash desired by the belligerent Ugandan leader materialized. An orgy of killings erupted, the Rwanda government, and whole ethnic people,Hutus, were discredited and destroyed. Again this time around the skulls were displayed; they are still being displayed.

And who could really tell whether some of those skulls were not imported from Luwero?

From there the Ugandan turned to what was then Zaire; the ouster of dictator Joseph Desire Mobutu was popular throughout Africa. Bu t then the Uganda eyed Congo’s great mineral riches. When Laurent Kabila resisted, very soon he was six foot under.

Meanwhile another terrible massacres were committed –indeed genocide-in eastern Congo by Uganda’s trained militias .In 2005, the International Court of Justices found Uganda liable for the crimes against humanity, including massacres, pillage, burning of homes and
mass rapes. The court ordered USD 10 million in compensation; not even one cent has been paid so far. Is this the type of a man Kenya would like to entrust with their security? Is this man worth negotiating with over Migingo saga? In my view he is not, and Kenyans
should guard against their hard earned unity of purpose and prepared to defend their country to the last drop of blood.

Ends
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Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: MUSEVENI’SM DISPARAGING REMARKS AGAINST THE KENYAN LUOS IS
DIVERTION OFM DO9MESTIC PROBLEMS IN UGANDA MAND COIVER UP FOR KILLING
THE ACHOLKIS OF THE NORTHU.