From: Leo Odera Omolo
Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM

LIBYA HAS DENIED THAT GADHAFI IS COVERTLY SUPPORTING DISSIDENTS IN UGANDA TO BRING DOWN MUSDEVEDNI’S GOVERNMENT.

Reports Leo Odera Omolo.

LIBYAN government has dismissed reports that Libyan strongman, Col. Muamor El-Gadhafi is covertly supporting concerted efforts by dissidents in Uganda to bring down the government of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

‘Reports that Gadhafi is against Museveni are false”, said Libyan ambassador to Uganda, Abdullah Buljedam on Tuesday this week at the Serena Hotel, Kampala.

“The manufacturers of these deadly rumors and lies are bent at destroying our good relationship. There is an excellence relationship between President Museveni and President Gadhafi, and they are increasingly becoming more friendly. The two leaders are bound by a revolution that brought both of them to top power”, said the envoy.

Museveni had accused his Libyan counterpart of using traditional leaders in Uganda to undermine him [Museveni]. The Ugandan leader reportedly told the MPs from Buganda region that Gadhafi was fighting him because of their fall-out in the year 2007 at the AU Summit held in Accra, Ghana, when he [Museven] refused to support Gadhafi, who had wanted to become the first overall President of the whole of African continent, under the auspices of the African Union.

The two leaders, however, met in New York last week, and agreed in a joint statement that cultural leaders should not be involved in politics.

The Libyan ambassador made these remarks during the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the Libyan revolution that brought Gadhafi to power..

The Libyan ambassador said his country had invested heavily in Uganda to the tune of USD 600 million {Ushs.1.2 trillion}, and planned to undertake more investments in the areas of banking ,textile, oil and coffee.

The envoy also hailed President Museveni for sending peacekeeping troops to Somalia as part of the AU peacekeeping force.

On the split among the Ugandan Muslim community leadership, the Ambassador appealed to both factions to unite and forget their differences.

“The Gadhafi Mosque, a chain of Muslim Mosques around the country”, the envoy said the request to build Mosques had come from President Museveni himself.

At the colorful celebrations, the Deputy Speaker of Ugandan Parliament, Rebcca Kadaga , appealed to the Libyan government to help in conserving the nature.

‘The way your government has turned formerly desert land areas into green house farms amazes us, although Uganda is gifted by nature which we take for granted”, Kadaga said.

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