In lest than 60 days into 2008 Uganda politicians have called each other liars than probably any group of politicians in the world. The Guinness Book of World Record needs to check this out!
Calling someone a liar probably amounts to being aggressively belligerent. At this rate we may soon see people coming to blows in Uganda.
Here is a sampling of some “lie” statements by our esteemed politicians.
1. “We should put up a team to counter the Lies that we in the NRM are fighting the kingdom of Buganda,” Kamoga said.
2 .In an earlier meeting with war veterans from Mpigi and Wakiso districts, Museveni revealed that the Government was considering setting up a radio station to counter ‘Lies, abuses and malicious opposition attacks’.
3. POLITICIANS have always been branded liars and not all they say is taken seriously by their constituents. During proceedings of a committee on social services, the chairman, James Kubeketerya, repeatedly warned the team from Makerere University against telling Lies. “Mr vice chancellor and your group, do not think of telling us Lies. Politicians never tell Lies and we hate them,” he said. “Hon chairman, you are right. Politicians are allergic to Lies, although they are part of our life,” Chris Baryomunsi (Kinkizi East) retaliated, causing the House to murmur.
4. Lies and trickery are what have enabled the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, survive in the bush for over 20 years, according to the Gulu resident district commissioner. Walter Ochora admitted before the higher education state minister, Gabriel Opio, that he had fallen victim to Kony’s Lies. “When we visited the LRA rebels in Garamba last year, Kony made me come back and tell Lies to the President. He is the kind of man who can make you deceive your boss,” Ochora told Opio, who was visiting him at his offices in Gulu over the weekend.
5. The President criticised people he referred to as abebitiibwa (honourables), for feeding the public on what he called Lies. He said they must must mobilise the people to overcome problems like poverty rather than peddling Lies.
6. Kamya urged the Government to create a peaceful political environment for other parties to carry out their activities. “We don’t want to see the Government interfering with our party activities because we are a duly registered political party. The NRM government should avoid past Lies of linking our mobilisation and recruitment drives to rebel groups.”
7. THE presidential adviser on political affairs, Moses Byaruhanga, has asked Kayunga residents to ignore ‘Lies spread by Mengo officials on the Land Amendment Bill’.
8. Every time you read someone referring to ‘power hungry’ or ‘greedy’ in respect of their political opponents, take out the salt shaker before you swallow. In most cases people who make these assertions either do not have an intellectually sound argument to make or are incapable of making one. They can only engage in insolence, Lies, exaggeration and obfuscation.-- Robert Kabushenga
9. “Mable has spoken very well. She is not going with the Lies of Mengo. She does not think about herself only but also other people,” Museveni commented. He blasted the Buganda Kingdom government for alleging that the bill was a Government plot to grab their land. “Ettaka ligenda, ettaka ligenda, blah, blah! Nobody can make me panic with Lies. Where is the land going? Those with issues should take them to Parliament before the committee, it will sort them out,” he said.
10. Deputy secretary to the treasury, Keith Muhakanizi, is a good Christian. At least he knows that lying is a sin, unlike some of his staff members. Last week he amused the committee on the public accounts committee when he told the MPs that he is born-again and therefore does not tell Lies. “I believe in transparency and that is why I differ almost all the time with my staff,” he said. Well, we hope he teaches them that principle.
11. In December 2007, Kadaga directed the parliamentary committee on rules, privileges and discipline to investigate Kamba for what she termed as false, malicious and deliberate Lies he allegedly uttered against her during the NRM caucus meeting at Statistics House.
12. A month or so ago, centre stage was held in Mengo media hands. Not any more. They were peddling Lies either out of ignorance of what the Bill held, or from their own agenda. But their tone was venomous. Government swung into action, led by a stern Presidential statement. The Bill has been gazetted and widely explained. It has been debated, as it should be, using facts.—John Nagenda
13. “I know failure brings disappointment but this should not drive one to tell Lies. If you are a politician, you should learn to lose honourably,” Mallinga advised. The minister observed that their intensive one-on-one campaign approach enabled the NRM beat FDC.
14. “Many people are interested in my position. They are peddling Lies that I am incompetent and should step down. For the two years I have been in office, I have achieved great success for the party,” UPC President Miria Obote, vowing not to leave her seat as party president.
15. However, the NRM denied the allegations. “Those are Lies. I do not know why they say we engage in malpractices when the NRM wins,” said Dorothy Hyuha, the NRM party deputy secretary general.
16. No amount of Lies from Mengo should be allowed to disguise this fact, nor indeed that it was the same Movement that gave back over 350 square miles (a quarter of a million acres) to the Kabaka of Buganda. (Whisper this not: that it returned the Kabakaship itself!).—John Nagenda
17. AMURU-The UPDF MP, Maj. Gen. Julius Oketta, has appealed to Acholi leaders to promote peace, unity and reconciliation for the development of the area. According to Oketta, leaders should focus on issues that affect the people other than telling Lies that might cause hatred. He was speaking during a mass at Pabbo Catholic Parish on Sunday. “Leadership is not an issue of personality but providing direction, a sense of future and good attitude.”
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