Life changing scripture

PSALMS 127:1-5
In Praise of God's Goodness

1 If the Lord does not build the house,
    the work of the builders is useless;
if the Lord does not protect the city,
    it does no good for the sentries to stand guard.
2 It is useless to work so hard for a living,
    getting up early and going to bed late.
For the Lord provides for those he loves,
    while they are asleep.

3 Children are a gift from the Lord;
    they are a real blessing.
4 The sons a man has when he is young
    are like arrows in a soldier's hand.
5 Happy is the man who has many such arrows.
He will never be defeated
    when he meets his enemies in the place of judgment.

Commentary:
1) God's handiwork is perfect, and God doesn't only protect you against what you see but also from the thoughts of those who intend to hurt you... he'll guard (prevent) their minds of thoughts that intend to hurt you.
2) Hard work that may even harm your health does not really result into wealth. Good wealth comes with wellness, good health, which only comes from God. God given blessing are not hurtful but joyful. It's good to wake-up early morning to praise, worship and pray, however if your kind of work requires you to wake-up early, please do because it's said that "the early bird catches the first worm." And if it comes from God, it's good although it involves straining and working hard.
3) This scripture emphasises the importance of children in the lives of God fearing people, and stresses their origin - God!!!
4-5) It's good to have children at a younger age, the energy of a young man is good when used to raise children, and before the age of weakness comes, such children that come at a young age are already grown and strong enough to support and defend you.

By: Isiko Peace John

Dissatisfaction in election results...

I don't know where the people's president and those who love him are, but I know that wherever they're God Almighty is keeping them safe...

Scenario: Help me out guys, if I buy something from you and I pay you, are you allowed to count through the money I can have paid you? Should you count it before or after you've put it in your pocket? What if you keep it without count it and it's not enough when you get home, do you complain? Who then can listen to such a complaint?

Fact: #FDC participated in a genuine election with various candidates expecting to win or loose to any candidate(s) who Ugandans think is worth leading them. The constitution allows them to have polling agents at every polling station and they are entitled to a copy of the declaration form just like any other candidates. When voting is done, all declaration forms countrywide are collected in one place, accounted and compared to what the Electoral Commission can have tallied. Should there be an discrepancies, #FDC is entitled to a complaint, just like anyone else. This now Mr. Kigundu says is illegal. And, to make it worse, all forms of quick delivery of information have been frustrated by Mr.Kigundu and his favorite candidate #Museveni so that no one has the ability to make a substantial complaint in time before announcing the winner tomorrow, and this makes me feel helpless. To further disorganise the already falling exercise of internally tallying votes, our president has been imprisoned with all who could have taken over from him in his absence.

Whoever buys something from anyone and forbids him or her to count through the money paid is a thief... so is anyone aspirant who contests with fellow aspirants and forbids them to count and verify their wins and losses.

Questions:
1) Should I believe the results Mr. Kigundu will give tomorrow as credible?
2) Amid so much impunity, does #Museveni even care about the attitude of Ugandans he leads or intends to lead after bending all laws and abusing power?
3) What if any other president you didn't vote did the same as what's been done this time around, what would you do?
4) Does patriotism still mean anything of importance to you and our leaders today?

Disappointment:
I am deeply disappointed in the electoral commission.
I am deeply disappointed in #Museveni.
I am deeply disappointed in the cause of the 1981-86 war.
I am deeply disappointed in the armed forces of Uganda that I've always trusted with my peace security.
I am deeply disappointed in our legal system that make victims offenders and offenders victims.

For good and my country.

Please share until they all know how we feel.

A National Dialogue is the path to a shared future... Bishop David Zac Niringiye

This afternoon, the Electoral Commission of Uganda declared Gen Y Museveni the winner of the 2016 Presidential Election. It is obvious even to casual observes that the elections were rigged.

The EU Observer Mission' Preliminary Report is clear.

http://eueom.eu/files/pressreleases/english/PreliminaryStatement_20160220.pdf

The Elections were rigged by state institutions and leaders in favour of Gen Y Museveni. The process was not credible. The result is not legitimate. A stolen election can not secure sustainable peace and a future of all Ugandans. It can not provide the basis of a stable and prosperous country.

That is why the immediate priority is a National Dialogue, to find a common path to a future that includes all! The Dialogue must address the critical issues that have divided the country, as the way to avert violence. Justice and equity are the way of peace! The Elders Forum and IRCU could build on the presidential debates and make the dialogue possible.

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Kiggundu: The commission declares candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as the elected President of Uganda this 20/Feb/2016

FINAL RESULTS:

Abed Bwanika 86, 075 (0.93%)
Baryamureeba Venansius 51,086 (0.55%)
Benon Biraaro 24,675 ( 0.27%)
Kizza Besigye  3,270,290 (35.37%)
Joseph Mabirizi 23,762 (0.26%)
Maureen Kyalya 40,598 (0.44%)
Amama Mbabazi 132,574 (1.23%)
Yoweri Museveni 5,617,503  (60.75%)

#UgandaDecides

DEMOCRACY IS ON TRIAL IN UGANDA

Press Statement

Message: The results of the presidential elections must be rejected Kampala, Uganda

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20 February 2016

Citizens of Uganda

My Fellow Africans

International Citizens and Friends of Uganda

Members of the Press Corps and the Diplomatic Community,

We have just witnessed what must be the most fraudulent electoral process in Uganda. We participated in this process to highlight and show the world quite how fraudulent this military regime is. The Electoral Commission is not independent and its technical incompetence and partisanship has been made clear for all to see. The voting material was not delivered in time. People were unlawfully removed from the Voters’ Register whilst ghosts were wantonly added. Freedoms of assembly and expression were wantonly curbed. We were not free to carry out our campaigns without intimidation and interference from the partisan Uganda Police Force and the NRM’s militia dubbed the Crime Preventers.

On election day, all access to social media platforms was switched off. This can only have been designed to impede transparency of the election. The popular mobile money platforms were also disabled, cutting millions of ordinary people off from their meager resources. This can only be described as illegal collective punishment, which is an offense under international law.

Then after the elections as the Electoral Commission started announcing falsified results when we called a press conference to show the world how the results that we had, results that were announced at polling stations in the presence of citizens and our own polling agents, the Uganda Police Force brutally stormed our offices and arrested the Party President, Maj. General Mugisha Muntu, our Chief Mobiliser, Ms. Ingrid Turinawe, and myself. We were detained without charge at Naggalama Police Station and whilst General Muntu and I were released late in the night, Ms. Turinawe was detained overnight.

Today I am under house arrest. My home is sealed off and I am not allowed to leave. Nobody is allowed to access my home. I am also under some kind of electronic blockade. I am unable to access any form of internet service in my house.

Generally, the regime is baring its bloodied fangs and claws for all to see. This has not been an electoral process. This is a creeping military coup.

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What must be done

I have come to ask for two things:

The results of the presidential elections must be rejected by the international community.

An international commission should be established to audit the results of the elections.

A Profound Faith in Democracy

While I address you as a presidential candidate, I greet you today as human rights and a pro-democracy activist. As you know, I have dedicated my adult life to the struggle for democracy in Uganda.

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I come from the generation which beliefs that democracy is the gateway to human rights and human dignity and to the rule of law, and to tolerance and pluralism. Any government which claims to derive its mandate from the people must believe and practice democracy.

Anyone who believes in human dignity, and who believes that we are all created in the image of God and that we all stand equal before the law, must be believe and practice democracy.

Anyone who believes in Pan-Africanism and the dignity of the African person, and that an African has the equal claim to life as any person on this earth, must believe and practice democracy.

And to those friends around the world who wish Africa well and who believe in the dignity of the African continent, they too must believe in democracy and the inalienable right of the African to enjoy it and to live by the universal democratic creed.

I believe deeply in my heart that the African Renaissance will never happen without democracy. I believe profoundly that the East African Federation would be stillborn without democracy.

Sir Winston Churchill once said that the empires of the future will be the empires of the mind. That was true and profound. I hasten to reframe that statement. The empires of the future will be the empires of democracy.

No one can be a full citizen of the 21 st century without enjoying the full blessings of democracy. Any Image claim to the contrary is false.

There can be no citizenship without democracy.

Democracy on Trial in Uganda

Today democracy is on trial in Uganda. The evidence is all around us.

The most sacred right of a citizen is the right to vote peacefully and freely. There is no greater right in a free and open society. It’s upon the right to vote that all other democratic rights are anchored. Today the right to vote—and the right to do so peacefully—has been wantonly violated in Uganda.

That violation should be a profound moral offense to all of us.

A profound offense to all the citizens of Uganda. And it is an offense to all Africans and to all global citizens.

When you violate the rights of an African to vote, you insult his and her humanity and you rob him of his human dignity. That was the fundamental offense of colonialism: the odious practice, and the insulting belief, that an African could be a subject but never a citizen.

Today in Uganda, the right to vote—the very essence of citizenship—has been violated with impunity.

International Community asked to sanction impunity and human rights violations

And the international community has been asked to sanction those gross human rights violations.

You have been asked to sanction elections that are neither free nor fair nor credible.

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And there is only one logic to that request: that African lives do not matter. And that an African can live without democracy or human dignity.

Instead of democracy, the logic goes, an African would rather receive international charity.

Instead of democracy, an African would rather be trained in post-conflict resolution.

By ratifying these sham elections, the international community is being invited to become a partner in the violations of the African people.

I am therefore here to ask the international community to have the courage to defend the millions of Ugandans—the youth and the elderly—who had the courage to vote. Let them know that it’s not a crime to be an African.

Please reject the temptation to ratify these sham elections.

But should you ratify the results of these sham elections, at least, have the courage to admit that you do not care about democracy or human rights in Africa.

No one who can sanction these elections can credibly profess to be for democracy or for human rights in Africa. I am greatly heartened by the fact that the International Observer missions from the AU, the EU, and the Commonwealth have all, in their preliminary reports indicated that this exercise has not been free, fair, transparent or credible.

I urge you, on behalf of the brave citizens of Uganda, to reject the results of these sham elections.

To my brothers and sisters across Africa, I urge you to stand with the people of Uganda and to assert the rights of every African to live in a free and democratic society.

To my fellow Ugandans, I salute your courage and thank you for your support and for believing in democracy and peace. Democracy is the only path to peace and prosperity and to the rule of law. Remain vigilant and steadfast. The struggle is long and hard but, in the end, we shall win if we continue in our patient and steadfast resolve. The regime cannot survive without our co-operation. Let us denounce this electoral theft by withdrawing our recognition of the regime and ceasing to co-operate with it.

Let us have the strength and the courage to finish this struggle. I  mow deep in my heart that Uganda shall be free!

One Uganda! One People!

For God and My Country.

Dr. Kizza Besigye

Kampala, Uganda 20 February 2016

Human Rights, Right to Development.

In order to answer the question ‘Do people have a right to development?’ we need to look at the document which defines what human rights are. TheUniversal Declaration on Human Rightswas agreed in 1948 after the end of the Second World War to bring nations together to promote peace and protect human life.

The Declaration is the first articulation of human rights and states that:

Human rights are universal - the birth right of all human beings.Human rights focus on the inherentdignity and equal worth of all human beings.All human rights are equal, indivisibleand interdependent (UN General Assembly, 1948).

In this context International Human Rights Law serves as:

A beacon - pulling states towards accepting human rightsA safety net - to supplement the national legal systemA basis - to ‘mobilise shame’ of the international community

The application of international human rights frameworks means that governments are (or should be) heldaccountable for their actions. There are four categories of Human Rights obligations of the State:

Respecting a right means that a state must not violate a particular right.Protecting a right means that a state has to prevent violations of that right by non-state actors.Fulfilling a right means that a state has to take all appropriate measures (allocate resources), to the realisation of that right.Promoting a right means that a state must educate the public and raise awareness about that right.

The UN convened the first World Conference on Human Rights in 1968 which recognised that for:

“the achievement of lasting progress the implementation of human rights is dependent upon sound and effective national and international policies of social and economic development” (United Nations, 1968).

This was taken forward by Judge Keba M’Baye from Senegal who in 1972 advocated that development should be viewed as a right. He persisted with this claim and secured a 1977 UN Commission on Human Rights resolution for a study to be conducted on the right to development as a human right.

In the 1980’s development economist Amartya Sen began writing about entitlements and deprivation in relation to famine and argued that famine was not the result of a lack of food, but of inequalities in the way in which food was distributed. Attention was thus drawn to a human rights approach to development based on the principles of social justice and equity which culminated in the UN Declaration on the Right to Development in 1986.

Last week we showed you the definition of development agreed at the 1986 UNDeclaration on the Right to Development. The following are key features of theDeclaration:

The human person is identified as the beneficiary of the right to development, as of all human rights.The right to development can be invoked both by individuals and by peoples.It imposes obligations both on individual States - to ensure equal and adequate access to essential resources - and on the international community - to promote fair development policies and effective international cooperation.

The Right to Development includes six principles:

full sovereignty over natural resourcesself-determinationpopular participation in developmentnon-discriminationequality of opportunity for developmentthe creation of favourable conditions for the enjoyment of other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights

We will come back to the issues of natural resources in the final week of the course and the extent to which the other principles have been upheld.

All thanks to:
University of Aberdeen.

THE LEGACY OF MR. KIIZA BESIGYE WARREN KIFEFE

The contribution of #WesigeBesigye to the growth and development of democracy in Uganda is one of the topics many young Ugandans will study in history 1's African nationalism. You see, when I was still in school and we studied about the North, West, East and South African nationalists, it all seemed as though we were living in the future of great men of Uganda like Mr. Milton Obote 1&2 and Mr. Amin Daada, and all that was done in their era was something of the passed we could only study but never experience in a modern society, but it's a shame; we're living in history and not the future that many Ugandans sacrificed their lives for in the NRA war.

Now, the new list of modern African nationalist should include Mr. Besigye for his contribution the promotion of democracy, human rights, accountability and transparency of government in Uganda.

How else would we have known how terrible public funds have been mismanaged or embezzled in the #Museveni regime? Or even, how challenging anyone would have to find it to compete with an incumbent president in a manipulated military government like this in Uganda?

Many other politicians have come out to join him in the struggle for democracy and good governance but we all know that persistence and integrity have challenged them out of the struggle and some have succumbed to bribery and abandoned the struggle for common good, and followed personal gains.

The selfless preacher of democracy and good governance, Mr. Besigye, has awoken many sleeping Ugandans and addressed their daily challenges without fear, even for his life, or favour for relatives and tribesmen gaining from the corrupt government. Yes, he has led a team of people (citizens of Uganda) who believe we can do better than this.  It's therefore for this reason that all upright and hopeful thinking Ugandans have decided to finance and contribute to the struggles of Mr.Besigye, and to work voluntarily with him to promote democracy and good governance.

As for me, am grateful for the revolutionary seeds Mr.Besigye has planted in today's generation and the hope in a good, democratic, transparent, accountable and developmental government that favours all, which is possible in Uganda now and can be that way for long in the future. Indeed many Ugandans know today that what wet have for a government is not all that we'd want to be our government and therefore we want a better government, the best government wet can make by our selves and be completely proud of.

Mr.Besigye has informed, thought and criticised peacefully in every way possible and it doesn't matter whether he becomes president of Uganda or not come 18/02/2016, Mr. Besigye has played a good part in the governance of Uganda and he'll forever be our hero.

If #WesigeBesigye was a teacher, all Ugandans would be passing with flying colours because it's good for all of us, and if he had been a referee I'd bet on every game his team plays because am sure it'd be a sure win, but most of all if Mr.Besigye ever becomes president, am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that all Ugandans will be proud again of their country and will exhibit more patriotism than ever before... Uganda would develop and people would regain their confidence in social services provided to the by their government through fellow Ugandans. I won't stop dreaming and wishing for a day like this!

Ugandan Politics... Election 2016

In a post by Bahati Mohammed on Face Book on 02/01/2016.

Happy new year. I sincerely send my greetings to you all esp my friends that debates with me on face book.
I HV also shared this FDC post so that we can now debate the psychology of  crowds on rallies. So thx a lot. But we also talk abt rallies in Hospitals by Kiiza.
To the point: people shd know that all Presidential candidates were give a similar program for rallies and venues by the EC. The schedule was meant to allow each candidate to have a rally in every 280 constituencies in Uganda.
Kyarya the lady Candidate ran to UK, Barya fizzled out silently, Bwanika did some six in six districts, Biraro went to Mbale and got some malaria and the other day he was calling me. I don't know why.
Mbabazi has been struggling taking advantage of FDC supporters in districts towns. The FDC thinks that by supporting Mbabazi with some Ka crowd,  he will in the minds of people reduce M7 votes below 50%. WHEREAS NOT.

Kiiza the defiant Liberator has done so far a rally in each district that he has covered. I mean a district not a constituency. In his rallies he combines people from all the constituencies in that district in one such a rally and visibly the people may think that he has many people. But If you divide such a crowd into let's say  the five constituencies of Masindi, you will get a handful that would make Kiiza pack his boots and go home.
WE HAVE Only President M7 the FATHER OF THE NATION who has done a rally in every constituency according to EC'  program. And if you see the crowd for example in one rally in Kisoro, or what I saw at Kachumbara- Teso, such a crowd doubles that of Kiiza in the whole district of MASINDI.
And in any case if M7 decided to combine his crowds of let's say Kabale district, ie crowds of the five constituencies, where and in which venue would those people fit?

And FDC is using this trick to prepare people psycologicaly that; you see; we had many people and now they have won. Therefore they cheated. We in the NRM are doing just the lawful and busy gathering evidence. Instead of Kiiza doing rallies in every constituency, he does one at a district town and spends the remaining time threatening to visit hospitals, schools and other prohibited public places.
We are watching and taking note. In fact whether he wins or not, we, at least me, shall sue him over his unlawful conduct.Of deliberately breaking the laws of Uganda. A person who is charged with a case if moral turpitude is not allowed to lead in Uganda. Note this one brothers and sisters.

And the  EC is now on spot for being unfair to M7 and other candidates. I don't know why they allow Kiiza to hurt the public that he intends to lead. How can a practicing and professional doctor go to a hospital and tell the patients there that they have come to that hospital to die? That the wards in which they are being treated are Mortuaries. I'm informed that Some patients have immediately corrupsed and died on hearing the verbose from DR. KIIZA BESIGYE. Who accounts for those deaths?
And why can't the EC allow M7 to go to the same hospital and also explain to the same patients that what Kiiza is saying is not true. The EC shd be fair to all candidates.
Kyarya shd also go there, Barya, Biraro, Bwanika, Mbabazi, Mabirizi shd also go to the same patients to give their part of the story.And by end of all these visits to one patient of heart blood pressure, will he still be alive?
SO WHY KIIZA ALONE . If Kiiza is allowed to kill oatients because he is a candidate, let all be allowed. After all they all oaid the 20 m
WHY IS IT THAT KIZA IS THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO VISIT HOSPITALS EVEN BEFORE WE LISTEN TO THE REPUGNANT AND MALIGNANT MSG HE GIVES TO THE PATIENTS THERE? WHY, WHY WHY WHY WHY WHYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII..............

WHY shd Kiiza psychologically kill our people and the EC and police are watching. Treatment of a patient involves both physical- therapy and psyco- therapy. What is Kiiza doing to us MY GOD? WHO can save us from this power thirsty Colonel Doctor.
Has the Law in Uganda gone into abeyance or it has gone to sleep just because Kiiza is coming to lead us. The guy preaches defiance and every one is just there mesmerised and doing nothing. If he defies the Laws so that he can lead us why don't we also be allowed to defy the Law that allows him to lead us. Then he will never lead us. Aren't we equal before the law Gen. Kayihura?
But Ugandans don't loose hope. We have the constitution on our side. Articles one of this GRAND NORM gives us power over anybody in this country. The power to inter alia elect our leader and only where we have consented and applied our will. Let me wait and see how the people are going to leave  M7 the healer and psychological soother of our people and vote Kiiza the psychological killer of our patients in hospitals. It happens on on 18/02/16

My reply:

Haha... I've heard of words like impunity and they're all nicknames of the #NRM government. #WesigeBesigye has been stopped from visiting hospitals and schools, and soon bad roads, churches, mosques, and play grounds and/or disco halls will be out of bounds for him... wait!!!
About suing #WesigeBesigye, it's okay... the #NRM government owns both the so called Ugandan Police and the courts of law plus some known judges (except a few who defy,  like #WesigBesigye and follow justice). Now please do as you please...
Otherwise as brother in residence, happy new year and please as you know now that you're in Kabale, we're supposed to meet for a free chat... manya tury'abanywani mushawe, do don't stop these social meetings. As for me, peace and development are and should be a priority for all Ugandans.

THE NEED FOR A MINIMUM WAGE

Now USA has increased its minimum wage to $10/Hr, that's about UGX36,000... And in 8Hrs an average American will be earning about UGX288,000 and in a month UGX 6,336,000, without weekends and overtime.

Our current leader says if the government puts a minimum wage on the Labour provided by Ugandan citizens then it'll discourage investors as the cost of operating business in Uganda will be high.

Question is, which benefits out-weigh the others? Let's look at a few of them down here:-
1) With a minimum wage
- High labour efficiency
- Evenly distributed wealth
- No exploitation or modern slavery
- Improve quality of labour; as people can afford education with good earnings.
- Improve standards of living
- Bigger tax base
- Rapid development
- Improved and enlarged market base
- Income inequality gap is reduced
- Increased number of investors and medium business people
- Bla bla bla

2) Without a minimum wage
- All the above are not there or are still staggering... and the opposite of each is true.
- Increased number of investors, better known as exploiters
- Everything good about the lack of it is arguably negative...

Now, why do you think our government is still failing to give it's citizens an opportunity to better and respect their lives through a minimum wage? The answers are simple; our government encourages corruption, exploitation of its citizens and natural resources and wants to generally keep it's citizens poor...

If the business of an investor makes money, as many of them do, and they're taking it all without giving citizens what they deserve, is Uganda benefiting when the investors takes a share of the Ugandan government money back to his home country? No wonder Bank of Uganda is struggling with maintaining the value of the Ugandan shilling  against the dollar. And please don't think am racist or that i hate investors, I love my country as much, or even more than the investors love theirs.

Note that our unemployment levels amid all this exploitation is 64% (CCTV) and underemployment is I guess 99.4%.

Amb. Boaz Mbaya, Nairobi - Kenya says everyone in Uganda is looking forward for a change.

If you think otherwise let me or better us, know your opinion.