US Army Lieutenant Frank Musisi has responded to the Buganda Post story about the January 26, 2010 Baganda demonstration at the UN, for which Ugandan in Diaspora International (UIDI) deceptively claimed responsibility. Our January 28, 2010 story asserts that UIDI did not organize the Baganda demonstration, that UIDI took photos at the demonstration and manipulated them to suggest that UIDI had organized the demonstration, and that UIDI principals include Lt. Frank Musisi, James Kabonge, James Semakula, Michael Muganga, Fred Kambugu and Kawunde Miti (see “Anti-Museveni Diaspora Organization Faces Accusations of Deception“).
In his strongly worded email response.Lt. Musisi accuses Buganda Post of trying to “divide Lt. Musisi and Baganda” with its stories about him. He then lists what he calls the facts, highlighting his US Army career, his incorruptibility, his principles on dealing with the NRM occupation government and Olara Otunnu, and his charity work in Kalangala, Ssese county.
Notably, Lt. Musisi does not deny that he is one of the key members of UIDI or that UIDI attempted to deceptively take responsibility for a demonstration that was organized by Baganda who are not its members. Nor does he demand any form of apology or retraction from Buganda Post.
We reproduce Lt. Frank Musisi’s email below without any editing:
From: M. Musese [mailto:najjuma@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 1:55 AM
To: Patricia NakatoBugandaPost
Cc: najjuma@hotmail.com
Subject: Please do some homework before you make yourself a total full!
Dear Editor/ Patricia Nakato:
Happy New Year and hopefully everything is going on well with you.
I have just read your article on your blog after a concerned friend called me from Boston and I was tottaly offended.
Anti-Museveni Diaspora Organization Faces Accusations of Deception
I just want to give you some advice that you need to do some home work and due diligence before you post such lies and make yourself a total full. I want to let you know that I know all of you and the people writing all the garbage. This started right after I visited Mengo and was well received, your intention is create a wall between Lt. Musisi and Mengo but you will never succeed. I am above the frey and all the games, I am not the one to eat this “Kanyeebwa”! Good luck to you, but not Lt. Musisi to buy this one! I have a little bit of training!
My advice is that when you write anything about me, you need to do some due diligence and a little bit of homework, before you embarrass yourself more in future. A courtsey of a phone call to me or an email would have saved this embarrasment!
The last time you wrote about me was that, “Buganda Conference to endorse Lt. Musisi for President in Uganda”! Now you are implicating me more in some deceptive roles! You must be on a very serious campaign to divide Lt. Musisi and Baganda, your tactics are below the belt and won’t succeed. I will continue to work and help Buganda regardless of your desire and intention to create a wedge between me and Buganda.
Facts:
I was on military assignment from January 22- 24 in Dallas, TX and then back at my office in Los Angeles on 25 January. Never participated in of the Demonstrations.
1) I am NOT a member of any political party in Uganda, not even a single one and do not subscribe to any. The day I will join Ugandan politics everyone will know and I don’t need to hide myself. It will be in broad day light.
2) I have never and will never sell Buganda’s interests as you imply.
3) I am only involved in non-profit organizations/work that are/is helping Ugandans both in Uganda and those here in the U.S. Just last month I was involved in an immigration court in Boston helping fellow Baganda to gain stay in the U.S. and I am very proud to say that I was able to help them in them in thier time of need. This is the type of work that excites me and the one you need to writing about, but not creating divisions amongst Baganda. I am working hard to fight HIV/AIDS in Kalangala District and that’s were my emphasis is right now and I would encourage you to write about that work on: www.siaap.org I know through this work I will be able to touch many people and help Buganda and Uganda. I challenge to write a positive article about this work in Kalangala because it will help better serve the Baganda and Buganda you claim to love.
4) Dealing with Uganda Government, and my dealings are never secret. I have always and will always deal with the Uganda without compromising my integrity, character and professional and nothing will stop me! Dealing with the Uganda government is not a CRIME, only those who go there to sell Buganda and take bribes are the ones we should condemn, but not Lt. Musisi who is voicing voices of the voiceless! My goal is to present majority views without compromising my integrity and professinalism, I am INCORRUPTIBLE! NO ONE CAN BRIBE ME!
5) I don’t work for the Uganda government and I have never been paid/bribed by the Uganda government. My paycheck is from the U.S. Army and not the Uganda Government!
6) There is nothing wrong with Baganda including myself in dealing with Olara Otunu or any Northern brothers and sisters, if I chose to, but that does mean selling out Buganda. I know why you are writing this nonsense, your goal is to create a wedge between tribes! Your major intention is divide Baganda in the Diaspora but I personally won’t be one of them. I have been dealing with our Northern brothers for a long time and last year I toured the Acholi land and I have no regrets.
7) I am sorry I am extremely very busy with my work, as one of the Mobilization Action Officer for my Unit I am extremely very busy with no time to engage in this time wasting activities of yours. But your intention is to divide Baganda but you will not succeed. I don’t know why you involve myself in activities that I never participated in.
Again as I pen off, I challenge you to write about my work in Kalangala: www.siaap.org that way you will be helping the Baganda in Ssese Islands. Another challenge is for you to come out of the closet and write openly like me!
Sincerely,
Frank Musisi
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:40 am
Banange aba Buganda Post mwebale omulimu gwe mukola. Kati nze nteesa byenti: Bwemuba nga mukolera Buganda awamu na bantu ba Buganda okuba ekitole, mulina okwetondera Lt. Musisi, kubanga mwamuwandiikako ebigambo nga temumaze kubisengeja oba bituufu oba nedda! Enkola eringa eno eretawo nnyo okwekutulamu ate nga ffe twagala kitole, nolwekyo nandibasabye nobuwombeefu bwemuba muwandiika amawulire gona musookenga kugasaanga mukasengeja. Ekyo kijakutuyamba obutaddangawo kukubagana mpawa nga bwekiri kati, ekyo omulabe waffe kyayagala. Temulaba nga kati amanyi gaffe tugamalira mubintu ebitatugasa!
Ssabasajja awangaale!
Eng. Kaggwa
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:42 am
Without knowing the facts of the case, I would like to give a sort of xray analysis to the game being played here by America and this Musisi fellow, who happens to be one of the many Africans to rise in the American army forming the future foreign policy of America.
I have seen him before and listened to him speak, but I must confess I wasn’t impressed. I thought he came across as an exhibitionist trying to hoodwink the Ganda knowingly or unknowingly. America is trying to use the people we call our own in its bigger scheme of the
continued enslavement of the African mind. They are trying to set up this so-called Africommand project to literally besiege the African. Musisi like I said earlier, I do not know the facts of the case but I cannot help it in seeing you as part of the white power in an African skin
scheme. We do not need your lot as in spite of the good charity you think you are doing, the white man is going to use you to enslave your people. Please save us the many projects you think you are doing in the name of helping the African, as there would be no change in our welfare
anyway, whether you do them or not. The African has been in enslavement for the last 1200 years (Dr. Chancellor Williams), that it is high time we freed our minds mate! Now we have the Chinese too coming in, and yet what our seemingly “educated” brothers are doing is to seek self glory!
We need to work together as Baganda. America has killed millions allover the world for you to think you can fool us into believing you mean well as regards Mmengo. I was made to understand that the late Sselwanga Lwanga, your benefactor, was vehemently opposed to the Buganda monarcy!?
What would you then be doing at Mmengo!? We as Baganda, we are the ones to wake the other tribes around us, not lull them to more sleep!
Just wanted you to know that not all of us are fools.
Muzukulu wa Kintu.
February 4th, 2010 at 2:26 am
SUBMITTED BY ADMIN ON BEHALF OF MR. LULE-MUSOKE WITHOUT EDITING:
Buganda Post
Editor in Chief
Patricia Nakato
As much as I appreciate the good work, you and your staff are doing to inform and educate us; I condemn articles such as “Anti-Museveni Diaspora Organization Faces Accusations of Deception”, which appeared on your website on 1/31/2010. This article’s intention, without doubt, is to wage a war between the two groups you mentioned in your article.
Since you choose to name your medium Buganda Post, we assume you are aware of the significance and reflection it has on us and our country. Your medium is expected to make us united rather than dividing us across organizational lines.
There might have been a misunderstanding or miscommunication between the two groups who organized the two demonstrations, but we know, both groups have similar objective – Museveni must go. It is a shame that you high jacked the miniature difference they have and used it for your own ends. You didn’t even give them a chance to work out their differences without publishing it for the whole world to see.
I attended the Demonstration in Washington DC which was organized by the Ugandan In Diaspora International, Inc. on January 22, 2010. For your information, the two key people you mentioned in your article who organized the UN Demonstration on January 26, 2010, travelled to Washington DC to participate in the demonstration on January 22, 2010 as well. You see, these two groups support each other and that is how it is supposed to be. You should commend their effort in the struggle to get rid of Museveni instead of laboring for their destruction.
Since you are keen to tell the whole world who the members of the two groups are, it is about time you put the real names and faces to who writes “your articles”. You disguise yourself as namely Patricia Nakato and Chris Bijugo Lumu. Why are you skeptical to identify yourselves? For me, I have signed this email with my real names below. I am not a member of either of the two groups, but I participated in the demonstrations organized by both groups and support their effort.
Sincerely,
Wycliffe Lule-Musoke
February 4th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Obufuzi bwa UPC nga kikulembeerwa Obote nga kiwagira abantu bomumambuka ga Uganda bwabonyabonya nnyo nokutta Abaganda. Kibeera kyabulabe eri Obuganda obutekengera bantu baali mu gavumenti eyo era wamu nabantu abaagiwagira.Abantu boomumabuka bebayingiza nabagwiira nga abaava mu Rwanda oba mpozzi nemunsi endala mu bufuzi bwa Uganda. Nga mweekyo baali banoonya okwegatta nabuli omu omwetegefu okukyawa Abaganda nokubatta. Wabula balabika engabana yebibbe yabatawaanya, nebalwanagana nga mwemwaava nolutalo lwa NRA okusiitanira mu mambuka.
Kale Abaganda muleke okwelimba nokutandika okutaatagana nga mwefuula abakola emikago eno neeri ate nga temumaze kwebuuza ku bantu. Oba nga Mwaami Musisi ne banne tebalaba musango gwa bantu bamumambuka mu kuwagira okuttibwa kwa bantu baffe, Bannaffe babatulabira. Naye Obuganda nga tebunnetaaga masomero namalwaaliiro nebirala Mwaami Musisi byakola, tusinga kwetaaga ddembe na mirembe byaffe. Ekyebuziibwa, Mwaami Musisi mwetegefu okukolagana na Abaganda mu kugolola ensobi ate mu ngeri ye Kiganda, sso si nga yye omuntu yekka bwalowooza?
Guno omugendo gwa Abaganda gugenda nabagenda. Aguvaamu yafuuka kaasa. Omugendo guno kwekwegatta kwetwogerako, be Baganda okukolera wamu.Twesobola ffe ffekka okwetambuliza ensi yaffe Buganda. Amawanga ssi ffe tugaawulamu, Katonda yagatonda ga njawulo. UPC ne NRM nabalala bebasiga obukyaayi mu mawanga. Mwaami Musisi okuddira omusango ogwo nagussa ku Bugandapost olwa article emu eyawandiikiddwa kyelalikiriza olwe kifo kye mwaali. Era tewali nsonga yonna yetaagisa Muwandiisi wa Buganda post kwetondera Mwaami Musisi. Mpozzi ye Mwaami Musisi okwetondera Obuganda olwolulimi olubi olulimu nokuvuma obusiru lwakozesezza.
Abantu abalina amannya ku lukala oluli mu mawulire gano basaanidde okuvaayo banyonyole abantu entegeka zebalina ne Otunnu. Oba ssi ekyo, olwe kijjukizo kya Abaganda abangi abatemulwa UPC nga okwo kwogasse nabatemulwa okuva mweebyo ebyakolwebwa UPC abya leeta Abanyarwanda okutulinnyako mu Buganda yaffe. Abaganda tulina okwekengera abantu bano.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Banange ndowoza muluude nnyo mu daispora nokulya sossage. You dont know how bad things are here in Kabaka’s land. so you can spend your time quarreling about photos and demonstrations against Museveni when he is busy killing your relatives and imprisoning Kabaka. Problem gyendaba wano eri nti disease zaffe eza Uganda politics zitandise okubalya. Anti politics waffe e Uganda ya Museveni atambulila ku KULIMBA, KWEGAANA, KULYA NGUZI na KUWAMBA BYA BALALA. Ku bino byemukayanamu nze abantu bokka benyinza okussasira bebbo abagenda mu UN okwekalakasa nga bamanyi nti omulamwa gwa Buganda. Senga kibeera ekituufu nti ate waliwo eyakuba ekifananyi natekaako omulamwa omulala. Ekyo kya bulabe nyo kubanga wano mu Buganda tumanyi nti omuntu akusibako amatu gembuzi aba ayagala kukuulisa ngo. Senga tugenda okwekalakasa nga aba Za Mbogo kubanga Museveni awambye Kabaka wafe olowoza tusobola okukiriza aba DP oba abakiga FDC olulanga nti bebategese? Ani ayagala okukubwa emiigo ate omulala atwale obubonero olwokubanga fena tuwakanya Museveni?
Obuzibu bwoka bwenina ne story ya Buganda Post kiri nti senga bananyini manya agalabika mu story ago babeela nga si bantu ba UIDI kitegeza nti tekiba kituffu. Ebya Mukulu Musisi byo byangu kubanga ye yawandiise omukuku gwe baluwa naye talina weyagambye nti NZE EKINTU GUNDI KYEMWANDIKA SI KITUUFU. Kale nsaba bananyini manya abalala abawandikibwako baveyo batutangaaze. Mwena bwemuba nga mulwanilila ku nunula Kabaka waffe ne nyaafe Buganda ntesa nti mujeyo amazima nabetonda betonde mangu. Bwemunaba mu buzanyo bwa NRM ne FDC ne UPC tujja kubateegera era abavubuka tuyinza okubaletela Kayunga ku byalo byamwe. YOU ARE EITHER WITH BUGANDA OR WITH THE OTHER SIDE. Ebya half and half tebimalako.
Bu!
Awangale Sabasajja Kabaka!
February 7th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Look, buganda post is really losing it! they don’t even know that it is UDII they were referring to is as UIDI, the did not do any research. this is definitely an NRM puppet. I urge all Baganda to avoid buganda post…