The Akena-Kanyamunyu Murder Has Exposed The Genocidal Time-bomb Ticking Among Ugandans

The Akena-Kanyamunyu Murder Has Exposed The Genocidal Time-bomb Ticking Among Ugandans 

Its now exactly a week since a one Mathew Kanyamunyu shot the fatal bullets that claimed social worker Akena Wakmot's life. By now mmost of you have read and heard so many versions about this Lugogo shooting.

But you must have noticed that one constant about the so many versions about this murder case is the triablization of the whole saga.

 

Most of the theories advanced about this Bugolobi murder case is that of highly connected Banyankole exercising impunity on weak Ugandans.  

But let’s try to do some critical thinking. Of course there is some form concealed sectarianism in the country that is making Ugandans to become very jittery about the state of affairs in the country. That is a fact that cannot eb denied by any honest person.

And this sectarianism is the reason why many people are ethnisizing and tribalizing ever single issue that happens in the country. But its better that we address issues on their own merit.

The pertinent question is; was the Lugogo murder premeditated or ethnically motivated?

The answer to that question shapes the whole debate about the Lugogo murder, the ethnic undertones notwithstanding.

The Hypothetical Version Of Events

I know that it’s wrong to make graphical comments about a case that is before case. But i find it imperative to sub-judice this case because of the impact it has had on the country so far.

Some of us learnt a lot from German detective, inspector Derrick a  who used to investigate murder cases.

If you reconstruct the whole murder scene, which has reportedly not been sealed as required by the process of crime investigations, you get the whole sense of what happened on that day.  

One thing that we need to agree with is to look at the possible reason why Mathew Kanyamunyu hastily shot Akena.

It’s a fact that Mathew and his girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari had premeditated fears for their lives prompted by the nature of the politics from her mother country of Burundi. 

Cynthia's mother Hon. Hafsa Mossi who was an MP in the East African parliament was recently gunned down in Burundi.

There are reports that Cynthia munwangari’s mother Hon. Hafsa Mossi who was an MP in the East African parliament was recently gunned down in Burundi. Obviously one can see that Cynthia had fears of her own and had to move with a person who would provide protection for her. That partly forms the reason why she moved with Mathew who had a cocked gun in the dashboard of the car, all the time. 

 

Cynthia Munwangari was in company of Kanyamunyu

I tend to think that when Akena accidentally knocked the car from the back, Cynthia might have (out of panic) told him (Mathew) that the assassins had come for her.  That Akena hastily ran to Mathew’s car, made Cynthia and Mathew more suspicious of his motives.

Mathew then had to instinctively react in fear and shot Akena in the stomach mistaking him for an assassin who had attacked Cynthia, like they had done her mother Hon Mosi.  When you look at the video you see a volley of bullets aimed directly at the deceased. 

And after the erratic shooting, you get the feeling that Mathew came to his senses and realized that Akena was not an enemy trying to assassinate his girlfriend afterall, but an unfortunate driver who knocked his car accidentally and got to his window to straighten matters with him.

So he (Mathew) endeavors to take the innocent Akena to hospital. And that is when all hell breaks loose. If Mathew had premeditated intentions to kill, he wouldn’t have taken the deceased to hospital.

He would have driven off and nobody would have known much of what transpired.  

I like to think the inspector Derrick way that it was a case of mistaken identity-where Mathew panicked and mistook Akena for an assassin.

Complication of matters 

What is disturbing is that Mathew seems to be trying to conceal the actual reasons that motivated him to shoot Akena.

Instead of talking the truth, he has gotten rid of the killer gun and is now trying to cook up new versions that will bail him out of the murder case.

I also highly doubt that Mathew shot Akena because he had scratched his car. I also doubt that Mathew, the connected Munyankole had tribal sentiments of shooting Akena, the Acholi.

There are practical possibilities that the shooting was clearly a case of mistaken identity.  

Genocidal Tendencies

Now that I have sub-judiced the case, let’s look at the national implications of this case.

As stated earlier, there is a growing concern about the rate of sectarianism in the country because of one group of people from the same region dominating everything.

Ugandans are increasingly getting jittery and adopting genocidal ideas.

There is a list of top police force officials which has been published on social media platforms which shows 95% of senior positions held by people from one region of western Uganda.  and this applies to most of the government bodies around the country.

There is a general consensus that the national cake has been hijacked to benefit people from the same region. 

And this alone is making it difficult for people to analyze issues objectively. They now observe issues with tribal lenses because of the practical injustice they are enduring at the moment.

This is putting the ‘favored people’ in danger. During the kayunga riots, there was a sample of the genocidal tendencies when the rioters deliberately targeted people from western Uganda for lynching.

During the campaigns for the 2016 elections, I moved with a friend from western Uganda and encountered hostile treatment from people who thought we were the people in power.

They curtly told us that our time was about to expire.

My view is that unless the situation is contained by continued stability, there is big chance of a possible genocide in Uganda. Some overzealous Ugandans are craving for a chance to unleash revenge on the ruling tribe.

This has been the same pattern where Ugandans torment and persecute members of a tribe that has been overthrown from power. When Gen Amin was overthrown, his tribesmen had to flee to exile.

president Idi  Amin was largely surrounded by his tribesmen whop later faced the wrath of the citizens when he was overthrown

 When president Obote was overthrown, the people of northern Uganda faced a lot of direct persecution.president Museveni seems to be doing exactly what his predecessors did in regard to putting his tribesmen at the fore of everything , hence exposing them to danger. 
This is the same reason why the kanyamunyu murder had been made to look as if the people from the ruling tribe are now killing ugandans with the intention of inciting the country into a genocidal reaction. 

The government needs to address the issue of ethnic balancing in job allocation. Otherwise we are sitting on a very big genocidal bomb that will explode anytime.

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a Ugandan journalist and a blogger contact him kamwadafred@gmail.com

Donald Trump Might Be Assassinated Before He Completes His First Term

Donald Trump Might Be Assassinated Before He Completes His First Term

• Two Fundamental Reasons Why Hilary Clinton Lost

  

  Trump has ruffled so many feathers , created so many enemies

This week Donald trump staged what has been considered as the biggest political upsets when he easily defeated Hilary Clinton to become the 45^th American president.

His victory has since become a bone of contention in various political circles leading to widespread demonstrations in various American states.

By the time I authored this blog anti-Trump demonstrators had sprung up around blocking roads and brought business to a standstill around the world’s number one super power.

I don’t think there has ever been any American president who has faced immediate demonstrations after winning elections like what has happened to a DT.

Why Hilary Clinton Lost

 Many political observers around the world have dwelt so much on what made Trump snatch victory from the much favored Hilary Clinton.

But I tend to think that Hilary Rodham Clinton was faced with two immediate issues that hindered her ascendancy to the White house.

One was that she made the mistake of associating with president Hussein Barrack Obama who had widely been considered a failure by political observers around the world.

I for one wrote a blog recounting president Obama’s failures and regarded him as a disappointment for those who voted for him with a lot of expectations.

By associating with the faltering legacy of Obama, Hilary shot herself in the foot because her presidency was regarded as the continuation of the SAME  failures (like Amama Mbabazi used to refer to museveni’s re-election in the 2016 elections)

Remember Obama had performed exceedingly well with the economy but forgot that American presidents are never judged by how well they deal with the local issues but foreign policy.

President Obama lost appeal and approval ratings soured when he demonstrated naivety in his foreign policy by failing to handle conflicts like the one of Syria which has since led to mass exodus of refugees to Western Europe. The Syrian conflict then led to repercussions like the Brexit where Britain voted to leave the European Union simply because of  EU’s failure to harmonize policy on handling the migrants.

he mismanaged the middle east which ispriority number one of the US policy leading to the emergence of the  ISIS even when America had devolved a policy of non tolerance to terrorists under President Bush junior.

By playing a lame duck president, Obama provided a political incentive for Russia to intervene in Syria in the guise of fighting terror. This created an impression that America had weakened as a dominant super power.

  And that is how demagogues like Donald trump came in simply to make America great again -like his campaign motto suggested.

By and large, it was obviously a political blunder for Hilary Rodham Clinton to associate with Obama because it created an impression of continuity of the same nonsense. Yet Americans were yearning for something different that would massage their ego.

That is one of the biggest reasons why she lost, even when Trump had committed so many blunders during his political campaigns like attacking the latinos, the blacks, the Moslems, migrants etc.

HER HUSBAND BILL  

The second undoing for Hilary was the morally shaky legacy of his husband Bill Clinton.

Get me right here; am not saying that Bill was not a performer. He was actually regarded as one of the best American presidents ever to grace the white house.

Bill Clinton's infidelity damaged his good name

Bill Clinton had overseen the recovery of the American economy. He almost brokered a peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israel when he brought Yasser Arafat and Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin to shake hands (make peace) at Camp David

But Bill also suffered a damaged reputation with his relationship with women, most famously the howler with Monica Lewinsky.

Much as Hilary was clever enough not to move with her husband Bill at the campaign trail, her practical marital association with him was already a damaging factor.

Ad by the way, i must admit that Hilary was so over qualified for the job that even Trump believed that he had no chance.

Almost all the former presidents endorsed Hilary and advised Americans that Trump was not fit to run the white house.

Trump had resorted to self damaging statements because he never expected to win. DT even prepared himself for defeat when he hinted of possible rigging of the elections!

  But instead the radical statements had a bulldozing effect on the electorate and they voted massively for him.

WHY DT WILL BE ASSASSINATED

Now since we all agree that Hilary was more qualified for the job, how Trump will manage to sustain himself in power for the next five years?

Obviously, the trends point at one direction; the inevitability of D T’s assassination!

Trump has rattled and ruffled so many feathers during his campaigns. He has threatened almost all the minority groups in the country.

Do you think they will let him unleash his intolerance on them? I Don’t think so.

Let’s look at the history of assassinated American presidents.
 I have googled and found that four sitting presidents have been killed, all of them by gunshot: Abraham Lincoln (the 16th President), James A. Garfield (the 20th President), William McKinley (the 25th President) and John F. Kennedy (the 35th President).

Then there were unsuccessful assassination attempts at presidents Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

if a man like JF Kennedy who was adored by all Americans was killed what about Trump who is a hate figure?

On a lighter note , and Am not being superstitious here, but when you critically look at the four cases of assassinated presidents you will find that the majority of them had been 25^th (in the case of James Garfield) and 35^th (in the case of john Kennedy) respectively.

Donald Trump being the 45^th president puts him in the line of fire!.

But seriously speaking, most of the previous assassinated presidents were killed because they allegedly tried to tamper with the banking system especially the technicality of whether to use the gold standard or not. 

But trump's campaign message shows that he will tamper with everything 

American Culture Of Violence

 And the reason why I fear for Trump is because the American culture is built around violence. So when some moron feels they are not getting their way in matters governmental, they resort to the gun.

If DT for instance tries to embark on schemes to deport some refugees, like he has promised to do, one of them will opt to shoot him. Remember Mexico is one of the gun corridors of the world. It has so many people migrating to America.

And Trump promises to deal with the rapists, drug addicts and thieves from Mexico by, among other things, building a wall around the Mexican border.

Even my small cat knows that theses drug dealing mafias from Mexico and Moslem will not allow DT to TRUMP his xenophobia on them. They will certainly shoot him in the eyes. Unless he tones down on his radical stance, I don’t see Trump doIng more than four years in the white house.

Please get me right;, I have been one of the biggest supporters of Donald Trump, and I was in jubilant mood when he won. But I see dark clouds surrounding his presidency unless he treads very cautiously and most importantly abandons the threats he hawked during the campaigns. In the end he might not have the guts to do any of the radical things he promised to do during the campaigns.

Thanks for reading this far

The author, Fred Daka Kamwada is a Ugandan journalist and a blogger..get him at kamwadafred@gmail.com

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