Leaked intelligence; How did Mama Fina Get Access To Intelligence Information That Pre-empted President Museveni’s Ebola speech
· Mama fiina Can Safely Be Regarded As One Of The Most Powerful Witchdoctors In The World
On Tuesday 12th October
Mama Fina called a press conference in which she categorically warned all traditional
healers and native herbalists from claiming to heal Ebola. The lady Supremo of traditional
doctors insisted that no single native doctor should even attempt to attend to
people infected with the Ebola virus.
A few hours later Ugandan
President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday re-echoed the same sentiments when he ordered
traditional healers to stop treating sick people in a bid to halt the spread of
Ebola, which has already claimed the lives of 19 individuals in the
impoverished country.
His instructions followed a regional ministerial
meeting in Kampala to discuss the emergency response to the outbreak after
Uganda last month announced its first fatality from the highly contagious
disease since 2019.
What however makes news here
is the fact that mama Fiina managed to pre-empt president Museveni’s speech to
an extent of unbelievable accuracy. Did
the president call and brief Mama fiina before he delivered the speech in which
he
also directed security officials to arrest all people suspected of having
contracted the often-fatal viral hemorrhagic fever if they refused to go into
isolation?
If it’s true, then she is worth of a lengthy discussion
on this forum.
Mama fiina attracts attention because of the modest
upbringing she has gone through to become one of the most popular/influential
women in the country.
Her charitable work where she makes donation to the
needy has made her one of the biggest attractions in the country. He humble background of having no formal
education and working initially as a maid and the occupational choice of being a
renowned traditional medicine woman, who among religious people would be
addressed as a “witch doctor” raises eyebrows.
She is a renowned supporter of the ruling party NRM and
a very close friend to President Yoweri Museveni. Her proximity to the Ugandan president
came to light when her husband the late major kigundu was assassinated by assassins
linked to the Islamic fundamentalists.
During that tense moment, a sobbing Mama Fiina shocked
Ugandans when she openly called the president on her mobile phone to tell him
about the assassination. It was evident that the witchdoctor was in possession
of a direct hotline with the head of state. I mean, how many people of her
education level can boast of being in possession of a direct hotline with the
president?
Even ministers don’t have that hotline. Only a few can
easily access the president, anywhere, anytime. If the president indeed managed
to first brief her before he addressed the nation, then she can be regarded as
a super star of mega proportions.
Sensitive
Questions
But if she never got that presidential call, then it
raises another matter of a security nature. Questions arise if the presidential speech is
pre-empted; who leaks the presidential secrets? What are the motives of the
agent? Is presidential information sold to any willing buyer? What if that information is sold to a hostile
country who has bad intentions?
In that case the president is not safe at all.
It reminds us of an incident when a leader of one neighboring
country which is quietly considered to be hostile to the Kampala establishment
(after having fought three bloody battles in Congo) revealed to the Ugandan president
that some people who were hostile to his country had met him at state house and
discussed issues of treasonable nature.
The Ugandan leader was shocked and embarrassed to an
extent that he indeed conceded that he had met those particular people but he
denied that there was anything conspiratorial about that meeting. This time there was no doubt that president Museveni’s
secrets were being leaked by someone from within his own state house chambers.
But If it turns out that he made the call to pre-empt
his own speech, then Mama Fiina can
safely be regarded as the most powerful witchdoctors in the world.
Controversial Dimensions
What stokes controversy in this relationship between
the president and this witchdoctor Is the fact that the president is known to
be deeply inclined to the evangelical movement. His wife, the first lady Janet
Kataha Museveni is a staunch born again Christian while One of his daughters, Patience,
owns a huge born again church in one of the Kampala suburbs of Bunga.
With those sentiments in mind, you will wonder how
president Museveni does his things. He seems not to be stuck in one enclave. During
his early days, he was known Marxist and an atheist who despised religion and
its tendencies.
One time he shocked the country when he revealed that during
his bush war days, he used the services of a witchdoctor who convinced him to
jump a slaughtered sheep to enable him win the war.
On another occasion he told religious leaders that he doesn’t
believe in the concept of heaven. By saying so he was diluting the real
epicenter of the Christian faith which revolves around HEAVEN as a reward for
good conduct on earth while bad behavior is rewarded with fire in hell. In fact,
without heaven most faiths cannot stand the test of time. That’s why they
extoll the concept of resurrection as fundamental element of the Christian
faith.
President Museveni has also managed to alternate his philosophical
beliefs by graduating from being a communist throughout his youthful years to a
seasoned capitalist. Therefore, hobnobbing with a witchdoctor doesn’t necessarily
come as a complete surprise.
The
author Fred Daka Kamwada is a researcher, policy analyst and blogger;
kamwadafred@gmail.com
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