Wava in the nick of time

Mzee Eriaza himself, the first independence leader of Bugisu, joined the Uganda People’s Movement (UPM) in 1980 after he refused reconciliation with the late Apolo Milton Obote when he was a secretary general of Bugisu Co-operative Union. His later closeness to the National Resistance Movement, which grew out of the UPM, saw him travel to Denmark with NRM bigwig Amama Mbabazi to convince Prof. Nabudere to return home.
Although Nabudere used to host Mzee Museveni in his house in Dar-es-salaam University, the professor is now a serious critic of the President.

Meanwhile, Grapevine is advised that Peter Magomu’s actions that include having sat on the defence team of the President during Dr Kizza Besigye 2006 presidential election petition, have not sat very well with certain unnamed family members.

Mugabe misses Museveni
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe must have left Malaysia last week a disappointed man. This is because a meeting he was slated to have with the Ugandan leader, Yoweri Museveni, flopped at the last minute.

President Mugabe had wanted to meet Gen. Museveni, the incoming chairman of the Commonwealth after November this year to brief him on the situation in his troubled country. But as Mr Mugabe waited in the hotel lobby he was told by protocol officials that Mr Museveni had other pressing engagements.

One wonders whether this had anything to do with the fact that Mr Mugabe is essentially a pariah in the international community as a consequence of his less than noble actions in respect of abusing human rights principles, flouting all known norms of democratic governance and generally bringing his country to its knees.

State House man on the ropes
As political wrangles continue to rock Kampala City, Grapevine has established that the IGG's office has been notified that a male presidential aide is one of several people who must be investigated.

The aide is said to have a vast interest in the leasing of the contested Lugogo playgrounds and Kisekka Market to tycoons he personally identifies with. The aide is said to meet these tycoons in certain posh hotels we shall not name for now where he promises them political backing.

The reports have been given credence by the presidential aide’s fear of using State House drivers. He opts to drive himself to such meetings possibly in order to sabotage attempts by those with large ears and big eyes from getting onto him. We are not at liberty to name this aide but when the time and circumstances are acceptable, we shall take no prisoners.