17th April 2009
The Officer Commanding Station,
Central Police Station,
Nairobi.
Dear Sir,
RE: NOTIFICATION TO HOLD A PEACEFUL PUBLIC RALLY OVER THE MIGINGO ISLAND ISSUE BY PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF KENYA AT UHURU PARK ON SATURDAY APRIL 25, 2009
We, the undersigned and other Patriotic Kenyans, hereby bring to 
your notice our intention to hold a public rally as subjected above. We request you to provide adequate security and to control traffic as Kenyans peacefully congregate at Uhuru Park for the rally on Saturday, April 25, 2009, from 10 am to 4 pm, to:
1. Publicly and plainly reaffirm our unwavering stand that Migingo Island is and has always been an integral part of the territory of the Republic of Kenya, and that it is equal to any other part of Kenya, and we will not allow it to be marginalised and discriminated against.
2. Demand the unconditional removal of the Ugandan flag from, and the evacuation of Migingo Island by the occupying armed forces of the Republic of Uganda, within 24 hours of the rally.
3. If they do not do so, the Ugandan Ambassador to Kenya should be kicked out and ours recalled from Kampala upon the expiry of the 24 hour ultimatum, and a punitive economic blockade be imposed on Uganda.
4. Demand the immediate suspension of the East African integration talks and the immediate withdrawal of the Kenyan delegation from the said sham talks.
5. Demand that General Jeremiah Kianga, the incompetent Chief of General Staff, immediately vacates office for playing politics with the sovereignty and security of the Republic of Kenya.
We consider it an act of HIGH TREASON for President Kibaki to side with the invading Ugandans by speaking and acting in a manner to suggest that Migingo Island is not clearly an integral part of Kenya. Which constitution did he swear to protect if he doesn’t know such basics? Which country does he purport to rule if Kenya’s boundaries are a matter for negotiation with expansionist neighbours?
Mr. Kibaki has no mandate to renegotiate Kenya’s boarders? By purporting to do so, irrespective of whether he uses surveyors or whatever experts as a concession mechanism, he is endangering the security and sovereignty of the Republic. If Migingo is negotiable so is any part of the Republic! That is extremely dangerous and we will not be spectators in our destruction.
We are hereby serving a 14 day notice on President Kibaki to immediately discharge his oath of office to defend the Constitution of Kenya by reclaiming Migingo islands. Failure to which, he should vacate office immediately to pave way for a more able Kenyan to take charge in the spirit of our National Anthem which in part states:
Amkeni ndugu zetu
Tufanye sote bidii
Nasi tujitoe kwa nguvu
Nchi yetu ya Kenya
Tunayoipenda
Tuwe tayari kuilinda
Yours faithfully,
For and on behalf of all Patriotic Kenyans
Farouk Machanje
Okiya Omtatah Okoiti
Ephantus Githae
Al-Amin Kimathi
Sheikh Ramadhan
George Nyongesa
About the Author
Are you kidding? Punitive, ha? If you are as patriotic as you claim you should know the economics that sustains your country. Uganda is Kenya’s biggest trading partner, not to mention that it is the gateway to your markets in South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern DRC. OK, may be you thought Ugandan customs will clear them while you deny Ugandan goods way. Don’t you think your leadership has weighed all those options, including force. Let’s face it, uganda and kenya’s futures are intertwined and we have to learn to live with each other. Any ‘punishment’ will be felt both sides.
By the way, there are no Ugandan troops there but police but since your Administrative Police were too terrified to notice, I forgive them. Now just imagine if they encountered the famous UPDF.I pity Gen. Kianga, I really do. That said, as a Ugandan, I think Migingo belongs to Kenya but can’t help enjoying your helplessness.
To Spartan:
But Museveni, for all his self-proclaimed military prowess, is hardly more than a spoilt bully. He has never defeated a disciplined army. He takes a lot of futile pride in the fact that he scattered away the drunkards and serial robbers that Idi Amin, the Obotes and the Okellos – Lutwa and Tito, misnamed an army. These hoodlums fled at the sound of rocket and mortar fire of the advancing children that Museveni used to install himself into power.
Hardly four years after the children of Uganda made him President, he was spoiling for a fight with Kenya. It was then that Mzee Moi denied him oxygen. Elsewhere, his fabled NRA almost succumbed to the primitive army of Alice Lakwena, who mobilised an army equipped only with sticks and stones. They believed they were fighting under divine instructions from the Lakwena spirit.
Lakwena’s army eventually succumbed to Museveni’s gunfire. But this is hardly the kind of thing to thump one’s chest about. In the north, Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army goons have given him hell for 23 years.
It was only in 1998 when Museveni rode on the discipline of Paul Kagame’s RPF to claim a share in the events that overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko from Zaire and installed Laurent Desire Kabila. But it is instructive that once again they defeated an army of drunkards and thugs. When they fell apart, Museveni tried fighting Kagame over DRC’s mineral wealth in the East. That was when he got to know what it is to fight against a disciplined army, even from a small country like Rwanda.
But it is not worth fighting Museveni over Migingo or anything else. The President of Uganda may like behaving in hostile fashion towards his neighbours, but the people of Uganda are our brothers. And even Museveni rules over them by force, having become a serial rigger of elections. Unfortunately, in order that we may sort him out, it appears necessary to deny our brothers oxygen for a few weeks. Then their man will wake up.
It is unfortunate that we will also pay a little economic price, as will our other brothers in Rwanda and Burundi. But how else do you deal with a bully who thinks the army is everything? Close the border.
http://www.eastandard.net/realestate/InsidePage.php?id=1144011866&cid=4&
President Museveni now admits Migingo belongs to Kenya. We must thank the KIBERA boys who UPROOTED the railway to starve Ugandans by denying them transport for essential goods through Kenya. Meanwhile, our Governmeent has been toothless in this saga. Museveni understands violence, not dialogue.
By Sylvia Juuko
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Migingo Island is in Kenya, while the water at its western shore is Ugandan territory.
Speaking at the launch of the Smart Partnership national dialogue at Hotel Africana, Kampala, the President noted that the border demarcations on British documents show that the island is in Kenya while the western shore is in Uganda.
To solve the increasingly heated discussion over the ownership of the tiny island in Lake Victoria, both countries earlier this month agreed to set up a technical team to demarcate the border.
They also agreed that Ugandan Police officers would provide security on the island as an interim measure.
“We need dialogue to get clear solutions to this island in the lake that has excited people,” Museveni remarked yesterday.
“Colonial borders were made carelessly by Europeans. It is up to us to sort it out not by changing boundaries but transcending them.”
He said there was need for dialogue to achieve regional integration and find solutions to border disputes such as Migingo.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/678913
Mijinjo is ours. If Museveni thinks that we are cowards, then let him wait and see us blocking the road to Busia at Ugunja after demonstrations in Nairobi.
Migingo is for Kenya.