We thank Kihura for sending this article, written by the PAC.
(Kihura spoke at NVIC conference in 2002 - transript is here
http://www.whale.to/a/nkuba.html
Uganda vaccinating children to death for polio - NEVER was polio in Uganda)
http://www.nvic.org
tapes of talk available thru NVIC website
IT WAS an INCREDIBLE presentation that I watched on CSPAN
Kihura is founder of Greater African Radio and president of the East
African World Broadcasters
Association, and director of the Pan-African Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
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Greetings,
I bring you greeting from Uganda and Eastern Part of Afrika. Just a
small article writtten by the PAC on the people's reaction to
immunisation here.
Please keep in touch.
Kihura
While the Uganda police is hunting for Kihura Nkuba to question him for
his remarks against vaccination, the 15th of October was the day of
reckoning for the Uganda Ministry of Health and their erstwhile partners
the so-called big three the World Health Organization, UNICELF and the
USAID. It was day when their massive immunization campaign was to be
judged, when attendances expected to be over one hundred % were
expected. The government had indeed done the unthinkable, it began by
extending the immunizing age to a shocking fifteen years, then they
decreed that all parents have to take their children for immunization
regardless of their health status, they threatened those who would
resist immunization with imprisonment, young and old male and female.
The Minister without Portfolio and National Political Commissar Crispus
Kiyonga, himself a medical doctor and former health minister, directed
the police to arrest anybody thought to be sabotaging the exercise, the
minister of health, army brigadier Jim Muhwezi, with no public health
background, the minister of information Nsaba Buturo who has probably
never even looked at a vaccine insert, all directed the police to arrest
all the parents or even children that resisted vaccination. It was to be
vaccination at gunpoint. The small beautiful country called Uganda,
spend nine million of its meager resources marketing this European
product (the money spent would have build 120,000 protected water
springs giving 30% of the country access to clean water, it would have
been build ten ultra modern research centers looking at for example
pests that are threatening the banana crop, but government chose
European impose priorities. According to government, measles was a
threat to national interest, claiming more than 40,000 lives every year
(a statistic which is laughable since most people who get measles stay
at home and treat it and the majority of sick people go to private
clinics that do not keep records this figure was of course trumped up).
This of course is a questionable statistic since the majority of deaths
in Uganda are not registered and few parents remember any measles death.
No point in registering a person once he has died. Forty thousand people
are far much less than those killed in Uganda annually due to the civil
war, dwarfs the figure for malaria, which kills a child every five
second and for which governments is happy to ignore. The health
official, traveling in their full option four wheel drive jeeps (yours
for only US70, 000), adorning business suits of the best German design
and being watered by the delights of American coca cola, have slept in
every good hotel in Uganda helping the poor get the message of
immunization At a daily allowance of two hundred dollars as per diem,
this mansion physicians, most of whom run businesses selling clothes,
shoes, cars, alcohol, internet cafes, clinics etc the joy of spreading
the immunization message is a god sent. Where as the world bank and the
IMF steals from the poor, polio campaign rewards the poor physicians
The months of July to end of October are to physician what the what
Christmas or Valentine is to traders, with the start of the immunization
day the boxing day of doctors.. The hungry are told that a vaccine is
better than food, those in the refugee camps that its better than peace,
those in war ravaged areas that it will offer instant freedom, those who
have aids are told in official government documents that it will help
them with their condition, the naked are told that its better than
clothe. Everybody in Africa knows that once you have natural measles and
your recover from it, and almost everybody recovers and people have
natural herbs to treat measles, measles will never come again.
Indeed the elders in Africa scratched their head trying to remember when
evil spirit could have engineered measles to appear second time in a
victim. But the government and the wisdom monopolists of the World
health organization that turned a blind eye to cigarettes and promoted
formula milk not too long ago, are telling especially those who have
natural immunity to go and get their fair share of these purified
measles viruses. These viruses are said to be so harmless that to prove
it the health minister gave them to his son on a small spoon, this was
of course the ultimate proof were waiting for. The president however did
not given to his grand child who has just been born in Germany, although
there were a lot of pressure that he does this, instead he administered
the vaccine to somebody elses child. The local councilors are given
money, not as much as the district councilors, whose cut of the vaccine
windfall is only surpassed by those of the big shots at the ministry
headquarters. A notorious councilor from Bushenyi District, the district
local council speaker, Odo Tayebwa, moves from house to house, dragging
children hidden underneath their beds to be vaccinated at gun point. Odo
Tayebwa says he is happy doing gods work. The radio and newspapers are
given adverts of safe the vaccine is.
It has been tested by our ministry of health, says a triumphant voice
from the government commercial and by unicelf and world health
organization ,. The Ministrys director of its official testing agency
(Uganda Drugs Authority) is in prison for knowing allowing into the
country fake and expired drugs .
The propaganda which would make Gobbles look like a senior saint, says
that the test were carefully carried by the World Health Organizations,
whose majority of doctors are seconded to drug manufactures and the
UNICELF which represents the interest of European big business. Uganda
kings, queens some of whom cannot even read, are also paid by the
ministry of health to tell the population that the vaccine has all the
safety that comes with the loyal approval. No vaccine literature is
provided apart from the propaganda material from the Ministry of health.
This year the government had an added bonus, for their main protagonist,
the human rights campaigner for peoples right to choose Kihura Nkuba,
remained silent on the issue. Government at first thought this was a
trick and went full frontal attacking him. When he did not respond, they
told everybody that he had joined them. The Minister of information
Nsaba Buturo said that he had cooperated very well, health minister Jim
Muhwezi described him as our friend and doctors on national radio told
the audience that he had sued for peace with the ministry of health.
Silently however Kihura Nkuba told millions of his supporters that he
couldnt breast-feed them forever, that he had talked enough and it was
time they made their own decision. He was also assured that the people
knew what to do and left to themselves would take decisions that were on
his own interest. He quietly let it be known that people should not be
afraid of going to jail, since it was the government that meets the cost
of arrests, transportation and feeding and that the right to control
ones body was a fundamental, right. He told the Monitor, a city news
talk radio, that vaccination was like medical voodoo, that the doctors
showed skills akin to witch doctors, that politicians who cannot
mobilize their people to grow food were traitors and the government was
doing what it does, listen to the Europeans unquestioningly. We are
doing things to our children, that buffalos would never dream of doing
to their calfs .
Yet on the day of vaccination itself, the students whom they had
targeted at school stayed at home, mothers hid their children in the
bush, others were hidden under the bed. In most parts of the country
particularly western and central Uganda, areas covered by Greater
African Radio, the immunizers sat in classrooms without children as the
boxes of contained the vaccines sweated in the chocking sun. The
immunizers wore t-shirts bearing the words kick measles out of Uganda
they had tops bearing the same message and plenty of American soft
drinks. What they did not see were anxious parents, or even children. At
neighboring schools in Western Uganda, learners cut the wire mesh
surrounding their schools and jumped to safety some swearing that they
had better quit school than take the measles live vaccine. Some parents
thought that this was polo vaccine disguised as measles. The enthusiasm
of government to give vaccines to a people that it normally gives
nothing was seen as very suspicious. The forcing of them to take a
vaccine against a disease they know to be harmless and which they know
how to cure in its harmful state was seen as government hell bent on
killing its own population for the benefit of commanding whiteworld. All
village people know that once you have recovered from measles you will
never catch it again, but here they were telling people to vaccinate
even those who have recovered from measles. In other villages police
armed to the teeth moved from house to house searching for children to
immunize.
Peasants pressed for time to plant their crops, have now got to spend
five to ten days in hiding. Some physicians skeptical of the vaccine
have also wrote vaccinations cards for themselves while differing the
process of vaccinations. In the capital city areas of Nakawa, Mukono and
the City Centre itself councilors saw their opportunity to make money
and sold vaccination cards to parents who did not want their children
immunized yet wanted to protect themselves from health officials bent on
destruction. They paid between 2-10 dollars for a vaccination card.
Boba Boda rider (motorcyclists who carry passengers) taunted the
immuniser challenging them to immunize their own children. We are not
sick they said, bring as some aspirins or anti malarial In reply the
immunizes pulled out their mobile phones and started talking to their
bosses sodas in hand.
Are the sodas also tested by the world health organization ? the
cyclists asks.
Take your drunkard ness away from here charged the medical men of letters.
Journalist are agreed that in Western and large parts of central Uganda,
government will have to agree with Kihura Nkuba on what to do. It does
not matter whether he does not speak. Until he says the vaccine is safe
nobody will vaccinate voluntarily
As for Kihura Nkuba, he says if the government can increase their
income, their sanitation, their education then he would be prepared to
negotiate. The criminal investigation department of the Uganda police is
looking for Kihura Nkuba for questioning regarding his remarks he made
against measles. They are blamed for poor results. The government has
also put a brave face on the whole exercise saying the result achieved
showed that 70% had received measles.
Otherwise the poor farmers of Uganda have decided to defy their
government again. They have not trust their doctors and have given
thumbs down to the WHO, USAID and UNICELF. In so doing however they have
harvested a cup of bitterness.
I am sure that soon the world health organization will find something
wrong with black skin and a mandatory vaccine should be in existence
somewhere to help us get rid of it.
African World Against Destruction.