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Ugandans
On June 16th 2003 Posta Uganda launched
three new stamps honouring Princess Katrina-Sarah Ssangalyambogo of Buganda. It
is stated that the stamps were a dedication to all children of Uganda.
Nabagereka stated that the new stamps are culturally important to Buganda and
they would help to display its vast heritage. There are more of those details in
New Vision of June 17th 2003 if you want any more details. What I want to do
tonight is to look at this action which took place in our nation and to wonder
whether it was right.
I am going to start with Nabagereka, for some
reason she is right that Buganda has a vast heritage, but who told her that she
has a right to get a national institution like Posta Uganda to promote
the culture of Buganda? And I am going to base my argument from the fact that I
live in a nation with the greatest Federalism in the World. Federalism to
survive in any nation, it must start with respect of what you have and what the
rest of the people have. That is why you see that federalism can never survive
in a nation where there is no democracy. For what Nabagereka did was to hijack a
national corporation and use it to our own benefit, including the population
of Buganda. We can not practice Federalism in Uganda when we do not have
a clear line between Provincial and national jurisdiction. With the
same breath I must wonder who was in his/her right mind to allow Ms Sarah
Kiyingi Kaweesa, the Managing Director of Post Uganda, to allow a national
institution to be used in such a flimsy way. If the culture of Buganda is very
important to Nabagereka, she should have used any other institution she has put
in Buganda to promote the culture of her region and I would have not interfered
at all. But if Nabagereka has been in Uganda this long, and the best she can get
to promote the Buganda culture was a national institution, then she owes
Ugandans an apology accompanied with a promise to respect national institutions
the same way the nation respects her culture.
Secondly I must comment on the logic of choosing
Ssangalyambogo to represent the Uganda children on this very vital day. And I
must start with a very simple question, What does Ssangalyambogo has in common
with Uganda children? This is a day which was established by UNICEF to recognise
the plight of children amongst our selves, to know the problems they have, and a
nation like Uganda which has millions of children who are internally displaced
in their own country, I think this was a very clear day to let them speak out.
But who is Ssangalyambogo? Yes she is a princess in
Buganda by all means, but I want to look at her connection to the children of
Uganda. When Nabagereka reached the time to deliver this Princess, she looked
into the entire nation of Uganda even into her own territory of Buganda and made
a conscious decision that she could not find a single hospital which would fit
her standards. Although all her subordinates use Uganda hospitals, she refused
to use them and preferred to be flown to London. Yes she delivered the baby but
not only that but she even refused for a while to return to Uganda with the
newly born, for she feared that Uganda dust might endanger the new born.
Ssabasajja and Obuganda stayed single untill when Mengo complained and bitterly
then Nabagereka accepted to come back to Uganda with the Princess. Let record as
well show that due to Nabagereka's fear of Buganda's hospital/s, Buganda ended
up with a Princess with a British Birth Certificate, there fore a British
Citizen. Today Uganda children have a British citizen representing them on a
UNICEF day. It is sad for our children are being forced into recolonisation by
Nabakyaala her self.
My question to you today, what does Princess
Ssangalyambogo has in common with Uganda children?
I wonder whether Nabagereka knows the plight of
Uganda children or she is just a very insensitive person. For if she is not
insensitive Nabagereka should have looked in the entire spectrum, we have many
kids who would fit this occasion. let me remind Nabagereka that we have a child
in Gulu who was breast feeding, the camp was attacked and the mother was shot
and killed. This child stayed with the dead mother sucking for ten hours untill
when a red Cross worker came and plucked it off the breast of a dead mother. We
have some 3 girls who were sent home due to lack of school fees at a time of
final exams, these girls went to The Central Police Station in Kampala, they
ended up making their story public through Bukedde paper and they got the school
fees from caring Ugandans abroad, in the end they did their finals. I can count
very many of such.
And let me make clear one point, the commemoration
of the Children's day is a national issue, there for Nabagereka and the entire
Mengo sad story must have nothing to do with it. But if she had decided to
interfere with national matters, she should have respected Ugandans and brought
any child who knows the suffering of being a Uganda child today, than bringing
this brat and you tell us that it is a representation of all Uganda
Kids.
Nabagereka's action should give all Ugandans a true
picture of Buganda's position to Uganda as by Mengo's definition, and it is us
as Ugandans to set this record straight by doing exactly what I have done today.
And to me I think Nabagereka owes Uganda' children an apology for she kidnapped
their only chance to demonstrate their sufferings publicly, and she used it to
promote the British Brat.
In conclusion I am kindly requesting you to look at
the photographs I am going to post. Photograph (B) belongs to the princess and
photograph (A) belongs to a true Ugandan child who UNICEF was looking for when
they set up this day to commemorate children world wide. You be the
judge.
Ugandans this is the difference between the
princess of Buganda and Uganda children, it is sad that this Ugandan is not
recognised by Nabagereka. And I hope and pray that Nabagereka and Mengo its
self, can find it in their heart and apologise to Uganda children who have
suffered this long and who need the UNICEF, for she took their only chance and
decided to promote the British Brat instead.
Good evening
Edward Mulindwa
Toronto The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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