On who will best deliver the goods to Buganda, again i think it is better to deal with the devil you know than the one you don't. President Museveni re-established kingdoms (while Obote and UPC abolished them violently). Expecting UPC to deliver is a myth, as for DP well DP is an unproven political entity, which has never been in power so i wouldn't expect much from them.
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Subject: ugnet_: Re: FW: : THE kABAKA'S DILEMMA
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:07:06 -0800 (PST)
Kasangwawo:
I think a week ago, I wrote something different but similar to this article. My focus point now, is the Reform Agenda and Mov't. In its true colors as a Mov't reformer, the Reform Agenda feels the same way as its founder organisation, the Mov't. Especially on this sensitive issue to make Buganda and other parts of Uganda into federal states.
Dr. Kizza Besigye, in his 2001 campaigns promised to champion the federal cause and support its implementation. I wonder where this Dr. is now, given that he has shyed away from this matter. The same Dr. took his campaigns to Mmengo for support! And then, we had some dumb Mmengo ministers campaigning for him. Indeed, our people need to be cautioned about enermies of Buganda-Interests. It is time to lay our strategies in place.
I'm not going to talk so much about Dr. Besigye, but the honest truth is that any person who has not or does not support federalism for his/her own home region, is infact not a federalist. Let's face this fact. Ugandans better believe that Mu7 has no love for Kingdoms or Federalism for any part of Uganda, if he can not restore the Ankole monarchy nor declare his love for a democratic, federal, state of Ankole. Dr. Besigye like his counterpart Mu7, is not a federalist nor a sympathizer. He and his Reform Agenda are only using Kingdoms, and people's hopes for federalism for his political benefit, and nothing more.
Dr. Besigye is not a democrat, he has his one-man show going on in the Reform Agenda, where they have no candidates "suitable" for presidential candidacy other than the Dr. How can one person contend for elections 2 times (2001, 2006?) without any in-party rivals?? I bet people in the Reform, know the Dr.'s position and none wants to challenge him. How democratic??
That is why my support the DParty shall continue, because of the many presidential aspirants in the DParty who are representatives of the in-party democratic maturity.
May God bless the DP, it's the hope for Uganda.
Zakoomu R.
jonah kasangwawo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Listers,
I found the following contribution in my account. Quite an interesting view about what has been going on since the Kabaka made that famous comment to a delegation. A lot has been written but I'm yet to see a more candid opinion than this one. Enjoy !
Kasangwawo
Subject: THE kABAKA'S DILEMMA Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:28:20 -0000
THE KABAKA'S DILEMMA I notice that the recent statement by Kabaka Mutebi regarding his lack of powers and his request for a federo system of local governance for Buganda has annoyed a lot of people,
For a start it is worth noting that the Kabaka made this statement in answer to a delegation , who had gone to him to complain about the bad treatment, inequalities and downright misrule which is in Buganda today.
Among the grievances the delegation must have discussed with the Kabaka are;
* That decentralisation has resulted in the appointment of non-Baganda RDC's/District officials who have no allegiance to the areas they work in, and continually steal the money allocated to the districts in Buganda without being arrested or removed.
* That these RDC's have gazetted a lot of land in the districts to govt land and given it to their cohorts, very often for free.
** It would have also been noted that this feature of appointing non-indigenous RDC and other district officials is enforced ONLY in Buganda.
** The example of a Mukiga RDC who had been appointed to Kibaale , but was vehemently refused by the Banyoro for fear that he would allocate their land to the Bakiga would have been noted. The Mukiga RDC was subsequently sent to study abroad and a Munyoro RDC appointed instead.
** - The recognition that in Uganda there is a law which prohibits Baganda from owning land outside Buganda, as evidenced by the recent decision to take the land from the Baganda landlords in Kibaale, and return it to the Banyoro; while everybody else gets land in Buganda and keeps it would have been noted.
** The recognition that decentralisation has resulted in appointment of
officials who refuse to spend money on what Baganda in their local areas
consider important, would have also been noted.** Other facts like the building of new highways which were made to delibarately kill major towns in Buganda like Masaka and Bombo by bypassing the town centres, thus killing these towns, while passing in the center of towns like Mbarara encouraging their growth, would have been noted..
** - The recognition that conferences of nobodies can sit at Makerere and decide to ban dowry, without due consultation to cultural norms would have also been noted.
** The Kabaka's lack of power to even take care of his own cultural business would have been noted by a recent example of a land dispute among two Baganda princesses which was taken to the President for arbitration.
** The meeting must have then agreed with the Kabaka that he has no power to address any of the above problems.
** They would have further recognised that unless Buganda gets a federo system of local administration, where it can elect/appoint officials who have an agreed Buganda agenda, and have the power to raise taxes to implement this agenda , then it is better to recognise, that the Obwakabaka is 'Byoya Bya Nswa' , that Buganda is in dire trouble..*
This public acknowledgement by the Kabaka that he is powerless is therefore problematic. and since this announcement, the Kabaka has received incredulous advice from various quarters.
The first advisors delibarately made a distinction between the powers of the Kabaka and Buganda when in actual fact the two are the same in this case. They talked about the Kabaka asking for executive powers (presumably over the Baganda ) when in actual fact he is asking for powers for Buganda in the form of federo. That is why he made the two demands hand in hand.
He was advised to lobby Parliament and other officials if he wants to get more executive /personal powers. This advice in itself was amazingly na�ve , because this is exactly what he had done when Mengo presented its case for federo to the Ssempebwa Commission. Ie; ask for powers for Buganda.
The New Vision at least acknowledged what he was asking for, when it reminded him that asking for federo is 'finding excuses to explain his inability to initiate development like the Aga Khan' , and 'failing to account for the royalties collected from the people' .
Apart from what is obviously ignorance about the Aga Khan's power to initiate development, the paper failed to remember that unlike the Vision, the Kabaka has no taxpayer to pay for his existence, and would therefore have a problem to account for something he does not get!.
The last advice that the Kabaka should ask for money from the central government is a more sinister attempt to separate the Kabaka from Buganda.
The advice is that before the Kabaka seeks for 'executive powers which is a matter of constitutional amendments' and ' which may come after 5 years' , he is better off asking the govt for a handout to improve the welfare of his subjects..
For a start it is surprising that a federo amendments would take 5 years when the amendments for a third term will be obtained by a referendum and implemented within 2 years. The next thing to note about this offer is again that deliberate separation of Kabaka's and Buganda's powers, which on this occasion is nearly tantamount to a bribe. This offer again fails to see what the Kabaka was made to acknowledge. That his subjects know what is wrong, and how to cure it. The Kabaka is probably aware that giving money to him when Mengo has no ability to implement its agenda in the districts, will be rewarding only him and fat cats at Mengo. He could take the money, but in whose name ?
With this skewed decentralisation policy in Uganda resulting in land and other assets being stripped, and a Kabaka unable to help, then common sense dictates that sooner rather than later the dormant citizens of Uganda will come to realise that there is nothing they gained for the sacrifice they made, and then have to re-evaluate current friendships and loyalties in order to 'save' themselves. It is surprising that parties like DP, CP and UPC understood the Kabaka's dilemma and its consequences, while the Movement and Reformfailed to do so.
Simon Nume
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