Mr. Kasangwawo:
The Monitor is known for being anti-federal. I will not be suprised if it does not publish your article. Recently, The Monitor forced some of its employee to resign is favor of others we have yet to know about. The Monitor is not an independent newspaper. Atleast the employees are not allowed to be independent in thoughts and what they can or can not write in their articles.
Lastly, Edward is very ignorant about Federalism. I also noticed in his outbust that he really believes that once a country is arranged in a federal arrangement, there can not be interstate commercial interactions. He really believes that Buganda can not trade with Bunyoro or Ankole. Or that Acholi can not trade with Kigezi or Sudan. Edward's reasoning is truelly limited. He is incapable of critical adding and subtracting.
Edward simply wants what he can not have. He wants to be a Muganda. He has abandoned his native name, abandoned his people, and possesed as a Muganda. We need to enlighten him that there is a naturalization process of making non-Baganda into Baganda. That is only if they are willing to pay alligencies to the Kabaka, develop Buganda, and be the shield of Buganda. Edward can not qualify. He has therefore turned to what he knows best. And that is his usage of words! The good thing is that words can not do a thing or change a thing in Uganda. His Buganda phobia has gone too far!
Mr. Kasangwawo, I agree with you. You have some nice points you have highlighted. And I want yet to see some of these noncritical thinkers challenge your points with sense. For I expect many of them to stay quite as they usually do. Whenever someone of sense talks about federalism, they stay quite. But wait until Edward says nonsense, you will see them cheered up. Just like the blind.
Edward touches them in a way no others have. He gives them a reason to challenge Buganda. He gives them false hopes. I bet many of them have nothing but despair whenever they look at their motherlands (wherever that maybe). They have lost hope in civilization. They have no hope in democracy; they have turned to Obote as a hero. They have turned to the central govt (unitary system) to resolve local matters in their local areas. Yet they can solve these local matters themselves through federalism. They have given up creativity, in hopes of the central govt to invent for them (read Unitarism). This is just a tip of the iceberg of how much our fellow Ugandans have lost hope and reason! Very sad.
The worst thing is that Museveni is looking for such uncritical fellows to use in his struggle to centralize power to himself. These enemies of Uganda want Museveni to continue with this centralized power arrangement (Unitarism). Plus a third term, since UPC has no problem with life presidents! This is just how stupid some Ugandans have become! Now, do you wonder why Uganda is the way it is?? Especially in the areas where these enemies of Federalism predominatly come from?? These are enemies of civilization! They are trying to keep Uganda behind with their lost vision.
Zakoomu M.
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jonah kasangwawo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jonah kasangwawo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I dare the Monitor to print my following response to Mulindwa !
In 'Buganda cannot survive in a federal Uganda, Monitor 28/29(?) March',
Mulindwa from Toronto once again displays his lack of comprehension of the
core concept of federalism. Somehow, in his misconception, he thinks that
with the coming of federalism all commercial ties between different regions
cease to exist. That goods, for example from Busoga, cannot be sold in Toro.
Nothing can be further from the truth. The transactions between Buganda and
other regions are not decided by the fact that we have a unitary system but
are dictated by the laws of economics. Even under the current system, there
is nothing to stop the farmers in western Uganda from selling their produce
in Kigali if there is demand for it there.
Mulindwa bases his analysis, if one can call it that, on his simplistic view
of the presence or lack of natural resources. If this were true, then,
according to his warped reasoning, countries like Switzerland or Japan,
which are not endowed with such resources, would not be prospering. We know
that the opposite is true.
Despite of what he is trying to impress on us, it is a well-known fact that
Buganda is the most fertile region in Uganda. This is the main reason why
non-Baganda still flow to the area. The Buganda kingdom still contributes
massively to national development. A lot of taxes collected here go to
projects in other regions. It seems Mulindwa has also never heard of VP
Bukenya's Busiro North Development Foundation (BNDF) which, among other
things, will soon help to meet Uganda's rice demand. Otherwise he would not
be talking about Gulu rice being pumped down south.
Buganda has survived for hundreds of years and there is nothing to stop it
from surviving in a fed eral Uganda. In fact the time before the assault on
federalism in the mid-60s was so far the most prosperous, not only for
Buganda but for the whole of Uganda. The President recently said that he is
going to ensure that the population consolidate their power. Well, the best
way to achieve that is through federalism.
Jonah Kasangwawo
>From: Lugemwa FN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [FedsNet] Buganda cannot survive in a federal Uganda
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:18:45 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Buganda cannot survive in a federal Uganda
>
>I have lived in a federal country for several years now and I have seen the
>advantages and disadvantages of federalism.
>
>If Uganda changed into a federal state, all provinces should be aware of
>what resources they have - minerals, fixed assets, human resources and so
>on, and use them to the optimum.
>
>When I look at Uganda, all her resources are spread out side Buganda. For
>example gold is in Karamoja, food is in western and eastern Uganda, rice is
>from northern Uganda, west and north have tourism. The Mountains of the
>Moon are in western Uganda. Northern Uganda has the most fertile land
>Uganda has. In universities in North America today, there are more
>northerners and westerners than Baganda students.
>
>Buganda has no fertile land any more; that is why trucks have to bring
>matooke from west and east every day. We have a great deal of illiteracy in
>Buganda - that is lack of human resources.
>
>Federalism is more than having a Kingdom, it is more than running your own
>affairs, it is to use the resources you have to the betterment of your
>province. I have a problem finding resources that can maintain Buganda.
>
> ;Many Baganda want federo, and I fear that in NRM�s wishing to hold on to
>power, Federalism will be granted. As a Muganda I wonder if we can survive.
>Have those Baganda agreed with western Uganda that matooke will continue to
>flow to Kampala than Kigali for better returns? Are we sure that Gulu will
>continue to pump rice down south than sending it to Sudan where it can be
>paid for in dollars.
>
>The Kampala market is a giant market, but it is based on urbanisation; if
>most people leave, do we even have the market or even the buying power to
>maintain those markets? Have we even considered the numerous buildings in
>Buganda urban centres that were built for renting that will be empty?
>
>These questions must be answered before we change our nation from a unitary
>system.
>Show us the research on these and other matters before you kill Buganda.
>
>Edward Mulindwa
>Toronto
>
>
>� 2004 The Monitor Publications
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