ugnet_: Power For A Friend Can Be Lost After Friendship - F.N. Lugemwa

[Edward Mulindwa]

The questions Mr. Lugemwa refuses to answer are very simple   1) Is federalism for Uganda or for Buganda? If it is for Uganda then (2) 2) How can Mengo (an institution which is not elected) discuss the future of our nation? 3) When Lugemwa asks for Museveni to discuss with regions, what regions is he referring too apart from Buganda? 3) A Ugandan who was born in a camp in Northern Uganda and is an adult today, an adult who has never slept in a house, is his/her immediate problem today to discuss federalism? 4) Historically Buganda is a kingdom, being a Kingdom means it has a leader called a King, and that King has powers enshrined into his kingdom and his being a King. Can Lugemwa tell us since when the Uganda government was given the powers to empower Kingdoms in Uganda? If Uganda president gives more power to Mengo and the King of Buganda, are you sure that this same president or a future president will not take those powers away? 5) Uganda is a nation which can kill a constitution like a fly, and we have seen it happening under NRM. For NRM is the first government to cancel the entire constitution than amending it. Is Lugemwa telling us that if Museveni launches a constitutional Federalism it means it will stay for life? For federalism is for life. 6) All nations which became federal state, have one thing in common. The regions sit down  and decide to share what they have for a general good cause, after they agree on that they make a document and start to campaign the government to accept a change to federalism. Mwaami Lugemwa wants the president to sell the federalism idea to the regions, isn't that bizarre?   Lastly does Lugemwa realize that Museveni's vista to Mengo to discuss these issues is the very political cultural line that Mutesa two started that fire backed?   And we watch as Museveni uses Mengo, the question becomes, when will Mengo be declared by NRM to be a condom?   Em 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" ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Kezimbira To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:36 PM Subject: ugnet_: Power For A Friend Can Be Lost After Friendship - F.N. Lugemwa LETTER BY F.N. LUGEMWA TO THE NEW VISION 28TH APRIL 2004 Power For A Friend Can Be Lost After Friendship Dies! SIR� Federo is a constitutional national issue. President Museveni has said he is willing to discuss with the Buganda Kingdom officials at Mengo, how much power they should hold, (The New Vision, April 21). �I am ready to discuss with my Mengo friends to determine how much authority they want to hold. I have no problem with discussion, but power must be shared rationally,� President Museveni said. If the President is genuine about sharing power with the regions, he should use the visit to Mengo to launch a campaign for constitutional federalism which would grant proper power-sharing between the regions and the central government. The President�s visit to Mengo will be a good first step in the right direction, but the President needs to use Mengo to kick off a nationwide campaign for sharing power in a rational way � through an all-inclusive constitutional federal system of government before he leaves office in 2006. Uganda�s history teaches us that federo for a chosen few, also known as �federo for those who want it,� would be a disaster for Uganda. The President has the opportunity to deliver us from the evil that the unitary system of government created in Uganda. But that needs to be done through constitutional federalism and not through the never-ending, unproductive chats with his friends at Mengo. Power given to a friend could easily be taken away once the friendship dies. F. N. Lugemwa Kampala Published on: Wednesday, 28th April, 2004 Email this article to a friend. Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs