Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rev. K.Ah, I see you heard only part of the story. Actually, volunteers -- including at least one MP, attempted to go to some villages but the LDUs or whatever wouldn't have any of it. I'll see if I can find any newspaper articles about it.On a similar matter do you recall how Gen Muntu was prevented from going to a function on some trumped excuse in the last couple of months or so?Nonetheless, you do have a point. we need to take federo to the people.What will be even more effective would be for those who hail outside of Buganda and understand the benefits of federalism to take it to their home areas so that they too join those of us who are demanding federo to demand it for their home ares so they might benefit from it too.Inter-ethnic relations in Uganda are such that only a home-boy & home-girl has a chance of delivering that message.
Joseph Kamugisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Mw. Semakula:Your points are still clear as they were before during our heated debate on this very issue. However, i believe that in the case where the volunteers you are talking about, they were actually demonstrating in the streets instead of going to the villages where there are more prone to be recieved and heard than in the city where Police thinks that demonstrating is a public interfearance of normal activities or something to that effect.I think, nga bwe mwa lugera; "Omweyogereze, takusuuza kayanzi ko", that is exactly what the Mengo MP's have now woken up to. Going to the villages and promote what they think is right and missing in the peoples interests.One thing Mengo keeps forgeting is that just because they keep talking about Federo on radios and in News paper's does not mean that the message is sinking in the peoples minds. Indeed, that is one way of doing it. But then again, we keep asking, how many people have radios and how many listen to all the Federo programes? How many people can afford to buy a daily News paper later on afford to visit an internet cafe?I think the Mengo group should wake up and learn from their "good friend", Museveni. The man is now travelling accross the country promoting "Ekisanja", after wooing the Basoga including their Kyabazinga, now he is Mbale, where they recently crowned him as a "chief elder" and supposedly "won" some UPC stalwarts.What is so difficult with the Katikiro, or for that matter the Kabaka, to spare a week or two from their comfort and go from one county after another, from one district after another spreading the "gospel according to Federo"?Ebyo bye byange. Nate nziramu, "Eburirire, teffa yonna!Kamugisha
Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Rev.K.:This effort has been ongoing for quite a few years -- at least in cyberspace.If one goes to www.federo.com or http://successisthekey.tripod.com/ one can see brochures that expalin what federo is in various ugandan languages.Further if one clicks on Regional Models and then on Buganda one would see contributions from several people, including yours truly.The problem many advocates complain of is that Uganda's print media does not allow them space in the local papers, perhaps pictures of nude women and stories about bimansulo are of more import!Further, I think you, too, saw how volunteers who tried to teach federalisma were greeted by riot police and DCs curtailing their rights of speech at every turn. It seems that Uganda's current rules are afraid of federalism in Uganda -- while advocating it for East Africa.Yet we would very much like every part of Uganda to benefit from federalism. The proof of the pudding is in eating, or something like that.So what are we to do?
Joseph Kamugisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:"...In a four-hour closed meeting attended by over 55 Buganda MPs at Bulange Mengo, they resolved to sensitise Ugandans on a federal system of government...."
"Emburirire, teffa yonna.."
Kamugisha
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