[Ugnet] RE: [FedsNet] It is Smooth All the Way for Uganda's MPs -- Oryema

[musamize]

Mr. Oryema,

 

Mr. Senyonjo beat me to the punch, but he gave you an excellent reply. And, it is one which you can verify because you have witnessed all the events he mentions.

 

However, you do injustice to a great man, the Late Daudi Ochieng, when you lump him with monsters like Obote and Amin. When that man (Ochieng) gave you his word, you could take it to the bank.

 

In contrast, Obote is many-faced, and people often mistake his cunningness for cleverness. A prime example of his nefariousness is the dictum he was fond of repeating among his close confidants: "It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven", as Lucifer said in Milton's Paradise Lost. To that end, Obote would stop at absolutely nothing to make sure he kept power. He is a true power junkie, just like his son Museveni who is also through corrupt when it comes to money.

As for declaring 'Independence' in the North, that is entirely up to you and your people. If you are dissatisfied with the present arrangement, we are also frustrated by it. Hence we advocate for federalism which would facilitate our peaceful co-existence by allowing each community the flexibility to practice its own culture and way of life as its ecology warrants without undue influence and interference from others.

What say you?

Joseph Senyonjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Oryema,

 

You wrote:

 

There is something very peculiar about the Baganda. Joseph might as well be right that one needs a  PhD in Buganda studies in order to understand this peculiarity. They seem to welcome almost anything that comes their way: Speke and Grant perhaps the first Europeans to enter the Lubiri. Daudi Ocheing, Obote, Amin, the Wakombizi from Tanzania and then the Okellos. Could you perhaps help explain this shiftness.

 

It is rather simple. The Baganda do not have any preconceptions about any leader's goodness or badness. They innocently welcome anyone who seems to be good for their interests such as getting rid of leaders that have victimized them or ensuring the integrity of their institutions. They judge each leader according to how he/she treats them not on account of their ethnicity. However, while they are quick to accept anyone, they do not easily forget wrongs committed against them. They also tend to distinguish a leader from his followers, so much that a leader's sins are not necessarily considered a community's sins.

 

Joseph

 

Oryema Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Musamize:

There is something very peculiar about the Baganda. Joseph might as well be right that one needs a  PhD in Buganda studies in order to understand this peculiarity. They seem to welcome almost anything that comes their way: Speke and Grant perhaps the first Europeans to enter the Lubiri. Daudi Ocheing, Obote, Amin, the Wakombizi from Tanzania and then the Okellos. Could you perhaps help explain this shiftness. It could in fact be a culture that thrives in Kavuyo (chaos). We are all struggling to understand one another and in turn find a solution to the political problems we are faced with. Some of us are driven to a point of now  declaring "Indepedence" in the north.

Oryema

>From: musamize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [FedsNet] It is Smooth All the Way for Uganda's MPs --  Oryema
>Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
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>Mr. Oryema,
>
>I missed your answer to Mr. Kitufu's question to you: How come Baganda welcomed these same "Acholis" in July, 1985?
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