To Professor Kiwanuka Ssemakula
Prof. Kiddu Makubuya
Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya
P.M. Professor Apollo Nsibambi
V.P. Professor Balibaseka Bukyenya
Major Kinobe James
Katikiro Daniel Mulika
Toro Kingdom MPs
Buganda Kingdom MPs
Bunyoro Kingdom MPs
Baganda county chiefs do go to Kyankwanzi
I wrote the article below after many days of thoughts, consultation and trying
to understand what the NRM leadership meant by
a. Bonnobaggawale (rich for all, in Russian Obogaschaites in France
enrichissezvous)
b. Agricultural zoning
c. Value addition
d. District creation
What was all this meant to mean and how could the state achieve all? Was it to
confuse or pointing to a grand design?
What I didnt understand then, was NRM grand plan to force all muluka chiefs to
Kyankwanzi in its obscure effort, to turn this country into yet something we
are to witness.
We must map Buganda and all it boundaries and these maps distributed to all
Buganda homesteads and children in Buganda schools. It is even becoming more
crucial to re-write the geography of Buganda to erase some inconsistencies the
onus is on Buganda and Baganda to do needful.
In Buganda, the Baganda have always been agricultural and there is no need to
enrich their status by taking their village chiefs to Kyankwanzi. In fact,
there is no need for Buganda and Baganda to borrow money from the
micro-finances. There has never been food rationing, distribution or scarcity
in Buganda.
Some of us, have been in economics classes, grew in farming families and we
know what we are talking about. We even experienced cattle farming. What is it
we dont know then?
Coffee, cotton, beans, maize, vanilla, pineapples, mangoes production, even
cocoa in Bugerere and Kyagwe in Buganda, had never been trigged by Kyankwanzi
indoctrination and a impractical micro financing ideology but rather market
rules i.e. prices and demand.
Where does chicken, goats meat, mutton and pork eaten in Buganda come from?
Offer Buganda a good price for their crop or product and see how much they will
produce it in the most possible shortest time. Wasnt this the case with
vanilla?
Most Baganda in trade and commercial businesses, housing, construction, export
and import businesses, all started off as farmers. Now, where is NRM taking us?
We in Buganda left on our own, we have a comprehensive programme to develop
Buganda with or without micro financing. We want our nation back and well get
it even if it means waiting for another 3000 years.
Into the past recent, people made a lot of money from Vanilla and there was no
Kyankwanzi and micro financing. Ive been checking on prices and they have
never gone down. Why doesnt the government build a factory to package vanilla
and then sell it on commodity exchange markets?
Remember NRM itself, passed the warehouse system law that could provide the
most necessary incentive to agricultural production and its so-called
bonnabagaggaware hogwash.
Why then set up a micro finance ministry? Pour all money their and let economic
rules determine production. It is quite simple, to channel the micro finance
money through designated traders who will then buy from farmers and the boom
will go on.
NRM is not intent to developing Buganda but rather to disorganise Buganda
through indoctrination in order to achieve their objective of a military East
Africa and a failed African union.
Buganda, must reject this very dangerous trend.
Buganda has a choice of starting a commodity exchange market where Buganda
state can sell beans, fruits, maize, coffee, and sugar, virtually anything.
More still, if the state wanted development it could for example start beef,
fruit, bean, rice, vanilla canning and packing industry with the micro finance
moneys.
Canned beef, beans will be consumed by the soldiers and prisons. Canned fruits
and beans will be eaten by school children and in hospitals. The rest will be
sold so cheaply on the northern, central, eastern and southern African markets.
Buganda farmers will be producing then. I want NRM to tell it to the Baganda
that skimmed milk will lack buyers in the east, central and southern Africa if
it was produced here?
Buganda has the richest heritage in agricultural farming and production. That
heritage can be taken a step further if the warehousing system is establish in
all counties of Buganda. My parents in Luwero used to sell cotton and coffee in
Bulemezi in exactly the same way.
We even used to sell a lot cassava for starch making to a certain trader in
Jinja. Moreover cassava could be used to make high nitrous biscuits for
children and the army.
Every home, where I grew up had enough food and produce to sell Buganda was
awash with riches. In Masaka people build trading centres as elsewhere they
bought vespa and motorcycles and built houses.
Buganda and Baganda chiefs, be warned you go to Kyankwanzi at your own peril.
Bwanika.
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Dear editor can you please publish my articles for public consumption and
reflection.
National Resistance Movements Obshchina, Mir!
To Professor Kiwanuka Ssemakula
P.M. Professor Apollo Nsibambi
V.P. Professor Balibaseka Bukyenya
Toro Kingdom MPs
Buganda Kingdom MPs
The programme for modernisation of agriculture has a Stalinist intention and
stance that is to kill off, the old village community organisation (obshchina,
mir) as an expression of NRMs fundamental change. (Read Stalinist decree of
30 June 1930).
Human beings are both social and biological therefore cant fundamentally
change unless we talk of a Darwinian genetic timeline i.e. evolution.
The elimination of farmers (rich Baganda farmers) can be interpreted as
Stalinist elimination of the kulaks, the rich farmers (peasants) as a social
class and leading to a spontaneous growth (vozglovlyat stikhiinyi) of NRM
middle class.
Exactly as in Stalinist Soviet Russia and the greatest failure of
collectivisation (sploshnaya), NRM diverted citizens attention, claiming were
helping to re-stock cattle, farms and retooling ginneries and factories
destroyed in NRM revolution hence modernising minus farmers (NRMs peasants)
cooperative union.
In Teso people are still in camps. What does regional tier under a failed
decentralisation system and creation of more districts mean?
Luwero had seventeen (17) coffee and cotton processors run by farmers
themselves, today there are only two. Peoples land being bought and fenced off
by NRM party functionaries, said to be spreading commercialism and capitalistic
(read industrialisation) relations. Reality is such that farmers (peasants) are
edged out as a social class.
In principal it appears the land act can save helpless farmers but it cant as
the case is in Kiboga and Luwero!
The idea is inherent in NRM middle class (individual - merit) ideology of
industrialisation and modernising farmers, therefore NRMs rabid sentiments
against farmers (peasants). Stalinist ideology was to industrialise the soviet
Russia by systematically eliminating rich farmers as a social class.
NRM has never told Ugandans a policy used to modernise them, the British had a
national policy of building processing industries under Baganda cooperative
union political pressure.
The programme for modernisation of agriculture has worsened Uganda Africans
conditions and poverty. Entailing, NRM had no idea about matters of Africanist
socio-economic development but rather a copied Stalinist ideology, of
self-aggrandisement and systematic terror, an ideology informed by Kyankwanzi
militarism.
Originally, rich regions have all been devastated and ever falling into
deepening poverty and misery.
Remarkably, rural eating habits have largely remained the same and in some
areas, becoming worse. In all regions of Uganda, posho (maize flour)
consumption has gone up implying staple foodstuffs, is no longer the basic food
items and production virtually ceases to exist.
Lira chicken farmers are almost collapsing.
There must be deeper ideological reasons, for NRM non-supportive measures of
the cooperative union and legislating a supportive law. Thus deliberate
fragmentation of farmers basic unifying mechanism. The Bataka Bu (party) was
a direct struggle against a typically British exploitation tool of disarming
farmers (peasants), NRM practises.
How many Uganda farmers can turn into commercial farmers and how can that
happen without community support? NRM never tells you the methodology of
achieving it.
Social wealth creation through the cooperative unions appears to be a problem
for this government, otherwise lessons learnt from 1920 to 1955, would have
been massively supported by NRM.
And NRM is a Pan-Africanist movement of sorts!
What actually Stalin did was to kill off wealthy peasants (Kulaks) by;
collectivisation, deportation and confiscation of their property that might be
hard to practice in Uganda, lest it leads to popular uprising. It is exactly
the same measure NRM practices with, incompetent monetarism.
NRM Programme for modernisation of agriculture has a face value of both
Stalinist and colonial sensibilities, where Uganda farmers (peasants) are
assumed incapable of marketing abilities and cooperation.
Educating the masses of farmers about cooperative unions and movements, would
offer them a degree of informed activism as a protection of their interests.
NRM is aware, activism practiced within the same communities breeds communal
political acts of defiance against NRMs sloganeering and politicking.
So National agricultural advisory services, improvised a rather peculiar paid
services providers who have to be paid to save individual ignorant peasantry!
Cooperative activities would have guaranteed farmers (peasants) independent
existence from the middle class composed of NRM parasitic middle class and
primitive Kyankwanzi cadres. NRM having killed off rich farmers social class,
political party politics is aimless and directionless only remaining as an act
of religious and ethnical assembles.
Religious and ethnical assembles are very easy to fragment and dissolve, since
spiritual needs rarely directs human survival. Its human needs that direct
spiritual desires. So NRM has made sure, in the constitution there is clause
limiting such political partys activities, in contravention of the freedom to
free association!
Cooperative unions, generate growth of leadership and professionalism through
experiences not only for marketing and processing of produce, protection of
commercial interest, bringing together diverse social groups but also defines
farmers (peasants) social interest and powers that are distinctively political.
It is the same activisms that would protect NRM peasants, from vulgar
commercialism and strengthen communitarianism and also improving farmers
organisational techniques of commercial and political nature.
Historically, the middle class evolve from the working class and rich farmers
then if you exactly want the class why kill off its foundations?!
NRM is the biggest neo-colonist in Ugandas modern history and an apathetic
oppressor of the African Ugandans under its ideology cautiously designed to
mask real NRM ideological intentions, covertly named modernisation.
True there is a desire to industrialise but industrialisation is not equivalent
to elimination of one social group the farmers (peasants)!
Bwanika.
Nakywesawa, Luwero
Bwanika
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