Gau,
"what does it take a Mulaloo to become a Ugandan citizen?"
Sometime I wonder really! Do you realise that there are Ugandan Balaalos, DR.
Congo Balaalos ( Banyamulenge and Hemas); Rwandese and Burundi Balaalos?
Lets remove the Term "Mulaloo" and replace it with "Acholi", & Kenya as the
country of reference, may be then you will notce the ridiculousness of the
question. It will read:
"what does it take an Acholi to become a Kenyan citizen?"
We have Luo in Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Central Africa, etc, just like
Balaalos have cousins in Uganda, DR. Congo, Rwanda, Burundi!
Why should an Acholi become a Kenyan?
Why should a Rwandese, Congolese, Burundian, Mulaalo become a Ugandan
Mulaalo? Are you suggesting that all Balaalos become Ugandans?? If so why?
These people have their homes where they used to live in, peacefully! They
cannot cause genocide in their own homes then run away to acquire citzenship
some place else! What are laws for? African cannot resort to silly immigration
policies.
If you ran away from your home, like the non-Ugandan Balaalos, for political
reasons, then you automatically become a refugee, should your claim be
accepted! You cannot become a citizen! Granting citizenship by African
governments, to an entire ethnic population, cannot obviously be the way
forward.
These Non-Ugandan Balaalos have their homes. If they screwed it up and are
now runing away from, to come to Uganda, Ugandans have every right to know why
they screwed their homes up! We cannot just grant them citizenship!
It all boils down to what did you do in your own home to force you to run
away from, before any considerations can be granted! Mind you, the Balaalos'
seeminging migration is not just about one or two member of a family running
away! This seems mass migration!
If they were not mass migrating before, then why mass migrate now??
We all want African solidarity. But encouraging flaws is not the way to go.
Ocii
Many times your logic are so wacked!
Ocii
NOC´LADUMAS GEORGES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Would any Samaritan out there reach out while we others shield from blood:
WHAT ARE THE LAWS OR COMBINATIONS OF, THAT ARE IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE FOR OR
AGAINST THE BALALOO?
I guess on the forum are scholars from our various centres of learning in
Uganda as well as our national institutions of government.
Particularly, what are the law combinations restricting a Ugandans liberty
to settlement in Uganda?
What are the provisions of immigration laws / legislation in as far as the
Balaloo are concerned?
II identify certain unrsolved factors that keep poping up in the debates :
NATIONALITY, SIZE / NUMBER , BENEFIT, LEGAL POSSESSION (RIGHT TO SELF
DETERMINATION OVER PROPERTY
Some time back, some one inquired here on the forum, what the prerequisites
for becoming a Muganda. I suppose that is just as viable now with the so called
Balaloo:
what does it take a Mulaloo to become a Ugandan citizen?
Even if I do not precisely know what these Balaloo are (at one moment the
level of humiliation is that they are pastoral Ugandan. At another, the
derogation is that they are aliens), spontaneously, I bear with Desmond & co.
Unfortunately, there are various affiliations with spectacularly vested
interest at play. Alienation of Balaloos then becomes the open denominator.
Under the surface is a whole ocean of masked vendettas like: FEDEROS,
NATIONALISTS, DEMOCRATS, TRIBALISTS, REGIONAL SECTARIANS etc.
So scholars, tell us, what is that make Balaoos non-Ugandan! What laws
restrict pastoral movements? I am aware it is not so much their settling
anywhere in Uganda but the manner they ACQUIRE the new pasture that is the
central issue. If so what is the alienation about?
My great grand father Laula Ojwang used to say, Gau every where you go, you
are a foreigner: every where you go there is people you going to meet: Dont
turn your back on the man because he comes from another land; hold out your
hands and speak.
In their days from the lines of Nyipir and Labongo, they had customarily
solved their immigration problems simplistically:
Opii en aye opii; kitino pa opii pe opii. Translated in English it
corresponds to: THE SLAVE IS A SLAVE; THE CHILDREN OF THE SLAVE ARE NOT
SLAVES
To me, a central action from the political establishment should be to
identify feasible methods.
Whilst any Ugandan is free to settle any where in Uganda, they should take
consideration of the hospitality of the native customs. They cannot just come
into some customs and want to take over instead of assimilating and together
developing the culture. In which case, the number /size of the settlers matter.
It should not be of such a proportion that the native does not contain. Equally
so, some fair contrast between the customs.
They the politicians must come out with a functional structure where the
owners of the land themselves both benefit from and initiate the settlement.
There must be viable formulae for dialogue!!
noc'la gau
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