How is Buganda Musevenis power base? And this argument keeps on coming back
to my screen yet it never gets backed up factually. Do you really think
Museveni needs Ssabassajja Mutebi? Heck no those are favors from get go that
he can throw out any time anywhere and Baganda will not do a God damn thing
about it. Mutebi needs Museveni than other wise, and for a very good reason,
without Museveni Mutebi has no Mengo and has no Kingdom and Mutebi knows
that simple fact. Friends, the mans power base is in only in two camps,
Western Uganda and AK47 period. And yes he has a very good support from
Western countries for he helps them to loot Africa. Seriously who in Buganda
is holding this man in power? And if Buganda is the power base why do they
have a Kifuufu Kingdom? Are they waiting for Obote 3 to make it powerful?
Well think about it, if Buganda is the power base for the government and it
loves the Kingdom, why is the Kingdom narrowed to Nabakyaala educating girls
on how to peel Matooke? There is nothing in Buganda and any day any time a
Muganda opens his mouth he will be taken down by Kibooko squad which can
never happen in Ankole.
One can see Museveni introducing Baganda as Ebyerere byange Geeeeez
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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Ndugu Ocen,
Well it gave him an easy 30 year lease of life and still counting. He
probably thought it would tame Baganda but as you can see it's gotten out of
hand.
His power base is Buganda. As soon they let go,hell will break loose. I
don't know whether Baganda can disentangle themselves from the bobby traps
he set from day one of the coronation of sir Ronny Muwenda.
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On Jul 12, 2014 10:04 PM, "Moses Ocen Nekyon" <[email protected]> wrote:
Ndugu Allan;
As one Maj General Kahinda Otafiire, said: "M7 decision to overrule his High
Command has come back to bite him."
In Bugisu there has never been a Royal House, so where did this idea of a
'Omukuku' come from?
Ocen
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From: Allan
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 21:20
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Rwenzori
Ndugu Ocen,
Museveni's reign is truely a very sad chapter in Uganda's history. In fact I
really don't understand those clamouring for a peaceful change inorder to
get rid of this useless regime what they do not see. M7 Will have to be
forced out unless ofcourse God recalls him before then.
I have tried several times to put myself in M7's shoes but failed to get a
grasp of his thinking. Is it that he has grown old and that his brain had
stalled? How can he not see that we are sitting on a political time bomb?
I remember in 87 when he was talking about the appalling state of affairs in
the then Zaire,wondering why Mobutu shouldn't have resigned. True that there
was peace in Zaire but that was no country. There was nothing functional.
Imagine the regions were manned by his Generals who would even collect taxes
and forward whatever they felt like to Kinshasa. These regions were totally
independent of the central gov't. They were even responsible for the civil
service like salaries.
I wonder how Ladit Museveni now sees himself.
One thing though,his project Muhoozi appears DOA and may never happen. This
means we are likely to see another wave of exilees except that these one
will have the money or at least will leave behind properties that may ease
their lives while in exile. I remember during the Besigye scare of reform
agenda when Besigye seemingly won the first contest, a top senior army
officer had asked me how much would be enough to live comfortably in the US
after buying a house which he had intended to pay cash.
These guys have really messed up our country. M7 Will never go to heaven.
Never! The man is so heartless that you wonder how and who created him. He
is really some piece of art.
Whatever the case, I think we Ugandans are a lousy lot and deserve what we
have. You should see the faces of some individuals I entered arguments with
way back in the days how we are heading towards a disaster. That was early
90's. They have no words ,mildly put. What pains me most is the realization
that most Ugandans have simply given up and even care less anymore. We need
real inkotanyis with a burning rage to storm town and kick ass. We need them
like yesterday.
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Written by MOSES KHISA
<http://www.observer.ug/images/stories/Khisa1.jpg> Whichever way you look
at it, the recent violent attacks in the Rwenzori sub-region (districts of
Bundibugyo, Kasese and Ntoroko) is worrying.
This is what two retired senior army officers told me early this week.
Between the mid-1990s and early 2000s, the rebel Allied Democratic Forces
(ADF) operated in the Rwenzori sub-region.
However, by mid-2000s, the ADF was practically defeated. Given the capacity
of the Ugandan state today and how unappealing armed rebellion has become,
the ADF hardly poses a serious security threat.
In the wake of 13 coordinated attacks, mostly on police and army facilities
and personnel, the army and police (including Commander-in-Chief General
Museveni himself) have repeatedly ruled out the possibility that the ADF
carried out the attacks.
In a long missive that appeared in the media on Wednesday, General Museveni
explains the attacks as resulting from the transformation of what was
essentially a political movement for equality into a monarchy under Omusinga
(king) Charles Wesley Mumbere.
Media reports have highlighted quite a few disturbing facts. It was reported
that the attackers, albeit armed with rudimentary and inferior weapons such
as machetes and spears, were so daring, if reckless, to confront and disarm
policemen and soldiers armed with sub-sachine guns (SMGs) and rapid
propelled grenades (RPGs)!
We also understand that there could have been the involvement of the Mai-Mai
militia group (from across the border in Congo) in training and directing
the attacks.
Even more disturbing is the claim that the police and security agencies were
informed of possible flare-up, especially in the wake of enthroning a new
king of the Bamba people in Bundibugyo. Apparently, some meetings took place
and this information was passed on to either the police or the army, if not
both.
Why then didnt the police and the army act in time to forestall the
attacks? Rather than take full responsibility, as commander in chief, the
president harkened to a Biblical proverb, saying: whatever a man sows, that
is what he will reap.
The president has squarely blamed the Omusinga Mumbere, who he accuses of
imposing a cultural institution on other ethnic groups in the region such as
the Bamba, Basongora and Banyabindi.
But even if there is marginalization of other ethnic groups in Rwenzori, or,
as the president put it, chauvinistic ideas, the buck still stops with
General Museveni. If, as the president argues, the Rwenzururu struggle that
led to the creation of a kingdom-government was a political movement, not a
monarchical project, why then did Musevenis government allow for the
creation of an institution that he claims was opposed by other ethnic
groups?
And when a new king was installed in Bundibugyo recently, was there
consensus among the locals?
The Rwenzori sub-regions problem is neither unique nor does it come as a
surprise. Competing claims to cultural thrones and agitations for
recognition of new ones have become legion across Uganda. In Busoga, the
stand-off over the legitimate Kyabazinga has dogged that region and created
unnecessarily endless bickering. In Buganda, we may not have had the last
installation of new cultural leaders, after the Ssabaruli, Ssabanyala, and
the Kamuswaga, and certainly not the last protestations from the Buganda
government in Mengo.
In Bugisu, a cultural leader was installed with the rather intriguing, if
meaningless ,title of Umukuka (literally meaning the grand-father).
Ugandas former High Commissioner to Canada, also former Mbale district
chairman, Wilson Wamimbi, is the Umukuka of Bagisu, a totally new creation.
It remains curiously unclear how Wamimbi qualified to be the reigning
cultural leader of the Bagisu. But before long, another, a journeyman and
utter impostor, in the name of Wash Joseph Kanyanya, claimed Bududa, one of
the districts in Bugisu. Kanyanya was enthroned by the Bududa district
woman MP, Justine Khainza!
The clamour for cultural institutions, which in reality are governments but
barred from politics, has paralleled the now-out-of-favour yearning for new
district local governments. Initially, the masses saw granting of a district
status as an avenue to getting a share of the national cake.
With time, however, many Ugandans woke up to the rude realization that,
contrary to the official discourse of bringing services closer to the
people, new districts had brought more corruption and inefficiency. Although
the masses excitedly demanded for new districts, proliferation of unviable
district units was the handiwork of local and national politicians,
including the president himself.
There is more than a passing semblance between the creation of districts and
the controversies over cultural institutions. President Museveni argues, and
rightly so, that any community has the right under the Constitution to form
a cultural institution.
What the president disingenuously glosses over is that the cultural
institutions created under his watch and blessings have little to do with
culture and more to do with politics and access to resources. You do not
need a fully-fledged government in Mengo or Kasese to promote Ganda or
Bakonjo/Bamba culture. You need something like the Banyakore Cultural
Foundation, a nonprofit, civic body.
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