Frank Mujabi
Is the kingdom wired into your children and how old are they?
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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Subject: Re: {UAH} The Observer - Museveni shouldn't pass the buck in Rwenzori
Allan
Me Musoke is right.
obwakabaka is a religion to the Baganda. It is wired in their DNA so only them
can change this belief.
Previous idiots tried to abolish this religion and failed and so will the
reigning fool.
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On 13 Jul 2014, at 05:26, Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
Mukulu Bobby,
They have legitimate power to abolish the kingdom?
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On Jul 12, 2014 10:20 PM, "Bobby Musoke" <[email protected]> wrote:
Mr Moses Ocen,
The high command in 1993 had a significant percentage of Rwandese members .
Ugandans shouldnt be unduly worried by the selfish stand adopted by these guys
in 1993.
The only people who have legitimate power to abolish the kingdom are the
Baganda themselves.
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:03 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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Subject: Re: {UAH} The Observer - Museveni shouldn't pass the buck in 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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Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:30
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 didn’t 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 Museveni’s 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-region’s 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”). Uganda’s
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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Evanston/Chicago-USA.
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