According to sources in Kampala, the  Banyankore owned Luganda daily paper Kamunye, is now an important part of the NRM’s program to spread anti-Buganda and anti-Kabaka propaganda. This week Kamunye published a story claiming that president Museveni of the Uganda occupation government had decided to go and pay a visit to Kabaka Mutebi at his Banda palace, to extend an olive branch, since the Lion of Buganda has been unresponsive.

A Kampala based Muganda analyst with close links to Mmengo sent an email which dismissed the story as silly and typical of NRM tactics of creating kavuyo (confusion). He said: “Now Museveni thinks that Baganda will forget the damage he has done to our kingdom and give him votes simply because he visited Kabaka? This is what they call a trial balloon and I hope that Katikkiro Walusimbi is not part of this one. The Kabaka must not be exposed to the hooligans anymore.”

Kamunye is a sister paper to the Red Pepper which also recently printed another Nagenda planted story saying the NRM government was going to take over Bulange. Red Pepper was originally sponsored by Salim Saleh and is often used by the NRM to leak both true and fake stories. Many of its current reporters are known to be ISO and ESO spies.