Yes, he was indeed extremely brave and he acted as a very true pastor mindful of his responsibility as a high moral character who has to stand firm in defence of value.
He didn’t act as neither a sectarian nor a tribalist as a few big-mouthed individuals have pretended to specify. The very excellent things he said were in line with his high office as Metropolitan Archbishop in an environment that has always had on par tradition, culture, history, society and religion as the key motors of Christian teaching in Kampala. His predecessors were also equally vigilant on the same lines. And the missionary bishops before them were missionary statesmen two of whom had even been signatories to the Uganda Agreement in 1900. To anybody who is Archbishop of Kampala, politics in inseparable from religion. The Church lives by it everyday.And the faithful come to the Church to express their appreciation or even dismay on anything politics!
Lwanga’s colleagues in the Episcopal Council aren’t strangers to his worries and enxiety. Uganda’s Cahtolic Episcopal Conference has always acted in solidarity as one body.Prove this by reading Kabale’s Bishop Callist Rubaramira’s very moving sermon las year at Namugongo Martyrs’ Shrine before millions of frenzied cheering pilgrims! He was on the same wavelength as Archbishop Lwanga last Easter Sunday!
Some naïve cheap minds have wrongfully pointed out that the Archbishop’s sermon didn’t correspond to the ideal of Christ’s resurrection! Shallow thinkers whom I must enlighte now! Christ’s resurrection is a message of victory over death and all its evils such as tribalism, corruption, nepotism, etc.. throughout the Holy Week Lwanga had expressed worry about the mounting degree of tribalism against the Baganda and had given good opinion how to combat it in his Easter sunday sermon: negotiation between Buganda and Central Govt to find a lasting solution that would give to Uganda a peaceful political environment, in other words victory over political evil that has always brought about instability in the country. And every other expert on Uganda agrees with such views: solve Buganda’s problems in order to ercet pillars of stability in the country!
What all Baganda and most other people in Uganda want to see is a federal form of government to ensure identity, development, economic dynamism and progress! Each region of Uganda has a lot to offer to the country if it bends on exploiting its very abundant natural and human resources. Under a unitary form of govt Uganda and especially Buganda have lost a lot of chances in many things! And they see the future of the country as bleak!
The proposed Regional Tier form of government cannot be a solution because it will be used to undermine the identity of Buganda and other regions / tribes. And with corruption such a set up will be literary bought to do anything any corrupt authority will aim at! Regional Tier is a very deadly system of govt to a place like Buganda!
I pen off by proposing a vote of thanks to Archbishop Lwanga for his very very far-sighted vision on Uganda’s politics. And I thank His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for having appointed Lwanga to succeed the very bold and fearless intellectual Cardinal E.Wamala. he really chose the right person for the job!
Long live our Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, the ever luminescent light that brightens the sun!
April 24th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Yes, he was indeed extremely brave and he acted as a very true pastor mindful of his responsibility as a high moral character who has to stand firm in defence of value.
He didn’t act as neither a sectarian nor a tribalist as a few big-mouthed individuals have pretended to specify. The very excellent things he said were in line with his high office as Metropolitan Archbishop in an environment that has always had on par tradition, culture, history, society and religion as the key motors of Christian teaching in Kampala. His predecessors were also equally vigilant on the same lines. And the missionary bishops before them were missionary statesmen two of whom had even been signatories to the Uganda Agreement in 1900. To anybody who is Archbishop of Kampala, politics in inseparable from religion. The Church lives by it everyday.And the faithful come to the Church to express their appreciation or even dismay on anything politics!
Lwanga’s colleagues in the Episcopal Council aren’t strangers to his worries and enxiety. Uganda’s Cahtolic Episcopal Conference has always acted in solidarity as one body.Prove this by reading Kabale’s Bishop Callist Rubaramira’s very moving sermon las year at Namugongo Martyrs’ Shrine before millions of frenzied cheering pilgrims! He was on the same wavelength as Archbishop Lwanga last Easter Sunday!
Some naïve cheap minds have wrongfully pointed out that the Archbishop’s sermon didn’t correspond to the ideal of Christ’s resurrection! Shallow thinkers whom I must enlighte now! Christ’s resurrection is a message of victory over death and all its evils such as tribalism, corruption, nepotism, etc.. throughout the Holy Week Lwanga had expressed worry about the mounting degree of tribalism against the Baganda and had given good opinion how to combat it in his Easter sunday sermon: negotiation between Buganda and Central Govt to find a lasting solution that would give to Uganda a peaceful political environment, in other words victory over political evil that has always brought about instability in the country. And every other expert on Uganda agrees with such views: solve Buganda’s problems in order to ercet pillars of stability in the country!
What all Baganda and most other people in Uganda want to see is a federal form of government to ensure identity, development, economic dynamism and progress! Each region of Uganda has a lot to offer to the country if it bends on exploiting its very abundant natural and human resources. Under a unitary form of govt Uganda and especially Buganda have lost a lot of chances in many things! And they see the future of the country as bleak!
The proposed Regional Tier form of government cannot be a solution because it will be used to undermine the identity of Buganda and other regions / tribes. And with corruption such a set up will be literary bought to do anything any corrupt authority will aim at! Regional Tier is a very deadly system of govt to a place like Buganda!
I pen off by proposing a vote of thanks to Archbishop Lwanga for his very very far-sighted vision on Uganda’s politics. And I thank His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for having appointed Lwanga to succeed the very bold and fearless intellectual Cardinal E.Wamala. he really chose the right person for the job!
Long live our Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, the ever luminescent light that brightens the sun!
Dr G.H.Kkolokolo (Paris / France)