When the appointed time  for  the Ggwanga Mujje Boston meeting came last Sunday, those who came to replace Rev. Kaasa Nakabaale’s executive and confirm the Ttabamiruka date change could not get what they wanted. And the reason was because the special elections they wanted to hold were illegal according to the Ggwangamujje constitution.  According to the constitution of Ggwangamujje a meeting that will have a vote to change the Executive must be announced 30 day in advance.

Approximately 100 Baganda met in Waltham (Boston suburb) expecting to see a verbal fight that would end with the replacement of the current executive  with one that is more friendly to the objectives Museveni funded UNAA. However, the election could not happen because although Nakabaale’s opponents had done a solid underground lobbying (kakuyege) they had ignored the the constitution.  The situation was similar to elections in President Museveni’s  Uganda, where all the rules are ignored during the campaign and arguments about what is legal and what is not start during vote counting. They were also similar to President Mwai Kibaki’s Kenyan politics because, after agreeing that the elections cannot take place the Boston meeting “compromised” for  Mr. Mayanja Buwembo to “share” the Chairman’s powers with Rev. Nakabaale until elections in December.

The Ttabamiruka ’09 date change is expected to be looked at again after the association gets the new Executive. If Nakabaale loses in December, however it is expected that the UNAA and NRM teams will be the winners and they will push their agenda to kill Ttabamiruka much more easily. Note that not all UNAA diehards are NRM operatives but the two share the goal to kill Ttabamiruka.

During a controversial October 26, 2008 general meeting  of Gganga Mujje Boston,  attendees voted to change the Ttabamiruka ’09 meeting date from September 2009 to a much less practical July 2009, to the benefits of the UNAA Convention in Chicago. They also agreed on a special meeting on November 9, 2008 to replace the current Executive led by Rev. Kaasa Nakabaale. Notable, when  the minutes of the October 26, meeting were written by Vice Chairman Moses Bukenya (not the secretary who was also present)  they omitted the names of UNAA’s Moses Kalemba and a few others who had put up strong arguments for changing the Ttabamiruka date.

Members of the Ggwangamujje Boston Executive include Reverend Nakabaale (President), NRM’s Bukenya (Vice President), Prof. Lugira, Kato Kajubi, Samalie Kajubi, Ssali, Mark Kizza, Mayanja and Dan Nvule. Historically, the Boston chapter of Ggwangamujje has suffered from NRM manipulation, placing a cloud of doubt over the overall loyalty of Boston Baganda to their Kabaka and nation. The immediate past president of Ggwangamujje Boston is a strong NRM Abdul Kimbugwe who simultaneously held that position with Chairmanship of UNAA.  Also historically UNAA receives funding from President Museveni’s government.  Mr. Museveni’s funding activities have been independently reported in the India Ocean Newsletter of October 27, 2008. And have has been admitted to in email exchanges between UNAA officials and Moses Byaruhanga of  Uganda state house which this reporter has seen.