As Mr. Museveni’s Presidential Press Secretary, John Tamale-Mirundi is an employee of the Government of Uganda. Furthermore, when Mirundi speaks to news and other public media on political topics without explicitly saying that it is his personal opinions, then he speaks on behalf of Mr. Museveni. Mr. Museveni’s government is now sponsoring programs on Uganda FM radio stations where Mirundi delivers venomous anti-Baganda and anti-Kabaka propaganda messages under the guise of teaching about the ugly history of Kabaka Yekka (KY) political party.
The underlying theme of Mirundi’s statement of various Kampala FM stations is to create the image that Baganda are a dangerous and violent people who committed atrocities through their political party KY. Ignoring internationally famous NRM government corruption and election violence, Tamale “teaches” his audiences that Baganda, through their Kabaka Yekka (KY) party rigged elections in 1962 and unleashed violence on their opponents. He states arbitrary number of victims, even if they are very low compared to the numerous atrocities that the government appointed Uganda Human Rights Commission has cited against Mr. Museveni’s government.
In veiled attacks on Ssekabaka Fredrick Walugembe Muteesa II, Mirundi belittles KY for having uninspired and unprofessional leadership, without vision. Ironically, Tamale-Mirundi, who represents one of the longest ruling and most corrupt African dictators, keeps telling his listeners that “the problem with Ssekabaka Mutesa II was that he was not willing to accept any leader to be above him.”
To defend the frequent government bribing of members of Mr. Museveni’s parliament, Tamale Mirundi makes wild claims that Ssekabaka Mutesa II also bribed MPs to make him President of Uganda. Tamale offers no evidence, only relying on the fact that in President Museveni’s Uganda, the average person thinks that rampant corruption and bribery was usual even in 1963.
When we asked a New York (USA) based Muganda thought leader to comment on Mirundi’s crusade, he warned Baganda to wake up to the fact that Mirundi’s statements could be a step towards anti-Baganda violence that might compete with the Rwanda genocide. He said: “During Ttabamiruka ’08 a few of us were concerned about symptoms of possible genocide in Buganda. Unfortunately, Katikkiro Walusimbi and his cabinet boycotted the conference, so there was no opportunity for us to engage Mmengo on this serious issue. Ironically, Museveni who had no friends at Ttabamiruka, was smart enough to send minister Nankabirwa, Tamale-Mirundi, MP Kakooza and a few spies.
Now, these radio lessons by Tamale sound like what Habyarimana’s government taught on radio before the Rwandese genocide. It is worrying that, abusing and belittling Baganda is slowly becoming the norm, so much that senior Baganda officials in Mr. Museveni’s government which does it (e.g. Nsibambi, Sekandi, Bukenya and others) still get a friendly reception at the highest level in Mmengo. This misplaced sense of reality among Baganda is why so many genocides come as a total shock to the victims.”
The Muganda professional pointed us to a section of www.Wikipedia.com which speaks about how Habyarimana’s government used the media in the Rwanda Genocide. Below is part of the Wikipedia information (for more go to Rwanda Genocide on Wikipedia-Media Propaganda):
Media Propaganda
According to recent commentators the news media played a crucial role in the genocide: local print and radio media fuelled the killings, while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued events on the ground. The print media in Rwanda is believed to have started hate speech against Tutsis which was later continued by radio stations. According to commentators anti-Tutsi hate speech “became so systemic as to seem the norm.” The state-owned newspaper Kangura had a central role, starting an anti-Tutsi and anti-RPF campaign in October 1990. In the ongoing International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the individuals behind Kangura have been accused of producing leaflets in 1992 picturing a machete and asking “What shall we do to complete the social revolution of 1959?” – a reference to the Hutu revolt that overthrew the Tutsi monarchy and the subsequent politically orchestrated communal violence that resulted in thousands of mostly Tutsi casualties and forced roughly 300,000 Tutsis to flee to neighboring Burundi and Uganda. Kangura also published the infamous “10 Hutu Commandments,” which called upon Hutus to massacre Tutsis, and more generally communicated the message that the RPF had a devious grand strategy (one feature article was titled “Tutsi colonization plan”).
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Whereas it is true that Tamale Mirundi, a peasant chap with Burundian ancestry – which evidently provides the source of the manifestation of his inferioriority complex – , has taken on the unenviable task of okumanyira Kabaka n’oBuganda all the time on the back of the M7’s Kampala dicatorship, I would really not wish any serious Muganda to give undeserved attention to this poor peasant with a demented sense of persona. After all, who is Tamale Mirundi in Buganda and Uganda? Yeah, he is the so-called “Presidential Press Secretary”, but how did he earn that position in the first place? And what are the democratic and personal credentials of M7 Tamale Mirundi is playing succor to? This peasant boy is a miserable desperado who foolishly and opportunistically thinks that when he kumanyiira Kabaka, Obwakabaka n’oBuganda, M7 will make him a minister. Matter of fact, a friend of mine who happens to know something about this uncouth peasant opined to me that Tamale Mirundi has all along dreamed of becoming a minister of sorts in the M7’s military junta ever since he joined the side of the Kampala dictatorship. Bambi, poor boy!! But let Baganda and Ugandans not give him undue attention for this kind of rubbish he is churning out against our most revered Kabakas and the Buganda Kingdom. Tamale Mirundi, just like his dictator-boss M7, cannot give me sleepless nights. President Obama has already declared such democracy-misfits as being on the wrong side of history. And as long as CBS does not give him the airtime to throw up that kind of garbage against the Baganda and their cherished values, I am personally less bothered by the mediocrity and the inferiority complex exhibited by such nonenties as Tamale Mirundi and his likes.
Waangaala nnyo ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II!
January 28th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Busagwa,
It has been quite a while since I last touched practical base with this forum. Hope you and the rest of other folks ala Musinguzi, Steve, Alvin and the rest of ‘em are doing just fine!
Regarding my brother Mirundi – we apparently belong to the same Nkima clan- , I am increasingly observing that the young man’s words and actions are increasingly depicting him as someone who is demented. I doubt pretty much whether he still carries a sober and sane head over his pair of shoulders! I guess this guy has already cracked, seriously!!
I don’t know much about Mirundi’s family and education background but it appears to me, just like Busagwa has already observed, that this fella is on some kinda self-glorification and compensation spree. He assumes, just like his friend Mw. Museveni usually does, to be the all-knowing of all things concerning the history and politics of Buganda and Uganda. When I last saw this uncouth villager here at the last Gwangamujje Convention, he was typically shabbily dressed with his trademark rural attitude, call it amaalo. Now when you get to listen to his gibberish talks and read about his Mengo-this-and –that nauseating outbursts and invectives, of course he being Mr. Museveni’s Trajon horse, you can’t fail but to notice how Mw. Museveni’s corrupt and dictatorial regime of ab’oluganda, abaako n’abemikwano has really sunk that low in that Banana Republic of ours. But I pitty my clan brother Tamale the more for one thing: While he may wish to be literally holier than the Pope, he will certainly not manage the exile life when the time of reckoning comes for that criminal regime to flee our motherland. And he is such a despicable fool, you know. For how can he be that cheap and low to accept to sell his own siblings down the river for mere pieces of silver? How dare this poor little thug go on insulting our most revered Kabaka and talk disparagingly about the great history of the great Buganda nation? How???? Mubutuufu ndowooza ako ka guy kanyarwanda or karundi like Busagwa says.
But one thing I can assure Mirundi is the fact that every dog has his own day. Yesterday it was Rwakasisi, Nasur, Fadhul and all that wicked and dangerous lot of the Obote, Amin and Okellos dictatorial regimes, and tomorrow will surely be the day for the Museveni’s Mirundis, Ramadan Magaras, Opwondos, Kinobes and their vile likes. Abaganda bagamba nti “okalya dda kadda dda, ejjobyo liddira mu mutwe = what goes around comes around” Tamale’s time of reckoning could amazingly even come much sooner than later. Nze Nankindu muzzukulu wa Mugema mbabuulidde!Muligamba nti nabagamba!!
January 28th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Hello Tara,
Glad to know you are still doing great! I had gotten concerned that something bad had happened to you. What with all that bunch of silence, gal?!?
Tamale Mirundi, aahhh…that chap!!! I guess all decent folks out there ought to ignore this chap and his miserable crap. Oh yeah, seriously!!! He is an idle mind who is out there pretty much looking for a name. Remember the Baleebeesi(= hangers-on) in the UNLF/UNLA days after Iddi Amin had been deposed in Uganda in the 1979 “liberation” war? Those hunger-stricken sychophants walking behind/along the Tanzanian soldiers and pointing at peoples’ properties they wanted to loot ostensibly because they belonged to Iddi’s “sympathisers” ?Oh, boy oh boy!!! You must have guessed right! Tamale Mirundi is one such miserable sychophants. The ka guy is really desperate for recognition. Remember that he even told whoever cared to listen to him in 2007 or thereabout that he wanted to be the next Katikiro of Buganda Kingdom and that he had all the qualifications to make him one?? That miserable crap-boy?? My foot!!!! So, I honestly suggest we completely ignore Tamale Mirundi n’obukopibwe lest folks think that he has anything worthy writing home about.
Waangaala nnyo ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II! Katonda kuuma nnyo ayi nnyafe Buganda!
January 29th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Thanks so much Busagwa! I couldn’t agree more with that position about my clan brother Mirundi! And be so much blessed, dude!!
Tara.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Can I be helped to know who and what John – Tamale – Mirundi is? Where’s he born and what does his family background look like? Has he been to school or what?!Is he Mr. Museveni’s blood relation? I need to get this information if I am to understand better his kinda mental framework? The net, sadly, does not provide me with any adequately meaningful info about the character. Thx!
January 31st, 2009 at 6:21 am
Steve,
Please don’t even waste your precious time on John Paul Tamale Mirundi. I hear he is writing small pamphlets about Buganda history and politics which he erronously calls “books”. And the content of his pamphlets are nothing but a heap of b***l s**t!!! Just forget this crap boy and his sh***!!
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
I must thank the readers of Buganda Post, but let us not be over biased, Yes Mirundi has his wrong side especially on issues regarding the the Buganda kingdom, but there are some key issues which we leave out, if we can sieve some of the things he brings out there is some truth in them. well Mr. Ali, Mirundi doesnt come from a peasantry background, the truth of the matter is he comes from a good catholic family background, his father is the Late John Mirundi who was Kabaka’s Mwami (kalisozi) he was also a Gobolola chief for a number of years, together with his brother the late Anthony Kigundu, He is a True Muganda irrespective of what he says, well is father’s wealth was so much in land, he is well eduacated, and therefore doesnt come from a peasantry background as stated, let us look at the geast of the matter before we bring out all our anger. and for clarification he is not John, he is Joseph John Mirundi (RIP) was the father a prominent man who served the community and the Buganda Kingdom to his utmost