More than 3/4 of the officers in the military armed forces , police and prison departments are manned by the tribe of Mr. Museveni; the majority of the “juicy” public service departments ala URA and other Authorities, Bank of Uganda, cabinet,diplomatic missions, etecetra are occupied by Mr. Museveni’s tribesmen;his son is the commanding officer of the so-called Presidential Protection Brigade (matter of fact a battalion); his half-brother is a minister of sorts; M7’s inlaw Samuel Gutesa is already an extremly influential minister of foreign affairs; now his own wife is a minister of Karamoja or something… Pretty soon, his mistress X or Z will minister in charge of this or that. And the time to hear is an announcement of any of the chief’s grandson being the head of the army or a minister for this or the other! Oh, how pitiable indeed!!!

And then one blames my sister Beti for championing Buganda’s interests in the midst of this most primitive megalominiac dictatorship of M7? Gime a break!!!!

This posting and many others that have already appeared on this forum and elsewhere just reassure me that more than 90% of all the Baganda across board are very angry at the kind of hate-monger campaign instigated by the most vilulent tribalist M7 against us the Bagnda. It does also clearly indicate to me that as resilient as the Baganda have always been since colonial days, they are even today not ready to submit to any primitive force whatever the circumstances.

My most heartfelt congratulations, therefore, go out to all our gallant leading Buganda nationalists on the Buganda-first-crusade back home ala Betty Kamya, Hussein Kyanjo, Meldard Sseggona, Betty Nambooze, David Mpanga, Erias Lukwago, Meddie Nsereko Ssebuliba, Ssebuliba Mutumba Mudduawulira, Moses Kasibante, Daudi Mpaga, Florence Bagunywa Nkalubo, Abasajja n’abazaana ba Kabaka bbona mu Nkoba za Mbogo, etal.

Equal gratitudes go out to Moses Mwesigwa (aka Sekanyolya), the executives of the Ggwangamujje NY/NJ, all Baganda here in North America, UK and Europe,
Omulangira James Wasajja, Angela Najjuma, Emmanuel Kayondo, Benon Teebasoboke and Rashid Sekyewa. Thank you for a good fight.

Emeritus Katikkiro Muliika Daniel deserves also my special gratitudes for a job well done in this Buganda-first crusade.

Awangaale Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi II!

Good reading indeed. But something tells me that the likes of Okwir have their heads so deep in the anti-Buganda sand that what we call “reasoning” they only see as “whining”.

They only take (involuntary) notice when we come out with bold stuff like the “Buganda interests first” or “Muganda first” message which Beti and the Ttabamiruka people are preaching. Edith would be twice as valuable if she ignored the Okwiris, Opondo’s and Musinguzi’s of miserable Uganda and invested in promoting the “Buganda interets first” message that her sister is pushing. That is, if she happens to believe that Buganda interests come before anything else.

Awangaale Ssabasajja!

I couldn’t certainly agree more with Edith Mpaga’s observations!

Hello 2 all of u, and take good care of yourself Steve!

Awangaale Omutanda waffe Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi!

Just take a look at this article by EDITH MPANGA that I have just lifted from this morning’s DAILY MONITOR (02/13/09)for you, Busagwa, JMusinguzi and the rest of the Baganda/Uganda folks and then compare notes. You sure will find it pretty insightful. Good reading!

Hon. Kamya, wear your bark cloth with pride
Edith Mpanga

In response to Hon. Beti Kamya’s recent article regarding President Obama’s inauguration, Charles Okwir celebrates the return of ‘intellectual’ Beti. Okwir’s article, replete with ill-disguised condescension, gently advises Beti that intelligent Ugandans do not stoop to discussing tribal issues.

I beg to submit an alternative viewpoint, as seen among the ranks of the ‘non-intellectuals’. First off, Okwir appears not to have read President Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”. Had he done so, Mr Okwir wouldn’t have been left in any doubt that President Obama’s roots and ethnicity are a most fundamental aspect of his self-identity, even as an American. Obama would, in all likelihood, find bizarre the suggestion that tribal/ethnic discussions are the preserve of the intellectually idle.

Secondly, in the admirable American democracy whose virtues Okwir so enjoyed hearing Beti extol, ethnic minority communities tend to be passionate about their tribal identities. For that reason, Obama’s campaign team recognised and courted, for instance, the Latino, the Jewish and the Black vote. All these communities stand, first and foremost, as the ethnic groups they are, and then as Americans. America does not appear to have not suffered for this.

In Mr Okwir’s ideal world, we would all forget our tribes and focus on our nationality as Ugandans. Subjected to a reality check, this utopia falls on its face. What name, for instance, would I give my baby son in this brave, new world of oneness? Nsubuga or Okot would not do for a ‘Ugandan’, surely? What language would we speak? Swahili, of course – barring the small problem of how to ensure everyone learnt and accepted it in rejection of their mother tongue. What about traditions such as “okwaalula abalongo”, “imbalu”, “okuhingira”, “mato oput” which are exclusive to specific tribes? Blanket ban on all those? And what customary/traditional behaviour would we teach our children?
And what about the traditional folklore that, for instance, glorify our traditional heroes, sometimes at the expense of those of other tribes? Drop all that in the interests of oneness, you’d say?

Hopefully, beneath the flippant tone of the examples, my point is clear: Our tribes ultimately define who we are. They provide all the ingredients that go into giving us our individuality. They pre-date Uganda by many centuries. Strip away our tribal heritage and you are left with nought.
The ‘Ugandan’ culture would not begin to suffice. We all have more friends from our own tribe than from any other. As a Londoner, Mr Okwir must have seen, in the West Indian population, what happens to a people when they are forcibly made to forget their culture.

Today, Ugandans like Mr Okwir prefer to think of tribes as a negligible irritant in the wider context of ‘serious’ issues. They are embarrassed to hear ‘intellectuals’ engage with the issue. Hiding their heads in the sand, they ignore the fact that tribalism has been the evil that has reduced Uganda to the sorry state it is in now. They fail to see what could have led a peaceful nation like Kenya to erupt in such a violent manner in 2007/2008. They ignore the tribal issues underpinning the situation in Zimbabwe.

Fortunately they are in the minority. To Hon. Beti Kamya, I convey the message from the ranks of the non-intellectuals: We admire your courage and tenacity in turning the spotlight on this issue, which lies at the heart of the political problems Uganda has suffered since independence, but which ‘intellectuals’ blissfully ignore. Honourable Lady, wear your bark cloth with pride!

Edith Mpanga , London
mpangae@googlemail.com

Do you also ever notice the ugly double standards being played out by the M7s and Besigyes/Oguttus of Uganda whenever they are dealing with issues concerning Baganda and Buganda? When M7 appoints every Munyankole, Mukiiga, Munyoro and Munyarwanda into every leadership position in the army, police, prison, U.R.A, RDC, Bank of Uganda, etecetra in every corner of Uganda, and then the Betty Namboozes, Hussein Kyanjos, Erias Lukwagos, etecetra talk about this unprecedented tribalism and nepotism in Uganda, they are then branded “tribalists”. This case is no different in Besigye’s FDC where still westerners dominate every position in that party and Betty Kamya who talks against this ugly head of tribalism is branded a “tribalist”. So, why should it surprise anyone that Betty Kamya should be one of the Buganda nationalists who are coming out openly to rally Baganda around their common interests as Baganda? Ate nno gakyaali mabaga! Oluyiira lwo’kununula Buganda kati luyinda! See, M7/Besigye can deceive some Baganda for some time but cannot deceive all the Baganda all the time!!

Long live your Majesty the Kabaka!
Long live Maama Nabagereka Sylvia Nagginda!
Long live Buganda Nation!
Long live Buganda Kingdom!
Long live Betty Kamya!
Long live Betty Nambooze!
Long live Hussein Kyanjo!
Long live Erias Lukwago!
Long live Meldard Sseggona!
Long live Peter Mayiiga!
Long live David Mpanga!
Long live all our Buganda heroes and heroines!
Long live all Baganda every where u are!!

Abo bagaayi obateegeela otya?

FDC party runs its political business in the same way Museveni does “his” own NRM-O party. See, on Museveni’s side, he has bloody succors ala Tamale Mirundi, Abraham James Byandala, Aisha Kabanda, James William Kinobe, Katenda Luutu,Ahmed Katereega Musaazi,Gerald Kiddu Makubuya, Edward Ssekandi, Apolo Robinson Nsibambi and lots of their likes whose actions and statements against Buganda and their fellow Baganda go beyond the pale to prove to Museveni that they wouldn’t mind a bit to sell their own Baganda brothers and sisters down the river for a piece of silver just but to only make phoney and hopeless impressions upon Museveni for favors!!

In a similar manner, Besigye’s FDC party has the types of Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo who are blindly ready to be used and abused for the sake of short-term gains. Infact if I were Ssebugwawo, I would not accept to be on the frontline of insulting Kamya for FDC’s sake given the fact that the former is reportedly contemplating standing for an LC3/LC5 (?) political position in Betty’s Lubaga constituency

Regarding Joy’s education background, I haven’t been able to find any meaningful information on the net about her education level as I punched in her names. But her education level is completely beside the point, Musinguzi. Then how can you explain the actions and/or careless statements against Buganda Kingdom/Kabaka/Baganda from people you would call ‘highly educated’ such as Edward Ssekandi, Apolo Robinson Nsibambi, etal. I doubt pretty much whether Betty Nambooze is highly educated, but see how much good she has brought for the Buganda cause! Get the point I am making, my brother?

God bless!!

M7 = Besigye and Besigye = M7. Can anyone out there tell me why the next Ugandan president after M7 must be another westerner (Munyankole/Mukiiga/Munyarwanda, etecetra…) to again load it over the Baganda and other Ugandans? And by the way, let other Ugandans who are neither Baganda nor westerners think that the Museveni/Besigye hocus pocus is only against the Baganda and Buganda. Noop!!! Remember thet German Pastor Martin Niemoller’s personal experience with the killer Nazi – Party and military machine (appropos: the NRM/NRA/UPDF is increasingly pretty much looking like the NAZIs!!) that he had initially praise-sung for and paid blind obedience to up to that material time he personally realized that the gangster Nazis wwere ultimately just a bunch of non-discriminative monstrous criminals out to terrorize everyone, including all nature of Germans themselves?? Well, just in case you could have forgetten, here are the lines for you:

“First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.”

Do the lines ring a bell??

So, all of you non-Baganda Ugandans out there jubilating and/or ignorantly cheering that it serves Beti Kamya and other Baganda right to be discriminated against and/or unfairly treated by either Museveni or Besigye or the Tinyefuzas of that M7’s corruption-laden military entity called UGANDA should just know that injustice to anybody is injustice to everybody. Indeed, injustice against Baganda = Injustice to all Ugandans! It is just a question of time that other Ugandans will begin to taste the same dose of M7’s and Besigye’s medicine of primitive tribalism in the same way Betty and other Baganda have, if they do not make the requisite effort to arrest the unfolding political malaise in that banana republic.

Waangaala nyo ayi Baffe Cucu Magulunnyondo Lukomwa Natawetwamugge Ssabasajja Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II!

I ask because I have noted that she when dealing with FDC and Besigye seems to behave more respectifully than even the Baganda royal family. Could this be why