We have learnt from highly reliable sources in President Museveni state house apparatus that the Ugandan strongman may soon disown the brutal actions of Uganda police against Baganda youths in Kayunga. According to an email message sent through an intermediary, the source says: “Ugandans are going to be surprised when Mr. Museveni will claim that he only learnt about the problems in Kayunga on Tuesday or Wednesday. He also intends to attack people who claim that he has anything to do with the threatening letter that his minister Kirunda Kivejinja wrote, warning Kabaka not to go to Kayunga, in Bugerere county.”
Our source could not confirm when Mr. Museveni will make the public statements but speculated that he (Museveni) might do it when he meets MPs who come from Buganda on Thursday or Friday. As for why Museveni plans to do this the source said: “Museveni has no choice this time. He fully understands that he underestimated the Kabaka and Baganda on this issue of Bugerere. He also knows that he overestimated the influence that Katikkiro Walusimbi and his supporters still have on Kabaka Mutebi’s decisions. The only option he has, as a military man, is a tactical withdraw. And, based on his past behavior he may blame everything on Kirunda and [Rwandese police commander] Kale Kayihura.” The MPs are expected to ask Museveni to explain which his government is blocking Kabaka Mutebi from freely moving in Buganda simply because 22 people demonstrated with sigs that they don’t want him to visit without first consulting their leader, who happens to be an active member of the Uganda army.
In May 2009, the Aga Khan’s The Monitor newspaper printed a Uganda government sponsored story claiming that Kabaka Mutebi postponed his planned tour of Kayunga, in Bugerere county, due to fear that Banyala residents might demonstrate against him (see “Kabaka Will Visit Bugerere When Youths Are Home “). This writer established at the time that the true reason was because Kabaka was traveling to Europe on official duties. Due to conflict with another tour of Buvuma in July/August, the Bugerere trip was finally rescheduled to start on September 12, 2009.
Since Monday, the Uganda police, under the command of Rwandese refugee Kale Kayihura, has obstructed Baganda youth trying to prepare the site for Kabaka’s main ceremonies at Kayunga. They even fired teargas canisters into the car of Mengo officials who had gone to Kayunga to oversee the preparations. The Police also kidnapped Baganda youths who were erecting stalls and held them incommunicado for a day. Earlier, a Musoga minister in Museveni’s government, Kirunda Kivejinja wrote to Mmengo, warning that the Kabaka should not go to Bugerere without the agreement of one Baker Kimeze, the Museveni appointed first king “Bunyala”. Museveni created the pseudo kingdoms of Buruli and Bunyala within Buganda, in direct contradiction of his own Uganda constitution, which does not recognize ‘subkingdoms’ within Buganda.
Despite Museveni’s threats and brutal police actions, Kabaka Mutebi instructed his trusted officials like, David Mpanga, Lubega Ssegona, Betty Nabooze, Kabuuza Mukasa and several others, especially in Nkoba za Mbogo, to spearhead “Operation See You in Kayunga”. Through these ‘warriors” Kabaka Mutebi informed his subjects that he was determined to go to Kayunga and not allow a repeat of what happened in Buruli. According to information from the operational command post, headed by Betty Nambooze, tens of thousands of Baganda are expected to descend on Kayunga on Saturday, based on contacts with Gombolola and Miruka chiefs across Buganda. President Museveni’s internal security organization has informed their boss of these facts. The main reason why Museveni is backing down is because he has no confidence that his police can handle the situation if they try to stop the Baganda.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:26 am
If the situation in Kayunga is not handled well and Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi is stopped, mishandled or shot
at by M7 soldiers , M7 will be held responsible and this could spark anti – M7 frenzy in BUGANDA. Anything that looks , walks , talks like M7 will be in trouble that day. Kayunga may come to haunt M7’s entire life forever.
It could be the beginning of the end of M7’s rule and relentless abuse and rape of BUGANDA.
Watch come Saturday !!
September 10th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Baryokwabe,
I am waking this morning really pissed off by the insanity of that Nyarundi aka M7 who calls himself president of Uganda. He and his fellow Nyarundis are busy screwing up our motherland and stalking fires that can quickly burn and consume the whole of Uganda and East Africa. His enormous inferiority complex, coupled with the fact that he has never won any genuine election in Uganda, is driving this man who came as a poor Rwandan refugee to Uganda, very crazy indeed. I can tell you what? If Mr. Museveni, whatever his real names are, and his fellow military gangsters in Kampala do not quickly think through their vile intentions and actions against His Majesty Ssabasajja Kabaka Muwenda Kimera Mutebi II and his Buganda Kingdom so they could regain sanity in their brains, Saturday 09/12/09 is bound to be the beginning of the end for not only this Rwandese refugee cum president of Uganda but also for his entire military junta and family. See, this tin pot dictator thinks that because he has the guns and bullets, and other related elements of the primitive coercive force, he can willfully continue to violate all norms and laws under his own constitution and go away with it. He is totally fooling himself. This time around, the Baganda and other Ugandans are just fed up with this man’s primitive arrogance and dictatorship, and are not going to take it anymore. A million Baganda or so are better dead mowed down by this madman’s bullets than continue to be loaded over. As I was posting my last mail on “Bukenya tells Kabaka…(oh, what a lousy comedian this Bukenya chap!!!”, I received credible information from a friend in M7’s own so-called Presidential Guard intimating to me that plans were underway by dictator M7 to assassinate the King of Buganda and Uganda come this Saturday; that there was talk in M7’s army, police and a milliard of intelligence circles in Kampala that Kabaka Mutebi was this time round getting his “ultimate cure” (Could it be possibly assassination or anything else sinister?. ) for refusing to take M7’s calls and orders. This actually came through when another comedian and self-styled adviser on culture and Buganda, a little known Robert Ssebunya, appeared in the Uganda dailies saying something abominable nay obnoxious and blasphemous to the effect that Kabaka had to apologize to the Ugandan dictator for ostensibly having refused to meet with his (Ssebunya’s) friend, the Ugandan dictator? Well, if the dictatorship in Kampala underestimated the might and wrath of the Baganda when it comes to undermining the sole fountain of honor and identity, i.e. the Kabaka, let that Rwandan refugee prepare for his Armageddon.
Awangaale nnyo ayi Baffe Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi!
September 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Tara,
Events quickly unfolding in Buganda are getting typically nastier. The Katikiro has been stopped at Sezibwa bridge by one Rwandese Police Officer, a one Tugumanawe, and asked to get back with his entourage to Kamapala. Meantime, there are riots everywhere in Buganda, cities are burning, and mUseveni’s militia and other hoodlums are shooting people dead. I have just also been informed that one of Museveni’s South African -imported armored personnel carrier aka mamba has fired at a crowd of Baganda, resulting into the death of 10 people. Looks like things are getting out of hand. Personally for me as a former soldier living here in Bonn-Germany, I am already making out plans to fly back home so I can join my countrymen on the battle field to liberate Buganda and Uganda from those Rwandese refugees once and for all.
Ai Katonda kuma nyo Kabaka wa Buganda ne Nyaffe Buganda!
September 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Mengo under Siege!!!! Mamba blocks off Mengo, bullets being fired outside Mengo! Radio CBS is cut off!!!
September 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Yayayaya! owaye Nankindu, and i thought i was passionate. How you speak for me word for word, letter for letter, plus all you represent in your excerpt above. Abasajja esawa yabwe etuuse. We are fed up with the corruption, immorality, to mention but a few.
Nze i am with all things the Kabaka represents. What we need to be aware of though is the fact that it is the west that keeps propping up these despots to exploit our resources! We have to have a plan on how to fight the bigger devil as well.
Wangala Ayi Ssabasajja.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I said it this morning that this could be the start of
the end of the Tutsi occupation of Buganda led by M7.
He may use his mambas and militias but BUGANDA has never been part of Rwanda and it will never be.
M7 is out in his true colours to decimate BUGANDA and Kabaka but Iam afraid he will fail miserably just like Obote did.
What BUGANDA has been demanding is plain justice . BUGANDA is not claiming Rwandan territory but her right to live like any civilised people do anyway.
M7 may be playing a colonialist card to subdue BUGANDA and annex BUGANDA land hence has decided to walk the disastrous Obote pass.
Anything that looks, talks and walks like M7 if you are in Kampala watch your back.
Like Obote he will fail miserably.
Just watch the unfolding fatal events in Kampala…..
Wangaala Ssabasajja Kabaka, Katonda akukume obewo !!
September 10th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Can anyone believe that this Rwandese dictator in Uganda is the one currently holding the Chair for the Common Wealth? Is the civilized world really serious to be propping up another Idi Amin in Uganda by just watching this hopeless mulalo brutalize the Ugandan citizenry and/or continue to load over us his dictatorship? Everything that has a beginning must have an end as well. The end for this insane dictator is about to begin in Uganda. He can then get back to his native f****g country Rwanda and then graze his cattle, if he so wishes. Uganda is for Ugandans and those who want to respect the cultural norms and institutions of Ugandans, but not for those poorly –mannered Rwandese refugees who were helped to come to power by the same people they are now loading it over.
Awangaale nnyo ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka!
P.S: And if anyone is still in doubt, Uganda’s constitution has been long overthrown. That is why this current Ugandan dictator violates all the time his own constitution and continues to tell gullible Ugandans that he respects the constitution. Remember Louis XI, that French chancellor, who once remarked that “Letat ce moi = I am the state and the state is me”? How about Zaire’s Mobutu Tse Tse-ko kuku wa zabanga…? He was also a “law” unto himself, just like this Rwandese refugee cum Ugandan life president!
September 10th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Could this article whose source I have cited here below capture the events as they continue to unfold in Buganda?
Kampala – Riots broke out on Thursday in the Ugandan capital as scores of youths protesting a move to bar a traditional ruler from visiting a local county stoned police who retaliated with tear gas.
“They have blocked the roads and have tried to force their way into shops. Police have intervened with the help of the army and the situation is being handled,” police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba told AFP.
Nabakooba said they had not confirmed if there were any casualties in the violence that broke out in downtown Kampala and spread to other city districts.
The demonstrators also burned tyres, set up road barricades and torched a petrol station as shops closed and transport was paralysed on Thursday afternoon.
“We have scattered them…, but now the demonstrators have moved to the suburbs,” said Henry Kalulu, another police spokesperson. “We are following them and dispersing as well.”
The protesters, from the Baganda tribe, which is the majority in central Uganda, were angered by government’s urging their ruler Ronald Muwenda Mutebi not to visit Kayunga county, northeast of Kampala, for fear of violence.
Ethnic Baganda MPs walked out of parliament in protest over the same issue Wednesday.
The traditional king holds a ceremonial position but wields political influence.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/Content/Africa/News/965/b93be86cb74843d5a51361ce3db96253/10-09-2009-06-34/Riots_break_out_in_Uganda
September 10th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Forumists,
The latest news from Kampala indicate that the Rwandese tin pot dictator in Uganda has at last told a meeting he is presently holding with members of his political party from Buganda that the reason he and his junta are holding hostage His Majesty the Kabaka of Buganda is that HM has refused to take his calls for the last two years!!!! In addition, this Rwandese strongman is accusing the Kabaka of allowing what he calls “opposition” people like Dr. Besigye, Omuk. Nambooze, Owek. Mayiga, among others, to appear on CBS. So he hides behind his fellow criminals like Mpagi Kimeze and Mwogeza Butamanya to execute his really reckless schemes against HM the Kabaka and his kingdom? A terrible coward on a big ego-trip and with a terrible inferiority complex! By the way, could that be the reason why he wears winter clothes in the middle of Uganda summers??
Wangaala nnyo Baffe Ssabasajja Kabaka!
September 10th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
The end for this regime is near. Museveni has tried to intimidate people by telegraphing his message to them that he has the Military and that they have no choice but to submit to him. He behaves like a bully but if you stand up to him he backs down. That’s what Kagame did. He let him know that he wasn’t gonna be pushed around.
The Soviet Union had a superior military than Museveni can ever dream of, and still they couldnt hold onto power.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment has arrived for this man to go. He has been in power for 24 years, to my count, President Obama was 23 years when Museveni captured power. Ugandan children born in the USA have better chances of becoming president of the United States than millions of Ugandans have in their own country. We have to continue the struggle and make sure that this man leaves. Ugandans in the US and in Europe should contact their political leaders about the negative impact and bottomless abyss that Uganda is being led into. In Washington, Museveni’s game is old, that’s why he hasn’t met Obama yet…which used not to happen with previous presidents, Bush and Clinton.
If anything happens to Kabaka, I think Buganda has a reason to declare self determination as a way to rid the country of this scourge.
Let the struggle continue ladies and gentlemen.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:11 am
It appears like things went out of hand after Kabaka Mutebi played tough with this Nyarwanda. Then came the riots, and the panicky Munyarwanda went for broke by barring Kabaka from going to Kayunga and also switching CBS off.
Banange Abaganda who have been wasting your emotions on the kifurukwa called Uganda, mufokasinge ku BU!
Wangaala nnyo Ssabasajja!
DK
p.s. I have written while very upset that this serwajja okwoota is harassing our Kabaka,