When, on September 16, 2009, Museveni invited all Buganda MPs to a Thursday meeting to discuss the impasse regarding Kabaka’s visit to Kayunga, he was considering denying opposition to the visit (see “Museveni May Blame Police and Minister For Bugerere Violence“). By the time the meeting took place, Museveni had decided to confront the Kabaka and had grown so paranoid that the locked non-NRM Buganda MP’s out.
One source close to president Museveni’s state house has told us: “Young and rich Balaalo, who fear to lose the billion of shillings they have looted in Uganda had worked through senior members of the Balaalo akazu (secret conclave) Caleb Akandwanaho (Salim Saleh), Janet Museveni and Elly Karuhanga to persuade Museveni to lower the tension with Mmengo. As late as Wednesday afternoon, Museveni considered blaming the brutal actions of Uganda police against Baganda youths in Kayunga on Kayihura’s men.” However, the Uganda warlord continued to face pressure from strongly anti-Baganda Balaalo and Bayiru like David Tinyefuza, Kale Kayihura, Kahinda Otafiire and others, who wanted the Kabaka arrested.”
The situation was complicated on Wednesday when, Museveni, after 2 years of unsuccessful efforts, managed to get a telephone audience with Ssabasajja Kabaka. According the Museveni’s own statement, the Kabaka was clearly unimpressed by the extreme importance the Ugandan ruler places on the title, “President of Uganda”. The unfriendly call left Museveni irate but probably did not change his thoughts about calling some type of truce.
The source says, however, that: “President Museveni panicked on Thursday late morning when he got intelligence reports that the violence that started after Kayihura barred Katikkiro Walusimbi from entering Bugerere was spreading to places as far as Masaka. Even worse, it was being executed by fearless young Baganda, some as young as 13 years, in huge numbers. When he consulted some members of the kazu, they were also panicking. When he called Janet Museveni, overseas at the time and very angry at the way Baganda had embarrassed her at UNAA, she told him that there was no choice but crash the Baganda rioters.” That is when Museveni made the final decision to stop Kabaka Mutebi.
Museveni formally announced that unless Mmengo held talks with Banyala and CBS radio stopped their negative campaign against the NRM and inciting the people against Police, Kabaka’s visit to Kayunga on Saturday could not take place. Reportedly, the Ugandan warlord did not sleep at all Thursday night but made another critical decision. He ordered that the Kabaka had to be stopped if he left his palace and live bullets were to be used on rioters.
It appears that Kabaka Mutebi’s advisors got wind of Museveni’s genocidal plans early enough to avert the potential bloodshed. By Friday mid-afternoon, the Buganda cabinet had made the decision that talking to Museveni’s person king (Sabanyala) was out of questions and Baganda blood could not be sacrificed to the NRM government, which seemed deranged. Sources close to Mmengo could not provide more details about what went on in the Buganda cabinet up to the point of the official statement canceling the trip. However, according the Observer Newspaper (www.observer.ug), the wording and timing of the Mmengo statement was highly influenced by fear that Katikkiro Walusimbi, who is little trusted by nationalist Baganda, could be harmed.
We can report that Museveni was in communication with people who are close to key Buganda government officials throughout the crisis. However, it is not known if any actual communication took place. Also, Museveni planted at least one informer among Mmengo officials, including in the Katikkiro’s convoy that was stopped at Sezibwa (details withheld to protect the sources).
In the meantime, a state of panic has taken root among the Balaalo community in Buganda. For many of them this the first time they came face to face with the prospect that Museveni does not have the capacity to protest them against the thousands of unemployed and angry young Baganda. Evidence of this panic includes the decision by Rwandese Balaalo, assisted by a foreign country, to volunteer to offer over 20 lorries to accompany Kabaka Mutebi to Kayunga. We have also received unconfirmed reports of an unusual number of Balaalo parents taking their children home from boarding schools on Saturday September 12, 2009.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Given the prevailing lack of prudent leadership in Uganda, I guess the situation is just gonna get worse. Here you are with a brute dictator who does not give a good god damn thing about life and the tenets of the constitution he purports to rule by. A million Baganda/Ugandans can be shot dead and it is none of his business provided he remains “president”. He refers to His Majesty the Kabaka in his BBC interview as “…that king and his group…” but at the same time clammers to hold any meaningful dialogue with His Majesty the Kabaka. His lousy bootlickers ala Muhanga Margret can go on air (Vision FM) TO insult His Majesty the Kabaka by uncanningly comparing her kid to the Kabaka with respect to returning or rather not returning calls and she expects that the Baganda listening to this hogwash of hers will just grin and bear it. The Karoro – Okuruts, the Robert Ssebunyas, the Tamale Mirundis and a whole bunch of those miserable lousy bootlickers of M7 are applying abusive, inappropriate and inciting proverbs to His Majesty the Kabaka like “…akabwa keweyorela…”/”…gwowonya eggere…” and they expect the Baganda to cheer them up???? So by implication, His Majesty is the “little ungrateful dog” and the one whose leg was saved from being amputated???? This kind of foul language cannot be the environment of dialogue M7 so much clamors for between him and the conscientious monarch like His Majesty Kabaka Mutebi.It can only bring more trouble for the country than it is meant to denigrade the Kabaka and/or cow down an unarmed populace.
Awaangaale nnyo ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka!
September 16th, 2009 at 11:28 am
They came as refugees, and now they are treating us with so much hatred, it hurts! Tanzania kept them at bay for a reason. Why Buganda gave refuge to these snakes is beyond me! Buganda has to stop this policy of giving homage to those seeking it. These people actually would in fact kill us all off for all they care! There should be some sort of strategy to rid ourselves of this cancer, otherwise we are done for. There are ways and means of doing it, we just need to stop sitting on our laurels in the false hope that somehow the situation will turn a corner just because it is desirable. I urge all those Baganda that have been despising any functions held in the name of their heritage to stop this at once, and realise that actually someone else is going to steal their inheritance if they are not careful. Coming on here and expressing your feelings is not enough.
The current crisis is reminiscent of a story in ancient Kemet(Egypt today), about the Hyksos who came from the North and besieged it for about 200 years. They assumed leadership because of the brotherly nature of the peoples of Kemet. They had a matrilineal structure and that is how it happened. These people were so ruthless in their treatment of the Kemetians (their hosts), that it took a King called Ramses to stand up and pack them off. This King is vilified today by the West (in the bible), but there are reasons for this, which we as Blacks need to expose ourselves to.
These people!!! Words fail me to describe how i feel.
Having said that though, they are being used by the White man to sow seeds of hatred amongst ourselves. For the West to go into the future, it needs Africa’s resources. And the schemes being used today are to ensure we are always on a war-footing with our neighbours, so that they have time to rape the continent further.
One of the things we have to start with is to get rid of the white picture of Yeshua(Jesus) hanging in our bedrooms and sitting-rooms. This should be replaced with the true picture of Yeshua as being Black! The reason He was turned from Black to White was because, in 1605, they had to take us from Africa to come and build the capitalist system we see today besides making us eternal slaves. This could only succeed if the picture of God was turned from Black to White. It was Pope Julius the 2nd that commissioned Michael Angelo to carry this out! So beware, the Catholic church played a pivotal role in slavery.
For more information, i advise you visit this website: kemetnu.com, and try to get yourself the material on there.
The time for our final emancipation is now and not tomorrow. The reason we have been torn away from Africa is to ensure that it never rises, and that we continue to build the West at its expense.
Buganda should get this kind of material to ensure that we do not find ourselves in the same situation tomorrow, because for sure, if one does not learn from their mistakes, they are bound to repeat them.
Wangala Ayi Ssabasajja.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Folks,
Let us all wake up to the realization that: YOWERI MUSEVENI = IDDI AMIN DADA VC DSO MC … = MILTON OBOTE. He is 100% a brute dictator just like the other two dictators Ugandans deposed in 1979 and 1986 respectively were. Unless all Ugandans across the great spectrum rise and stand up to yet this brute dicator, Uganda will continue to bleed for the next couple of years. And by the way, this is the point where I totally disagree with my sister Beti Kamya who says that Museveni is not Uganda’s biggest problem but rather the lack of Federo. Beti needs to understand that nothing can thrive in a dicatorship how much you may try. We will first need to free our country of the prevailing dictatorship before we can create an enabling environment for FEDERO.
Wangaala nnyo ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka Maggulunnyondo Nyanjatemanyirwa Baffe!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Dear Baganda and Buganda well wishers,Musevenis reactions did not surprise me as Robert Ssebunya’betrayal,this is a man who has seen it all,most of all his liberator friends are gone, Sserumaga, Kayira etc, he is a former Buganda minister who should know that as much as money is an important commodity,royalty to your kingdom should be inherent.In this recent confluence,Ssebunya has done to Kabaka Mutebi what the late Francis Walugembe did to Muteesa and you know what, the Judas always pays in one way or another, because now neither Buganda nor Museveni trusts Robert Ssebunya now.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:42 am
Dont panic,
Museveni is just on his way out since he has tried to touch the untouchables.
He is just kicking his last.
All we have to do is to drum more support for our Kabaka, unite as the Baganda and other non Baganda welwishers. Come 2011, we shall see him out along with his goons once and for all.
Good enough, he has given us early signals of what heiscapable of.
Omwoyo gwa Buganda ogutafa.