A source close to president Museveni’s state house has confirmed to us that local news reports that the NRM may soon open CBS Radio are well founded. The source, who requested that their identity be kept secret, for fear of being physically endangered, explained that the Ugandan dictator is afraid that the anger Baganda are showing about CBS Radio could become dangerous to his regime.
Our source told us by email: “President Museveni does not like it when people ignore him. You saw what happened when Kabaka Mutebi refused to pick up or return his calls. It is funny but, like Idi Amin, the only people Mr. Museveni respects or fears are those who ignore him. They make him extremely uncomfortable because they make him feel not in full control. That is why he will even go as far as abusing ambassadors of the same European countries where he sends ministers to beg for aid, just to show he is in control.
With CBS, the problem is that the president was taken unawares when Kabaka Mutebi ignored the whole thing and left Mmengo to deal with the problem. Mr. Museveni had sincerely taken it for granted that the Kabaka would be eager to ‘negotiate’ once Buganda started to feel the financial pain of CBS closure. But the Kabaka ignored the whole thing. To complicate matters, once Baganda peasants saw that their Kabaka was quiet, they decided to do their duty and fight on his behalf. Everywhere Museveni went, on his ill-conceived Buganda tour, Baganda peasants would ignore everything he said and only ask why he does not open Kabaka’s radio.”
The source goes on to confirm that, as reported by Buganda Post on November 9, 2009, the Ugandan warlord president abandoned his tour of Buganda because he was disturbed by questions from Baganda peasants about the CBS radio closure (see “Frustrated Museveni Might Abandon Buganda Tour“). Apparently, it was frustration with Kabaka Mutebi and Baganda peasants that forced Museveni to call for the negotiations with Buganda government officials.
Our source concludes: “Do not let anyone fool you that the NRM is in real serious negotiations with Kaaya Kavuma and his team over CBS. In the end, Museveni has no choice but to reopen CBS. The pretend negotiations are only a cover for Museveni to avoid looking weak. He wants to open CBS and still look like he is in control but he is really afraid of getting Baganda peasants more angry. And to some extent, he is also concerned that if he does not get a deal with the Mmengo ‘softies’, the hardliners will have a cause to push harder with the court case and other ‘tricks’.”
December 8th, 2009 at 3:17 am
Marlow,
You see, Kijjambiya Museveni thinks that everyone in Uganda is a cracking fool just like this bunch of chaps who recently formed a council of confused chiefs in Hoima under Gafabusa. In his foolishness and the foolishness of the hoodlums he keeps around as advisers, he thinks that he has the ability to break the bone of Buganda’s strong institution embodied in Buganda’s ebulient Kings, now under Ssabasajja Kabaka Mutebi. He forgets that the institution of Obwakabaka is a very strong one and well entrenched in the minds and hearts of the majority Baganda, irrespective of religion or clan, both within and outside Buganda, as long as they belong to any of the 52 clans of Buganda. So, if M7 expected Ssabasajja Kabaka to beg him to open CBS which he illegally knocked off the air after his comical Kimeze-Bunyara project botched up, and after personally ordering the murder in cold blood of more than 40 Baganda and other Ugandans during the September riots, he is then in for a long wait. Baganda have been denigraded for too long by the Sserwajjaokwotas of Uganda and will do everything possible in their power to liberate themselves from the shackles of oppression and occupation. If M7 or any of his goons doubts this, let them check out this radio on http://www.ababaka.com/cms/index.php?lang=en . And this is just a dose of what is in store for the M7 dictatorship!
Waangaala ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka!!
December 8th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Tara,you hit it on the head, man is desperate and it looks like his patrons both in Washington and London want to ease him out of power but he wont leave just like all dictators! The funny thing, he keeps saying that Baganda are intimidating others from thinking freely. Oh really?
Look at his NRM. They think collectively like a bunch of cows being herded by him.
Did they really think freely when they rid away with the term limits? Who intimidated who then? Does he think we have forgotten??
The country will not be cowed into a life presidency. People are tired and only a dictator wont allow the free expression of people. The signs are out there for any reasonable person to see other than the sycophants he has patronized.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Banange,
Kano akasajja akajja mu Buganda nga tekalina na underware katutawaanye mu nsi yaffe kati?
Awangaale Ssabasajja!
December 9th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Nga bwemuttotodde wagulu awo, banaye abanyamulenge balina okutuviira. Oba Cabbasa eggulwawo, oba tegulwawo, oba bakyateesa okutubuzabuza, tulemere ku kintu kimu kyoka, abanyamulenge kutuviira. Ffe nga a’Baganda kirabika omulimu ogwokubikula amaaso g’abalala, ffe
abogukola. Twavuwaziddwa, e’mmere yona kati tugigya mu Ankole, amasomero gaffe a’go temukyali, ebisiyaze bisigiddwa baana baffe, okusadaaka abaana kuli mu Buganda, n’ebirala bingi nyo ebitukoleddwa nga byenyamiza, binakuwaza, biyingula amaziga, etcetera. Kale n’olwekyo
tuleme okugumazibwa nate, wabula tube banywevu mu kwejja mu buwambe o’Buganda bwe bulimu. Tewali muntu yenna agenda kutununula, wabula ffe fenyinni abantu ba buliggyo. Mu kutuwangangusa, tubikuliddwa amaaso mu bwengula gyetuli, kale omulimu gwafe okubikkula agaabo abali e’ka.
Kisanyusa nti omulimu guno bangi tugujumbide na maanyi. Simanyi nga mwaakiwulidde, nga naye banaffe mu Kenya, mu draft constitution gyebakoze, bagenda kufuna Federo gavumenti. Kale naffe siraba ki kitulema kukola nga bwe bakoze.
Awangale Ayi Ssabasajja.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Museveni makes a big-time mistake of underestimating the potency of the mighty Buganda Kingdom and its intiricate power structures firmly webbed into our rich cultural history. When the Kabakas of Buganda carry such regal titles as Maggulunnyondo, Mpologoma, Ssabasajja,Baffe, etecetra, these ain’t supposed to be taken just literally. The potency of the Kabaka, and by extension the Kabakaship, go beyond the particular individual holding the office at a particular time and the physical offices where the Kabakaship is supposed to be seen to be located. That’s why Baganda knew long time ago that the then Prince Mutebi was supposed to be their next Kabaka. So by Museveni expecting that he will take hostage of the Kabaka through intimidations of shutting down CBS, passing hopeless bills into acts ala land and regional tier bills, abolishing the Buganda Kingdom or even arresting and/or assassinating the Kabaka like he criminally tried to do this during the riots that happened in September of this year, he is simply wasting his time. Someone close to Museveni and kind to him should tell him that Baganda cannot have you as their friend (s) if you disrespect their Kabaka and cultural values. As a matter of fact, once you begin to overtly or covertly antagonize the Kabaka, you already cross a line of no return. And this is where Museveni is at the moment. The Baganda will fight his ejjoogo and god damn dictatorship till their last drop!
Awangaale ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka Ccuucu Maggulunyono Empologoma ya Buganda!
December 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Banange,
Those who are in the so-called discussions/negotiations with the Rwandese Mutabazi’s Broadcasting Casting Council over the reopening of CBS must take great caution not to fall prey to the stupid machinations of these guys and their dictatorial regime. CBS was illegally switched off in the midst of an orchestrated genocide by Museveni and his goons against the Baganda. We must not let those martyred lives in vain who perished during the riots at the hands of Dictator M7 by succumbing to some foolish conditionalities for the sake of reopening CBS. M7 and his fellow Rwandese goons must reopen CBS without any conditionality. If Oweek. Kaaya Kavuma and his group succumb to M7’s intimidations and funny conditionalities in order for CBS to be reopened, they will surely be burrying CBS. If M7 thinks that he is getting any political milege by continuing to close CBS, let him go ahead! But I can assure him that this is one of the biggest blunders he has ever committed in the entire period he has ruled Uganda. Ugandans are smarter and more than determined to do everything possible in order to be free at last. Like Tara has pointed out, we are already listening to a different but rather similar and more robust CBS over the net on Buganda matters. The process to enable ordinary Baganda access this radio via satelite onto their small radios is already underway. So why should we be stooping so low by figuratively begging murderous rappists to marry our girls. Does it really make sense?????
Awangaale Ssabasajja!
December 10th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Abange,
M7 wants to turn CBS into Radio Rwakitura . After closing BUGANDA banks like Teffe , Greenland Bank , Ssembule Bank , BUGANDA Newspapers , Land bill , Regional
tier and rampant discrimination of BAGANDA in employment still he does not want BAGANDA to have a radio Station .
What a dictator ? M7 must be dreaming because BUGANDA is bigger than all the M7’s of this world. He is in power because of BUGANDA and it seems we now have had enough of him .especialy when he ordered his evil forces to shoot and kill unarmed BAGANDA including a 2 year old child . After September riots M7 became an expired product in BUGANDA. No matter what he does that was the beggining of the end of M7 like Obote in BUGANDA.
He may have the evil militias , the Black mambas and Kiboko boys but his days are numbered.
Indeed M7 and his occupation militias are living on borrowed time in BUGANDA.
Every day that goes by and CBS is still closed reminds every MUGANDA about the ugly enemy in our midst .
Awangaale Ssabasajja Kabaka wa BUGANDA………