A Muganda lady lawyer who attended the December 17, 2009 Buganda Conference in Kampala sent me an email expressing her family’s disappointment with how far the organizers went to please Museveni and foreigners (banamawanga), with little regard to what ordinary Baganda want. The learned sister says that it hurt her and her husband that, although the conference was supposed to be a Buganda Conference it appeared that fewer than 100 of the about 800 attendees were ordinary Baganda. However, she also acknowledges that the speeches by Kabaka Mutebi and Hussein Kyanjo ultimately made the conference worth the registration fee that she and her husband paid and more.
Below are excerpts from the lawyers four and one half page long email.
Buganda Conference Was A Wrong Name
“It was easy to tell that a significant percentage of the attendees were foreigners (banamawanga). There were some Banyoro, North people and others. But not so many Banyankore cattle keepers (the balaalo) as you would think. It was remarkable that the people who appeared to be real Baganda were overwhelmingly well to do businesspersons, lawyers, politicians and fully employed city types. Clearly, fewer than 100 were ordinary Baganda from Ngogwe or Nyendo or Ndejje. To that end, Apollo Makubuya and the Katikkiro should have been truthful and called it the Kampala Uganda Conference.”
Mao, Kanyeihamba and Katikkiro Walusimbi
“It made me boil to hear this Acholi man with a Chinese name (Mao) set us conditions for getting Federo, as if he is some type of political god. He said, ‘If you Baganda want Federo, you must package it so that other Ugandans don’t think that you are claiming to be special’ and, as you would expect, he got thunderous applause from the foreigners present. I think every self-respecting Muganda must have felt like me; belittled. How dare that Mulugwaala tell me that, Baganda must never achieve their fundamental human right to self-determination until they convince him that they are ‘not special’? I think this Acholiman was in a team with Kanyeihamba, the Munyankore cattle keeper, who similarly talked down to Baganda like small children. Essentially, Kanyeihamba, who should know better because he is an experienced lawyer, also told us to do a better job convincing other Ugandans that we deserve our self-determination rights. As if that was not enough, Katikkiro Walusimbi used the same exacts words in his highly apologetic speech, ‘Buganda does not seek a special status’. Our Katikkiro, who sounded like he is ashamed to be a Muganda, seemed to be reading from the same exact script as Kanyeihamba and Mao.”
Mental Asylum Escapee Mutale
“Then there was the insane looking man called Mutale, who came as Museveni’s main representative. You could tell Museveni intentionally sent this unkempt man, simply to unnerve those easy to scare attendees of the conference. It was not easy to understand his English all the time but he threateningly told us that our discussions were meaningless because we did not have power. His people, presumably Museveni and Banyankore, are the ones with the guns and the power. This man looks like he escaped from an asylum, but the Apollo Makubuya and the Katikkiro, who must know him, chose to give him a platform to desecrate an event attended by our Kabaka and Nnabagereka?”
Handsome Hussein Kyanjo
“The truth is that there were some good and clearly pro-Buganda speakers, including retired Katikkiro Dan Muliika and other Baganda elders. However, you could feel an air of conspiracy among the Baganda speakers to be ‘polite and not upset the foreigners’ regardless of their provocations and patronizing towards Buganda. At the same time, you could also sense that the foreigners, both speakers and in the audience, had a sense of heightened confidence that the Baganda were at their mercy.
“The man who gave us real hope was the handsome young Moslem and proud Muganda, Hussein Kyanjo, who made some of the ‘bakungu ba Kabaka’ look like champion cowards. First, he directly rubbished Museveni’s crazy man Mutale by telling him that, because power comes from the people, the unpopular NRM government has lost power and resorted to using force to remain in control. Then, to the apparent discomfort of some of the well fed ‘bakungu ba Kabaka’, Mr. Kyanjo said it loud and clear that dictatorships force citizens to resort to violence and that is what may have to happen in Uganda. However, he added that Buganda must seriously look at secession as a way to avoid war. It is Kyanjo’s words that helped us keep our dignity as Baganda in the face endless apologies by our ‘bakungu’ to those Bakaramajo, Banyoro, Balaalo, Bakiga, Banyarwanda and Bakonjo for being Baganda and special.”
Traitor Bidandi Ssali
“At an intellectual level, probably most offending speaker was Bidandi Ssali, the man who engineered the still birth death of Federo in 1995 with his Decentralization fraud. I believe that Museveni would not have been able to deny Buganda Federo in 1995 were it not for Bidandi Ssali’s rabid hatred for monarchies. And I agree with my husband that Bidandi Ssali’s current pretention are not because he loves Federo or Buganda but only because, with the current Katikkiro and Mengo cabinet, any Federo Buganda might get would be cosmetic and might drastically weaken the Kabaka. We think that this man is one of the most treacherous Baganda alive today.”
Empologoma ya Buganda
“Kabaka Mutebi made all the wait and pain worthwhile. He gave a brief but sweet speech. Ignoring Museveni’s incessant warnings about so called ‘cultural leaders’ getting involved politics, the Lion of Buganda declared that Buganda was nation even before the British colonialists came. That the colonialists could not kill Buganda. And that, even when Obote abolished the kingdoms in 1967, Buganda remained alive.
“Further ignoring Museveni’s Regional Tier nonsense, the stern toned Kabaka reminded everyone that according to the Odoki constitutional committee, over 90% in Buganda and a healthy majority of other parts of Uganda demanded a federal form of government. He challenged those opposed to Federo to explain why they are denying people that basic right. Oh, this man, our Kabaka, is a real leader. Without him, Buganda would have been sold to Museveni a long time ago. Awangaale Ssabasajja! I left the conference feeling OK because, clearly, Ssabasajja and his man Hussein Kyanjo has salvaged our dignity and made the conference worthy much more than the $10 registration we paid each. ”
December 25th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Reading through all this BUGANDA must seccede ! BAGANDA are a proud people . Why is BUGANDA on her knees begging these MAO’S AND kANYEIHAMBAS for mercy to give BUGANDA a chance ? . What went wrong ? Can anyone out there explain why BUGANDA is begging these Sserwajja including to give back what is rightly ours that they have looted from BUGANDA ?
December 28th, 2009 at 5:10 am
I realy feel sorry for the Muganda lady lawyer who attended the Buganda Conference in Kampala. she is realy misplaced in a profession that boasts of international repute. how does she feel when many of her tribesmen are also foreigners (banamawanga)in USA & UK.Or they are not foreigners there.
Its very unlogical to concede that secession speeches made the day at the conference yet you don’t want the Banyala and Baluuli to secede from Buganda.
I support the Baganda to secede just like i also support the baluli and banyala to secede to.
December 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Robert,
Unlike other Ugandan nationalities, tribes if you will, Buganda is a Nation, with a variety of “tribes” that have harmoniosuly lived together for a score of centuries. It is only recently when M7 has failed to deliver on the so-called fundamental change and is now more than determined to become a life president as well as establish a family dynasty like all African, Asian and Cuban dictators do, that he is now kicking up his tribal divide and rule politics in Buganda. The majority Banyala and Baruli have no problem with their belongigness to the Buganda people. Even in those so-called chiefdoms that M7 wants to break away from Buganda, the majority inhabitants are not Baruli or Banyala. In Bugerere/Kayunga for instance, the Banyala are only close to 7000 while Baganda are 100,000 + in numbers, not forgetting that the Basoga, Bateso, Bakedi and the whole lot of other tribes are in Bugerere/Kayunga! So when you talk about Banyala/Baruli breaking off Buganda, you are really sounding pretty funny!
Now about Kakooza’s madness during the conference and Hon. Kyanjo’s stern response to this madman: It looks pretty much like some of you think that Buganda and the Baganda are some sort of a punching bag, right? I think it reaches a time when one has to say enough is enough, however civilized the Baganda are! And by the way, read the Baganda history of resistance from the colonial times right through the post colonial times todate. No amount of force from any one, unless from God, will ever wipe away Buganda,Baganda and/or their Kabaka! The Obwakabakaship is here to stay for a much longer time than you or M7 and his grandgrandchildren have long been recalled to hell!
Awaangaale nnyo ayi Ssabasajja Kabaka Mutebi II!
December 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I would like to recap what Mao , Kanyeihamba , Kakooza Mutale visa-avis Hussain Kyanjo and Ssabasajja Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi.
Truly the nation of BUGANDA is under Tutsi occupation though the Kanyeihamba didn’t mention a word about this brutal abuse and ongoing rape of Nyaffe BUGANDA.
She is hurting and crying out for help to stop the painful
abuse being felt all over the BUGANDA kingdom from mawogola , Mpigi , Kyagwe to Kampala itself BAGANDA are experiencing abject poverty this Christmas that they have never seen in their history.
In a nutshell Buganda conference was slated to find a remedy to this problem.
However, the Kainyeihambas , Mao and Mutale are part and parcel of occupational forces of BUGANDA and I guess they
were in a wrong place and time in the conference except M7’s disguised envoy kakooza Mutale.
I would like to remind Kakooza Mutale and his boss that BUGANDA can and will take up arms in quest of her God given right to be free .
This is indeed What Kyanjo told this conference in no uncertain terms that BAGANDA will take up guns to get herself out of the Tutsi bondage.
Mutale came with M7’s message that BUGANDA has no power because we don’t have arms.
To many BAGANDA who heard this statement were shocked to hear such gabbage because M7 and Mutale cannot convince BAGANDA that it is only them who have monopoly over the gun. It is a wishingful thinking to believe that that BAGANDA can fail to get guns because just like Mutales have guns BAGANDA can own them too in the near future.
I ndeed many ugandans believe and I don’t understand where they get this notion that BAGANDA cannot fight or BAGANDA are cowards . This is all that disinformation by
BUGANDA occupiers.
BAGANDA have fought wars since time immemorial and there is no war that has been fought on Ugandan soil and BAGANDA were not at the frontline including the bush war that brought M7 in power in Uganda and Paul kagame in Rwanda.
We know we can fight a protracted war and defeat the enemy especially when it comes to defending our land , women , our rights ,dignity , culture and above all our Kingdom that is currently under abuse and looting.
There are thousands of Hussein kyanjos in Buganda calling
for a war and any one reading this aticle including M7 get ready ……..
December 30th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I would like to respond to Robert up there, Buganda was forced into this union with the rest of Uganda less that half a century ago. You non Baganda know nothing about how Buganda came to be. We the Baganda are smart enough to admit we don’t know much about you and your history. You never inspired us to get to know you, because you always speak out of ignorance and malice, most of you are very uninteresting.It’s none of you Ugandans business what goes on among the people in the Buganda territory. Leave it as you found it. As we are not going to put our noses into your business, take a hint and get your noses out of ours. Whatever you people say or even do, Buganda shall secede. If you were smart, you would be running home to get your houses in order for the great home coming.
About the article, Bindandi Ssali and Mutale are Rwandese. Some people who know them personally say so. So they are nto really traitors, they’ve been moles all along. The downside of Buganda’s being an assimilative society. We need to start going slow on our nicety, if we are serious about getting and keeping our freedom and peace.
Long Live the King