USA Baganda have joined the many forces who are telling Katikkiro JB Walusimbi and other Mmengo officials to be extremely careful about the restoration of the recently burnt Kasubi Tombs. Within 36 hours after the tombs were burnt, the Katikkiro announced that a technical committee had been formed to start planning the restoration of the [...]

After their meeting of March 23, 2010, Abazzukulu ba Buganda wrote a strong open letter to Katikkiro JB Walusimbi, demanding that he reverses his recent decisions and announcements in connection with the damaged Kasubi tombs. Abazzukulu ba Buganda is the best-known and most consistent Buganda nationalist pressure group. They are known to be fully independent [...]

BUGANDA ROYAL FAMILY STATEMENT
On behalf of the children, grandchildren of Sekabaka Sir Daudi Chwa II – ­Princes, Princesses, Saava’s and Naava’s – we would like to express our great shock, horror at the loss of our beloved Masiro (MUZIBU ­AZAALA – MPANGA), constructed over 130 years ago.
We would like to extend our condolences to The [...]

EKIWANDIIKO OKUVA MU LULYO OLULANGIRA
OKUVA MU BASEKABAKA ABAGALAMIZIDWA MU MASIRO e NABULAGALA.
Ku lwenyumba, ya Ssekabaka Daudi Chwa II, abaana nabazukulu, Ba Nnalinya, abalangira na bambejja, Abaazana (ba Maama baffe) ba Saava neba Naava tutuusa obwenyamivu bwaffe olwo kwookya a Masiro ge Kasubi ” Muzibu azaala mpaanga” agazimbibwa emyaaka 130 egiyise.
Tusasira Ssabassajja Kabaka wa Buganda, olulyo [...]

Below is the the Luganda statement that the Katikkiro of Buganda, Eng. JB Walusimbi, issued on the burning of Buganda’s sacred Kasubi Tombs. The main highlights of the statement are as follows;

Katikkiro sends condolences to Ssaabasajja Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, ba Nnaalinnya, Abalangira n’Abambejja, and the whole of Buganda.
The Ekibira section, the the [...]

Based on the emails we are receiving from Baganda all over the world, Kabaka Mutebi’s subjects are clearly boling with anger. Most of the emails are too graphic and provocative for us to publish. Below is one example from Mr. A. Kyobe:
STALKING THE LION
A. Kyobe
Burning down Buganda’s royal tombs is the kind of provocation that [...]

The NRM government newspaper Bukedde of March 10, 2010, published a story showing that vote buying in school prefect elections is the norm in Uganda schools. At the swearing in of Shafina Nangobi as the headgirl at Pic Hill Primary School in Kawempe, the young lady openly said that she had spent about US$1 ,500 [...]

According to an official Buganda Kingdom news release, the minister for Local Government and Cooperatives, Jolly Lutaaya has advised Masaza Chiefs to intensify the registration process of every one in their areas of jurisdiction.
Owek. Lutaaya who was meeting the chiefs at Bulange in Mengo explained that this registration, which should include the newly born babies, [...]

Uganda NRM government has announced plans to move over 10,000 Bagisu victims of recent landslides in Eastern Uganda to Bugerere of Buganda Kingdom. The county is densely populated and very  politically charged and many Baganda see the move as an effort to reduce their Kabaka’s influence in the area. Bugerere county, and Kayunga town in [...]

For nearly 20 years, the World Bank and western countries that finance the NRM government have ignored the excesses of president Museveni and his cabal and funnelled billions of dollars into Uganda.  Baganda analysts tend to cite corruption and racism within the donor community as the primary reasons why president Museveni and his NRM [...]