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Moses Musana: Abakenyi, Buganda Future, Appeal to Katikkiro
Dear BP,
I wish to tell my fell Baganda about my people and our concern about our future. I am one of the Baganda group called Abakenyi or Abakeni. A long time ago our Baganda ancestors run away to Bugerere, Busoga and Teso because of problems with the Kabaka at that time. Over the last 10 years our elders are working to bring us back into the Baganda community and some progress has happened but not enough. But for most of us our future is best back in Buganda because we are Baganda. That is why we are worried about the future of Buganda, because it should be our future too.
One reason why President Museveni manages to create division in Baganda is that when he bribes Banyala or Baluuli leaders to demand separation from Buganda, the Katikkiro and his government only quarrel and complain. But they should do research and show that staying in Buganda is much better. Here in Bugerere Banyala are not the majority and most even prefer to be part of Buganda. But the people in Mengo are not willing or able to get these facts and use them in public relations. They think that strengthening Baganda is taking Museveni money and giving people hoes and seeds. They don’t realize that Museveni wants them to stay on hoes and seeds while he settles Banyankore, Banyarwanda and Sudanese in places like Bugerere. When Katikiro Walusimbi brings Kabaka Mutebi to Bugerere to give out hoes and seeds, it is possible that more of Museveni’s Sudanese will get the items than Baganda (Banyala and Bakenyi included) because of local LC and police connections. Banyankore, Bakiga or Banyarwanda control most police posts in Buganda and share bribes with local LCs.
I appeal to Katikiro Walusimbi to look in his heart and start working for the true Buganda. The true Buganda are the Baganda communities who are 95% very poor and being terrorized by Mr. Museveni’s policies on corruption, money laundering, land grabbing and giving nearly all local security control in Buganda to people from the West. Katikiro, you should embrace all Buganda’s native communities like Banyala, Baruli, Bakenyi, Bavuma, etc. and use them as key members of Buganda. You should also make clear what long-term future Mengo is working on for Buganda, so that all of us can know what to expect which is not Museveni’s “Buganda becomes Central Region and Kabaka Goes” future. Right now, the future you talk is only 3 months long – the next harvest of beans from the seeds Kabaka is giving out in the Omumuli program. If the rains do not come and the beans die, what happens next? Are we not talking about who will get the feet of our cow when we kill it while thieves are running away with the whole animal?
Awangaale Sabasajja.
Moses Musana
8 May 09
Badru Kazibwe: Thanks and Praying for Buganda
Dear Sir/Madam,
I want to thank you very much for making the chance for Baganda to say what they feel without censuring. The English and Luganda newspapers is Uganda today will never print a letter from if it deeply talks about what Baganda must do to become free. They only allow letters praising Museveni or making the usual weak complaining about land, 2011 elections and federo.
I pray that many Baganda will use the chance to tell everyone about the way Museveni and his people have robbed our country Buganda which now has nothing. Also, that you will be able to have Kabaka Mutebi and Owek. Walusimbi to read these letters and know live what is really going on with Baganda.
Wangaala Ssabasajja.
Badru Kazibwe, Boston.
