A group or individual using the name Wazimba have contacted Buganda Post to indicate that they posted an anti-Museveni message on the YouTube video sharing website. The video includes a live clip filmed at Entebbe airport and is narrated in Luganda. The general theme of the message is to “wake my friends” (”banange muzuukuke”) to resist the efforts by Uganda rules to grab all national assets. We have not yet been able to establish whether Wazimba is a Muganda. And Mr. or Ms. or Messrs Wazimba also leaves any information about his political affiliations.

The narrator specifically alleges that Entebbe international airport has been sold to one man, Sam Kuteesa. This allegation is in line with Uganda current investigations by Uganda’s Museveni controlled parliament into a lease deal where government has sold Entebbe airport to an Arab company. Some MPs have told the local press that they have evidence that Sam Kuteesa and other Balaalo personalities set up a joint venture with the Arab company, as a front to sell the airport to themselves.

Kuteesa and other influential Banyankore and Bakiga have been engaged in controversial airport business since the mid 1990s. For example, Kuteesa and Museveni’s half-brother Salim Saleh own ENHAS, which has a monopoly on Entebbe airport ground handling and security. In addition, Entebbe In-flight Services is owned by Mrs. Janet Museveni and Charles Mbiire.

To watch the video click here.

On September 28, 2008 someone posted a  video titled “Museveni and Child Soldiers” on YouTube.com  in an apparent effort to alert the world community about President Museveni’s possible crimes relating to the use of child soldiers. At the time, a vote was about to be taken on whether to allow Uganda to become a member of the UN Security Council.

In the video, Mr. Museveni explains his use of child soldiers with:  “In Africa here even by the age of four you learn to fight. This is our tradition; you fight with sticks, with spears and with arrows. “ And he dismisses children rights activists who oppose use of child soldiers with: “If you think that this [child soldiering] will disorient them psychologically, that is not the case.”

Click here to see the video.

The United Nations, Denmark, the European Union and the USA are all officially against the use of child soldiers.  There are credible reports, as recent as 2008, that President Museveni’s government has been using child soldiers, especially in the war against an Acholi rebel group led by Joseph Kony.  The Danish embassy is intimately knowledgeable about these and other gruesome human rights violations by Mr. Museveni’s government, yet they continue to aggressively support  his programs, including those that may lead to more conflicts in future.

Possibly the most controversial of these program supported by Denmark and the European Union in Uganda today s is Mr. Museveni’s efforts to illegally steal 9,000 of native lands from the Baganda people and to dismantle their cultural institutions and kingdom.  He has passed several target anti-Baganda political and property rights laws which are even illegal under the United Nations charter and protocols with tacit support from the Danish, Norwegian and British ambassadors.

The consensus among all the Baganda intellectuals we interviewed for this article is that Denmark’s support for Mr. Museveni on the question of Buganda self-determination is driven by deep subconscious racism, greed for business opportunities and corruption in their Kampala embassy.  Because Denmark is a kingdom that claims to support human rights and has done so in Europe, Asia and Latin America, they have no logical excuse for using DANIDA to fund programs to dismantle another kingdom, Buganda, about as big as their own.  The consensus is that the Danes have a subconscious racist belief that black people are all the same- they don’t need or deserve kingdoms of their choice ; they just need food and medicine.

A Muganda historian based in Kampala has assured this writer that  Mr. Museveni’s claims that child violence is an African tradition are untrue, especially in relation to the Buganda kingdom and  some other parts of Uganda. He explained: “ It is true that among Mr. Museveni’s the Bahima/Tutsi cattle keepers fighting with sticks to settle personal disagreements is usual, the practice is not a in many African communities. For example,  in Buganda courts to settle personal issues were in operation well before European came to the area in the 1880’s. Buganda had a standing army of thousands of adults only (around 15 years and up) and its role was to fight national enemies. A court system which extended down to village level (kitawuluzi) handled personal criminal and civil cases, including the crime of fighting with sticks. Similarly, Banyoro, Batoro and Basoga do not have a culture of training 9 year olds to kill.”

According to a fund raising video playing on pastor Jackson Senyonga’s website, his Christian Life Ministry (CLM) and President Museveni’s government have agreed that, “if the ministry constructs a new hospital in Kampala, the government will convey  title to the 75,000 seat stadium known as Mandela National Stadium over to us with all its facilities and acreage” to CLM. While Pastor Senyonga might have reached the said agreement with President Museveni, the stadium capacity claim is totally untrue. The official capacity of the Mandela National Stadium which is reported by president Meseveni’s own ministry of sports is 45,000 seats. And according to Uganda laws, the agreement would be illegal since the Uganda president has no constitutional powers to give away public property, even if he has broken the law in the past. And the Uganda parliament has never passed  a bill to support Pastor Senyonga claims.

Pastor Senyonga’s video also contains other controversial claims which many Ugandans might call outright lies. For example, the narrator tells his innocent American Christian audience that, thanks to their past support and the successes of CLM, “Islam was  over 30% in the past but has now reduced to about 10%”. And one of the graphics they use to support that statement shows and Arab man – clearly not filmed in Uganda and possibly included to tap anti-Arab/Moslem feelings among the audience. On the contrary, data from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics shows that the percentage of Moslems has never been higher than 13% since census taking started in Uganda. That is more than 50 years ago.

You can view Pastor Senyonga’s fundraising video at www.christianlifeministries.org.

In August 2008, the Daily Review of San Francisco, California, reported that Jackson Senyonga, 41, of Uganda was arrested by sheriff’s deputies at Oakland International Airport on suspicion of fondling a 13 year girl seated next to him on an August 16, 2008 flight.  The alleged molestation was said to have occurred on a flight from Denver to Oakland. The Alameda County, California prosecutors said that they had referred the case to the FBI because of jurisdictional issues from being on the plane. The status of the child molestation case against Pastor Senyonga could not be established at the time of writing this report.

Another Ttabamiruka ’08 conference video has surfaced on Youtube. Last time it was Hussein Kyanjo. This time it is the “intellectual iron lady” Beti Namisango Kamya spitting fire at president Museveni’s practice of shamelessly passing laws which are blatantly anti-Baganda. Beti’s video is over 7 minutes long, where she camly and intellectually challenges Baganda to ask themselves why their kin are being driven by Government out of Bunyoro while the same government is flooding Buganda with Balaalo.

It is not clear if more is to come, how much and when. Or even from who, except that the person doing it used the name “ttabamiruka”.  Click here to see and listen to Beti Kamya speak!.

Ttabamiruka ‘08 conference was concluded on September 1, 2008. According to a press release issued by the organizers, the conference hailed the courage of the three Buganda officials who were recently arrested in Uganda. The conference, in its final resolution, declared that cowardice and self-effacement are now taboo in Buganda affairs, and that Buganda’s right to internal autonomy is non-negotiable.

The conference, which was opened by an official Message from Ssabasajja Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi II, was focused on the future political options of Buganda. The highlights of the two day meeting were addresses by retired Katikkiro Dan Muliika and members of Parliament Beti Kamya and Hussein Kyanjo. The hugely popular trio were frequently interrupted by tumultuous applause and standing ovations.

The conferees resolved that Buganda must take a new political direction based on direct discussions with the other peoples of Uganda to forge a New Deal. The political order of the last 42 years whereby the central government has had unlimited powers was declared a failure for having bred injustice, poverty and strife. The conferees asserted that the 14 Ugandan nationalities whose symbols were engraved on the walls of Uganda’s Parliament and which agreed to the 1962 independence constitution are still the legitimate base of Uganda as a country.