| KAMPALA
- Government persuaded three kingdoms to drop federo demands
and isolate Buganda as a sole agitator, a minister in Bunyoro kingdom
has said.
The
minister for culture and clans Christopher Sabiiti said government
compromised Bunyoro and two sister kingdoms (not mentioned) to drop
federo demands at State House, days after President Yoweri Museveni
met the Katikkiro of Buganda Joseph Semwogerere.
Sabiiti
revealed this during the launch of a crusade on federalism at Christ
the King Conference Center in Kampala on Thursday. He was representing
Bunyoro kingdom Prime Minister, Elisa Byenkya.
“She
(Mukwaya) took three leaders of our delegations away to some place
and compromised them,” Sabiiti said. He also said that one
evening in August 2004 a 25-man delegation from the three kingdoms
headed for federo talks with the president but Justice and Constitutional
Affairs Minister Janat Mukwaya divided the team, taking some delegates
into a closed meeting before meeting the president.
“Later
when President Yoweri Museveni opened the meeting…hmm we all
wondered. You should have been there to see the shame,” Sabiiti
said. “Take this from me because I was there and I wished
I had not been born.”
At
the height of talks on federalism, between Government and Mengo,
three kingdoms including Bunyoro dropped federo demands
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