This is "politics" at its cheapest. From time immemorial, the Baganda have bent over backward in accomodating the Non-Baganda in Buganda.
Fact: Non-Baganda are known to have held many important positions in our land, including the very Lubiri (palace) of our King -- although some positions were and are (appropriately) off-limits. And, this was before and after the coming of the White man. Lots of ink attests to this.
Fact: the Baganda have elected Non-Baganda politicians to represent them and their interests since elections became 'fashionable' in Uganda. This includes, many in the present regime -- at all levels from LCs to parliament.
Can anyone point out which other areas of Uganda have done this? Anyone recall what happened and was said when Ssebaggala went to campaign in Ankole in his presidential bid?)
Fact: in all of Uganda, it is Buganda which has the most non-indigenous peoples living within her borders. Contrary to popular, but nonetheless uninformed opinion, this practice did not begin yesterday. Again, lots of ink attests to this.
Fact: the Baganda have inter-married more across tribal lines that any other single tribal group in Uganda. We may be unique in Uganda in the practice of formally naturalizing people who are originally not ethnically Baganda, into fully fledged Baganda.
Merit is what rules in Buganda. While fear mongers like the UPC and other opportunists would have us believe otherwise, it just won't wash!
ssemakula
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:33:28 -0800 (PST)
Netters, There you go with UPC's support for Federo. Now UPC cautious on federo By Alex B. Atuhaire The Uganda People's Congress yesterday said Buganda must be honest on her demand for a federal status. UPC Presidential Policy Commission chairman Dr. James Rwanyarare said the status of Kampala must be addressed honestly and squarely. "The Baganda have a lot of re-assurance to give that we who are non-Baganda can live happily and exploit our virtues fully, including being Bishop of Namirembe," he said. "By the way, anybody who is elected pope becomes the bishop of Rome," Rwanyarare told a news conference at the party headquarters, Uganda House, Kampala. Rwanyarare said that in 1962 the Baganda refused Archbishop Eric Sabiiti to lead the Church of Uganda from Namirembe because he wasn’t a Muganda. That's how All Saints Church, Nakasero, was created. He said such attitudes amount to double standards. Last week Buganda, led by its Katikkiro Joseph Ssemwogerere, presented to the Constitutional Review Commission a fresh demand for a federal status. The kingdom also wants Kampala declared part of Buganda again. The country's capital was demarcated out of Buganda by the 1995 Constitution. In 1966 the UPC government abolished kingdoms after the Buganda Lukiiko ordered then Prime Minister Milton Obote to remove the central government from Buganda's soil. Rwanyarare said yesterday that the Lukiiko was the cause of the 1966 crisis.
He said that though Buganda's demand was genuine,
President Yoweri Museveni was using Baganda extremists to spoil the move. Rwanyarare named Minister for the Presidency Gilbert Bukenya and Minister of State for Security Muruli Mukasa.Party officials Badru Wegulo, Henry Mayega, Adonia Tiberondwa, Patrick Kirunda and Michael Apiliga attended the news conference.
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