Jonah Kasangwao,
In your PS, you stated about the New Vision's editorial "... How come you do not give any comments on the other topic you started with - the lifting of term limits for the presidency ? ..."
It's because this is an NRM organ and the editors have NO VISION!
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>From: "jonah kasangwawo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: ugnet_: ‘Federo’ is a fantasy
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:00:02 +0000
>
>I must admit that I've never found the New Vision editorials
>brilliant, but this one was one of the worst I've read. It was
>written from a position of ignorance and assumptions. Here just a
>few questions/comments to the editor:
>
>- What sort of dominance are you talking about - political, economic
>or what ?
>
>- Where did you get the idea that officials in the Federal State of
>Buganda will be appointed by the Kabaka ?
>
>- You ask what will happen to LCs. Excuse me, where have you been ?
>There will be no LCs in Buganda under federal governance. We have
>our long-tested councils such as Ssaza, Muluka, Ggombolola councils.
>Consequently, there will be no additional layer of administration.
>
>- Your fourth point does not make any sense. At the core of
>federalism is the sharing of power between the Federal (central)
>government and State (regional) governments. Underlying this
>responsibility is the fiscal issue which is also part of the essence
>of the federal system of governance. So, regardless of the nonsense
>emanating from the corner of the National Political Commissar (oh,
>how reminiscent of the communist times), under a true federal
>system, Buganda would collect taxes.
>You seem to forget that under a unitary system as we have now, a
>peasant in Buganda might also rightly ask why his tax payments go to
>Lango or Jopadholaland.
>
>- I don't know where you got the information that Baganda don't like
>federo, but the only record available (the Odoki comm. report)
>points to the opposite, and it was done when the LC system was in
>existence. In any case, LC officials do not make up the majority of
>the population.
>
>Dear Editor, federo, far from being a fantasy, is the future of a
>more prosperous and peaceful Uganda. You only need to get educated
>about it.
>
>Kasangwawo.
>
>PS.
>How come you do not give any comments on the other topic you started
>with - the lifting of term limits for the presidency ?
>
>>From: "Mitayo Potosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: ugnet_: ‘Federo’ is a fantasy
>>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:35:19 +0000
>>
>>Editorial : newvision 26/8/2003
>>
>>‘Federo’ is a fantasy
>>
>>CABINET HAS decided to push for the lifting of term limits for the
>>presidency and a return to federo.
>>
>>However, a representative of the Buganda kingdom has responded that
>>the two issues should be delinked.
>>
>>He is right. The two issues are both too complex to consider
>>together.
>>
>>In particular the restoration of federo, or a federal kingdom, is
>>risky.
>>
>>Firstly, the dominance of the Buganda kingdom at independence
>>created a political imbalance that destabilised the country.
>>
>>Secondly, a federal kingdom is not the most progressive form of
>>government. As head of state, the Kabaka will appoint chiefs,
>>ministers and officials. What will happen to the authority of
>>democratically elected LC5 and LC3 officials?
>>
>>Thirdly, is an additional layer of administration in Buganda even
>>necessary?
>>
>>Fourthly, this administration will have to be funded either by
>>local taxation or by increased taxation by the central government.
>>If the central government pays, a peasant in West Nile might ask
>>why his tax payments go to the Kabaka of Buganda.
>>
>>Fifthly, how many Baganda truly want federo? Many elected LC
>>officials favour loose cooperation under a charter, as Busoga is
>>attempting, but oppose the idea of an administrative federal
>>kingdom.
>>
>>Federo has become a fantasy, a dream for a return to the 1950s and
>>1960s when people were more prosperous and society more orderly.
>>But it is impossible to turn the clock back. If the kingdom
>>returns, Baganda will still find themselves in today’s Uganda where
>>the world coffee price is lower than the 1960s and KCC cannot fix
>>the roads.
>>
>>It is not worth changing the Constitution for the sake of an
>>illusion.
>>
>>Published on: Tuesday, 26th August, 2003
>>
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>>
>>
>>Mitayo Potosi
>>
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