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Is Destroying Buganda a Policy? Prime Minister Prof. Apollo Nsibambi Vice President Prof. Balibasseka Bukenya Speaker Edward Ssekandi Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya Hajji Moses Kigongo Allow me to address you, through this forum on issues that are very disturbing in regard to Buganda region. Ive noted with dismay, the rampant misery and poverty your government, is inflicting on Buganda and the Baganda people. You should understand, the National Resistance Movement/Army revolutionary war was a deliberate destructive venture, executed as such in Luwero and for that matter in Buganda. The war was conducted to economically and socially incapacitate and cripple the war zone, which bye the way is Buganda. Factories were destroyed as well as the social infrastructure-the Baganda were left in misery and despondence. I will request you for first hand information, to go to Luwero, Nakaseke, Kiboga and make a head count of; both cattle & crop farms, factories, homes and other social infrastructure destroyed and of that, how much had been restored in the past 20 years! We the commons, we see you in your black and dark screened limousines, enjoying the fruits of your sacrosanct status in wonderment. You have turned a blind eye, when destruction of the, moral, social and ecological zone referred to as Buganda is taking place and this being done with you the Baganda, comfortably in government, which is most disturbing. Baganda war Veterans I see my childhood friends languishing in villages their lives totally destroyed and in a mess. It will take only six months and less than 150 million shillings to train Baganda NRM veterans; in masonry, carpentry, motor mechanics, electronics, machine design, technical drawing, shoe/clothe making and design, clay making, glass making, building construction and so many other trade. The Baganda Luwero war veterans, out of desperation are becoming a menace and being used especially by NRM Resident District Commissioner to committee crimes as they did in the 80s in Luwero! The Baganda veterans forcedly, took over Kasana Luwero playground. They had nowhere to do business. Really, building a market or setting up a building where these people could rent and do some trade will not cost more than 90 million shillings. In Kampala, these some people, basically and totally illiterate are being used to grab land i.e. Wakiliga ground clearly meant for a community playground in greater Kampala planning scheme! A land, which is a health threat to their lives, the market was never planned but just placed there. Attempts by former Lord Mayor Ssebanna Kizito, to inform the veterans about the illegality of the market as per the Public Health and The town and Country Planning Act attracted violence against the person of the mayor. They tried to shoot him as documented on Uganda televisions. The government, your government responded with chilling silence. Recently, the same people have been grabbing land, under high power lines where they endanger their own lives and those of the general public. Uganda electricity distribution had to turn to violent means to uproot them from Nakawa. There is another piece of land below Mulago, they have forcedly taken over in Kampala, against the protestation of a constitutionary legitimate Urban Planning Authority, the Kampala City Council. You and your NRM government are very silent above such! Let me ask you, did you really believe that is an appropriate place for an unplanned market? Let me inform you Baganda politicians, such things will never happen in Mbarara Town Council for example. Recently Mbarara town council has been clearing and cleaning the streets of illegal structures including vehicle parks. And for that matter, is the old and new taxi parks in your wisdom termed as taxi terminals for human beings? In Kampala, NRM government will come out to protect criminality, acts of violence and directly disorganise organisation, acts that are in direct and clearly in contravention of the laws of Uganda. On the other hand NRM government will disallow such in Mbarara! It is flabbergasting that Buganda and Baganda can be taken for fools and you high ranking Baganda in government, keep silent against such blatant disrespect of the laws, destruction and neglect of your own! Why doesnt NRM government stop the mayor of Mbarara from chasing street illegals and illegal construction in Mbarara town but can do the same in Kampala? Buganda and the Baganda are being irreparably being destroyed morally and physically and you cant see anything?! RDC problem Why should Kampala in particular have so many RDCs? To whom are these people answerable, the parliament, president, to whom? Can you see the problem? In Mbarara there was a Musoga RDC who did a lot for that region he was chased away by the Banyankore. They never wanted him and how did the executive react?! The above problem of Baganda veterans is closely linked with these RDCs. We know what happened at Bulange in March 2006, at Nakawa, at the corridor opposite miniprice in all these cases RDCs are involved. The man that shot in a crowd of people came from where and how did the president strict with use of guns respond in this matter? To evict people in the miniprice corridor KCC enforcement would have done it in a civilised manner other than two RCDs organising two armies to create what seemingly was an organised chaos. The police, not even the military police could respond to the primitive use of the army and firearms in the middle of the city center, the Capital of the country. This is the sate of affairs today you are presiding over! The indifference shown by the executive, in regard to Kampala RDCs behaviourism is a clear manifestation of something deeper. Those people on many occasions have called on the military people from barracks, implying they have exclusive powers only comparable to that of the commander in chief. Who else has ever called military men in this country out of barracks under the NRM regime? What do RDCs do that cant be done by local governments? Most of you are researchers, please catalogue all that has been done by all these RDCs in Kampala over time and get educated. I can help if you cant do that you self! Ask your NRM government to get rid of these RDCs out of Kampala, otherwise the negative effects will overwhelm you when NRM is long gone. The Bidco problem What was the scientific basis for cutting down a natural forest on Lake Victoria Kalangala Island for Bidco Palm Oil production was it necessary? I will assume, you the professors, the honourable speaker Mr. Ssekandi and a doctor of philosphies in agriculture sciences, are principled enough and could stop Buganda ecological carnage and rape! In Malaysia, a third world country like ours, scientific studies led the government there, to cut down their palm oil plantations the reason why they did so are abundant, which you can access and read about on your own on the internet. We call Bidco investors, which they are not! Tanzania and Kenya have got long beaches where palm oil could have done better, why didnt Bidco invest into those countries or Kenya and Tanzania do not want investments? The economic reasons, given by your NRM government for palm oil plantation, are very narrow, void and only reflect a state of moral panic and stinking ignorance. Cutting down a natural forest was the way to make the poor people rich?! Oils and soaps derived from cottonseeds, sunflower, simsim, maize, cocoa, cashew nuts and groundnuts all that can be grown in Buganda region by your ignorant Baganda peasants is well known and scientifically documented. Why is your NRM government not encouraging increased production, in those crops, where the Baganda will benefit massively in terms of increased incomes and have a comparative advantage in production, instead of lying to them with your entandikwa, micro finance and bonna bagaggaware? Ensoga Soga, castor seeds: ricinus communis for long, were massively grown in Luwero and Bugerere regions, on prison farms and could be massively planted for oil and soap production, with less negative effects on Buganda ecology. Castor seeds for long were used to make very cheap soap and oils in this country. Now, tell me what will engage more people economically? You will not need to cut down a natural forest, the Baganda would have turned into an eco-tourist facility and earn a lot of foreign exchange. Socially and economically, more people will be involved in growing those crops and will be making much more money, instead of working (2000 people) for the one so-called investor. In fact, there would be more diverse small-scale factories in the extraction of those different oils and soaps. Karmali (mukwano) in Lango region and Kakira sugar workers in Masindi have shown, the best methods of making people rich, by making them participants in crop production like sunflower and sugarcane respectively. It is termed, as out growers. Uganda- British Tobacco are using out growers for tobacco growing in West Nile they did not cut down forests or silly commercialisation arguments. Even in Kasese region there are tea out growers! The Banyoro are fighting for rights to co-own the Kakira sugar factory what is the Baganda political elite fighting for? We demand, a clear explanation of your real motives within NRM! Industrial location When Madhvani wanted a golf course in the Murchison park, people protested openly. In Buganda a factory will be set up in residential areas and you keep quite. A Hill, will be excavated and soil dumped in a valley broking water follow as it happened with Nalukologo River, you keep silent and praise NRM! All over government ministries, we have planners why not plan industrial locations, moreover Jinja is rotting which is a huge industrial location. Why is Makerere University training planners? Just move down town and see the chaos, people re just placing unplanned buildings anyhow and youre silent about it. Besides this mode of operation above, shows infinitesimal understanding of the issue and relations of industrialisations and social development in your government. Wetlands and Rivers Mayanja/Nsoba/Rubigi I come to Kampala in 1976 and I vividly remember very well, as a young boy how people in rainy seasons used, to catch fish on those rivers. There were huge amounts different fishes. There is nothing that has devastated me, than seeing all these wetlands, marine ecology gone and the government instead of protecting them have gone ahead and even constructed a by-pass along Nsoba wetland! Some tribes dont eat fish but many Baganda do and derive a lot of proteins and economic livelihood from it. The truth of the matter is, all over Buganda there are complex river systems some disappearing into wetlands some into lakes. The rate of destruction of these wetlands, since virtually the majority feed Victoria Lake, will be most worrying for the central government and Baganda Policy makers if they cared at all. I will not quote President Musevenis article on wetland encroachment that was published in the New Vision in March 2006! You can look for the article and read it your self what was written in that article. The hydrological system in Buganda is unique and fragile, on the one that has enabled the most elaborated agricultural production, now in its perpetual decline. Today majority rivers systems are either highly polluted or just disappearing and you blame climate change! Please! Go to Kalerwe, Nsoba, Natete, Bwaise and witness the total devastation your government has done to the Baganda. The Baganda are now feeding on fish bones, mugongo wazi, even Lake Kyoga it is alleged was leased to North Koreans who almost over fished it in return, it is alleged for landmines factory. I cant understand, how a government that comes to power claming to be the most civilised, turns out to be the most primitive, uncultured and let civilised Baganda and Buganda live into such squalid environment. President Milton Obote and Field Marshall Idi Amin never did such things to Buganda and Baganda. The people are not provided with housing or planned settlements! It is amazing that you have kept quite in face of these injustices despite your privileged position. Who built Bugolobi flats and Buganda road housing estates? Buganda Forests As far as I understand, in Busoga and Western Uganda, were foreigners have tried to plant eucalyptus, spruce and pine forests, people have cut them down or the local politicians have vehemently rejected them. I have done research on spruce and pine forests in Europe under a professor of Botany and zoology. I therefore write about something am aware of. Anyone of you can get first hand information by visiting Katugo on Gulu road near Nakasongola and see what I mean. There is a pine forest there and good enough nearby before Katugo there is a musizi forest. One will just need to walk into those two forest to get a first hand experience of the effects of pine /spruce forest in Buganda. I cant understand why dry sandy regions are not chosen for spruce and pine forest instead of your government leasing off huge tracts of arable virgin lands in Mubende, Lake Victoria region, Singo, Luwero to commercial forest investors from Europe replacing tropical trees with Pine and spruce forests! Pine forests are known for their excretion of acidic substance and their negative effects on bio matter in soil profiles. These trees are resistant to diseases and therefore have high encroachment potential on other plants. Within fifteen years tropical forest will be gone especial in Buganda for the maturity rate for these trees is only between 15 25 years. Luwunga forest reserve in Kiboga, Namwasa Central forest reserve in Mubende, Kikonda forest reserve between Kiboga and Mubende are all leased off for pine and eucalyptus tree planting! What are you doing in government or you are so powerless to act? Buganda Towns Get a glass of water and let it settle for two days and see what Lake Victoria piped water has become! We have been fed on lies how colonists were terrible and liberators good. However, every single infrastructure on which a modern state of Uganda rests, were created by the same colonialist and is more elaborated in Buganda. Let that be power or telephone lines, railway lines, water distribution systems, drainage system, - all have been left to rot and therefore left the Baganda and Buganda go down with these systems. Its very disheartening that you in NRM government, cant see the decay of what our forefathers Kabaka Muteesa I established and built. These same fake liberators proud themselves of having liberated Uganda, but ever since Masaka was bombed, I put it to you, is there any efforts that had ever been made to rebuild it? If not why? It is almost a song how Katongo became Katongo and nothing is mentioned about the burnt buildings in Masaka and people lives destroyed in the process! Clonal coffee Where did the project end? The Baganda used to earn massively from growing indigenous coffee (arabica & robusta), replaced with NRM clonal coffee. Today no one talks about clonal coffee yet we know, export of coffee is only just going up. One wonders if Buganda as a major coffee growing region had to stop from growing coffee to please the government? Without proper marketing system of course traditional coffee growing regions have no way they could survive and you the Baganda political elite are very silent, while BunyoroKitara and the East African Equatorial Development Trust of Pennsylvania in the USA is growing and exporting Arabica and Robusta coffee in Bunyoro from Wambaya Coffee farm! In Mubende the Germany coffee company is stopping the coffee farmers from growing coffee unless they follow what that company imposes on them! I cannot imagine a decent Muganda woman, sleeping on a plastic or open floor in a hospital were she pays through the nose just to produce a nation. It is rendering the Baganda and Buganda worthless. Resign or demand a 1962 constitution for Buganda. Col. Tom Butime resigned because his people so no needed him to do so, from a Government that has marginalised them. Please resign from a corrupt, fraudulent, primitive government and save Buganda and Baganda from total destruction. I am informing you Baganda professors and doctors in NRM government, we will use our saving, to start a regular newsletter to all Baganda, pointing to these very issues and those very sensitive and more critical ones, I have not mentioned here and see how politically you will survive! Bwanika , Nakyesawa Luwero. Bwanika ________ http://www.idrconsulting.com --> for your consultancy needs _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
