To Professor Kiwanuka Ssemakula Prof. Kiddu Makubuya Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya P.M. Professor Apollo Nsibambi V.P. Professor Balibaseka Bukyenya Major Kinobe James Katikiro Daniel Mulika Toro Kingdom MPs Buganda Kingdom MPs Bunyoro Kingdom MPs
Baganda county chiefs do go to Kyankwanzi I wrote the article below after many days of thoughts, consultation and trying to understand what the NRM leadership meant by a. Bonnobaggawale (rich for all, in Russian Obogaschaites in France enrichissezvous) b. Agricultural zoning c. Value addition d. District creation What was all this meant to mean and how could the state achieve all? Was it to confuse or pointing to a grand design? What I didnt understand then, was NRM grand plan to force all muluka chiefs to Kyankwanzi in its obscure effort, to turn this country into yet something we are to witness. We must map Buganda and all it boundaries and these maps distributed to all Buganda homesteads and children in Buganda schools. It is even becoming more crucial to re-write the geography of Buganda to erase some inconsistencies the onus is on Buganda and Baganda to do needful. In Buganda, the Baganda have always been agricultural and there is no need to enrich their status by taking their village chiefs to Kyankwanzi. In fact, there is no need for Buganda and Baganda to borrow money from the micro-finances. There has never been food rationing, distribution or scarcity in Buganda. Some of us, have been in economics classes, grew in farming families and we know what we are talking about. We even experienced cattle farming. What is it we dont know then? Coffee, cotton, beans, maize, vanilla, pineapples, mangoes production, even cocoa in Bugerere and Kyagwe in Buganda, had never been trigged by Kyankwanzi indoctrination and a impractical micro financing ideology but rather market rules i.e. prices and demand. Where does chicken, goats meat, mutton and pork eaten in Buganda come from? Offer Buganda a good price for their crop or product and see how much they will produce it in the most possible shortest time. Wasnt this the case with vanilla? Most Baganda in trade and commercial businesses, housing, construction, export and import businesses, all started off as farmers. Now, where is NRM taking us? We in Buganda left on our own, we have a comprehensive programme to develop Buganda with or without micro financing. We want our nation back and well get it even if it means waiting for another 3000 years. Into the past recent, people made a lot of money from Vanilla and there was no Kyankwanzi and micro financing. Ive been checking on prices and they have never gone down. Why doesnt the government build a factory to package vanilla and then sell it on commodity exchange markets? Remember NRM itself, passed the warehouse system law that could provide the most necessary incentive to agricultural production and its so-called bonnabagaggaware hogwash. Why then set up a micro finance ministry? Pour all money their and let economic rules determine production. It is quite simple, to channel the micro finance money through designated traders who will then buy from farmers and the boom will go on. NRM is not intent to developing Buganda but rather to disorganise Buganda through indoctrination in order to achieve their objective of a military East Africa and a failed African union. Buganda, must reject this very dangerous trend. Buganda has a choice of starting a commodity exchange market where Buganda state can sell beans, fruits, maize, coffee, and sugar, virtually anything. More still, if the state wanted development it could for example start beef, fruit, bean, rice, vanilla canning and packing industry with the micro finance moneys. Canned beef, beans will be consumed by the soldiers and prisons. Canned fruits and beans will be eaten by school children and in hospitals. The rest will be sold so cheaply on the northern, central, eastern and southern African markets. Buganda farmers will be producing then. I want NRM to tell it to the Baganda that skimmed milk will lack buyers in the east, central and southern Africa if it was produced here? Buganda has the richest heritage in agricultural farming and production. That heritage can be taken a step further if the warehousing system is establish in all counties of Buganda. My parents in Luwero used to sell cotton and coffee in Bulemezi in exactly the same way. We even used to sell a lot cassava for starch making to a certain trader in Jinja. Moreover cassava could be used to make high nitrous biscuits for children and the army. Every home, where I grew up had enough food and produce to sell Buganda was awash with riches. In Masaka people build trading centres as elsewhere they bought vespa and motorcycles and built houses. Buganda and Baganda chiefs, be warned you go to Kyankwanzi at your own peril. Bwanika. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear editor can you please publish my articles for public consumption and reflection. National Resistance Movements Obshchina, Mir! To Professor Kiwanuka Ssemakula P.M. Professor Apollo Nsibambi V.P. Professor Balibaseka Bukyenya Toro Kingdom MPs Buganda Kingdom MPs The programme for modernisation of agriculture has a Stalinist intention and stance that is to kill off, the old village community organisation (obshchina, mir) as an expression of NRMs fundamental change. (Read Stalinist decree of 30 June 1930). Human beings are both social and biological therefore cant fundamentally change unless we talk of a Darwinian genetic timeline i.e. evolution. The elimination of farmers (rich Baganda farmers) can be interpreted as Stalinist elimination of the kulaks, the rich farmers (peasants) as a social class and leading to a spontaneous growth (vozglovlyat stikhiinyi) of NRM middle class. Exactly as in Stalinist Soviet Russia and the greatest failure of collectivisation (sploshnaya), NRM diverted citizens attention, claiming were helping to re-stock cattle, farms and retooling ginneries and factories destroyed in NRM revolution hence modernising minus farmers (NRMs peasants) cooperative union. In Teso people are still in camps. What does regional tier under a failed decentralisation system and creation of more districts mean? Luwero had seventeen (17) coffee and cotton processors run by farmers themselves, today there are only two. Peoples land being bought and fenced off by NRM party functionaries, said to be spreading commercialism and capitalistic (read industrialisation) relations. Reality is such that farmers (peasants) are edged out as a social class. In principal it appears the land act can save helpless farmers but it cant as the case is in Kiboga and Luwero! The idea is inherent in NRM middle class (individual - merit) ideology of industrialisation and modernising farmers, therefore NRMs rabid sentiments against farmers (peasants). Stalinist ideology was to industrialise the soviet Russia by systematically eliminating rich farmers as a social class. NRM has never told Ugandans a policy used to modernise them, the British had a national policy of building processing industries under Baganda cooperative union political pressure. The programme for modernisation of agriculture has worsened Uganda Africans conditions and poverty. Entailing, NRM had no idea about matters of Africanist socio-economic development but rather a copied Stalinist ideology, of self-aggrandisement and systematic terror, an ideology informed by Kyankwanzi militarism. Originally, rich regions have all been devastated and ever falling into deepening poverty and misery. Remarkably, rural eating habits have largely remained the same and in some areas, becoming worse. In all regions of Uganda, posho (maize flour) consumption has gone up implying staple foodstuffs, is no longer the basic food items and production virtually ceases to exist. Lira chicken farmers are almost collapsing. There must be deeper ideological reasons, for NRM non-supportive measures of the cooperative union and legislating a supportive law. Thus deliberate fragmentation of farmers basic unifying mechanism. The Bataka Bu (party) was a direct struggle against a typically British exploitation tool of disarming farmers (peasants), NRM practises. How many Uganda farmers can turn into commercial farmers and how can that happen without community support? NRM never tells you the methodology of achieving it. Social wealth creation through the cooperative unions appears to be a problem for this government, otherwise lessons learnt from 1920 to 1955, would have been massively supported by NRM. And NRM is a Pan-Africanist movement of sorts! What actually Stalin did was to kill off wealthy peasants (Kulaks) by; collectivisation, deportation and confiscation of their property that might be hard to practice in Uganda, lest it leads to popular uprising. It is exactly the same measure NRM practices with, incompetent monetarism. NRM Programme for modernisation of agriculture has a face value of both Stalinist and colonial sensibilities, where Uganda farmers (peasants) are assumed incapable of marketing abilities and cooperation. Educating the masses of farmers about cooperative unions and movements, would offer them a degree of informed activism as a protection of their interests. NRM is aware, activism practiced within the same communities breeds communal political acts of defiance against NRMs sloganeering and politicking. So National agricultural advisory services, improvised a rather peculiar paid services providers who have to be paid to save individual ignorant peasantry! Cooperative activities would have guaranteed farmers (peasants) independent existence from the middle class composed of NRM parasitic middle class and primitive Kyankwanzi cadres. NRM having killed off rich farmers social class, political party politics is aimless and directionless only remaining as an act of religious and ethnical assembles. Religious and ethnical assembles are very easy to fragment and dissolve, since spiritual needs rarely directs human survival. Its human needs that direct spiritual desires. So NRM has made sure, in the constitution there is clause limiting such political partys activities, in contravention of the freedom to free association! Cooperative unions, generate growth of leadership and professionalism through experiences not only for marketing and processing of produce, protection of commercial interest, bringing together diverse social groups but also defines farmers (peasants) social interest and powers that are distinctively political. It is the same activisms that would protect NRM peasants, from vulgar commercialism and strengthen communitarianism and also improving farmers organisational techniques of commercial and political nature. Historically, the middle class evolve from the working class and rich farmers then if you exactly want the class why kill off its foundations?! NRM is the biggest neo-colonist in Ugandas modern history and an apathetic oppressor of the African Ugandans under its ideology cautiously designed to mask real NRM ideological intentions, covertly named modernisation. True there is a desire to industrialise but industrialisation is not equivalent to elimination of one social group the farmers (peasants)! Bwanika. Nakywesawa, 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. ---------------------------------------