Ahmed Kateregga
There is nothing you are going to do for Buganda that Mengo fanatics will
ever accept. Let us kindly move on with our lives and we build the country.
Look if you stand up today and ask Israel Kintu to create a political party
to support Buganda, Israel Kintu is going to vote for The Movement. If you
stand up today and give him a Kabaka Yekka card, he will reject it yet he
can carry a UPC card very handsomely. Is his fight about good Buganda
governance? No it is about creating a base for making drama from which they
eat, they are like Betty Kamya they are like Dr Kiiza Besigye, it is drama
and drama. Look in all leaders Uganda will get there is no one that is going
to offer to Buganda what Museveni has offered to them, but have they taken
it? No . Have they rejected it? Again NO. Let us stand up and build the
country kindly.
The danger in todays government is to oil every squeak that Buganda
fanatics make that is what needs to be stopped.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ahmed Kateregga
Musaazi
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Who blocked Musazis rise to top leadership? It was
partly Mengo
Jesase lecho, l know well Jenkins Kiwqanuka, our veteran and nationalist.
Mmengo did not pull down Musaazi ulone. They pulled down even Ben Kiwanuka.
They later paid a dear price where all of us were not spared. Until 1993,
Buganda was under occupation and even now it is partly not free. l am not
saying that we should secede but l am saying that the regional governments
,including Buganda's, which are entrenched in 1995 constitution as amended
by 2005, be restored.But it seems Mmengo learnt nothing and forgot nothing
from 1966 crisis.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Alecho Jesse <[email protected]> wrote:
Who blocked Musazis rise to top leadership? It was partly Mengo
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By Jenkins Kiwanuka
Posted Monday, October 29 2012 at 02:00
IN SUMMARY
Despite the part UNC had played in securing Mutesas return from
deportation, Musazi and his comrades were denied tribal support in Buganda
which could have reinforced their bargaining power at national level.
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Secretly, we arranged for a hired car and late that night Musazi was driven
towards the northern frontier and across into the Sudan, following the route
I had taken the year before. He reached Juba and was given facilities in the
Sudan, travelling up the Nile by steamer. Reaching Egypt, he obtained
further help from President Nasser. An eye disease, which he caught on the
Nile, delayed his journey and he did not reach London until some weeks
later. When he did arrive, he held a press conference at the House of
Commons.
The narrative continues, and it is from John Stonehouses 1960 book,
Prohibited Immigrant. Under the chapter titled The Kabaka Debacle, the
author, a one time British Labour Party MP and later a minister, describes
an earnest discussion he joined between Amos Sempa, a minister in the
Kabakas government, and Ignatius Musazi, president of the Uganda National
Congress (UNC), shortly after Kabaka Mutesas deportation to Britain in
November 1953.
Public opinion in Buganda was stunned, wrote Stonehouse. I was in Katwe,
near Kampala, when the news first broke. People were walking around dazed,
unable to believe that their king had been flown away against his will.
There was a wave of support for the Kabaka; even those who did not
understand the issues involved or who were opposed to the feudal nature of
the office were solidly behind him.
Although the UNC, the first modern political party with membership
throughout the then Protectorate had been formed in 1952, it was not warmly
received by Mengo (seat of the Kabakas government) because the traditional
rulers there suspected, and as things later turned out, rightly so, that the
new political elite would eventually overshadow the Kabaka and take power
when colonial rule ended.
However, during the deportation of the Kabaka, such fears were set aside and
although the Baganda were shaken to the core, their government wanted to
protest against the British government in a dignified and responsible way.
Amid fears that arrests of political leaders would follow, the Kabakas
government thought that Musazi, as the leading political figure in the
country, should go to Britain and make known the opinions of the Baganda
there. Because he believed that the colonial administrators were already
watching his movements, Musazi left the country via Sudan.
In London, Musazi was joined by the vociferous chairman of UNC, Joseph
William Kiwanuka, aka Jolly Joe and other political agitators, and within
two years Kabaka Mutesa regained his throne.
As one of the living original members of the UNC, many political researchers
from within and outside Uganda continue to ask me why, unlike Nkrumah,
Kenyatta, Mandela and other past African political leaders, Musazi, a father
of modern politics in Uganda and a national hero, did not climb to the top
of political leadership in the country, and who blocked his ascent.
The same question has been asked about men like Jolly Joe, Abubaker Mayanja
and others from Buganda who like Musazi, were on the forefront of national
politics in the 1940s and 1950s.
In the case of Musazi, the answer partly lies in his upbringing (he studied
theology), but largely, it relates to the political, social and economic
situation which obtained at the time he and his contemporaries entered
politics; his leadership and active involvement in the affairs of farmers
and co-operative societies in Uganda; the events that followed the formation
of the UNC, and the other political forces that existed at the time or which
emerged towards Ugandas attainment of independence.
Musazis advancement to the top of national power in Uganda was adversely
affected by Mengos hatred of national political parties. Despite the part
UNC had played in securing Mutesas return from deportation, Musazi and his
comrades were denied tribal support in Buganda which could have reinforced
their bargaining power at national level, and this at a time when most of
the political leaders who followed Musazi were either non-existent or only
remotely involved in national politics.
When politicians like Milton Obote and their followers emerged, and as more
and more parties and political figures entered the national political arena,
Musazi and his comrades were pushed off the stage. Successive splits later
derailed UNC and led to its ultimate collapse.
In a nutshell, the death of UNC in less than 10 years of its formation was a
sad end to an exciting political beginning and vigorous march to Ugandas
freedom.
Mr Kiwanuka is a journalist and retired Foreign Service Officer.
[email protected]
Regards
Jesse
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