Ekiwandiiko kya Namugala ku ttaka kiikino mu bujjuvu
NG’OMU ku bannannyini ttaka mu Buganda era ow’olulyo olulangira mu Buganda nnumwa era ne nfuna okweraliikirira olw’ebyo ebiri mu bbago ly’etteeka ly’ettaka gavumenti ly’etegeka okuyisa.
Ekifaananyi ekiweebwa gavumenti kyoleka obukyayi eri bannannyini ttaka so nga si musango omuntu okubeera n’ettaka. Naye gavumenti okulabika ng’etutunuulira bubi olw’engeri gye twafunamu ettaka lino mu ndagaano eya 1900 n’etandika kusiga bukyayi mu Bantu tubalabikire ng’abalabe kiba kibi.
Bwe kiba nga gavumenti etunuulidde ettaka okuliggya ku bannannyini lyo erigabule abalyesenzaako nga tebakkiriziganyizza na bannyini lyo, kiba kitegeeza nti eneebeera enyaze ebyaffe awatali kutuliyirira. Kino tekitegeeza nti endoliito z’ettaka zinaaba ziweddewo nedda wabula y’ejja okubeera entandikwa y’obusambattuko mu ggwanga.
Wabaddewo emirembe wakati w’abasenze ne bannannyini ttaka naye kati abo abagobaganya abantu be baani ? Kye tufuna kiri nti kati abo abafunye ettaka ku kifuba be bagezaako okuyisa etteeka lino olwo beesaanye n’okwenyweza… Kitalo !
Etteeka erikugira okusaalimbira oba okwesenza ku ttaka ly’omuntu teryongeddwamu maanyi okukugira abantu okumala geesenza we batakkiriziddwa. Okusiba nnannyini ttaka emyaka omusanvu olw’okusengula eyeesenzezza ku ttaka lye nga tamukkirizza so ng’oyo eyeesenza ye asibwa emyaka ena oba okuwa engassi nakyo kikyamu era tekireetawo butebenkevu. Mugaso ki kati oguli mu muntu okubeera n’ekyapa ky’ettaka nga takkirizibwa kweyagalira mwekyo ky’alina ng’ekikye eky’obwannannyini?
Kati wabeewo okwebuuza kw’abo abakwatibwako naddala abo bannannyini ttaka. Nkubira omulanga bannannyini ttaka baveeyo twogere n’eddoboozi limu ekkangufu ku nsonga eno. Buganda eri mu katyabaga ak’okukyaya Obwakabaka kubanga obwannannyini ku ttaka wamu ne bannannyini ttaka biri okusinga wano mu Buganda. Ekigendererwa mu bino eby’etteeka ly’ettaka kiraga nti okuzzaawo okutudizza Obwakabaka tekwali mu kusiima kwabwe.
Tulabye obuzibu obubaddewo mu Palestine, Zimbabwe n’awalala olw’ensonga z’ettaka naffe kati bwe twolekedde olw’ebyo ebigenda mu maaso n’ebikolebwa ba RDC nga tosobola kugenda kwerula mpenda za ttaka lyo kuba batuggyirayo bijambiya. Kati omugaso gw’ebyapa gugenda kuggwawo ettaka lifuuke lya kyerondera taba mubbi !
Eggwanga libaddemu emirembe naye bino ebiriwo bijja kulitabangula. Ebintu bingi ebisobye naddala mu minisitule y’eby’ettaka omuli okufulumya ebyapa ebifu, okukyusa ezaali liizi ne zifuuliibwa mailo oba Free-hold nga bannannyini ttaka tebakkirizza. Ba ‘Registrar’ babadde basaale mu kwenyigira mu vvulugu on ne batavunaanibwa.
Twewuunya lwaki bino byonna byakoleddwa mu Buganda. Abo abalina amagana ababadde ku ttaka e Nshara-Karuhura gavumenti yabagobye n’eyokya obusiisira n’ente zaabwe ne zigobwayo. Kino oba gavumenti ekiraba nti ddala waliwo abantu abeesenza ku ttaka eritali lyabwe lwaki bwekikolebwa wano mu Buganda olwo ne guba musango? Nga mmaliriza nandisabye ensonga z’ettaka zikwatibwe na bwegendereza ekitiibwa kissibwe mu bannannyini lyo. Okwesenza n’okusaalimbira ku ttaka ery’obwannannyini bikugirwe amateeka amakakali. We kyetaagisa okusengula abo abali ku ttaka kikolebwe nga bamaze okuliyirirwa.
Wabeewo abantu okusomesebwa ku mateeka agakwata ku bwannannyini n’obusenze ku ttaka buli omu asobole okumanya obuvunaanyizibwa bwe. Obugazi bw’ekibanja n’obungi bw’ebibanja omuntu by’akkirizibwa okuba nabyo bibeeko ekkomo n’emitendera omuntu mwayita okufuna ekibanja girambikibwe. Buganda ezuukuke, awatali ttaka waliwo okutya nti n’obwakabaka bugenda kubanga Kabaka, tayinza kubaawo nga talina bibye. Ayitibwa Ssaabataka lwa ttaka bwe litabaawo n’Obwakabaka bugenze. Mmengo egende mu maaso n’okusomesa ku ttaka lino abantu bazibuke amaaso !
A FRESH row has erupted between the central government and Buganda Kingdom over legal ownership of the 300 acres of land on which Kyambogo University sits.
According to the latest Auditor General's report for the year ended June 30, 2006, the Mengo establishment has laid claim on the land. "Buganda government is claiming ownership of land on which Kyambogo University is located. This may complicate university operations in future [if not settled urgently]" the AG's report reads in part.
But Education Permanent Secretary Francis Xavier Lubanga says the central government has resolved to slap an impromptu caveat on the disputed property.
The face-off comes at a time when Buganda is embroiled in a bitter row with the central government, demanding the return of the 9,000 square miles that were, historically, kingdom land.
Appearing before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee yesterday, Mr Lubanga said the government would not give up its claim on the land. "Kyambogo land belongs to us [Central government] and is already titled. As an accounting officer I am not aware of these claims but if it is true that Buganda Kingdom is claiming university land, we are going to slap a caveat on this land immediately," he said.
"Kyambogo land is safe and as government we have not seen any legitimate claimant because we have a title to this land. Whoever is claiming ownership of this land should get it right," he said.
But Mr Medad Ssegona, Buganda's deputy minister of information, described Mr Lubanga's claims as "ridiculous", saying that Kyambogo University land is part of the 9,000 square miles, which the kingdom lost in 1966. "Anybody occupying Buganda land illegally is a trespasser, whether individuals or government institutions like Kyambogo University," Mr Ssegona said. "Our [Buganda's] claim is genuine and we are preparing a document which should be ready tomorrow (today) calling for a forensic audit of the kingdom's lost land in 1966."
The other land claimed by Buganda includes part of Mbuya military barracks, Kigo prison, Makindye military barracks among others.
Although the government did not provide ready details of how Kyambogo University allegedly came to occupy the land in question, Mr Aggrey Kibenge, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education - said where there is land belonging to public institutions, title deeds have been secured for them as bonafide occupants.
But a source in the Ministry of Education told Daily Monitor that Kyambogo University land was parceled out as freehold and not under lease basis. "Initially, Kyambogo land was placed under Uganda Land Commission, the custodians of the 9,000 square miles belonging to Buganda Kingdom. But later this was changed," a source said.
The disputed 9,000 square miles have been critical to the protracted negotiations between the central government and the kingdom for the return of Buganda's properties confiscated during the colonial times.
Under the 1900 Buganda Agreement, the 9,000 square miles were placed under the British crown government.
They were not returned to Buganda Kingdom until independence. But later, in 1967, the land was confiscated by the Milton Obote administration, which placed the property under the Uganda Land Commission.
Since then Buganda has managed to get back 350 square miles under the "Ebyaffe" Statute of 1993. Responding to claims that Kyambogo has a title deed, Mr Ssegona said; "It's just a piece of paper that may show conclusive ownership without legal exclusive ownership because it can be fabricated by anybody." But Mr Ssegona also said the Kabaka would not consider evicting Kyambogo University even if ownership is transferred to the names of Buganda Land Board.
"We cannot erase Kyambogo University even after the land is returned to the kingdom; we just need to solve the question of ownership," Mr Ssegona said, claiming that the university would "remain a subject" of the Kabaka and "there will be good relationship"
DISPUTED? Students leave the Faculty of Education Building at Kyambogo Univesity yesterday. Mengo claims that the lease granted to the university expired. Photo by Ismail Kezala.
Eyaliko omumyuka wa Kati-kkiro wa Buganda Godfrey Kaaya Kavuma naye bw’avu-ddeyo n’alabula ababaka abava mu Buganda nti bwe banekkiriranya ne bakkiriza etteeka ly’ettaka eppya banaaba batunze Obuganda.
Kaaya Kavuma era nga y’akulira leediyo ya CBS yagambye nti ababaka bwe banakkiriza etteeka ly'ettaka eppya bajja kuba balidde mu Kabaka ne Buganda olukwe.
Bino yabyogeredde Lukaya ku Ssande ng’atongoza ettabi ly'abawuliriza leediyo ya CBS.
Omukolo gwetabiddwa-ako omubaka wa Kalungu East, Umar Lule Mawiya, Ssentebe wa Disitulikiti Vincent Ssempijja, ne Meeya Bonny Kiddu Ssali.
Kaaya Kavuma yagambye nti wadde CBS teyatandikibwawo ku musingi gwa byabufuzi kyokka olumu ewalirizibwa okubiyingiramu naddala ng'eriko ensonga z'eyagala okuwabula okugeza ng’ey’ettaka gye yagambye nti abakungu abali mu gavumenti eya wakati abamu bagitaputa kifuulannenge.
Yagambye nti enkola ey'okugobaganya abantu ku ttaka tevudde Mmengo wabula ereeteddwa abantu n'abamu nga banene mu Gavumenti abaguze ettaka mu ngeri ey’ekyeyonoonero ne baligobamu abasenze nga tebabawadde ssente.
Yagambye nti kyennya-miza okulaba nga Gavume-nti tevangayo kukoma ku bagobaganya bantu ku ttaka sso nga bwe yabadde ereeta etteeka yeerimbise mu kulwanirira baabibanja.
Kaaya yategeezezza nti etteeka ly'ettaka, Mmengo eriraba ng'akakodyo ka gavumenti ak'okwawulayawula mu bantu esobole okufuga.
“Omuganda bw’omwawu-kanya ku ttaka nga n’obuwangwa bwe obumuggyeeko,”
The Draft Land Bill which makes illegal occupants bona fide tenants is unjust, partisan and will create more land conflicts than it will solve.
The Bill targets to punish the Kabaka of Buganda and the Buganda government presumably for rejecting the ill-conceived Regional Tier, to undermine the Judiciary for reasserting its independence and crashing the opposition parties for speaking out against corruption and nepotism.
Unfair provisions
The most obnoxious provisions include: The provision which entrenches tenants who settle on land without the consent of the landlord as bona fide tenants. This is further reinforced by a provision which allows the Minister of Lands to issue a land title to tenants without the consent of the landlord.
The removal of the ultimate powers for adjudicating land disputes from the Judiciary and vesting such powers with presidential appointees right from the Minister of Lands to Resident District Commissioners (RDCs).
The Kabaka and Buganda government are targeted in several ways. For example, the timing of the Land Bill is intended to undermine Buganda or to intimidate them to take the amorphous Regional Tier.
The Land Bill was introduced ahead of the government’s promised resumption of negotiations with Buganda on the Federal system of governance. Government promised to resume negotiations with Buganda immediately after Chogm and indeed it has reiterated this stand.
One of the major items on the central and Buganda governments’ agenda for discussion is the return of the 9000 sq miles. If the Bill were to be enacted into a law before the Buganda Federal issue is resolved, it will make the Buganda government demand for 9000 sq miles totally irrelevant.
Illegal occupants
Secondly, the Crown Land has many illegal occupants who are being legalized as bona fide tenants by the Bill. Among such occupants are the Balalo. If the Balalo and other illegal occupants get land titles, this will effectively undermine Buganda’s claim on the 9,000 sq miles.
With regard to the Judiciary and opposition party members, they are dealt with under the provision which removes the ultimate powers to decide on eviction from the Judiciary and vests it with the Minister of Lands and the RDCs.
Once a partisan RDC takes charge of deciding land disputes, he/she will always decide them on political grounds, in favor of the NRM sympathizers.
For instance, a JEEMA tenant will be evicted in favour of an NRM landlord and an NRM tenant in similar circumstances will win and take over the land from a JEEMA landlord once land matters are put under the jurisdiction of partisan minister and RDCs.
Who will ever associate with opposition parties to lose his/her land? The Proposed Land Bill is part of the plot to entrench Museveni as life President. During the two times I contested the presidential elections in Uganda, my supporters were threatened by Movement functionaries such as RDCs to be evicted from their legally acquired land if they stood on their conscience to support me.
Indeed many decided not to show open support to me for fear of losing their land. What started as political blackmail is now being entrenched as a law of grabbing land from those who don’t support NRM.
By removing the power to adjudicate land disputes and vesting it in the Minister of Lands and RDCs, land is being turned into a political cake to be dished out to NRM supporters and win votes for president Museveni.
JEEMA’s stand
JEEMA’s stand on this issue therefore is as follows: Let the NRM government resume and finalize negotiations with the Buganda government on Ebyaffe (the Federal issues and the 9000 sq miles) Buganda is demanding before an amendment to the Land Act comes into consideration.
The ultimate power to decide land disputes must be vested with the Judiciary and not the partisan Minister and RDCs. To help the peasant who cannot afford legal costs for law suits, the government should provide free legal services for all land disputes as we had provided in my manifesto for the presidential elections.
The best way to solve land disputes in Uganda is to define the interests of the tenants and the landlord. We suggest that the basic interest of the tenants be fixed at 40% and the landlord’s interest at 60%. This formula is widely used and it has amicably solved many land disputes in Buganda. It also makes it easy for the Judiciary to decide land cases.
Finally, the current Land Bill was formulated in a confrontational mood, with ill intentions towards Kabaka, the Judiciary and members of the opposition parties and cannot be improved upon.
The Bill should be totally abandoned and a new appropriate Bill formulated after establishing the legal framework of Buganda State Government.
The writer is President of Justice Forum and former presidential
Museveni Ready To Grab Buganda’s 9,000 Square Miles By “Returning” It To Mmengo
According one disgruntled aide to Yoweri Museveni, his boss has assembled a Buganda Land Brigade (blb), a parody of the Buganda Land Board, to help him permanently grab Buganda land by returning it to Mmengo. Museveni used the same tactic to remove all political and economic power from Kabakaship by “returning Kabakaship” to Baganda. The new move follows a spirited show of resistance from patriotic Baganda against Museveni’s plans to amend the already anti-Buganda 1998 Land Act. The amendments would enable the Banyankore and Rwandese occupiers of Buganda to “legally” grab Kabaka’s land as well as the 9,000 square miles of Buganda land that the Uganda Government is illegally holding by force.
As described by the 1900 Buganda Land agreement and the 1962 Uganda Independence constitution, Buganda land is 19,600 square miles in total. Of these, 10,500 (including forests) belongs to the native peoples of Buganda, to be held in trust by Kabaka of Buganda. The Kabaka institution itself owns 350, Buganda Government county estates 300 and religious institutions about 100 square miles. Only about 8,350, or 40%, of Buganda land is available for open market buying and selling. But Museveni is determined never to let Baganda and the religious institutions that they dominate control 60% of a territory that he intends to make the center of his Hima/Tutsi/Nyamulange empire.
Taking advantage of certain weak and compromised leaders at Mmengo, Museveni thinks that the best way to take Baganda land is to “give it back to them”, as he did with the Kabaka. According to Museveni’s aide, who personally owns land in Buganda, the dictator intends to use a “bait and switch” trick to grab Buganda land. He is using an army of surrogates to discredit the Baganda who are demanding the return of Buganda land and to create an atmosphere of fear. In the meantime he will quietly bribe MPs and pass the law. At the same time, settlement of Balaalo, Bakiga and other foreigners on Buganda’s land will continue. And when no one expects it, Museveni will hand over the 9,000 to Buganda Land Board (blb) “on condition that BLB treats the Balaalo and other foreign occupants according to the law”. Museveni has four key men in Mmengo ready to sell this hoax as a really good thing for Buganda, much the way Mulwanyamuli, Katende, Mayiga and Makubuya tried to sell Regional Tier.
Museveni’s aid says that, “Baganda need to become much smarter and tougher with Museveni and his Baganda cronies. He intends to do with the 9,000 miles what he did with the Kabakaship; give you “byooya bya nswa” – land that you own but which is mostly occupied by Balaalo that you cannot touch. As far as Museveni is concerned nothing can stop him. Yet all that Mmengo needs to do is reject it Muliika-style and even officially inform Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Congo, Sudan, USA, EU and the UN Secretary General. The only problem is that it is way above Ssendaula's capacity.”
After investigating the aide’s claims through other sources in Museveni’s establishment, Sekanyolya can report that Museveni’s Buganda Land Brigade, as he humorously calls it, is organized into three main teams. The Hooligans are paid to publicly harass and weaken Muliika, Kyanjo, Nambooze, Kamya, Lubega, Mpanga and others they call “radicals”. This team includes people like drugee Kasirye Ggwanga, Tamale Mirundi, Sebunya Kibirige, Professor Semakula, Nathan Batungi (Makerere University), Peter Muliira, Ahamed Kateregga Musaazi, Sulaiman Madada, Ian Kyeyune, Kintu Musoke and various RDCs and LC officials in Buganda. Their main weapons are misinformation, disruption of Baganda land seminars and threats. Key Banyarwanda, Banyankore and Bakiga figures are specifically instructed to keep quiet - even Batungi is suppose dress up his attacks as "academic facts".
The second team of the Persuaders includes, supposedly prominent Baganda. Their charge is to preach “moderation” and warn Baganda about the dangers of being radical. Regional Tier architects Peter Charles Mayiga and Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere are key players on this list because they are specifically charged with convincing the Catholic Church in Buganda to aggressively preach “moderation and negotiations”. Namirembe is considered no major threat and Apollo Nsibambi is assigned to “keep them down”. Also on this list of Persuaders are Katikkiro Ssendawula, Deputy Lukiiko Speaker Semajege (a Rwandese member of the Rwanda Intelligence), Uganda Speaker Sekandi, retired Bishop Nkoyooyo and others
Finally, is the Insider Team consisting of compromised officials and NRM diehards at Mmengo, who bring critical intelligence back to Museveni. Names are withheld at this time to protect sources but Sekanyola can report that the Uganda state house is facilitating tens of Baganda Musevenists to attend the ongoing Buganda land seminars and even donate money, but quietly plant rumours and bribe locals to “ignore the radicals”. Nambooze and her team are well advised to insist that at all land seminars those who support the unconditional return of Baganda’s 9,000 square mile raise their hands. And that those who do not occupy any part of Buganda’s 9,000 miles (and forests), which Museveni has refused to return, also raise their hands. Many on the Insider Team will reveal themselves with surprising ease.
Posted by Sekanyolya at 10:30 PM
2 comments:
Anonymous said...
Sekanyolya,
Webalile ddaala. We have received your message loudly and clearly.
December 6, 2007 7:29 AM
Anonymous said...
Yye bannange omusajja atubereddeki ono. Abaganda
tunyiigeko.
December 6, 2007 9:52 AM
Not all banyankole are against baganda or Buganda. We do not understand why m7 is so much against Buganda. If Kabaka and the baganda had not been involved in the war, m7 would not have been president today. In fact he had given up the war and had joined his wife in Sweden as refuge. And now this hatred - we do not understand, just like he hates Besigye of FDC.
Please baganda, do not consider all banyankole to be against you.
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