Yasituse n’akatema abategesi, ‘nze ndi mukazi Muganda era wano muli mu Buganda, Kabaka wange Mutebi atudde ku Nnamulondo alamula, siyinza kumulyamu lukwe, sikkiriza mukolo kugenda mu maaso okuggyako nga mumaze okumussaamu ekitibwa ne muyimba Ekitibwa kya Buganda”.
Abategesi baalagidde bbandi n’ekuba oluyimba emikolo ne gigenda mu maaso. Ekibiina kino ekyandikibwawo mu 1998 kyakawa amaka 7,000 ente mu disitulikiti 36 mu ggwanga, okuyamba okusituula embeera zaabwe mu maka.
Ssaabalabirizi eyawummula, Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo yagambye nti abaakafuna obuyambi bavudde mu bwavu ate n’obufumbo bwabwe bunywedde.
Ssentebe wa LC 5, Francis Lukooya Mukoome yagambye nti disitulikiti etaddewo bukadde 100 okutandikawo enteekateeka y’okugabira abatuuze ebisolo eby’olulyo ng’embuzi, ente n’embizzi.
Buganda needs a think tank
Written by J.M. Kavuma-Kaggwa
Wednesday, 06 August 2008 21:55
I am calling upon all the 12 million Baganda to double their efforts
in whatever they are doing to develop our kingdom economically,
educationally, socially and politically.
We must all get together and rally behind the Kabaka and his
government, and plan for the hard times ahead.
The Buganda Kingdom is the source and centre of political power in
Uganda, but this political power is not in our hands. The other people
who are ruling are holding that political power and planning how they
are going to hold it for the next 50 years.
In an earlier article, I noted that we lost our political and economic
power through Milton Obote’s “black revolution” of 1966/67. We must
now rise up and work, and plan day and night, to empower all Baganda
economically and eventually we shall regain political power in this
country.
When people are rich, they can definitely take power especially now
that we have a multi-party system fully entrenched in our
Constitution.
I have to thank the Baganda who have worked so smartly, as a result of
Idi Amin’s Economic War, and they now own shops and other kinds of
businesses in Kampala and other towns and trading centres in Buganda.
Many of these people have built high-rise buildings in Kampala,
Ndeeba, Nateete, Bwaise, Entebbe
Road, Masaka, Mukono and other places.
In that article, I suggested the creation of a strong and high-powered
‘THINK TANK’ at Mengo. We definitely need it. “To plan and decide on
what is good for Buganda.” It must be a secret group to minimise
chances of infiltration by unfriendly and anti-Baganda forces. They
must be professional and very knowledgeable in their areas of
specialisation and trade.
I remember in early 1970s, the British phased out the Super VC 10
commercial aircraft and decided to develop a much superior and modern
aircraft. They realised that the cost of production would be
exorbitant and they decided to go into joint-venture with the French.
It was the French think tank that studied the joint venture proposals
and advised the Government of France to accept the British proposals.
The British and the French produced the supersonic transport plane -
the Concord as well as the Airbus commercial transport plane.
The British manufactured the BR Rolls Royce aircraft engines and the
French produced the body (the fuselage). The French think tank studied
the British proposal for the two countries to produce a modern
aircraft by sharing the costs of production and they advised the
French Government to accept the proposal –because “it was good for
France”.
This is what we want for Buganda. The Kabaka should have a strong
think tank comprising trusted and well qualified Baganda. The type of
people you cannot bribe and who cannot reveal our secrets.
The responsibility will be to study and decide “what is good for
Buganda” and advise the
Kabaka.
The think tank will deal with politics, economic development and
research. It should have a secretariat based in the Kabaka’s Place at
Banda so that outside interference is completely eliminated. The way
we are moving politically as a country, the think tank will be quite
necessary to take decisions on serious issues affecting Buganda and
Uganda as a whole.
For example, what will the Baganda do if NRM (as a matter of survival
after President Museveni) decided to front a Muganda, as their
presidential candidate in the 2011 general elections and two or three
other parties also sponsor a Muganda as their presidential candidates?
The think tank would have to thoroughly study the situation and decide
on “what is good for Buganda”.
Another example: The Research Department of the think tank might come
up with a recommendation that if an investor comes to Buganda he
should not be allowed to acquire land. He should be advised to go into
partnership with the landlord or owner so that the land is his share
contribution in the new enterprise set up. This kind of system would
benefit both the foreign investor and the land owner in Buganda. The
think tank should seriously consider this recommendation and decide on
“what is good for Buganda”.
J.M. Kavuma-Kaggwa
The author is an elder from Kyaggwe, Mukono, District.
Tel: 0772-584423
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