BANNABIBIINA okuli DP, FDC ne CP baanukudde munnamagye Gen. Aronda Nyakayirima ku bye yayogedde mu ketereekerero k'okwanjula etteeka ly'ettaka mu palamenti leero ne bagamba nti agenderera kussa bantu ku bunkenke nga bwe guli mu mawanga agafugirwa ku biragiro by'amagye.
Omukulembeze w'ekibiina kya CP, John Ken Lukyamuzi yagambye nti ng'omubaka mu palamenti Nyakayirima akimanyi nti bye yayogedde bigenderera kutyoboola ddembe lya buntu n'okubatulugunya.
"Tusuubira ebibinja by'abantu okuva mu buli kanyomero ka ggwanga okugumba ku palamenti nga bawakanya eky'okwanjulira palamenti etteeka erigenderera okuba-nyigiriza mu nsi yaabwe," Lukyamuzi bwe yagasseeko.
Omubaka Elias Lukwago (Kampala Central) ebya Nyakayirima yabiyise bya kutiisatiisa n'okujja abantu ku mulamwa olwo etteeka liyisibwe olw'okunyweza omunyago gw'ettaka abanene mu gavumenti lyebeekomezza.
Betty Nambooze akulira akakiiko k'e Mmengo akasomesa abantu ku ttaka, yagambye, "Olukwe lw'okwokya ebizimbe olwogerwako mupango ogugenderera okutuggya ku mulamwa."
Wabula omwogezi wa poliisi mu Kampala n'emiriraano Simeo Nsubuga yalabudde abantu abaneetantala okugenda ku palamenti nti ebinaddirira tebanenya poliisi.
Omubaka Florence Iddi (Kaberamaido-FDC) bwe yabadde mu lukiiko lwa bannamawulire ku kitebe kyabwe e Najjanankumbi yagambye nti aba FDC beekengedde ekigendererwa ky’etteeka lino era bagenda kutwala Gavumenti mu mbuga ku tteeka lino.
Published on: Monday, 4th February, 2008 from bukedde
For centuries, landlords in Buganda have lived peacefully with tenants. The hospitality of Baganda stretches to incorporating non-Baganda tenants into the clans of their landlords. They all became basajja ba kabaka, the Ssabataka (chief landowner), the centre around which the Baganda as a people rotate.
Under the Ssabataka, there was a system of the bataka, who together with the Ssabataka, kept the people of Buganda together. All disputes including land wrangles were settled culturally so that everyone had a land to which one could trace their origin, a place where their ancestors are buried (obutaka). This was the civility that prevailed in Buganda before the early explorers Speke and Grant arrived in Buganda.
Any historian who is not incapacitated by envy and greed for money, will know that Buganda is the origin of the existence of Uganda as a country. There are no other reasons than the civility of Baganda that made the early explorers and missionaries to center all their developmental programmes in Buganda.
But what has happened to the island of civilization? Why all these land evictions and who is behind the chaos that creating instability in Buganda? Is the controversial Land Bill necessary? Does it not disturb the peace which Buganda is trying to restore?
In my view, the answer is amazingly simple! The post- independence power hungry politicians, envious of Buganda’s prominence aimed at destroying everything that makes Buganda prominent - the climax of which was the removal of the Kabaka.
A united Buganda has always been a threat to these politicians. The destruction of that which unites the Baganda - the Kabakaship, would put an end to their prominence.
Obote believed that a good Muganda is a dead one. He thought that by removing the Kabaka, he would destroy the prominence of the Baganda. Well, he was wrong. Despite the absence of their Kabaka for more than two decades, the Baganda did not lose their historical roots. The clan heads, the bataka (dwellers on land), kept Baganda culture alive.
The definition of a real Muganda is one who has the ability to trace their ancestoral genealogy up to where their primal ancestor are buried.
Therefore, land is part of what defines the Baganda, and tampering with their land means attacking the core of their very existence. Land is a human right given by God. It’s not negotiable and any amendment or law that doesn’t respect that right can’t be considered as good.
Tenants not a priority
The government insists that the amendment to the Land Act is meant to protect tenants from evictions by landlords. But peasants have never been NRM government’s priority. First of all, there is widespread poverty in the rural areas today than it has been since independence.
Peasants have been used by NRM politicians to promote their political greed for power. In real terms, the poor peasants in Uganda would be happier if their health was taken care of, for instance, by stocking drugs in hospitals, constructing lasting roads and building good schools.
It would make more sense if Uganda’s leadership concentrated more on providing essential necessities of life to peasants than going into problematic areas like land that has the potential of creating instability.
It seems NRM government leaders enjoy creating chaos in order to remain in power. Otherwise, Uganda needs peasants who are living and not those who the NRM leadership claim to protect but who are constantly in danger of death because of lack of medical care.
Buganda leaders
In my view, the Land Amendment Bill has nothing to do with protecting tenants. In this vein, it is also disappointing to see that some Buganda leaders in the NRM have decided to fight their own people.
Like their NRM bosses, some of the leaders in Buganda want to pass a bad law that will incite people and create instability in Buganda. This land issue is not a mater of legal theorising but an issue that requires practical decision.
I appeal to the NRM leadership to examine their consciences and realise that God created this country with a multiplicity of tribes who occupy their land according to the rules that govern their culture.
I also urge all politicians to stop using peasants to promote their political greed. In normal democracies, Parliament is supposed to speak for the people but Uganda’s Parliament speaks for the NRM leadership. The NRM has the majority and they are only waiting for the President to command, ‘Jump’ And what they are expected to ask is: How high?
Finally, I submit that this land amendment bill has nothing to do with protecting peasants.
The writer is St. Augustine chaplain, Makerere University from monitor
While speaking at the celebrations to mark the 27th Anniversary of the founding of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (Tarehe Sita) in Masindi on Wednesday, President Yoweri Museveni accused some religious and traditional leaders of making rush comments on things outside their mandate.
He went as far as urging the errant traditional leaders to know where they begin and where they stop, and to limit themselves to their respective roles because as he put it, he could not usurp their roles of baptising believers.
Of course, Mr Museveni’s invective is not the first and one can safely say that it will not be the last. Everyone knows how he blasted the church leaders for disapproving of the manner his government was manipulating the Constitution to remove term limits to allow him to stand for a third term.
However, we think this haughty, paranoid and patronising attitude is both counterproductive and unnecessary, and more so in this democratic dispensation, which he and his National Resistance Movement/Army, claim to have ushered in.
The clergy too should be left to enjoy those rights, even when they are not in agreement with the government’s view, particularly on issues of public and social policy.
Of course Mr Museveni is not happy that he has not found it easy to find allies to help him push through his controversial Land (Amendment) Bill 2007, but in this free and democratic dispensation, everyone, including religious and cultural leaders, should be free to exercise their Constitutional rights and fundamental human rights.
Article 38 of the Constitution says: “Every Ugandan citizen has the right to participate in the affairs of government, individually or through his or her representatives in accordance with the law.”
We think this applies to religious leaders and cultural leaders as well. While it might be unwise and inappropriate for the clergy and cultural leaders to involve themselves in partisan politicking, we think it is not right for anyone including the President, to deprive them of this constitutional right.
In many of the developed democracies, political leaders sound out the clergy and also listen when they make comments on issues of public concern.
So he feels good when they sing his praises, let the President not feel bad when the clergy point out things that are going wrong.
Pulezidenti Museveni agenda kutwala Beti Kamya mu kkooti. Kamya alumirizza Pulezidenti Museveni okwekkusa n’abeggwanga lye bokka.
Bya Ahmed Mukiibi
PULEZIDENTI Museveni ayanukudde Beti Kamya eyakimutaddeko nti si Munnayuganda, asosola mu mawanga, asembeza babe era anyaguludde eggwanga mu myaka 20 gye yaakafuga.
Museveni atangaazizza ku buzaale bwe nti: “Ndi wa kika ky’Abasiita abeddira Bagahe (ente), ekika kyange kye kimu ku bika binnansangwa, ffe bamu ku bakola emikolo gy’okutikkira Kabaka wa Tooro n’owa Bunyoro”, Museveni bwe yategeezezza mu kiwandiiko eky’emiko 11 kye yafulumiza nga February 5 ng’ayanukula Beti Kamya.
Beti Kamya, Museveni gwe yayogeddeko nga muwala w’omugenzi Lt. Col. Kamya eyali omujaasi wa Amin yasiikudde omukulembeze w’eggwanga emmeeme bwe yawandiise mu lupapula lwa ‘Monitor’ nga January 28 n’alumiriza nti ‘Museveni si nzaalwa ya Uganda’
“Nze obutabeera Munnayuganda, mukyala Beti ajja kubinnyonnyolera mu kkooti”, Museveni bwe yagambye n’annyonnyola nti Beti Kamya okumuyita omugwira aba ategeeza nti “Ndi Pulezidenti wa Uganda mu bukyamu kubanga akatundu 102 aka Konsitityusoni tekakkiriza mugwira kubeera Pulezidenti”.
Kamya yawandise ng’alumiriza Museveni nti atunze ebintu bya gavumenti, ettaka aligemudde mu ngeri y’ekyeyonoonero, kw’agasse okwonoona ebyenfuna n’agamba nti tekijja kuba kyangu okumusiguukulula okuggyako nga Bannayuganda bakoppye ku biri mu Kenya.
“Omubaka Kamya okumpita omubbi!!, Bintu by’ani bye naluutinga?”, Museveni bwe yeecwacwanye n’ayongera okubuuza: “Bintu ki bye nnina okuggyako ebyange bye ntuuyanidde ne bye nnasikira e Kisozi ne Rwakitura?” Beti Kamya okukunga abantu okukoppa Bannakenya, Museveni yagambye nti ogwo musango naggomola kubanga kubeera kusendasenda abantu okutandika lutalo ekintu ekimenya amateeka.
Okumuyita Nnaakyemalira, Museveni yakizzeemu nti, “Obwannaakyemalira bwe bulungi ggwe ate ani yandirese Beti Kamya okulya obutaala ng’awandiise kalebule, n’okukuma omuliro mu bantu batting’ane!
Wano kwe kulabula Kamya nti ajja kusaanawo n’abo bonna abalowooleza mu kukuma omuliro mu bantu batting’ane n’agamba nti NRM ezimbye ebitongole ebinywevu omuli amagye, Poliisi, ekitongole ekiramuzi ne Palamenti ebitajja kugumiikiriza bantu nga Beti.
Ku byogerwa nti ab’eggwanga lya Museveni be balya, Pulezidenti yagambye nti abantu nga Beti Kamya byabakalidde ku matama, bwe baakitegedde nti mu kitongole ky’emisolo ekya URA abantu be babadde balowooza nti be basingamu.
Yannyonnyodde ebintu ebyo nti ab’eggwanga lye be balya azze ebiwulira, byatuuka ne mu kabondo ka NRM n’alagira Katikkiro Polof. Apolo Nsibambi okumuwa lipoota ku bakozi ba gavumenti.
Kyokka yagambye yakuba ttooci mu ofiisi ye n’akizuula nga ku bawandiisi abataano abali mu ofiisi ye, bana Baganda John Mitala, Amelia Kyambadde, Thecla Kinalwa ne Hilda Musubira. Richard Muhinda yekka y’ava mu Ankole.
Yagambye nti bwe yakimanya yeebuuza mu mutima oba yali nsobi okulonda abantu bana ku bifo ebitaano nga bava mu kitundu kimu n’agamba nti teyejjusa kubanga ye afa ku busobozi.
Ku kutiisatiisa kwa Beti Kamya nti enkola ya Museveni okusembeza abantu be ajja kubazaalira leenya, Museveni yalabudde nti okwo kwerimba kubanga NRM esimye emisingi eminywevu n’agamba nti okuggyako nga bikoleddwa mu mateeka, tewali ajja kutwalira mateeka mu ngalo era zibasanze abo ababungeesa obulimba.
Yagambye omuze guno gwaliwo nga NRM yaakajja mu buyinza abantu abamu ne bagezaako okuyigganya bannaabwe abava mu bitundu by’obukiikakkono kyokka NRM yakigaana era abantu b’engulu bakuumibwa mu ngeri y’emu nga abaana b’abajaasi ba Amin nga Beti Kamya bwe baakuumibwa.
Enkola y’okutunda amakampuni ga gavumenti Beti Kamya gye yagyogeddeko nti Museveni mw’ayise okutwala amakolero, banka, bbaasi za UTC, ennyonyi ya y’eggwanga, eggaali y’omukka, ebibiina by’obwegassi, ebyagi, amasomero, ettaka.
Pulezidenti yawolerezza ekiragiro ky’omuduumizi wa Poliisi Maj. Gen Kale Kayihura okugaana enkung’aana mu Kampala n’agamba nti okukkiriza enkung’aana mu Kampala kuba nga kukkiriza abantu kuligitira n’okulinnyirira nnimiro za bannaabwe n’agamba nti enkung’aana zitaataaganya abasuubuzi.
“ Tetujja kuddamu kukkiriza nkung’aana za bya bufuzi mu Kampala, lwe twakola ensobi ne tukkiriza abayaaye ba FDC okukung’aana mu Kampala, batta abantu basatu n’okuluutinga ebintu by’abantu”.
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