CRIME PREVENTERS
AS A MILITARY POLICE FORCE
Government ya Uganda etambuza abalwanyisa obuzigu mukulonda okugenda mumaaso(Crime preventers)
19/12/2015
Lwaki Banna
Uganda ate be basaba ssente z’obuyambi okusalwako?
May 03, 2014
Abbey Walusimbi ( ku ddyo), Titus Kirabo ne Edriss Kironde abatalaaga ensi z’Abazungu okubamatiza ku buyambi.
Bya Abbey Walusimbi
AKALULU ka 2016 nga kabindabinda, mwe tusuubira abantu obukadde 10 okulonda Pulezidenti n’ababaka ba Palamenti, buli ludda lugezaako okwessa ku mwanjo.
Ffe abawagizi ba NRM mu nsi z’ebweru, tugezaako okumatiza amawanga n’amakampuni agagaba obuyambi wamu ne bayinvesita abaagala okuleeta ssente mu Uganda baleme kukwataganya bulungi bwakuleeta nsimbi mu Uganda ku kikula kya muntu na ndowooza ya byakwegatta.
Etteeka erikugira ebisiyaga bwe lyayisiddwa amawanga g’Abazungu agamu gagenda olukongoolo kulussa ku bakungu ba Gavumenti ng’okubamma viza era waliwo abamu abaaluguddemu edda!
Okugeza omuduumizi omu owa Poliisi mu Kampala abadde asuubirwa mu Amerika okusoma baamummye viza, omubaka wa Palamenti omu omukazi yabadde alina omukiolo gw’okumuweerako ekirabo naye viza yamummiddwa sso nga teyakuba kalulu ku tteeka lino. Bannaffe abali ku ludda oluvuganya nabo engabo bagirumizza mannyo, tukitegedde nti abamu bagenda bayitaayita mu mawanga gano, nga bagasaba okusalako obuyambi obumu olw’etteeka lino. Babagamba nti kino kye kiyinza okusuula Gavumenti ya NRM.
Enjawukana zibizadde
Ekibuuzo kiri nti kiki ekiyinza okulemesa NRM okuwangula akalulu ka 2016? Nze aba NRM abali ebweru tukola butaweera okulaba nga bammemba b’ekibiina si be bavaako okufiirwa akalulu.
Okwerumaaluma okw’omunda kitono nnyo okusinga ku buzibu bwe tuyinza okufuna okuva ebweru w’eggwanga. N’olwekyo enjawukana munda mu kibiina tuzikendeeze lwe tunaasobola okwang’anga ekizibu ekinene ekitujjidde.
Bammemba ba NRM ebweru w’eggwanga be nkulembera, naddala mu Amerika, Bungereza n’amawanga nga Norway, Sweden, Budaaki n’amalala tukoze pulaani eyinza okuyitibwamu okulwanyisa obukyayi bwe tuyinza okufuna mu mawanga g’Abazungu era agayinza okweyambisibwa okutugatta nga bammemba ng’okulonda tekunnatuuka.
Omwogezi w’ekibiina kyaffe, Edriss Kironde abeera e Colorado yalabudde nti yadde tuteekwa okumanya buli maanyi agaagala okusuula NRM, ekizibu ekisinga kiyinza kuva mu kulwanagana okw’omunda.
“Wadde NRM eyaniriza buli omu naye tusaanye okwegendereza abeeyita bakkaada mu mawanga g’ebweru sso nga bagiriira munda nga kigenge,” Kironde bwe yagambye. Ekibiina ekigatta aba NRM mu mawanga gano kibadde kitalaaga ebibuga n’ensi era bino bye baafunye mu bammemba:
1. Bonna bakkaanyizza n’akabindo ka NRM mu Palamenti, okuwagira Pulezidenti Museveni akwate omumuli gw’ekibiina nga tavuganyiziddwa mu kalulu ka 2016.
Endowooza eri nti kino kye kiyinza okuggyawo enjawukana mu kibiina, twang’ange abatuvuganya nga tewali kwetemamu.
Ekirungi nti ne Ssaabawandiisi Patrick Amama Mbabazi naye yassa omukono ku kiteeso kye kimu ate ng’akakiiko akafuzi ke kajja okusala eky’enkomeredde.
2. Okuwa bammemba amagezi ku ngeri y’okuwooyawooyamu amawanga g’Abazungu ku nsonga z’ebisiyaga, nga tubalaga engeri Abazungu gye balina okuwa ekitiibwa obuwangwa bw’abantu abalala.
3. Okutumbula enkolagana mu byobusuubuzi wakati wa Uganda n’amawanga bammemba gye bali. Tujja kusindika ebibiina by’abasuubuzi babalage obulungi bw’okussa ssente mu Uganda.
Ekiwayi kya NRM e Stockholm, Sweden kye twakyalidde omwezi oguwedde kyatwanjulidde pulojekiti y’okulima n’okusunsula katunguluccumu alina akatale ak’obuliwo mu Sweden n’awalala.
4. Okussaawo emirimu ne pulojekiti ezivaamu ssente eziyamba ekibiina kya NRM n’emirimu gyakyo sinakindi n’ebibiina ebirala.
5. Bammemba baasazeewo ttabamiruka wa bammemba ba NRM abali ebweru okumussa mu kibuga London ekya Bungereza, gye tujja okusisinkanira ssentebe Pulezidenti Museveni.
Ebibiina bisseewo pulojekiti z’ensimbi
Ekibiina kya NRM Diaspora League kirina abawagizi empagi luwaga babiri, Ssentebe wa NRM Pulezidenti Museveni ne Ssaabawandiisi Amama Mbabazi, era tubeebaza olw’obuwagizi bwabwe.
N’olwekyo ebyasalibwawo e Kyankwanzi tebirina kutwawula, wabula okutugatta. Tekirina nsonga disitulikiti ki ewagira ani, anaakwata omumuli gwa NRM ajja kwetaaga obuwagizi bwa buli omu.
Amagezi
Abakulira NRM mu nsi z’ebweru babadde batalaaga amawanga okuva nga March 23 2014 e Boston ne bagenda e United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, ne batalaaga n’ebibuga California, Colorado, Illinois ne Washington DC.
Yonna gye babadde, ne boogerera ne ku leediyo ne ttivvi, babadde bagezaako okusaba Abazungui bayige okussa ekitiibwa mu buwangwa bwa Bannayuganda. Babategeezezza nti obuyambi bwe baagala okusalako buyamba muntu wabulijjo, sso si bali abali mu Palamenti.
Bammemba baayanirizza obubaka bwa Hon Richard Todwong obulaga nti tewali kukubagana mpawa wakati wa Mw. Mbabazi ne Pulezidenti Museveni, era nti babadde bakola bonna okumala emyaka 30.
Ekibiina kitegese okukyala e Canada, Girimaani, Bufalansa, Japan, China, Malaysia, Buyindi, Botswana, South Afrika ne Nigeria.
Amaanyi gaffe tegali mu kuba nti Pulezidenti Museveni aludde mu buyinza, wabula olw’ebyo Uganda by’etuuseeko mu bukulembeze bwa NRM.
Bammemba abalala abali mu kibiina kuliko Edriss Kironde USA, Male Kamya-USA, Kennedy Burashe, USA, Godius Ayesigye -USA, Med Kasujja -Sweden, Diana Atim- Canada, Adam Kasambula -Sweden, Charles Inyoin -Sweden, Peter Mashate-UK, Dr. Keefa Kiwanuka -UK, Patrick Asiimwe -UK, Barbara Ankunda-UK, Dr. Yusuf Kyeyune-Girimaani, Moses Bukenya-USA, Charity Baira, Jacob Bamwenda-USA.
Abbey Kigozi Walusimbi ye ssentebe wa NRM Diaspora League.
Email: awalusimbi@hotmail.com
Kattikiro wa Buganda
Luther Martin Nsibirwa
In 1944-45, the British Protectorate Government, wishing to acquire mailo land for the expansion of Makerere Technical College and the establishment of a Cotton Research Station at Kawanda, dared challenge the sacrosanctity of the Uganda Agreement of 1900. The British changed one word of article15 and went on to compulsory acquire mailo land. This amendment required was from public works to public purposes.
This change was very strongly contested and was to lead to the dismissal and deportation of the Kattikiro, Samwiri Wamala, and to the assassination of his replacement Martin Luther Nsibirwa.
In order to acquire the land the legalistic British, who could have acquired the land by force, wanted a law passed by the Lukiiko of Buganda. This law was to empower the Kabaka to Acquire Land for Purposes Beneficial to the Nation. With this law in place, the Kabaka would then pass on the land acquired to the Protectorate Government. Indeed it was only time when the citizens of Buganda started to loose their lands and many of them and their grandchildren became squatters without any land ownership rights.
Mu mwaka 1926 Tefero Kisosonkole ye yali Katikkiro ng’adda mu kifo kya Sir Apollo Kaggwa eyawumula mu mwaka ogwo. Omwaka ogwaddako 1927 Kabaka Daudi Ccwa ng’abeera Munyonyo, eyo gyeyali awulirira emirembe nga yeesudde akabanga ne Mmengo. Eyo kwe kutumayo SALAAMA, amakulu nti Mirembe.
Olukiiko lwa Buganda nga lumaze okulaba nga lutawaana nyo okufuna Kabaka lwatuula ne lusalawo Kabaka akomewo e Mengo Gavana w’anaamulabiranga amangu. Martin Luther Nsibirwa mu kiseera ekyo nga wa Ssaza Mukwenda, era nga mubaka wa Lukiiko. Era okufaanana mukamawe Kabaka, ekiteeso teyakyagala. Yadduka zambwa nabifuwa Kabaka nga Katikiro Kisosonkole no Lukiiko bwe bamuliddemu olukwe e basalawo ye Kabaka kyeyali tayagala, ate nga ne Gavana baali bamuwaddeko dda kkop y’ekiteeso.
Kabaka yayita Kattikiro nga tanaba nakwogera bibadde mu Lukiiko....Kabaka nayomba. Katikkiro nanyiiga. Nasaba alekulire. Era nebamukkiriza, era ne bbaluwa emala omulimu yagiwandiikira awo.
Kabaka yawandiikira Gavana nga Katikkiro bw’alekulidde olwobulwadde. Kabaka bweyadda e Mmengo ng’ekiteeso bwe kyayisbwa, yalonda Nsibirwa okulya Obwakatikkiro.
Kabaka bwakisa omukono Namasole Irene Drussila Namaganda nayagala okufumbirwa Rev. Kigozi.
Katikkiro Nsibirwa yamukiriza songa empisa y’ensi yali temukiriza. Bwatyo Nsibirwa nagobwa kubwa Katikkiro.
Ssekabaka Muteesa II oluvanyuma yalonda Nsibirwa adde ku bwa Katikkiro nga asuubiza nti ye yekka yasobola okukomyawo Namasole atule nate e Lusaka.
Nsibirwa ono bwatyo kumulundi gwe ogwokubiri nga Katikkiro yagaba ettaka eri Abazunga okuzimbako Makerere University awo e Nnyannjeeradde, abatuuze bangi nyo nebagobwawo.
Nsibirwa yali akyayiiya okuzza Namasole ne bamukuba emmundu awo e Namirembe ku makya nga 5/9/1945 nga akedde okusaba nga empisa ye bwe yali. Ekitundu ekisooka kye yafugira kyali kya myaka 13 ate ekyokubiri kya myaka 3. Ensiriba gyeyali ayambadde bagituuma Ssegantebuka Mbamaamidde.
Oluyimba:
1) Ejjembe lye ekkulu Ssegantebuka Mbamaamidde, Teryamulimba nti okusoma ogendanga mu ttuntu tewali musango.
Nti bwoligenda ku nkya balikusiba mu ttu ng’entula...Ye bambi yakeeranga bukeezi okusoma,
Essasi eryajja n’obusungu, lye lyamukuba ekigwo obugazi. Oswadde nnyo okulimba Kabaka n’Obuganda, Nti olizza Namasole, ate Namasole n’akulema okupanga.
2)Omusango gwasinga Katikkiro.
Ate ye Namasole baamuyimba bati:
3)Amaddu g’abakyala Irene yalya ekibe. Baakibaabuza ssanja emmuli zaabula, Yandiridde ku mbuzi ze n’atalya kibe. Katikkiro Nsibirwa ye yakikuba, Baakibaabuza ssanja emmuli zaabula. Bakifumba mu kiro ng’abantu beebase.
Her captor had a small business. Jaycee Lee helped run the business. She received orders via phone and emails. Sometimes she even met and greeted clients at the door - alone. But she never made the choice to escape. She even went out in public. But each time she faithfully returned to the tiny congested shed in the back of the home of the man who reportedly kidnapped her and repeatedly raped her.
Why? Carl Probyn, Jaycee’s stepfather said “Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy”. Why do victims tend to identify with those who victimise them? Is it because it keeps them alive? Is it because they think their wellbeing is embedded in the wellbeing of their tormentors? Is it about self preservation?
In January 2010 she fell out with FDC and founded the Uganda Federal Alliance becoming its first (hopefully not last) President. Her case was strong and she ran a strong campaign. As a believer in Federalism, I agreed with her that for too long many have paid nothing but lip service to federalism. I recall the day I shared a podium at the 2009 Buganda Conference at Hotel Africana. She spoke boldly about our traditional norms and urged participants not to be ashamed of tradition after all tradition and modernity can coexist.
By all counts, Beti Kamya knows what she is doing. After all she is a woman of substance. She is well-educated, articulate and knows the world of politics well.
She is now Kampala minister. And she has joined the fray with gusto. Many have speculated as to how she catapulted herself to the position. Some have even alleged that she was part of the sleeper cell embedded in the Opposition to spy for the Museveni regime.
In defence, she lambasted her critics saying she started as a child of NRM and only joined the Opposition out of disenchantment. And now she has been disenchanted by the opposition, no one knows to what extent, and that is why she has moved full circle to rejoin the NRM. She accuses the Opposition for being blind to her leadership ability and potential. She lauds Museveni for noticing her vast abilities.
Recently, in a teary-eyed emotional outburst in praise of Museveni, she just stopped short of singing Amazing Grace, namely; “I was once was lost but now I am found, was blind but now I see”. She abandoned her own presidential ambitions and declared that she would work tirelessly to ensure that Museveni wins 80 per cent in the 2021.
As infuriating as that about face is, it says something about Ms Kamya’s state of mind. She doesn’t give credit to the Opposition which gave her a platform from which she caught the eye of Museveni. Instead she seems remorseful that she didn’t see the light sooner.
That is the reason I started with the story of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Beti Kamya once called Museveni a “monster”. She now sees him as as a redeemer. What has happened? Has she lost her way the way she lost her way in the 2011 presidential campaigns ending up in Tanzania?
That is what psychologists call the Stockholm syndrome. The term Stockholm syndrome was coined in 1973. Two robbers stormed Kreditbanken in Stockholm, Sweden, and held employees hostage for about a week. In this period the hostages and their captors became very close.
They became emotionally attached and even defended them after the ordeal. The Stockholm syndrome is a “psychological response of a hostage or an individual in a similar situation in which the more dominant person has the power to put the victim’s life in danger.
Perpetrators occasionally use this advantage to get victims to comply with their demands.”
As Niccolo Machiavelli said “Men, when they receive good from whence they expect evil, feel the more indebted to their benefactor.” My advice to Kamya is that she should adjust with equanimity to her new role and station.
There is no need to fret and fume at every criticism. After all, there is a limit to how much you can defend yourself against being misunderstood by those who are bent on doing so.
mpmao@yahoo.com
Publish Date: Feb 27, 2015
By Alex Gahima, Clare Muhindo & David Lumu
KAMPALA - Uganda. Some Ugandan educationists have proposed to government a wide range of changes in the education system of the country, including banning boarding schools at primary level, which they say has endangered the family development of children.
Prof. Abdu Kasozi, the former executive director of the National Council for Higher Education said that if the Ugandan education system is to compete with the changing societal demands and the highly-technology driven world, a group of eminent people need to undertake a study and recommend a revised education curriculum.
Among the proposed reforms Kasozi wants government to adopt include;
“The major aims of education in Uganda haven’t changed since the missionaries came. There is a need to re-think our education system and align it with the changing digital and other societal changes since 1986,” he said.
No respect for knowledge
Kasozi was speaking at the inaugural annual Prof. William Senteza Kajubi memorial lecture at Makerere University main hall.
Prof. Kajubi died in 2012 at the age of 86.
A 1989 report penned by the late Prof. William Senteza Kajubi was crucial for higher education reforms in Uganda. (File photo credit: Samuel Lutwama)
“Abolish the current specialisations into arts on the one side and sciences on the other, until students have completed their first degree. We are proposing that government discourages boarding schools at primary level,” said Kasozi.
‘Re-thinking Uganda’s education system’ was the theme of the lecture, and several professors and educationists in attendance seconded Kasozi’s proposals, which they said, would help re-organise Uganda’s education to the labour market.
The Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. Mondo Kagonyera also expressed the lack of respect for knowledge as the main reason Ugandans are corrupt.
He called upon government to allow educationists to craft an education policy containing the various reforms as proposed by Kasozi for implementation.
‘Extremely concerned’
Kagonyera also called upon government to revert Kyambogo University into a polytechnic because it has failed as a university.
“I am extremely concerned about the trend which education is taking in this country. It shocks me that we have people in this country who don’t respect knowledge. Why should Government continue to blame Makerere University and other institutions for producing people who cannot create jobs yet they have not told us what kind of people they want us to produce?
“Kyambogo was meant to churn out teachers and technicians but it has failed to be a university. government should revert it to what they were supposed to do.”
The tough-talking Kagonyera however cautioned educationists not to leave education policies to politicians because they are fond of making contradictory pronouncements without carefully thinking of the impact.
He also criticized teachers’ unions for cherry-picking on salary increments rather than raising key education changes that the society needs.
‘People of ideas’
The main discussant of Kasozi’s keynote address, Dr. Ronald Bisaso, the dean of East African School of Higher Education Studies and Development, said that throughout his career as an educationist, the late Senteza Kajubi advocated for changes in the education system – a spirit that government and other stakeholders should embrace.
“People of power need people of ideas. It is a balance advanced countries have come to appreciate,” he said.
The Prof. William Senteza Kajubi memorial lecture, according to Dr. Fred Masagazi Masaazi, the Principal College of Education and External Studies, would be held every year to pay tribute to the renowned educationist.
The fallen professor is the author of the famous Kajubi Report (1989) which set the ball rolling for higher education reforms in the country.
His son, Wasswa Yoweri Kajubi, welcomed the idea of the lecture and also welcomed the proposal by Makerere University to build a lecture theatre and a foundation in memory of his father.
The lecture was attended by a number of dignitaries, including the Vice Chancellor of Makerere Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu, former Prime Minister Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Maria Kiwanuka, the Auditor General John Muwanga, former Education and Sports minister Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire, ex-DP president Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere among others.
Buhweju MP Francis Mwijukye addresses students studying in a dilapidated classroom at Karungu Seed Secondary School in Buhweju District at the weekend. PHOTO BY ZADOCK AMANYISA
Posted Tuesday, June 28 2016
The legislator, after inspecting Karungu Seed Secondary School in Ntoboora B Cell, Buhweju District, in a meeting with students, parents and teachers called for calm but promised to officially petition the ministry of Education and Parliament to ensure the matter is investigated.
The school is in a sorry state and a threat to the students amid fear that it might collapse on them. The school was bought by government from eight private developers in 2010 at Shs370 million.
Mr Mwijukye told Daily Monitor at the weekend that the cost of the school is also suspicious.
“I went to the school and found students doing exams under the tree. They told me they had run away from the collapsing buildings but were advised to do exams under the tree,” he said.
The legislator wants government to order for a value-for-money audit to establish the actual cost of the school and also explain why taxi payers’ money was spent on the old building.
He warned that he will not give officials the liberty to ‘play with” the findings of the investigations since all the stakeholders, including the entire community, want an explanation.
“Ministers swear in to serve people and this is the time for the Education minister to start working and deliver. She should visit the school and establish the value for money. Procedures and necessary steps should be followed to help the suffering students and parents at the school,” the legislator said.
It is reported that Karungu Seed SS was sold to government between 2008 and 2010 but the valuers took photos of a different school to inflate the value of the school and rip-off government.
The school was started in 1999 by eight private developers. Government bought it in 2010 as part of the national plan to establish a secondary school in every sub-county.
The transaction was entered and made by the school directors, including Mr Lawrence Kamukama, Augustus Abenaitwe, Isaac Rubafunya, Vincent Gumisiriza, Evadio Katsigazi and Expedito Rukundo, then commissioner for secondary education in the ministry of Education John Agaba, Bushenyi District chief administrative officer Charles Kiberu and District Education Officer Norman Rukumu.
Pictures of a different school, believed to be Kitagata Secondary School in the neighboring Sheema District with better infrastructure, were taken and presented as purported representation of Karungu Seed SS. Government then bought the school at an apparent inflated valuation, which led to the ministry neglecting the school after finding out the rip-off.
The school had more than 450 students at the time of government takeover but the enrollment has dropped to below 300 due to the poor conditions. Stakeholders in the sub-county have petitioned several authorities but to no avail.
editorial@ug.
nationmedia.com
Written by Denis Jjuuko
Charles Peter Mayiga the current Katikkiro of Buganda, right of picture waving,
Soon after his appointment as Katikkiro on this date in 2013, Charles Peter Mayiga traversed the vast kingdom to see firsthand how the majority of Kabaka’s subjects were faring.
Many of the people of Buganda had given up on life, folding their arms and having no qualms about their state of affairs. This was not going to turn around their fortunes. In private conversations and public speeches, Mayiga talks about poverty as a challenge that needs to be solved. Nothing is as shameful as poverty, he usually says.
Yet as he crisscrossed the kingdom he was now in charge of as Kabaka’s most senior lieutenant, he saw how enthusiastic people were to embrace his projects and support them from the little they had. However, the statistics were not good.
He had grown up with a father who grew coffee and his school tuition partly paid by the sales from coffee. How could a region known for coffee not be growing it? Many farmers had given up and selling land to do other stuff considered more lucrative.
Young people were happy to spend a day sleeping on their newly acquired boda bodas as they waited for elusive customers. He knew that after some internal realignment, creating a smaller but efficient government at Mengo, his legacy wouldn’t be entirely in glass-paneled buildings like Masengere or even endless perimeter walls on tombs. He knew that the Kabaka as modern as Ronald Muwenda Mutebi is can’t preside over a kingdom of extremely poor people.
His thoughts ran back to his childhood, seeing how his father looked after a large family with proceedings mainly from coffee. If it worked then, it must work now. With other kingdom officials and working with the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), he folded his sleeves, wore gumboots and went to work.
The reward has been immense. According to UCDA, in February 2021, Uganda’s Robusta exports stood at 500,685 bags of 60kg each with revenues of $40.9m. What Uganda used to export annually, it now does in a single month.
“The increment of Robusta exports is on the account of fruition of the newly planted coffee,” says the UCDA February 2021 monthly report.
Overall, Uganda’s annual coffee export market (March 2020-Februery 2021) amounted to $511.21m from $74.9m in 2013, the year Mayiga assumed office. Although Arabica coffee is more valuable, Robusta is the dominant Uganda coffee type. Mayiga’s Emmwanyi Terimba (grow coffee) campaign is largely responsible for these new numbers.
Mayiga didn’t stop at coffee. He reenergized the Kabaka Birthday Run that attracts pre-Covid-19 crowds of upwards of 50,000 people. The proceeds directly go to people. Many women including non-Baganda simply turned up at Kitovu hospital in Buddu for free surgeries and treatment. The next target was sickle cell disease, where the kingdom purchased millions of test kits among other stuff. Today, the focus is on HIV/Aids given that the Kabaka is UNAIDS’ goodwill ambassador on HIV/Aids.
Working with Habitat for Humanity, a global brand known for building houses for the vulnerable, the kingdom has been able to build houses for the very poor. Five houses are now complete and have been handed over to the poor. Twenty houses are under construction this year alone.
The King of the State Kingdom of Buganda receiving His COVID-19 vaccination.
Kampala’s housing deficit isn’t only for the extremely poor. Many of Kampala’s dwellers, as beautiful as you see them on Kampala road, live in squalor conditions. Decent housing is out of reach for many.
The deficit stands at 550,000 and it is estimated that in 20 years, the national housing shortage will stand at eight million units. Of these, 2.5 million will be in urban centres. Kampala’s shortage will have doubled to one million units by then.
Although it may sound like a drop in the ocean, Mayiga and his team have embarked on an affordable housing estate in Ssentema, on the outskirts of Kampala to change this narrative. A one-bedroom house is going for a jaw-dropping Shs 58m, previously unheard of in Kampala. More than 100 units have so far been built with many under construction. Similar projects are planned in Mpigi and Masaka.
Before that, he had decided to launch the Ekyapa Mu Ngalo, a campaign to turn unregularized tenants on Kabaka’s land into landlords with leasehold titles.
Mayiga’s focus on the poor has also seen him using the stage he has to advocate for human rights and good governance. He is almost a single voice on this. This has attracted all sorts of attacks from many centres. Some see him as too critical of the establishment while others argue that he isn’t critical enough. Unknown to many, that is exactly what Mayiga intended — a kingdom that isn’t in the armpit of any politician.
djjuuko@gmail.com
The writer is a communication and visibility consultant.
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Added 8th April 2021
Nnaabagereka wa Buganda, Sylvia Nagginda yeetabye ku mukolo gw'okuwerekera omwoyo gw'omugenzi Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, abadde Ssaabasumba w'essazza ekkulu erya Kampala.
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1960-2018
The first known flag of RED during the history of Buganda 1861-1881
The next one is white and red during 1881-1889
The next one is white dark brown dark brown white and grey as outlined above. During 15 July 1891- 30 March 1892
This one is all dark brown with a logo in the middle during 1892.
The Buganda Royal Standard as the 19 Century approached.
Added 2nd October 2018
Kabaka RonalKd Muwenda Mutebi II
Ebyapa byonna ebya mayiro Gavumenti by’ezze eddiza Kabaka okuva mu 2013, abantu abazze beewandiisa mu nkola ya Kyapa mu ngalo n’ebikwata ku ttaka okugeza bwe liba lyasingibwa mu bbanka oba lyagabibwa omuntu.
Added 23rd September 2018
ABASSE Sarah Nalubega baalumbye misana! Mukaziwattu yabadde busukkakkubo n’awulira mukazi munne alaajana.
Omugenzi Kirumira Muhammad
Mu kugezaako okukuba enduulu ekunge abatuuze b’oku Munaana ku lw’e Gayaaza, we baamuttidde.
Babeere nno nga baamussizza majambiya, wa nno! Baamukubye masasi era ne gawaawaala buli eyabadde okumpi ne yeesega.
Essaawa zaabadde nga 9:00 ez’olweggulo ng’ensi yonna etambula! Mu baabadde batambula mwabaddemu n’abaserikale, naye ebyabadde mu kifo ekyo tebaabiwulidde.
Abemmundu bwe batyo ne babulawo nga tewali awondera. Omukyala eyabadde mu dduuka ly’emmere y’ebisolo naye baamukubye essasi era apooca, yeetaaga ssaala zammwe.
Abatemu gye baddukidde yonna, kati bateekwa kuba bategeka lulumba lulala mwe banattira abalala, kubanga olulumba luno lwe baakoze luteekwa okuba nga lwabawadde amaanyi. Gw’ate ne balumba emisana ttuku!
Nga ku luguudo lwe balumbye kuliko abaserikale okuva mu bitongole eby’enjawulo abalawuna okukakasa nti ebyokwerinda binywevu wabula byonna ne babisimattuka ne batuukiriza ‘misoni’ yaabwe era ne babulawo nga teri abanyeze nti woo wayi!
Ensi ng’enaagwa eddalu, abantu batandika obutalaba mugaso mu bulamu bwa bannaabwe, ne batandika okubusanyaawo nga gy’obeera be babuvunaanyizibwako.
Ensi egwira ddala eddalu ng’abatemu tebakyalina gwe batya, balumba misana ttuku nga tebambadde na bukookoolo ne bakola ebyambyone byonna ng’ensi eraba ne bamaanyuuka ne bagenda, nga n’abaserikale abalawuna enguudo za Kampala n’emiriraano tebawondedde.
Eddalu lifuuka eddalu nnamaziina, ng’abemmundu batta, abeebijambiya ne batta, aboobutayimbwa ne batta, ab’ennyondo ne batta, abobubadiya nabo ne batta! Ate okukwatibwa ne kufuuka kuzibu.
Musajjawattu Christopher Kawuki Kiwanuka omusuubuzi wa sipeeya ewa Kisekka baamussizza bijambiya ng’atuuka ku ggeeti y’ewuwe e Namusera mu Wakiso era nabo baagenze teri wadde abanyeze.
Eddalu lisukka ogw’omulamuzi nga batta buli kika kya muntu: omusuubuzi, munnaddiini, omulimi, omusomesa, eyasoma, ataasoma, n’omubazzi wa ssanduuko z’abafu olaba naye tebamutaliza! Kaabulang’ane balifa ne babula ababajjira ssanduuke mwe balibaziika.
Eddalu lifuukira ddala ekkankada ng’abatemu batuuse ne ku baserikale abandikuumye abantu ne babattira mu maanyi.
Tebafaayo na kumanya nti gwe batta ye “Mwoyo gwa Gganga”, ng’okumutta kitegeeza kufi iriza ggwanga omuntu owoomugaso ennyo; ebyo tebabirowooza.
Naye nga lwaki tutuuka ku kino nga tulina ebitongole ebikuumaddembe ebyakuguka mu bukodyo bw’okukuba abatemu ne babaleka ne mu kkubiro.
Poliisi n’amagye mutuyambe mutaase ensi eno ereme kulaluka ng’abantu battibwa mu ngeri ey’ekyeyonoonere ate nga n’ababatta ne bagenda nga tewali akwatiddwa. Abasse e Gayaza be batta ku Kaleerwe ne balumba Kabowa, baabo Bulenga.
Kale bwe baba babakubye ekimmooni ne bakola ebyambyone, amaanyi ka tugalabire mu kujjirawo mu bwangu mulwanagane nabo nga tebannabulirayo.
Ekyo bwe kigaana, kale amaanyi ka tugalabire mu kunoonyereza n’okufeffetta abazzi b’emisango n’okubakwata.
We tulabira obutambi ng’amagye gaggunda abantu kibooko nga babateebereza okwekalakaase, ka tulabe emiggo egyo nga bagiwuula abatuttira abantu baffe.
Omusaayi gw’abakubiddwa ne gutiiriika nga tebakyalina maanyi gagusangula, ka tulabemu omusaayi gw’abatutemulira abaffe nga gwe gutiiriika. Abakuumaddembe bwe mutaakole ekyo ensi etuuse okulalukira ddaala.
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Munsi yonna teri governmenti eyali ewangudde abagyedimira nebagikolako obuyeekera. Nebweba ne Police Namagye agobusungu obwenkana butya eri abamenyi bamateeka gaayo.
Sebo omusasi wa Bukedde, waliwo okulowooza nti banabyabufuzi bebateese ensi eno kubunkeke. Ennaku zino abantu ba Buganda okuttingana si kwe kusooka. Era Ssemateeka ono aliwo kakati ensonga eyo yagilambika bulungi nga abantu ba Uganda bangi baagikiririzaamu okusobola okutaasa obulamu muntalo enyingi enyo eza Uganda. Entalo zino zamalawo obulamu bwabantu bangi nyo ddala. Omufuzi Presidenti wa Uganda afuge ebisanja 2. Ate bwatuuka emyaka 75 awumule. Kakati kizibuwadde nyo okumanya ani omu Africa asude mu Africa munne eddalu lyoyogerako?
Okulwana kwo muyekera kubi nyo kubanga Sarumanya ne Nalumanya bonna omuyeekera nga bwaba agudde eddalu bonna ye atta bussi.
Legal Aid Service Providers Network (LASPNET) has embarked on a campaign to mobilise the public to support efforts to pressure government to enact the national legal aid policy.
The policy which has been before cabinet since 2012 when it was drafted by the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS) seeks to introduce legislation and to establish a body that can devote itself in a full-time capacity to the provision of access to justice and legal aid to all indigent persons in Uganda particularly those in peri-urban and
rural areas.
Speaking at the launch of a crowd funding software for Lwengo legal aid project, the LASPNET executive director Sylvia Namubiru Mukasa said her organization has taken to collecting signatures from locals to back up their petition for government to have the policy passed.
How their petition log book looks like
“We want to sign the petition that we have developed so that we all demand that government passes the national legal aid policy which has been in abeyance for over a decade. This in effect will ensure that all indigenous peoples of the African continent access free legal services,” Namubiru said.
LASPNET is one the more than 40 organisations that offer free legal aid services but with no formal provision for coordination and regulation their services.
The Lwengo legal aid project was launched in 2016 with support from the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) and has so far handled more 1,000 cases of land disputes, child neglect, domestic violence and property inheritance.
CROWD FUNDING
The NGO is partnering with Makerere University’s Public Interest Law Centre (PILAC) and the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) to implement the project with whom they developed the idea of crowd funding to ensure that the Lwengo pilot project remains self-sustainable even after they have closed off support.
With the online fundraising software, locals in Lwengo will collect modest amounts of money into a pool that realizes sufficient funding for their legal support services.
The collected funds will have a special account run by the Lwengo local government and will be used to top up the services rendered by lawyers as well as to be kept as a revolving fund for future legal service provision.
Masaka resident judge Winfred Nabisinde wondered why government, despite having the responsibility of providing legal services to all citizens is reluctant to enact the legal aid law.
In the circumstances, she said, it is important to have a tentative measure as a pathway for access to justice.
“It is high time we contribute to our own needs, this will increase responsibility and accountability in access to justice,” Nabisinde said.
Nabisinde also highlighted other schemes set up by government such as plea bargaining, small claims and mediation that help citizens manoeuvre through the justice chain and urged the people of Lwengo to embrace them.
Lwengo LC-V chairman George Mutabaazi said that since the launch of the Lwengo legal aid project two years ago, there is a remarkable reduction in pressure on the police.
“It has done away with brokers who were conning residents and shortened the long distances that many had to travel to seek justice,” Mutabaazi said.
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Of course the African politicians must have accepted this legal aid provision a long time ago. They just cannot do it because it can stop them putting their opponents into custody for as long as they want to. Trouble is that it is the tax payer who pays for the up keep of these citizens that are arrested up hazardly against the law and cannot afford the cost of the lawsuit made against them. And if they try to afford to pay for their lawyers, they end up paying lots of money that end up crippling their Livelihood even further.
Judges of the Constitutional court have upheld the presidential age limit amendment.
Three of the four judges so far have ruled that the presidential age limit amendment was legal and constitutional. Justice Owiny Dollo is yet to deliver his judgement but it won't affect the final result.
Justices Remmy Kasule, Cheborion Barishaki and Elizabeth Musoke ruled that the amendment for presidential age limit was constitutional. Only Justice Kenneth Kakuru declared the entire act null and void.
All four judges so far have declared extension of MPs' and Local Government councils tenure from five to seven years null and void.
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This judgement one hopes, is going to send a clear message to the official opposition in Parliament that the King of Buganda promised his subjects to call on a constitutional amendment for Uganda to recognize the true Independence of the state of Buganda and its self-determination as an Ancient African Kingdom state seperate from the current constitutional state of the Republic of Uganda.
The Uganda Parliament made up of the majority ruling political party of NRM MPs, one by one, drive to an office in Kololo, run by their secretary general Justine Kasule Lumumba, to receive bundles of new notes of Uganda shillings stuffed in polythene bags.
Each MP is given Shs 2 million as his/her allowance and Shs 100,000 per village in his constituency to campaign for party members during the Local Council elections.
These elected Members of Uganda Parliament then rush to their constituencies to bribe poor and desperate voters. Money was also distributed to influence women village councils’ elections. Then the NRM chief will declare victory at the end of the exercise.
A pump attendant at a fuel station near my residence in Bukasa, Bweyogerere climbs the board where prices are displayed to adjust them as consumers wait to fuel their motorcycles and other vehicles.
I confront a similar situation as I request to buy some dollars at a commercial bank in Kololo. The teller first makes a call to the head office to find out whether the exchange rate had changed that morning.
Then I read in the newspapers that transport fares had shot up. The commercial bank where my salary is deposited recently sent me a message on my phone: “Dear customer, due to new tax amendments from July 1st, Excise duty on bank charges will change from 10% to 15% and Stamp duty will increase from Shs 10,000 to 15,000. Thank you for banking with us.”
But while all these things are happening, NRM MPs, one by one, drive to an office in Kololo, run by their secretary general Justine Kasule Lumumba, to receive bundles of new notes of Uganda shillings stuffed in polythene bags.
Each MP is given Shs 2 million as his/her allowance and Shs 100,000 per village in his constituency to campaign for party members during the Local Council elections.
The MPs then rush to their constituencies to bribe poor and desperate voters. Money was also distributed to influence women village councils’ elections. Then the NRM chief will declare victory at the end of the exercise.
Therefore, before you walk into a court of law to file a case against the newly introduced social media tax, you must understand the source of the problem. In fact, the tax can even be scrapped but it will be enveloped in another thing.
People are crying over another layer of tax imposed on mobile money services but what about an additional Shs 100 per litre of fuel. In fact the mobile money tax can be avoided but the one on fuel can not. Who in Uganda does not move in a vehicle or on a motorcycle these days?
I think now tax on each litre of fuel has reached about Shs 1,600. Social media tax should be used as a precursor for a bigger debate of Uganda’s terminally sick economy.
For a while, the taxes on mobile money and social media have made us forget that the former inspector general of police, Edward Kalekezi Kayihura, is still under detention at Makindye military barracks.
I now think he is being made to serve his sentence before he is even charged in court. There was a time Kayihura made us join Dr Kizza Besigye by turning our houses into jails.
And Uganda being what it is, the media filmed policemen at our gates and all over our houses for the first three days and moved on with other issues. The world nearly forgot that our rights and those of our family members were still curtailed by the good NRM cadre. He now faces a similar situation.
Maybe he now knows or will subsequently know that a bad regime is bad for everybody including those who are blindly loyal to it. That is the point Hajji Hussein Kyanjo made when Cerinah Nebanda, the former youthful MP for Butaleja, died under mysterious circumstances.
During debate in parliament to pay tribute to Nebanda, Kyanjo said bad regimes start by curtailing freedoms, including freedom “to even talk.” They then carry out arrests, then torture and finally kill.
He said even those that support such regimes are also arrested, tortured and eventually killed. He outlined about seven methods/ stages they go through before collapsing.
That is why our focus should not be on the tax on mobile money and social media alone but on fixing the entire economy. This man, and I told him when he featured on our weekly Saturday Capital Gang talk show, forgot all about Uganda and thinks about himself.
I have said, and pardon me if I repeat myself, that resolving or digging ourselves from the pit in which this Ntare School old boy has thrown us into will take us a good number of years.
And then the media is blaming LC-1 chairman contestants for riding in big cars/convoys as they hit the campaign trail. The man has killed our country and the earlier we recovered it from him the better, even for himself.
Distribution of money has become his main activity. He distributes in private and in public. Didn’t you see him in Rukungiri? I will always be grateful to those Bakiga who “ate” the money but voted against the regime.
That is what all of us must do. If we don’t, he will have to tax everything to raise money for renting support, especially through elections, which have become the country’s main activity now.
Those who will go to court over a new tax, please get ready.
semugs@yahoo.com
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Indeed too bad. And those who go to Uganda courts for justice, court decisions seem to have to take 2 to 3 months as the learned judges sort out lots of lugambo(social loose legal talk or gossip)!
Added 12th June 2018
Abataka si bamativu ku nsasaanya y'ensimbi e Mmengo
Abamu ku bataka nga balaga obutali bumativu bwaabwe.
ABATAKA abakulu b’ebika mu Buganda baagala okutandika okusolooza omutemwa ku buli nsimbi eziyingizibwa e Mmengo oluvanyuma lw’okukizuula nti tebafibwako wadde okuweebwa omutemwa mu bajeti y’Obwakabaka okutambuza emirimu gyaabwe.
Abataka ba Buganda mukifananyi kya bonna
“ Ffe tetulina kyetugabana. Eggwanika liremeddwa okutulabirira naye ate ssente eziyingira e Mmengo weziri. Kyetwagala okugamba nti buli ssente eziyingira e Mmengo, Abataka ng’abalina omugabo mu Buganda bafuneko omutemwa;- ku Ngule tufuneko kuba bazzukkulu baffe bebagunywa, Ku Nkuuka tufuneko kubanga bazzukkulu baffe bebajja mu Nkuuka, ku mipiira gy’amasaza tufuneko kuba bazzukkulu baffe bebasamba.
Buli kimu tukiroboleko, olukiiko lw’Abataka lusobole okuyimirirawo n’okutambula osanga Omuwanika akalubirirwa ssente okuzireeta zonna mu ggwanika ate nazifulumya, bweziyingira bwafulumya abamu atwerabira. Kati batuwe nga tezinayingira ggwanika kubanga bweziyingira zikaluba okufuluma nga zidda ewaffe,” Omutaka Kyadondo Kasirye Mbegeramula nga ye Muwandiisi w'Olukiiko lw'Abataka bweyasomye ebimu ku byasaliddwawo Abataka.
Bino byabadde mu Lusirika lwabwe olw’Omwaka olwatudde ku butaka bw’ekika ky’envubu obusangibwa ku lusozi Mbazzi mu ggombolola y’e Ntenjeru mu ssaza ly’e Kyaggwe nga lwatandika ku Lwokutaano June 8,2018 nga lwaggaddwawo Ssabalangira Godfrey Musanje Ngobe era nga batesezza ku bintu ebirala bingi.
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Bafananye Ssabasajja jo juuzi naye bweyavayo neyekanga nga ensi ya Buganda eya bajjajjabe bwetali mubitabo bya map zensi zonna!
Bulijjo bano abatuuze ba Buganda babadde wa gyebatetaaga sente? Ndowooza bano abattaka babadde bali mukutunda kuttaka bafune ekyokulya.
Omwoyo oguli mu Buganda ogugamba baganda banno nti nze munange ndi bulungi nina kenekoledde omwoyo ogwo gulina okukoma.
Added 21st April 2018
ABANTU bakyagenda mu maaso n’okweyiwa ku maduuka agatunda layini z’essimu okusobola okuzzaawo ennamba zaabwe ezaababbibwako.
Bano baabadde ku Shoprite mu Kampala wakati nga baagala kuzzaako ssimu zaabwe.
Ebifo okuli Shoprite Lugogo, Kampala Road, Shoprite mu Kampala, Ntinda, Bukoto, Bugoloobi n’ebifo ebirala byonna bikwatiridde abantu ab’enjawulo abaagala okuzzaako amasimu gaabwe oluvannyuma lw’okumala ebbanga erigenda mu myezi ebiri nga Gavumenti eyimirizza okuzzaako nnamba y’essimu ebuze.
Kyokka Gavumenti bwe yalangiridde nga bw’eggyeeyo ekiragiro kye yali yassa ku kkampuni z’essimu ng’eyita mu kitongole ekivunaanyizibwa ku byempuliziganya ekya Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) abantu bakeera kweyiwa mu bino bino bazzeeko amasimu gaabwe.
Abantu bangi ababbiddwaako essimu babadde bali mu maziga kubanga buli kintu kye babadde bakolera ku ssimu kibadde kiyimiridde. Okukuba essimu omuntu kibadde kimwetaagisa kweyazika oba okubyesonyiwa.
Kyokka abantu abamu baateganidde busa oluvannyuma lw’okusimba ennyiriri kyokka ng’ebbaluwa za poliisi ze balina nkadde nnyo ne bazibagobya.
Joan Nanteza omutuuze w’e Komamboga y’omu ku bafunye ekizibu kino.
Ate Faith Bugozi omwogezi wa kkampuni ya Airtel Uganda agambye nti, ebifo we baddizaako essimu birambikiddwa bulungi okuli Lugogo Forest Mall, Kampala Road ku kitebe kya Airtel, Bugoloobi, Bukoto ng’ebifo bikyali bitono kubanga obuuma obwaweereddwaayo butono ddala.
Ibrahim Bbosa omukwanaganya wa UCC n’abantu akakasizza nti buli eyabulwako ‘siimu kaadi’ egenda kuzzibwako singa ekyuma bwe kisoma ebikukwatako nga by’ebyo byennyini ebikwatagana n’essimu.
Kyokka singa kisangibwa nga tebikwatagana oba togenda kugifuna.
Yagambye nti obuuma buno baakafunako butono nga buli kkampuni ya ssimu yaweereddwa obuuma 10 okutandika naye nga basuubira okwongera ku bungi bw’obuuma buno kuba obwetaavu bungi.
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Mukulu Kintu Muntu singa Uganda ekola essimu nandi genze nawe kunsonga yo. Essimu eyaleeta okutta kwo mwaana waffe, nga ffenna bwetuli abazadde siyembi. Si ye gasiya. Teyinza kuba kikwangala. Abantu abanyumirwa okutta abantu bo bafunemu bebakyamu. Kyogamba nti omujjuzo gwabantu ababuliddwako essimu zabwe essimu ezo zonna zifulibwe bikwangala. Bademu bagule essimu empya?
Abaana abasoma mubibiina byabwe wano mu Africa basanidde okubeera ne smart-phone. Olaba ne Bible ne Koran kakati osobola okubisomera ku ssimu newankubadde nga bajjajja baffe babalya nyo obwongo nti bitabo bitukirivu obikwata nabwegendereza!
Governmenti eno tugigamba olutatadde nti smartphone e South Korea eri ku mitwalo 5. Bweyungibwa wano e Buganda ebeera ku mitwalo 3. Lwaki essimu eyemitwalo 5 ogiyingiza mu Uganda, gwe governmenti ya Africa atagikoze nogigyako omusolo gwa mitwalo 25 oba 50?
Mukulu Kintu nze okuva lwebanzibako emotoka yange nebankuba teke nengwa eri nga bakute nemundu tolowooza nti emotoka yange bagitema dda spare nga mukwano gwange alina emotoka efanana eyange spare oyo gwakozesa? Ye banange emundu gyebabbisa bwekwatibwa efuuke kikwangala bajiteeke kumuliro bagyokye?
Kilowozebwa nti ba customers bano bwebanafuna sim-cards zabwe bajja kwetaaga okufuna essimu. Oyinza okusanga nga baguze ezo zenyini zebababbako kubanga zigula sente ntono nyo. Kubanga nemisolo gya Data gyongezeddwa okugula essimu kyetagisa sente nyingi nyo ddala okubeera nessimu era nokugilabirira.
Added 23rd December 2017
ABOLUDDA oluvuganya bagambye nti batongozza kampeyini endala emanyiddwa nga ‘’k’ogikutteko’’ oluvannyuma lwa palamenti okuyisa akawaayiro akaggyawo ekkomo ku myaka gya Puezidenti ekigenda okusobozesa Pulezidenti Museveni okuddamu okwesimbawo mu 2021 bw’aba ayagadde.
Ab’oludda oluvuganya baagambye nti olubimbi lwabwe olw’okulwanyisa akawaayiro akawa Pulezidenti Museveni ekyanya okuddamu okwesimbawo mu 2021 baalulimye kati kiri eri Bannayuganda okusalawo ekiddako.
Mu lukung’ana lwa bannamawulire mu Kampala, ab’oludda oluvuganya abaakulembeddwa alukulira mu Palamenti, Winnie Kizza baagambye nti batandise kaweefube omupya ow’okulwanyisa ensonga zino gwe batuumye ‘’k’ogikutteko’’ era baagala Bannayuganda babalage ekiddako.
Bagamba nti kampeyini eno y’egenda okubaamu kiki ekiddako oluvannyuma lw’akawaayiro akaggya ekkomo ku myaka gya Pulezidenti okuyisibwa era ne basaba Bannayuganda okusalawo ekiddako.
Baagambye nti bagenda kusigala nga bawakanya embeera eno era ‘’ompuiira’’ bagutadde mu ngalo za Bannayuganda okusalawo ekiddako.
Era ne bagamba ababaka abaali ku ludda oluvuganya gavumenti nga Beatrice Anywar okusalawo okuwagira ebya Pulezidenti Museveni okugenda maaso bajja kukyejjusa.
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Ababaka bagamba kyeere. Kogikutteko Buganda nayo Kegikwateko nga Ssabasajja bweyalanga, yeddize full Autonomy rule yayo gyeyawayo mbu esobole okwegatta namawanga 15 okukola Uganda.
Ono ali ku Buganda nga agifuga mwe kwekuzaalibwa. Era obulimbabwe mubumanyi bulungi. Naye yajja kunoonya sente nga bwemulaba bwazimansa nga yegula ne banne.
Dirisah nga ogwamu mangu amayi. Ffe abalaba Buganda nga ekiriziganya ne Bungereza okwefuga nga wayise emyaka 60 Bungereza nga yelemye, ate netulaba ne Obote na Amin ne Obote 2 nga bonna batulimba byabwe, olwo ffe tugambe ki?
Mr Dirisah yemulugunya:
"WaPi!!! Bwe mutyo bwe mwatuwaga wanno kubayigiriza 12 , naye mwabivaako dda era kati mwe ababaka mwenogera nsimbi wano e Buganda."
The deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has condemned the September 27 security raid on parliament by suspected presidential guards. Oulanyah, who was speaking upon the return to parliament of opposition MPs led by their whip Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda said the raid was "highly regrettable."
Opposition MPs boycotted sittings since the suspension of their colleagues and the subsequent raid by plain-clothed personnel who forcibly ejected them from the chambers.
The raid that was later owned up by the Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura came prior to the tabling of a bill which seeks to among others; amend Article 102 (b) of the constitution to lift the cap on the presidential age. The current provision limits persons above 75-years from contesting for the presidency.
"I would not be reasonable to say that the events of September 27 are not regrettable, I would not be acting in a sincere way. These events were not proper. It was first of all unnecessary and secondly highly regrettable. And I pray that this House will never witness anything like that ever again," Oulanyah said.
This is the first time Oulanyah is coming out to openly make statements about the events that unfolded under the stewardship of Speaker Rebecca Kadaga.
He explained that he is only aware of the office of the sergeant at arms and the parliament police directorate that was created in the recent past as the only security organs that are supposed to be in charge of the security of the precincts of parliament and protection of MPs.
"We have a department of sergeant at arms responsible for the general security of parliament. And the work of sergeant at arms in the Commonwealth world where we borrowed this from, is maintaining the dignity of the House and related matters and making sure things happen in the way of rules and procedures of this House and practice permit.
But in the recent past, we have also created a directorate of police headed by a commandant. Because of the changed nature, the security definition of things has changed, the threats that could not be within the control of things of Sergeant at Arms - they could be other things terrorism and things like", said Oulanyah.
"In the wisdom of parliament, they decide to invite these people to have the presence of the police in parliament and it is a recognised directorate of police inside parliament. They are the ones I know and those are the I know are supposed to be in charge of the precincts of parliament wherever it may be sitting and its members", he added.
Oulanyah's statements followed a procedural point by opposition whip Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda who narrated how he was brutally ejected from the chambers even when he was not named by the speaker for suspension.
"I was not one of those that were suspended but I was grabbed from this chamber, dragged and thrown on the ground in a room just behind you Sir, I was strangled and driven at a very reckless speed in a police van and detained at Naggalama police station," Ssemujju narrated.
Ssemujju questioned Oulanyah on the issue of his security in the chambers when even the speaker does not know the identity of the people who invaded parliament. He also questioned whether the chambers have the atmosphere where MPs can sit and deliberate on national issues.
However, Oulanyah assured MPs that their security in the chambers is guaranteed and that if anything happens outside this, it would be an exception to the rule that they have a guarantee of security of members.
Kilak County MP Gilbert Olanya also reported that during the ejection, one of their colleagues Odur Jonathan lost Shs 10 million and that he personally lost his iPad during the scuffle.
Oulanyah advised MPs to forward some of the questions to the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga who presided over the session.
"Reference has been made to a letter from the speaker, I have not seen that letter. I have seen it on social media. I have also seen a response purportedly from the president also on social media. I cannot guarantee the authenticity of either of them because none of the purported authors has confirmed to me that they have written this letter. Not the speaker, not the president.
So I cannot say the president has written, I cannot say the speaker has written. I have not received a formal copy from the speaker about this. It will be for the speaker to confirm if she wrote and if she received a response to it from the president. That will be for her because it is not within my knowledge.
On the lost iPads, the issue will not be so much of procedure but claims that if circumstances were such that they could be lost, the people responsible for the losses should be approached and they make good of the loss made to Members of Parliament", Oulanyah said.
Oulanyah also reported that Kadaga had requested that all formal issues in regard to the September 27 should be raised when she is in the chair since she steered the House when the events unfolded.
"I spoke to the speaker this morning and if there’s a formal issue that should be raised to address this issue, the speaker requests that it should be in her presence because she was the one who was here", said Oulanyah.
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Indeed no one is safe in Uganda. That is what every Ganda patriot realized when Obote 1 arrested his own Ministers in his Prime Minister's office 1965/6. What of this same man attacking the Ssabasajja's palace. Every aspiring politician in this country does his politics at his or her own peril. That is why most probably M7, the current leader of Uganda travels with so much military escorts in this country of a very long history of insecurity.
King Daudi (David) Chwa of the Kingdom of Buganda 1910
"The King of Uganda with his Brother, Mother and Sister"
Card published by D.V. Giueira, Mombasa, British East Africa. Sent to Germany, with a stamp dating it to 1910.
Personal collection Stan Frankland.
OBUKULEMBEZE BW'ENSI BUGANDA
Ekitabo kino: OBUKULEMBEZE BWA BUGANDA, kitandise okutundibwa mu bitundu by'ensi ya Buganda nga kilambika bulungi ekifo kya Buganda wakati wobufuzi bwa M7 obwa Uganda obwe myaka 30.
Kiwandiikiddwa Olukiiko lw'Abazzukulu b'Abataka b'Obwakabaka bwa Buganda.
Posted: 05 August 2016
ENSALO Z'ENSI YA BUGANDA WAKATI MUNSI YA CONTINENT ENENE EY'AFRICA.
OMUZZUKULU OMUTO OWA BUGANDA OMUTABAAZI MU LUTALO E LUWERO 1980-1986:
16th August 2016
Manuel Matovu, e Kitungwa, Luwero Triangle War Zone 1980/86
Kitange ye Mwami Charles Iga. Jjajja ye Kamoga. Yasalamuka bukulu yali Christoper Kamoga. Tubeera ku Kyaalo Kitungwa, e Kyadondo. Ggwali mwaka 1982 awo nga wakati womwaka ogwo netulekayo okusoma e Kitungwa Memorial School nga nina emyaka 13 gyokka.
Kusomero baatugamba okudayo awaka kubanga olutalo lwali lutandise mukitundu kyaffe.
Twadda eka netulima nga bwetunoga emwanyi okuyamba kubazadde baffe. Twali tukyali awo abaserikale ba government ya Uganda nebajja nga bali mu lorry ya TATA. Ente 10 ne nyana 4 mukiraalo kyaffe nezirugenda. Tebalina bulabe bwebatukola mukiseera ekyo. Bagoba ente nyingi ddala mu byalo bingi mukitundu kyaffe nebazitwala.
Twasalawo okusenguka netugenda e Kanyanda nga tubiwulidde ko nti wewaali camp eyabanonya obubudamo. Twazimba obusisira obwokusulamu ne bazadde baffe.
Twagenda nga mu byalo okusaka emmere. Ebyalo byali: Ebuwazi, Kalasa, Wabiyinja nebirala kubanga mu camp mwetwali emmere teyaliyo. Twaleeta nga emmere netulya wamu nabazadde baffe. Nga omwezi guyisewo lorry za TATA zakomawo nga zijjude abasirikale ba government. Batandiika okunonyamu Abayeekera bebaali balwanyisa nga balowooza nti baali bekwese mu camp zino. Basinga kutwaala abavubuka emyaka 17- 19 nze nebandeka kubanga nali muto (KADOGO) (mutoto kidogo)
Batwaala Abawala emyaka 17-18 nga nemwanyinaze omukulu Nabukeera teyalutonda. Naguno gujjwa yabula. Banyinaze nga Nalubega, Nayiga ne Nakacwa kumyaka 8-10 Maama wange yabasigaza nga ddala bato nyo.
Wayita emyezi 2 aba Red Cross nebatusanga e Semuto mu bifulukwa gyetwali tudukidde nga nayo olutalo lwaali lunyinyitidde. Batuwa Biscuits, amazzi gokunywa, Blankets, ne Ngoye zokwambala anti nga zetwalina zaali zikutuse. Aba Red Cross basobola nga okuyita ku baserikale ba government ya Uganda bo abaali bamaliridde okunoonya nokukwata abayeekera buli kiseera.
Omwezi nga guyiseewo abayeekera bajja okutukyalira nga bambadde engoye eza leeya. Balondamu abavubuka abe myaka 13-20 abaali basobodde okwekweka abaserikale ba government ya Uganda. Nange saluwona kuluno.
Twatwalibwa mu Camp yabayekera bano e GARAMBA miles nga 8. Twali ebibinja 4 nga buli kibinja abavubuka baali 18.
Enkeera twatandiikirawo drill, okuzimba obusisira, okufumba emmere, okunaaba kumpi no luzzi olwaliwo okumpi ne camp.
Mu camp eno twasangamu abantu abakulu bangi ddala: nga Mukyala Zizinga, Mukyala Proscovia Nalweyiso, Mr Semanda (Ono yekuba emundu oluvanyuma enyo nga obulwadde bumwetamizza ensi eno!) Mukyala Najemba, Mukyala Nabukenya, Mr Tekirya- Omunyankole, Mr Sunday Biseegusi, Mr Kawooya, Mr Kituuse, Mr Ssekajja, nabalala bangi nyo ddala.
Oluvanyuma twakyuusa Camp netutwalibwa e Kapeka miles 8 okuva wano e Garamba mu ka saawe ke Kasejere.
Twatema emiti okukozesa ku drill eyokutabaala entalo nga gifanana: AK47.
Eno ye mundu AK 47 gyetwayigirizibwa okukuba sabbawa mu kyalo.
Buli kumakya. Up--up-up-kuliya gewuka--kata--kanyaga. Olwo nga mpezeza emyaka 14 oba 13 nekitundu.
Mukyala Proscovia Nalweyiso mubiseera bino.
Twazukuka nga: 6.00 a.m kumakya netugenda mu kisaawe netutandiikirawo oku training. Ssawa: 10.00 a.m netuwumulamu netunywa obuuji ne muwogo omufumbe. Ne tunywa amazzi mu luzzi nga tetugafumba. Olulimi twali twogera Luganda nga ffenna lwetutegeera.
Ku ssawa 1.00 pm netunyuka AMAFUNZO. Netudda awaka mubusisira bwaffe obwesubi. Twanyumyanga mu bwaama, mukasirise.
Emyezi 6 nga tuli bwetutyo awo e Kapeka:
Abavubuka emyaka 17-18 ate Abakazi na Basajja emyaka 35-50.
Kumakya nakawungezi nga kukuba drill.
Mu camp zino twali nga ba private abali awo abawulize eri abakulu baffe. Twali tetuddamu bakulu. Nga tukuba ngato zaabwe.
Ekyeggulo twakiryanga ssawa 5pm. Olwamalanga okulya ekyeggulo netugenda OKULEKINGA (checking) okulawuna, okwetegereza omulabe kyayinza okubeerako. Nga tugamba nti lunaba lumu omulabe natugwaako nga tetutegedde. Natwanganga amangu ago. Obudde nga buzibidde ddala netudda munsisira zaffe netwebaka kutulo. Kumakya agamu twakeera nga netufuna order okunoonya emmere. Twasiba nga abalimi abaali tebadduse mubibanja byabwe ku miti singa bagana nga okutuwa emmere. Twabajja ngako enkoko, emmere netutema ne tusima. Amasefuliya twagayita nga (Goodiliya) amagulu asatu. Twafumbira nga kunku. Okulya nga tulira wamu ku saniya eza Plastic. Oluvanyuma netuzooza awo kumpi noluzzi olwali okumpi .
Obulamu buno newankubadde nga bwalabika nga bwamirembe, mubyalo mwalabikanga mu abatuuze abatakwatibwako baserikale ba government. Mubano mwavangamu abatuketa. Twa batuuma: BAPINGAMIZI.
Kyali kyanaku nga tulina okubalumba. Baleetebwa mu camp. Omusango bwegwabasinga batekebwanga okusima ekinya. Banaffe bakwatanga akakumbi (AKAFUNI) nebakakuba kunkoona yo mutwe gwomulabe ono nga asitamye ku kinya. Yagwa nga mukinya nga mufu nomusai gwonna. Yazikibwanga bwatyo. Oluusi ekinya kyali nga mu kisswa ekyenkuyege. Nazikibwa omwo. Abantu abattibwa bwebatyo nalaba nga 30. Buli week nga abasajja 5 battibwa. Temwali bakazi. Abakazi baali batitiizi nyo ku kyokufa kwobulamu. Lyo Ekomera nawulira ko nti lyali Kanyanda ate nerida e Buwazi.
Abavubuka bangi battibwa kubanga government yabawa nga sente okugula emmere, gumboots nebirala bingi.
Waliwo eddwaliro era nga Dr Kizza Besigye yalikulira. Bagabanga eddagala nga bwebakebera abantu obulamu bwabwe. Kubanga ngenda okutuuka emyaka 14 nga Omusawo ono mulaba nemimwa gye emimyufu nobuddugavu bwe mumaaso.
Major Kanuraanamwana ye yasalanga emisango gyokutta abalidde munsi olukwe.
Abafumbi baali bawerera ddala nga 10.
Abakyala baava nga munsisira zabwe nebayamba okuwaata nokutegeka ku mmere oluvanyuma nebadayo. Emmere yali ya muwogo, amatooke, lumonde. Enva za doodo.
Twayiga okukuba emmundu (ssabbawa) okuteeba. Twayigirizibwa okuzipanga, okuzilongoosa ne oil, nokuzipangulula.
Mukyala Nalweyiso yalalika nga nyo bakyala banne obutafuna mbuto. Era nkikakasa nga ne Dr Besigye mu nzijjanjaba ye embuto zino yaziyimiriza nga. Naye no nga bwekisoba omukazi namala afuna olubuto nga agobwa mu lutalo natindigga olugendo olumuza ewabwe.
Twali tukyali awo obudde bwe ggulo ssawa 5pm, Lorry zekika kya TATA nezituuka nga zijjudde abaserikale ba government. Twadduka kubanga abaserikale baali bangi nyo ddala ffe okusobola okubanganga. Bwetwatuuka kunsozi netukuba ku mundu naye nga busa. Ate no nga nobudde buzibidde ddala.
Twadduka e Singo. Twatambula ekiro kyona nga bwetuwumula kubanga abalabe batya okutambula ku budde obuzibye.
Twasanga abamawanga agenjawulo mubitundu ebyo. Oba be baluulu. Simanyi.
Naye nga bwetwali twetaaga emmere nabo twabasiba nga ku miti netubajjako emmere gyetwali twetaaga. Twakola camp netugituuma LUTTAMAGUZI. Museveni mu camp zino twamwekanga bwekanzi. Ate nabulawo. Nze okumulabako nga maze kuweza emyaka 15. E Singo era nayo twafunayo akasawe era netutandika okukola drill ne training nga bulijo.
Twagenda okutuuka e Singo nga tuweze abantu bangi ddala. Kubanga bonna abaali besigaza mu byalo nga bekwese olutalo mungeri zaabwe badduka naffe.
Abaserikale ba government batta abantu bangi nensisira zaffe zonna nebazokya. Balina obusungu bungi ddala.
Twasindikibwa e Bunyoro miles 12 okuva awo e Singo. Tetwalina Uniform za magye. Engoye twatambulira nga mu zaleeya (civilian) ne ngato.
Ewabinyira, kumpi ne Singo twaweebwa ku ngato za Gumboots nga mpya. Twali tuli awo nebatuwa ne Uniform eya magye nga yabibomboola. Emundu 30 bazituwa ekika kya ASR naye nga tuli abasajja 70. Kulusozi Kanziira e Bunyoro olusozi luno lwali luzibu ddala okuluwalampa. Twayambuka nga bwetukuba amasasi wansi wolusozi eyali abalabe. Order yali egamba. Bwemutuuka kuntiko yo Lusozi omulabe alina okuwerezebwa amasasi wansi attibwe. Wano twakuba camp nga bwetulingiriza omulabe. Ekiro bafa nyo nga bagala nyo okulaba amanyi go muyeekera genkana wa. Twamala e Bunyoro emyezi ena nga abaserikale ba government batutawanya. Tweyongerayo kulugudo lwebayita Mityana. Wano tweyawulamu A-coy, ne B-coy. Nze nali mu B-coy, commanding officer nga ye Katende. Twatuka mu kifo kyebaita Katende ne tuwumulamu. Okuva e Katende twagenda okulaba nga lorry ekika kya TATA double diffe etuuse. Twagwa cover netwanganga omulabe. Kuluno tetwadduka. Twayimirirawo. Twatta bonna nga 42. Tweddizza emundu zaabwe. Twafuna SMG:submachine gun, LMG: machine gun ne RPG: rotational proppelled grenade. Twafuna amanyi ne tukuba nyo abalabe netufuna cigarettes, biscuits, tinned beef, amazzi ne sente abaserikale byebalina.
Abaserikale ba government abawanika nga bendera enjeru nga amateeka gentalo bwegali twabatta nga. Kubanga nga ffe abatambula nga tetulina kkommera lyabwe wakubateeka.
Brigadier Kasajja yawa ekiragiro nti tewali kuddamu kwokya lorry za TATA kubanga obwetavu bwazo bwaliwo. Lorry nga 12 zenawulira ko nga zezakwatibwa mungeri eyo kuzetoloola buli ludda abaserikale ne ba dereva nebabuna emiwabu.
Twalina signals zetwakozesanga kubanga twagenda okulaba nga tusisinkanye ne banaffe abebibinja ebirala bingi. Awo no nga tusemberedde Katonga mu Kitoogo(wetlands). Abaserikale ba government nabo baali bakalambidde nyo nga baleese Abanyanya. Twamalawo ekiseera kya myezi 2. Netwokya ne Kitoogo ekya Katonga nga bwetuyimba: Sasa tunawerekeya mwiso ya mapamaano(Tunatera okuwerekera olutalo okulutuusa)
Sijja kubamalirayo enkomerero yo lutalo lwe Luwero mubyalo byaffe ebyabonabona enyo nga bwenjogedde ko waggulu. Sagala kwewaana kubanga bangi kumwe mwalulimu nga abalwanyi baalwo ate nabalala mwalulimu nga ba civilians ababonabona enyo.
Ffenna buli omu alina bweyalulabamu. Betwalwanyisa nga abalabe baffe bangi ddala tukkyaali nabo ebiro bino kakati emyaka 36.
Olutalo musi telwetaaga kwewaniramu. Kintu kya bulabe obutagambika. Olutalo lwonona ensi nobugagga bwayo. Abaana, Abakyala n'Abaami bafa. Olutalo luteeka amabega enkula kulana yensi.
Amangu ddala nga olutalo luwedde, Kojja Major Tekirya Tolonto yantwala e Mubende Casualty Barracks kubanga nali nina ebiwundu byolutalo. Najjanjabibwa emyezi 6 era ne mpona.
Nasindikibwa e Bombo barracks nentandiika okukola omwaka gumu.
Mu mwaka 1988 netamwa obusirikale nga mukujjukira enyo nalina emyaka 18 egyobukulu.
Bakama baffe e Bombo (ba Affande)(oba okuwa muwa) to give order mwalimu Mukyala Nalweyiso, Mukayala Zizinga, Mukyala Namusisi, ne Kojja Tekirya. Okusinga bo bano twabalaba nga nyo kunkomerero ya mwezi nga bakimye musaala ate nebadda awaka wabwe.
Nasaba Commander Katende nakiriza okumpumuza nga agamba nti ng'omwaana omuto nali nina okuwumula.
Nagenda Ekitungwa ewabazadde bange naye nga Kitungwa yali alabika bubi nyo. Amabati ge nyumba tekwali kunyumbaya Taata. Okujjako emmere ya Muwogo, ebisimbe bye mmere endala tewaali awamu ne bisolo. Amakubo gaali gazise.
Amaka ga balirwaana nga bifulukwa byerere. Awokutandikira obulamu nga ddala sirina nze eyalina emyaka 18 egyobukulu, alekulidde amagye amanunuzi aga Buganda. Nze ne Taata twakubirira obusisira awo kusula era netukwata enkumbi ze twagula mumadduuka ge Bombo ne Matugga netutandiika okulima.
Obuwanga bwabafu bwo ddala bwaali bungi nyo:
Nga M7 amaze akulayira kku bwa President bwa Uganda era nga wayise ekiseera nga afuga, governmenti ye yalangirira okukunganya obuwangwa buno bwonna. Lorry za magye ne ziyita mu byaalo nga zikunganya obuwangwa buno.
Omukulembeze wa Bayekera e Buganda, Kaguta Museveni nga alayira ku bwa President bwa Uganda, 1986.
Bungi twabuziika awo ku Gombolola lye Gombe. Awalala Sambuwe ku kasaawe ke Sommero. Awalala kusomero lye Ndejje kukubo. Awalala Sanga nga ova e Matugga. Awalala Migadde nawo waziikibwawo obuwanga. Emyezi gyawerera ddala ebiri. Obuwangwa nga 700 buli luziika. Ate nga ne President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yabeerangawo nateeka nebiwandiiko kuntaana zino. Emizinga gyakubwanga ne Serumbeti nezikuba.
Nafuna omukazi netuzaala abaana 5 babiri ne bafa. Endabirira mubyobusawo nga tewali okujjako okukozesa eddagala lyo bwabajjajja baffe.
Kojja Tekirya yafangayo nyo okutukyalira era natuleterangayo aka sente, akawunga ka soya, engoye enkadde ezabaana nabakulu, eddaggala, amata gobuwunga olwabaana.
Mukulu Kasirye, omusomesa wa masomero yali mulimi era nga mulunzi. Yalima nga kalituusi nentandiika nga okumukolera ku kibanja kye kumpi ne Kitungwa. Awo we yanzija nantwala ku kibuga e Kampala, wano e Nammere. Namulundira ente ze era neziwera. Yampa nga omusaala. Sente zino nenziwereza abomuka. Emyaka 6 nengiweza nga mpakasa bwentyo.
Kibi nti oluvanyuma Farm ya Mukulu Kasirye yagwa. Motoka ye najitunda eyali emuyamba enyo mubulunzi bwebisolo bye kukibuga. Naddayo mukyalo e Kitungwa nenima. Natema kumputa okusobola okubeezawo amaka.
Emyaka gyawera 2 obusuubuzi bwe mputa bwatandiika okutabuka. Omusana gwayaka nyo negutta ebirime. Ebiwuka nebirya kayinja, emwanyi, nebitooke.
Pressure neyitirira kwekukomawo kukibuga kye Kampala. Natuukira e Namere nate. Nalabirira enyumba ya Mukulu Kazibwe emyaka 4. Nawerezanga mukyala wange nabaana sente okutuusa enyumba Mwami Kazibwe lweyagyediza nga amaliriza safari ze zeyakolanga.
Oluvanyuma nensenga ewa Mugenzi Mutumba awo era e Nammere. Nkumye enyumba eno nga bwenkola nemirimu gyange nga bwemba nsobodde. Oluusi kukimira balirwanwa amazzi nokulima compounds zabwe kakati emyaka 4.
Nina obuzibu bungi ddala kubanga sente zenfuna kukibuga tezimala okusobola okuwerezaako abomumaka.
Omukyala wange yabisibako awaka wa Taata nadda ewaabwe kubuttaka bwabazadde be.
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Njagala okukubira omulanga eri betwazirwaanako bonna nti, baagalwa banange, munyambe mumpereze kubuyambi naye ddala siri bulungi nakamu. Sirina ssimu ndi wano e Nammere mu maduuka. Obuuza ewa Mukyala Dina.
Kibi nyo nti nokutuusa kakati nga 24 November, 2017, tewali buyambi bwonna obwaali bumberezeddwa mukubonabona nze ne family yange kwetwayitamu nga tuleeta M7 mubuyinza. Kale Tonda yamanyi ebyange.
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Eyabajja emmundu ezaayambako NRM okulwana n'ewamba obuyinza kati yeerya nkuta:
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 4th August 2016
ISMAIL Ssemmambo (RO/2498) eyazirwanako y'omu ku bakubi ba ssabbaawa 21, Pulezidenti Museveni ng'akyali muyeekera be yatendeka okuwamba obuyinza. Ono obuyeekera yabuyingira ku myaka 16 wabula kati alaajana lwa kwerabirwa.
Agamba nti ye yekka eyabajja emmundu ezaayambako NRM okulwana naye kati yeerya nkuta.
Ssemmambo agamba olutalo lw'okuleeta Museveni mu buyinza yaluyingira yaakatuula P7, n’asimattuka okufa enfunda eziwera.
Ismail Ssemambo nga bwali ebiro bino
NNYINGIRA AMAGYE
Nzaalibwa Bulingwe mu muluka gw'e Kagogo mu ggombolola ye Makulubita e Luweero. Bwe nnali nsoma mu Buligwe P/s gye natuulira P7 mu 1981, olutalo lwa NRM ne lubalukawo okulwanyisa gavumenti ya Obote Museveni gye yali alumiriza okubba obululu mu kulonda kwa 1980.
Amagye ga Obote gattanga nnyo abantu mu kitundu kyaffe ng'okugenda ku ssomero kizibu era ne nkoma mu P7.
Ebiseera ebyo kitange omugenzi Ahamed Kakembo yalina enkolagana ne Museveni era kitange yafi ira mu lutalo luno mu 1983, yabuzibwawo basajja ba Obote n'okutuusa kati tetuddangamu kumulabako.
Mu buyeekera taata yampaayo ne muto wange Muhammad Lukoda eyalina emyaka 14 naye eyafi irayo.
Nga twegatta ku Museveni, taata yamala kutulaga Obote bwe yali omubi ennyo n’abantu be yali atta.
OKUKUBA SSABBAAWA
Mu lutalo, Museveni yatendeka abakuba ssabbaawa 21, nange mwe nnali era omulimu gwaffe omukulu gwali gwa kubega magye ga Obote ekiro n'emisana, okubatega bbomu ssaako okubakuba (okubatta) era n'okutwalira mukama waffe Museveni amawulire agafa mu nkambi ya Obote.
Nze nateganga bbomu eza ‘land mine’, ezitegwa mu ttaka, era zino Museveni ye yazinjigiriza Kitange yali musajja mubazzi, yalina obukyayi bungi nnyo ku Obote kale olw’obukyayi obwo nange nafuna obuvumu obumulwanyisa.
Twalina ebyokulwanyisa bitono, we waava okukozesa amagezi taata ge yalina ag’obubazzi okuyiiya emmundu ku myaka 17 mu 1983. Nze naweesa emmundu 40 nga zikuba essasi limu limu, zaali za mbaawo, nakozesa ebyuma bya payipu.
Emmundu zino zaasanyusa nnyo abatuuze ne Museveni era twazikozesa mu lutalo okulwanyisa abalabe. Museveni yatuwaayo emmundu enzungu nnya (4) ne tukozesa ne ku zino ezange, olwo nga tuli mu nkambi y’e Kasiringi.
Nzijukira amagye ga Obote lwe gajja ewaffe e Bulingwe. Bwe baatuuka eka, nze ne muto wange Lukoda twali tusuze ku muti ogwali emmanju.
Abajaasi ba Obote baakuba amasasi mu nnyumba yonna, naffe ne tubakubamu amasasi ana, naye ne tusimattuka ne tudduka.
Ndi omu ku baawamba enkambi y’e Fort Portal, Kasese, Mbarara, Nakasongola, Masaka era ebiseera ebyo nnali nduumirwa Gen. Salim Saleh.
Ndi omu ku bayeekera abaanunula omukulu omu eyali awambiddwa e Rwakitura, amagye ga Gen. Tito Okello Lutwa bwe baazingako ekyalo.
Waaliwo akaseera k'okussa wansi ebyokulwnayisa wakati wa Museveni ne Lutwa, kyokka basajja ba Lutwa baakozesa akakisa ako, nga ne Museveni ali Nairobi ne bawamba omunene omu ku kyalo kye oluvannyuma gwe twanunula.
Olunaku olwo lwe lumu lwe twalumba bbanka e Kabale ne tuggyamu ssente. Kino kyatanula olutalo ne luddamu buto era ku luno tetwadda mabega okutuusa bwe twawamba mu 1986. Nze ekibinja kye nalimu kyalimu Paul Kagame, Fred Rwigyema ne Chefe Ali nga tusinziira Kasese.
NSIGALA MU NSIKO
Oluvannyuma lw'okuwamba, mu nsiko nasigalayo era nze omu ku baalwanyisa abayeekera Alice Lakwena ne Joseph Kony ne tubamalawo nga tuduumirwa Gen David Tinyefuza nga nze nkulira ebikwekweto mu ‘9th Battalion’.
Mu 1992 nannyuka amagye g'eggwanga naye ekyasinga okunnyiiza okugavaamu nga buli bwe bagaba ebitiibwa n'emidaali okukuza abajaasi abaalwana nga nze bandeka bbali. Baali bansuubiza dda okufuna ekitiibwa kya Major naye ssaakifuna.
Nze eyafiirwa famire yange, naye abalala nga babayisaawo! Nnali mmanyi nti bwe tunaawamba nange ndijjukirwa naye si bwe kiri.
Kinnuma okuba nti nze sifunangayo wadde omudaali ogumu bwe guti ate nga nalwana era naweesaako ne ku byokulwanyisa bye twakozesa, waakiri bandinsiimye olw'ekyo. Nasemba okusisinkana Pulezidenti Museveni mu 1988 n'abakulu abalala. Ne ku olwo ssaafuna mukisa kwogerako naye mu buntu.
EMIRIMU GYANGE
Bwe nava mu magye, natandika emirimu gyange egy'obusuubuzi nga ntunda ebintu ebikozesebwa mu bulamu obwa bulijjo.
Natandikawo ne kkampuni eyambako mu kuzimba era emirimu gyange nagitwala e South Sudan mu 2008 gye nnali nkolera ne kkampuni ya ESP International.
Kyokka nayo, kkampuni eno yeekobaana n'abamu ku banene mu Uganda mu 2011 ne banyaga ebintu byange ebikozesebwa omwali ebyuma, kompyuta ne ssente enkalu ebibalirirwamu obukadde bwa doola munaana.
Amagye g'omunda e S. Sudan gankomyawo e Uganda ne bandeeta ewa Gen. Salim Saleh gye mbeera kati .
Ab’e South Sudan osanga baali balowooza nti nja kubalwanyisa nga ngaggawadde, sso nga nange nali njagala kuba bulungi.
NDABYE ENNAKU
Ebizibu bingi bye nsanze ewa Gen. Saleh okuva mu 2011 bwe natandika okubeerayo, nkola emirimu naye sisasulwa ate bwe bansasula bampa ssente ntono ezitagya mu mirimu gye nkoze.
Ngezezzaako okuwandiikira Pulezidenti Museveni ne Pulezidenti Kagame owa Rwanda kuba bwe twali mu nsiko naye simanyi oba amabaluwa tegatuuka kuba sifunanga kuddibwamu. Sirina maka gange, nsula mu muzigo omupangise, mukama wange omu yansuubiza okunzimbira ennyumba naye n'okutuusa kati sigirabanga!
Brig. Elly Kayanja nga August 28, 2013 yawandiikira minisita avunaanyizibwa ku butebenkevu ayambe Ssemmambo naye n’okutuusa kati tekikolebwanga.
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Tulina abaana bangi abaali basoma emyaka 12-17 abatwalibwa mu ntalo 1980. Kimenya mateeka mu Ntalo ezokwetaasa munsi yonna. Kattikiro wa Buganda alina okuvayo kunsonga eno amanyise Abaganda Lwaki Abaana ba Buganda balina obulumi bwebuti. Wakyaliwo abayikuzi bentalo abakyayagala gasiya we ngeri zino ezentalo ezifiriza Buganda buli kadde zikomewo. Abaganda tuffe, tuffirwe nebyaffe. Ensi Buganda efuuke muyiggo, namunyago. Abefunira nga befunira! Kibi nyo ddala.
That difficult and obedient political game of keeping a dodgy democratic Republican state, while at the same time playing the game of surviving an ancient African kingdom state, in a modern tyrannical regime!
Since in Uganda there are no more term limits of rule or misrule, Katikkiro Mayiga might just win both games in a hundred years time!