MENGO LOYALISTS KILLING BUGANDA
Luzindana Adam Buyinza
Since 1962, Buganda has been a key player in the political economy of Uganda and indeed it was a power broker during the post colonial days. Today the mighty and supremacy of Buganda is no more. It has been substituted by mengo establishment subjugated by activists with not only egocentric ends but with a concealed agenda to crumple Buganda as an entity. Infact, there are indicators that mengo has out competed Buganda.
The mengo activists have wished to elevate mengo programs into public policies and programs of Uganda which is completely un acceptable by the people of Uganda.
A section of egoistic Members of parliament masquerading to be loyal to mengo tabled a motion, for parliament to deliberate on the arrest of the mengo officials. This alone tantamounts to contempt of the rule of law in Uganda. How can a national parliament reduce itself to discussing inconsequential issues. This is double standard; I am not yet convinced why no motion was tabled in parliament to debate the arrest of FDC president Col Docotor Kiiza Besigye. Are these Members of parliament really legislators, or opportunists who blindfold the Baganda and the Kabaka to attain short term benefits yet driving the entire buganda into dilemma.
The people of Uganda will blame the NRM regime for keeping conc deaf hear while mengo loyalists are playing pivotal roles to degenerate the country into tyranny, violence, chaos, war, tribal misunderstandings, moral degeneration and lunacy. whilst this guerilla regime has got its own problems, it has got success stories which all of us can testify to. Infact, we the people of Buganda ought to co-exist peacefully with the NRM regime.
With mengo mixing up itself with key opposition political players,I see emergence of warlonds which this regime will not hesitate to act upon as its constitutional obligation. The mengo has upheld tribal secretarianism which is yet to plummet the nation into ethnicity eruptions.
With secretarianism being favored and used as a mobilization strategy, Buganda Nationalism has also been seen dieing out. It should be noted that 80% of the mengo loyalists are political activists whose politics is full of malevolence, sabotage and propaganda only directed at derailing the success of Buganda and Uganda.
These so called loyalists have reached a maximum of agitating for the secession of Buganda from Uganda, yet with no proof that it’s the position of the people living in Buganda. Though Uganda can exist and develop without a smaller Buganda, a small Buganda cannot survive without the bigger Uganda of the East African Community.
Imperative to note is that Buganda cannot develop through prejudiced, fanatical and aggressive neo-traditionalism and separatism which is being engineered by the Byaffe/mengo activists. It should be recalled that in conformity with the politics of divide and rule, the British colonialists treated Uganda communities differently in which Buganda was singled out for favours. Buganda was used to conquer the rest of Uganda.
This is no more. The NRM regime will not favour Buganda or any sub region for political superiority. With globalization taking its effectual course, Buganda is no longer a privileged community, though there is growing mengo loyalists who are acting contrary to the aspirations of the Baganda masses.
The people at Mengo have always wanted to have political power yet they are not answerable to the people of Buganda or Baganda in specific terms. In this era of democracy, political power belongs to those with mandate of the masses, not loyals and royals who lack leadership permits. The point of insinuation that mengo is supreme is totally a day dream. If Mengo is representing the aspirations of the Baganda and the people in Buganda, it would be worthwhile for mengo to form and register Kabaka Yekka Political party and compete favorably with other political parties in Uganda for political power. I really wonder how many people will subscribe to such a political party, and anywhere will there be a reason for people from other region to vote for it into the highest offices in the country?.
It is now clear observed that mengo establishment is more concerned with its affairs than the stability and the future of Uganda and the Buganda. The mengo activists are more interested in distortions and disorder than fairness, democracy, peaceful co-existence, rule of law and constitutionalism. This is a political blander that has bedeviled Buganda’s takeoff.
The people of Uganda will not accept mengo’s quest for power combined with violence, redicule, blackmail, social terrorization and divisionism of the mengo establishment. This NRM regime though with mafias within its structures as it has been alleged by some of its top officials, has been so lenient to the negative play of the mengo establishment.
For Mrs Betty B Nambozze,the DP Spokesperson to redicule and demean the personality of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,the head of state of the republic of Uganda,in disguise of Buganda and Kabaka operations yet on self-seeking political ends is an act that has disappointed not only the right thinking baganda, but also the people of Uganda, the donor community and other key stakeholders in the governance of Uganda. It is in disregard of the rule of law and constitutional order and indeed it has tainted badly the image of mengo establishment and the Kabaka of Buganda and such statements made by mengo loyalists have culminated into hatred and divisionism in the area. This deserves to be condoned with extreme regard.
The Mengo demands have proved to be aliens to the people of Buganda and Uganda in general. The NRM leadership analytically is not ready to take up the appeasement policy of the British invaders to appease the Kabaka or mengo loyalists since such a policy rendered to the outburst of the 1966 social turmoil in which the Monarchy was shattered hence the end of Buganda superemany, and power brokerage in Uganda.
The mengo loyalists will be anxious to quit Uganda for safe havens in Europe than to sort out the mess they have created, leaving the ordinary Muganda and Ugandan in a dilemma. With ethnicity and mengo tribal secretarianism developing in relation to the modernization and globalization, mengo establishment is bound to collapse, hence a tactical blow to the traditional institution of the Kabaka of Buganda.
Luzindana Adam Buyinza
Team Leader
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