Declare Buganda’s position on East African federation
Sep 12, 2011
THIS is the right time for the Buganda Lukiiko to publicly declare Buganda’s clear position on the forthcoming political federation of East Africa instead of keeping people in darkness.
By Kavuma Kaggwa
THIS is the right time for the Buganda Lukiiko to publicly declare Buganda’s clear position on the forthcoming political federation of East Africa instead of keeping people in darkness.
Five members of the East Africa Centre for Constitutional Development (Kituo Cha Katiba) were in Kampala in the first week of August on a fact-finding mission on the federo question in Buganda.
Edith Kibalama, the Kituo Cha Katiba director in Uganda, said the goal of the project was to contribute to a successful East African Political Federation and regional integration process. The objective was to examine areas of tension relating to the federo question of Buganda in Uganda and to devise ways and means of resolving them in the interest of a successful East African Political Federation.
I agree with her, that the federo question is a highly political and sensitive issue which has of late created serious tensions between the Central Government and the Buganda Kingdom.
Kibalama noted that the objectives cannot be achieved without meeting with a cross-section of key stakeholders. She said to obtain a balanced picture, the mission was also to meet with leaders of other cultural institutions in Uganda other than Buganda. This mission has made the same mistake like that of Stephen Akabway in 2007. They met very few selected people at the Metropole Hotel instead of holding public rallies and let people talk freely on the issue.
I was one of the people they interviewed. I reiterated what the Buganda Lukiiko said in 1921 and 1948 and 1953. The Buganda Lukiiko rejected the East Africa Federation because the Baganda found out that it was intended to dismantle and ultimately abolish the Buganda Kingdom and abolish Luganda and tribal languages and impose Kiswahili on the Baganda and the people of Uganda.
In 1953, the late Kabaka Sir Edward Mutesa II rejected the E.A Federation saying we shall never surrender our sovereignty.
In 1953 after forming the now defunct Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, (now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) the then colonial secretary Oliver Leytellton made an announcement in London that East Africa was next.
The writer is an elder from Kyaggwe, Mukono District
THIS is the right time for the Buganda Lukiiko to publicly declare Buganda’s clear position on the forthcoming political federation of East Africa instead of keeping people in darkness.
Five members of the East Africa Centre for Constitutional Development (Kituo Cha Katiba) were in Kampala in the first week of August on a fact-finding mission on the federo question in Buganda.
Edith Kibalama, the Kituo Cha Katiba director in Uganda, said the goal of the project was to contribute to a successful East African Political Federation and regional integration process. The objective was to examine areas of tension relating to the federo question of Buganda in Uganda and to devise ways and means of resolving them in the interest of a successful East African Political Federation.
I agree with her, that the federo question is a highly political and sensitive issue which has of late created serious tensions between the Central Government and the Buganda Kingdom.
Kibalama noted that the objectives cannot be achieved without meeting with a cross-section of key stakeholders. She said to obtain a balanced picture, the mission was also to meet with leaders of other cultural institutions in Uganda other than Buganda. This mission has made the same mistake like that of Stephen Akabway in 2007. They met very few selected people at the Metropole Hotel instead of holding public rallies and let people talk freely on the issue.
I was one of the people they interviewed. I reiterated what the Buganda Lukiiko said in 1921 and 1948 and 1953. The Buganda Lukiiko rejected the East Africa Federation because the Baganda found out that it was intended to dismantle and ultimately abolish the Buganda Kingdom and abolish Luganda and tribal languages and impose Kiswahili on the Baganda and the people of Uganda.
In 1953, the late Kabaka Sir Edward Mutesa II rejected the E.A Federation saying we shall never surrender our sovereignty.
In 1953 after forming the now defunct Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, (now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) the then colonial secretary Oliver Leytellton made an announcement in London that East Africa was next.
The writer is an elder from Kyaggwe, Mukono District