Indegeneous Banyarwanda are Ugandans
SIR—In your issue of December 13, Mr Wilson Kajwengye recommended to the Constitutional review Commission that Banyarwanda should not be constitutionally recognised as a tribe in Uganda
SIR—In your issue of December 13, Mr Wilson Kajwengye recommended to the Constitutional review Commission that Banyarwanda should not be constitutionally recognised as a tribe in Uganda.
The reason for his recommendation was not mentioned in the story but one can assume that Kajwengye is another Ugandan not conversant with the arbitrariness of the Ugandan borders. Should the Acholi, Alur, Karimojong, Sabiny, Bagisu, Samia, Iteso, Bakonzo, Basongora, Bakiga, Bafumbira, to mention a few, whose relatives like the Banyarwanda, share international borders also not be constitutionally recognised as tribes in Uganda?
As a matter of fact the Acholi, Alur and Bakonzo like the Banyarwanda are more across the border than those who are in Uganda. It was not by design that the Banyarwanda are also an indigenous community in the constitution of Uganda.
As far back as February 1921, the Banyarwanda were recognised as a tribe in Uganda by the census of that year as well as the subsequent ones including that of 2002.
Dr. E.R Kamuhangire
Kampala
The reason for his recommendation was not mentioned in the story but one can assume that Kajwengye is another Ugandan not conversant with the arbitrariness of the Ugandan borders. Should the Acholi, Alur, Karimojong, Sabiny, Bagisu, Samia, Iteso, Bakonzo, Basongora, Bakiga, Bafumbira, to mention a few, whose relatives like the Banyarwanda, share international borders also not be constitutionally recognised as tribes in Uganda?
As a matter of fact the Acholi, Alur and Bakonzo like the Banyarwanda are more across the border than those who are in Uganda. It was not by design that the Banyarwanda are also an indigenous community in the constitution of Uganda.
As far back as February 1921, the Banyarwanda were recognised as a tribe in Uganda by the census of that year as well as the subsequent ones including that of 2002.
Dr. E.R Kamuhangire
Kampala