I disagree with Ssebunya on Buganda

SIR – I am reacting to Robert Ssebunya’s article “Baganda showed maturity in elections”. He mentions that the Baganda showed political maturity by voting for President Museveni and others like Hon Sekandi who passed the regional tier government bill and rejected Col Kizza Besigye and Miria Obote that Mengo favoured for promising federo, not the regional tier. Ssebunya, Museveni’s doing well was based on other factors. Many Baganda are even ignorant of what is entailed in federo and the regional tier. Shortly before the elections I asked an elderly Muganda lady and her daughter who stay deep in Mpigi who their presidential candidate was. They told me it was Museveni because unlike other regimes, they are able “to sleep”. The larger populace of Baganda live in the rural areas and have priorities similar to those of non-Baganda in rural areas. The rural people have an attachment to Museveni and normally vote for him to avert possibilities of war-like situations. They are also very poor and hungry for government handouts. The urban Baganda, like their counterparts the urban non-Baganda, voted for Besigye because they sympathised with him or because he has stood the test of Museveni’s time and can bring change to Uganda. I think Ssebunya’s analysis was based on personal gain.

Barbara Bugayaza
Kampala