Kamya peddling lies for selfish interests
Jan 13, 2009
This is a rejoinder to Lubaga North MP Beti Kamya’s article on tribalism published on January 6, and some readers asking whether Kamya is talking of tribalism or sectarianism!
By Ofwono-Opondo
This is a rejoinder to Lubaga North MP Beti Kamya’s article on tribalism published on January 6, and some readers asking whether Kamya is talking of tribalism or sectarianism!
I agree with Kamya that colonialists demonised everything African and Black to subvert, control and dominate the Africans; our religion, body colour, habits, social system, and food, among others. A bad or un-promising day was and is still called “Black dayâ€. There is also “black magic,†referring to sorcery.
Ordinarily, therefore, Africans ought to be proud of their tribes, culture and dwellings and work hard to improve their livelihood. However, tribalism in modern usage refers to the negative aspects of exploiting one’s tribal lineage to disadvantage others on account that they do not share that common ethnic belonging with you. Tribalism or religious bigotry is, therefore, negative and must be rejected.
Kamya is peddling calculated dangerous lies and half-truths that since the NRM came to power in 1986, a particular tribe — the Banyankole — have deprived other tribes of the political and socio-economic power structure. Kamya and others allege that the Bahima and Banyarwanda sub-ethnic groups are the sole beneficiary of the NRM.
As such, Kamya is a psychopathic intellectual in power, self-declared authority and a supposedly enlightened source, speaking on behalf of those incapable of speaking for themselves.
To Kamya, Dr Samson Kisekka (RIP), the vice-president, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, Parliament Speaker Edward Sekandi, Deputy Chief Justice Letitia Kikonyogo, Premier Apolo Nsibambi, John Mitala, head of civil service; Lt. Gen. Katumba Wamala, and all Baganda ministers and MPs are all novices serving as Museveni’s poodles.
According to Prof. Nana Akua Anyidoho’s thesis on “Identity, representation and knowledge production in the fourth generation,†what Kamya is engaged in is called rationalism, positionism, and escapism, which are reactionary postures applied when one has been caught flatfooted. Kamya is trying to ‘position’ herself as the true defender of Baganda interests and thereby rationalise the ‘goodness’ in tribalism since it serves her immediate parochial interests.
She tries to be clever by dragging in Museveni’s family as if they were the first people to marry from their respective tribes. To Kamya and her ilk, the Museveni family has become their cannon fodder to punch away. Kamya has been caught in a web because her insistence that a Muganda be appointed FDC national chairman is meant for her personal benefit and that is why she does not propose any other Muganda for the posts she cries over. Kamya does not raise the other qualities she may posess to hold a national office as the so-called being a Muganda.
The FDC national office cannot be more powerful than the Kabakaship. So we can believe Kamya as the true liberator and developer of Buganda. After all, even the Kabakaship does not protect the true Buganda interests for all the Baganda as seen from the many angles of exploitation like over land of ordinary Baganda by that institution.
Kamya is an ethno-cultural obscurantist who sees only herself as the most qualified and able. She is on record for saying her tribe is superior to others in Uganda and as such should enjoy a special status. She praises her tribe and culture only when it is convenient and of direct benefit to herself.
She is also an opportunist who got married to a Munyankole, the late Sgt. Spencer Turwomwe of the NRA (UPDF), because it was seen as ‘cool’ at the time. It was and probably still is in vogue. At the time she married Turwomwe, ‘all-the-Pajeros’ were said to head west — the land where milk flowed on village paths.
Why hasn’t she, during the last three presidential elections, rooted for a candidate from the north yet all along only southerners have been vying for this national big post? It is contrary to open democratic principles.
Kamya is at the top of a greasy pole and has only one option to come down either soft if she realises her folly early or with a big thud should she persist on that line.
The writer is the NRM spokesperson
This is a rejoinder to Lubaga North MP Beti Kamya’s article on tribalism published on January 6, and some readers asking whether Kamya is talking of tribalism or sectarianism!
I agree with Kamya that colonialists demonised everything African and Black to subvert, control and dominate the Africans; our religion, body colour, habits, social system, and food, among others. A bad or un-promising day was and is still called “Black dayâ€. There is also “black magic,†referring to sorcery.
Ordinarily, therefore, Africans ought to be proud of their tribes, culture and dwellings and work hard to improve their livelihood. However, tribalism in modern usage refers to the negative aspects of exploiting one’s tribal lineage to disadvantage others on account that they do not share that common ethnic belonging with you. Tribalism or religious bigotry is, therefore, negative and must be rejected.
Kamya is peddling calculated dangerous lies and half-truths that since the NRM came to power in 1986, a particular tribe — the Banyankole — have deprived other tribes of the political and socio-economic power structure. Kamya and others allege that the Bahima and Banyarwanda sub-ethnic groups are the sole beneficiary of the NRM.
As such, Kamya is a psychopathic intellectual in power, self-declared authority and a supposedly enlightened source, speaking on behalf of those incapable of speaking for themselves.
To Kamya, Dr Samson Kisekka (RIP), the vice-president, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, Parliament Speaker Edward Sekandi, Deputy Chief Justice Letitia Kikonyogo, Premier Apolo Nsibambi, John Mitala, head of civil service; Lt. Gen. Katumba Wamala, and all Baganda ministers and MPs are all novices serving as Museveni’s poodles.
According to Prof. Nana Akua Anyidoho’s thesis on “Identity, representation and knowledge production in the fourth generation,†what Kamya is engaged in is called rationalism, positionism, and escapism, which are reactionary postures applied when one has been caught flatfooted. Kamya is trying to ‘position’ herself as the true defender of Baganda interests and thereby rationalise the ‘goodness’ in tribalism since it serves her immediate parochial interests.
She tries to be clever by dragging in Museveni’s family as if they were the first people to marry from their respective tribes. To Kamya and her ilk, the Museveni family has become their cannon fodder to punch away. Kamya has been caught in a web because her insistence that a Muganda be appointed FDC national chairman is meant for her personal benefit and that is why she does not propose any other Muganda for the posts she cries over. Kamya does not raise the other qualities she may posess to hold a national office as the so-called being a Muganda.
The FDC national office cannot be more powerful than the Kabakaship. So we can believe Kamya as the true liberator and developer of Buganda. After all, even the Kabakaship does not protect the true Buganda interests for all the Baganda as seen from the many angles of exploitation like over land of ordinary Baganda by that institution.
Kamya is an ethno-cultural obscurantist who sees only herself as the most qualified and able. She is on record for saying her tribe is superior to others in Uganda and as such should enjoy a special status. She praises her tribe and culture only when it is convenient and of direct benefit to herself.
She is also an opportunist who got married to a Munyankole, the late Sgt. Spencer Turwomwe of the NRA (UPDF), because it was seen as ‘cool’ at the time. It was and probably still is in vogue. At the time she married Turwomwe, ‘all-the-Pajeros’ were said to head west — the land where milk flowed on village paths.
Why hasn’t she, during the last three presidential elections, rooted for a candidate from the north yet all along only southerners have been vying for this national big post? It is contrary to open democratic principles.
Kamya is at the top of a greasy pole and has only one option to come down either soft if she realises her folly early or with a big thud should she persist on that line.
The writer is the NRM spokesperson