Born-again Muganda barred from carrying cross in Federo march

Jan 31, 2003

A Born-again Christian got furious when Mengo leaders refused to use a six foot cross which he thought would guide the Baganda procession on Tuesday.

By Herbert Ssempogo

A Born-again Christian got furious when Mengo leaders refused to use a six foot cross which he thought would guide the Baganda procession on Tuesday.

A visibly angered Ismayiri Yakobo Musana came to The new Vision and said that he got to Bulange as the mammoth crowd was preparing to leave for the International Conference Centre (ICC).

Musana, of Kitetika Masooli in Kyadondo, later got communication that it would not be proper to include religious sentiments in the procession.

He left the cross with one of the guards at Bulange, where the procession began, and gave up on the whole idea with a lot of frustration.

“This is when I realised that the Buganda region is doomed. We cannot do anything developmental if we do not embrace religion,” he said.

The cross was made of wood and had glass in front and behind. The back was painted yellow, meaning ‘stand by’ as on the traffic lights, and the front part was green for ‘peace and movement.’

He said that the cross was to show the central government that the Buganda government was ready to use peace to get what it wanted.

Thousands of Baganda staged a major procession starting from Bulange to the ICC, where they presented their proposals to the Constitutional Review Commission.

Musana said that merely granting federal rule to the Buganda Government would not solve its problems: “There is a lot of moral decadence among the masses. The media, schools and whole society are completely rotten,” he said.

He implored the leaders in Mengo to ensure that their subjects turn to God. The cross was still at Bulange by 3:00pm on Tuesday.

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