The Military Police in Uganda is still busy blocking Dr Besigye 9 months after the Uganda General elections:
Dr Besigye using a Boda Boda motorcycle as a get away from the determined Military Police of Uganda. He has been stopped from using his car.
By Serestino Tusingwire,
21 November, 2016
The former Forum for Democratic Change presidential Candidate, Dr. Kizza Besigye has been seen in another rare moment this afternoon when he too walked for some distance before getting a boda boda which he used to travel to town for a meeting.
It is alleged that Police blocked his car as he was trying to leave his home in Kasangati for a certain meeting in Kampala, and this prompted him to abandon the car and use his feet leaving the empty car in the hands of police.
Government printer lies neglected. The old colonial building is in ruins at Entebbe as street publishers flourish:
Here is Joseph Kaggwa, the production manager at the Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation.
The printing press is covered in dust, a clear sign that the machine has not been used in a long time. Kaggwa blames the flourishing street publishers for knocking UPPC out of business.
By Paul Tajuba
Posted Monday, March 9 2015
Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC) is stationed at Entebbe.
The Entebbe based government publishing house has no business running and the dust baked machines have become a place of abode for cockroaches and ants.
The wooden doors have seen better days as they have now become food for termites.
These are features that stand out when you go to UPPC. When the publishing house gets some business, the staff there works tirelessly to ensure that the out of use machines do not disappoint.
Back in the day
The Government Printer, as it was called before it became UPPC in 1993, had its glorious days though mainly during the colonial days, Obote and Amin regimes.
At the time, the agency was authorised to disseminate information to different government departments and ministries. Through this avenue, duplications and forgeries were minimised.
The printer also dealt in the printing and publishing of newspapers both in English and local languages, the Uganda Gazette, land titles, scholastic materials and envelopes.
Those who worked at the corporation during the golden days have a message of dire straits - asking government to intervene.
How things got out of hand
Joseph Kaggwa-Mubuya, the UPPC production manager has worked at the corporation for nearly 30 years. He says the troubles of the printer started in 1993 when the agency was turned into a corporation but was never given funding.
According to the 1992 UPPC Act, government is mandated to give UPPC money for its operations but the Act is silent on how much government should submit.
Subsequently, UPPC, though under the office for Presidency, has never received money that could have been used to purchase modern printing machines.
Actually, the “newest” machine at the agency was imported in 1991.
In the 1990s when liberalisation of the economy was at its peak, the printing school at the agency collapsed.
“You cannot trace the history of printing in Uganda from UPPC. It used to be the skills centre where even staff would go abroad to enhance their skills but that is gone,” Kaggwa –Mubuya sadly states.
Gud Mbareba, the printing finishing superviser at the agency says the final blow that UPPC got was in 1996 when there was massive staff retrenchment.
He says, “some of the most experienced people were laid off thus the school had to collapse.”
Rebirth
Some of the axed staff found solace at Nasser Road and it was not long before the groupo had established a printing and publishing empire at the strategically located area.
“All those who first owned printers on Nasser Road are former employees of UPPC because they had the expertise and money to buy modern machines. Now UPPC can’t compete with them” Mbareba says.
While Nasser Road is booming with publishing work, at UPPC silence reigns supreme with the machines lying idle.
Government asks for an extra Shs800 billion:
Mr Matia Kasaija
By Yasiin Mugerwa
Posted Monday, 9 March, 2015
IN SUMMARY
In the supplementary request, government would, for instance, spend Shs3 billion on workshops and seminars alone and another Shs4.1 billion on travel expenses.
Uganda Parliament-Wasteful budget requests such as special meals, welfare, workshops, foreign trips and allowances as highlighted in the new government supplementary request have kicked off a fuss in a new budget dispute over the request for an extra Shs800 billion the government urgently needs to cater for “unforeseen emergencies”.
The new request, if approved by Parliament, will increase the 2014/2015 budget from Shs15 trillion to about Shs16 trillion amid complaints that the money is going into consumptive areas.
In the supplementary request, government would, for instance, spend Shs3 billion on workshops and seminars alone and another Shs4.1 billion on travel expenses.
Opposition members have, however, criticised the latest cash request as “a political supplementary request” intended to help the ruling party raise cash to finance its campaigns.
“This supplementary request is suspect. What has been paraded as money for travel abroad, workshops and seminars could be money for campaigns,” said Mr Gerald Karuhanga (Youth Western).
The Budget Committee is expected to convene later this week to start scrutinising Mr Matia Kasaija’s maiden cash request as Finance minister designate.
The rising figures
Even before his swearing-in, Mr Kasaija last week requested for Shs847.2b up from the Shs237 billion requested in 2013/14 financial year.
As a rule, supplementary budgets should be a result of unforeseen actions such as natural disasters. However, in some instances, ministries have asked for more funds in the course of a financial year to deal with recurrent costs such as salaries.
Explaining what looks like a policy-reversal on wastage, ministry of Finance spokesperson Jim Mugunga said: “As a policy, there was an across-the-board hold on non-core international travels and workshops. This was meant to manage available resources then. It does not necessarily make workshops and travel unnecessary in functions of government.”
Deputy NRM spokesperson Ofwono Opondo said the NRM party does not get campaign cash from the Treasury and described Opposition accusations as “cheap political games”.
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Political Parties in Uganda reject the EC use of national ID register as NRM government prepares another rigged national election for 2016:
Gen David Sejusa (R) with the vice chairperson of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Dick Odur (2nd R) address the press at PPP offices in Ntinda yesterday.
PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA
By Winnie Tabitha & Albert Tumwine
Posted Wednesday, April 29 2015
Kampala,Uganda, The Opposition has rejected a move by the Electoral Commission (EC) to use data collected during the compilation of the national identification registration exercise to update the national voters’ register ahead of the 2016 general elections.
Speaking at separate events, various political party leaders said the national ID registration exercise was full of errors and as a result, most Ugandans were not registered.
Addressing a news conference at the DP party headquarters in Kampala yesterday, the party spokesperson, Mr Kenneth Kakande, said: “Many people on the national register did not register for the national IDs and that means if the EC uses the ID project register, many Ugandans are going to be disenfranchised,” Mr Kakande said.
Addressing journalists during the party’s weekly press conference on Monday, Forum for Democratic Change spokesperson John Kikonyogo expressed dismay at the way EC is handling the entire exercise.
“We have failed to get an explanation from the EC on why the old register was discarded and we want them to tell us how those people they are adding to the list applied,” Mr Kikonyogo said.
Democratic Party (DP) secretary general Mathias Nsubuga said the EC should use the previous register. He claimed the Opposition has evidence to the effect that more than 3,000 people appearing on national ID register are not Ugandans.
Uganda Media Centre executive director Ofwono Opondo, however, defended the EC, stressing that whatever is being done is within the law.
EC spokesperson Jotham Taremwa, said the government made the decision that all government departments should use the collected national voters’ data banks for future purposes.
Meanwhile, former coordinator of intelligence services, Gen David Sejusa has said there is no point in going for an election that will be “stolen”.
Mr Sejusa said the criteria of registering voters did not put into consideration verification of citizens.
“You were all registered, but what system was used to establish that you are a citizen of this country? How many of you were asked for a birth certificate, none!” Mr Sejusa said.
Article 61 (e) of the 1995 Constitution mandates the Electoral Commission to compile, maintain, revise and update the national voters register (the same is repeated under the EC Act Section 18).
But Parliament this year passed the Registration of Persons Bill that establishes a national identification register of all persons in Uganda and provides for access and use of the information contained in the national identification register.
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Ekibiina kyobufuzi ekya Kabaka Yekka, UPC y’ Obote Ekiwera:
Obote yekyusiza abaamutuusa!
Mu mwaka 1965, Omubaka we kibiina kya KY Daudi Ocheng, yayisa ekiteeso kunsonga yokukusa zaabu we Congo namasanga g’enjovu, okubitunda munsi zebweru.
Dr Obote, nga Prime Minister, ne Minister Nekyon muganda wa Obote ne Onama Minister wa Defence bebatekebwa ko olunnwe nga bwebenyigira mulukwe luno.
Era Ocheng yaleeta ekiteeso ekirala, Colonel Amin okugira ng’awummuzibwako weeks bbiri nga Gavumenti bw’ebuuliriza.
Gwo omukago gwebyobufuzi wakati we kibiina kyo bufuzi ekya KY ne kibiina kyo bufuzi ekya UPC gwafiira ddala mu September 1964. Era 1965 gugenda okutuuka nga bangi ababaka ba UPC mu National Assembly (Parliament) bateesa kulaba nga bawera ekibiina kya Kabaka Yekka. Baakiyita kya bakyewaggula abatagoberera mateeka era abaagala okutabulatabula eddembe mu Uganda.
Abantu bangi baali bakwatiddwa era nga bali mu nkomyo na ddala e Luzira.
Obote yatekawo akakiiko kabulirize ku bya zaabu n’amasanga era abantu bangi ko baawa obujulirwa mu kakiiko ako, ebyama bingi ku kufuna n’okutunda zaabu n’amasanga ne bibikkulwa.
Naye report y’akakiiko bwe yaggwa Obote teyagifulumya! Parliement ye, Cabinet ye nabawagizi bangi aba UPC nebamuggyamu obwesige.
Yali asigazza kwesiga b’amagye bokka. Okuyimiriza Col. Amin yakigaana nakuza Amin mukifo kya Brigadier Opoloto. Mukuteesa kwa Cabinet okwaddako Obote yagenda kukwatta ba Minister be batano nabasibira e Luzira Criminal Prison.
The British Judge Allen
P J Allen and his judiciary at the time demonstrate the high quality of the judiciary at the time.
Judge Allen and Judge Manyindo presided over the trials of most of the Amin era criminals. A majority of these criminals hired the best lawyers available in Uganda at the time, which invariably was Ayigihugu. Some like Abdallah Nasur were convicted but a good number were acquitted because of lack of direct evidence. Others like Edward Mulindwa even managed to lie low for a while before escaping to foreign lands.
I hope your mate WBK does not judge those of us who participated in prosecuting these Amin era criminals as failures, in the same manner that he has judged the ICC prosecutors. Prosecutors are supposed to present the facts before the courts that can convince a court that an accused is quilty. In this, it has to work very closely with the Investigatory authorities, namely the police and law enforcement. In the case of the Amin criminals, the police did not give us enough information from their investigations that would allow a conviction to be upheld.
It was particulalrly disappointing in the case of Bob Astles in whose case, the judge found he was always around the major killings we charged him with, especially the murders of Archbishop Luwum and Minister's Erinayo Oryema and Oboth-Ofumbi, but we could not connect him directly to the killings. With advance in DNA science these days and coupled with Edward Mulindwa's recent confessions about complicity in the murders, I think a good prosecutor would today nail Edward Mulindwa without doubt. What WBK does not understand, from your debates which I have followed, is that the ICC prosecutors can only be good as the investigations put before it. The Satatute of the ICC puts a duty on Satte Authorities to cooperate with the ICC in investigating cases referred to it. if a state refuses, objects or even thwarts the invesigations, the direct result is that the Presecutors will not have serficient evidence to obtain a conviction. So Mensouda and her team have so far failed in their prosecution of Jomo Kenyatta, but this is because of the failure of GoK to cooperate in investigations. It is not because Mensouda and her team are bad lawyers as WBK keeps asserting. In fact the evidnce that they had gathered against Jomo Kenyatta was so compelling that any prosecutor would make a decision to prosecute. But faced with alkmost all key or material witnesses withdrawing or disappeared or intimidated, Mensouda had no choice but to withdraw the case.
The first important hurdle, that is the establishment of the International Criminal Court, has now been successfully overcome. States party to the Rome Treaty now have to decide ways and means by which they can strengthen the ICC's Investigatory capacity and authority, especially in cases where a suspect or accused holds or is close to power. The UN Security Council has to give the Prosecutor extra-ordinary powers to investigatewith or without the cooperation of the State concerned. Th UN must also strengthen its Witness protection programme. Lastly, the Security Council must reserve to itself power to punish leaders, like Jomo Kenyatta and Omar Bashir who refuse to cooperate with the ICC investigations. This may mean imposing travel bans, arrest warrants and other other economic sanctions against them so that they the continue to swagger around like Jomo Kenyatta whn in fact they should be locked up in prison as dangerous criminals.
Written by
George Okello
Current Ugandan political parties are just like anti-colonial movement parties of a bygone era:
Written by Professor J. B. R. GoyaLast Updated: 23 March 2015
The term movement legacy was first coined by professor emeritus, Goran Hyden in 2011, and by it I mean a pattern of political behavior that characterized anti-colonial nationalist movements in their struggles for independence.
Half a century since most countries gained independence, this form of behavior continues to shape ruling- and opposition party politics in Africa and Uganda, while frustrating the prospects for deepening democracy.
CAUSE-EFFECT
Nationalist movements in Uganda were spearheaded by three main sections: World War II veterans, a small not so well-educated elite class of clerical workers, and leaders of a nascent civil society. These groups were united by a single but multi-faceted cause, namely to vanquish the colonial masters and take charge of the state apparatus.
Other than this mission, these groups remained committed to their particular identities. The issues were varied and subordinate to the cause. The anti-colonial movements adopted a simple but important strategy of popular mobilization for the cause. It was rare and in most cases illegal to campaign.
Most notably the movement against the British took place at the level of society because there were no representative bodies such as parliaments or legislative councils until much later in the struggle. Membership to these movements was rather diffuse and fluid, but because there was a single movement, this was not detrimental to its dynamic and operation.
Kabaka Daudi Chwa II doubted the paternity of Mutesa II?
Daudi Chwa II during his early reign which was mostly supported by regents.
Kabaka Chwa II’s will courtesy of Prof Jonathan Earle’s research.
Edward Mutesa II
Kabaka Daudi Chwa II weds Mutesa's mother Irene Drusilla Namaganda on 19/09/1914 at Namirembe Cathedral.
Very early in the morning on November 22nd, 1939, Kabaka of Buganda Daudi Chwa II released his grip on the shield, a Buganda term that was back in the day used to signify that the protector of the kingdom had rested.
Kabaka Chwa II had been indisposed for some time and there were rumors in the kingdom citing his ill health. On a fateful day, while in the company of his mother and close relatives in Lukuli, Makindye, the Kabaka slumped to the ground and died.
His body was fetched quietly by the Katikiro and as tradition dictated, placed in his house. His subjects were later given the update regarding his death over 8 hours later.
A series of theories regarding Chwa II’s death was raised, with the first and most believable citing he had died of cardiac arrest while the TIME on Monday, November 30th, 1942 stated the Kabaka had died of a chronic hangover.
At the time of his death, Kabaka Chwa II was recorded to have fathered at least 36 children (20 of them male) across at least eight or more women.
However, among his children, Daudi Chwa II indicated a question mark on his 5th son Edward Frederick David William Mutesa Walugembe and indicated on his death will that: “I doubt He is not mine”.
This was symbolic that Kabaka Chwa II could have had doubts about his son Mutesa’s paternity let alone the fact that by the time of Mutesa’s birth in 1924, the Kabaka (Chwa II) and his mother Irene Drusilla Namaganda were not on good terms.
Namaganda, probably the only Christian wife of Kabaka Chwa II was educated in Gayaza, the Church Missionary Society’s prestigious girl’s school, before her 1914 Christian marriage at the age of eighteen to Kabaka Daudi Chwa. The marriage gave birth to Mutesa in 1924 (November 19).
However, Mutesa raised by Missionaries was never Kabaka’s Chwa’s favorite son. Indeed, the Kabaka had indicated Omulangira Goerge William Mawanda as his heir in principle.
Mawanda was also regarded by senior traditional chiefs as the logical successor to the king, with Mutesa denied and his paternity questioned.
Daudi Chwa II during his early reign which was mostly supported by regents.
However, in his death Will, Kabaka Chwa II indicated that Mutesa would be a co-heir to Mawanda alongside another son Frederick Ssekamanya Kayondo. Kabaka Chwa II said Mutesa and Kayondo would be “minor” heirs.
The Kabaka also stated that he would not touch the Kabaka ship question but had only chosen his personal heir to inherit his “mutuba” (rank in the royal family).
“I have not touched the question of the Kabaka-ship due to the fact that when you read Article 6 of the principal agreement of 1900, you find it states “The kabaka shall be selected from descendants of Mutesa of Kasubi and that the selection of the majority in the Lukiko will be confirmed by his excellency the governor,” Kabaka Chwa II stated on 14th August 1928.
“Well, as they are my children, who are the grandsons of Mutesa, the matter is up to the Lukiko and the choice of majority will be put into effect,” he added.
In an updated will two years from his death ( May 4th, 1937), Kabaka Chwa II appointed Mutesa II the future King of Buganda.
“I Daudi Chwa II son of the late Kabaka Mwanga II, the grandson of the late Kabaka Mutesa I. I have gone where all people go,” the will stated.
“You Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II. I put you in the hands of God to look after you as I have been.”
In the Will, Kabaka Chwa ordered Mutesa II to keep peace in Buganda.
“The drum “wango” will be sounded for you. All traditional drums will be sounded for you.”
Indeed, following the death of Kabaka Chwa II, the Prime Minister Martin Luther Nsibirwa informed the Lukiko of Mutesa’s selection and he was passed with a majority vote.
Kabaka Chwa II’s will courtesy of Prof Jonathan Earle’s research.
Mutesa, then only 18 years old and studying English at Kings College Buddo was fetched to perform the ritual of okubika ko olubugo.
Several theories have been raised as to why Kabaka Chwa II publicly doubted the paternity of Mutesa and even did not indicate him earlier as future king.
Many supposed that had Mutesa been indicated as future king, then he would be killed earlier by those scrambling for the throne.
Just like Kabaka Chwa II noted in his will, Buganda was not at peace as there were several people trying to cause confusion and indeed there were several efforts later to overthrow Mutesa and install Mawanda.
Later with Mawanda’s efforts futile, another group organized to place Omulangira Ssuuna on the throne. Therefore, Kabaka Chwa II’s master plan to hide Mutesa from the throne all this while proved a master class, as he would later become the future king of Buganda.
Edward Mutesa II
Indeed, in the afternoon of November 25th, 1939, Mutesa II became kabaka (king) of Buganda without any drama. This was historically unusual as Carol Summers concludes in her book Scandal and Mass Politics: Buganda ‘s 1941 Nnamasole Crisis:
“In selecting Mutesa, rather than one of Daudi Chwa’s other 35 children, the Lukiiko also chose his mother, Irene Namaganda, as the new nnamasole, or queen mother.
Daudi Chwa’s long reign thus ended and Mutesa II’s began with a quick choice of a candidate born in Christian marriage to a Christian mother, and raised by protestant missionaries.
This selection affirmed Buganda’s association with Christian Britain and bypassed the sorts of struggles among scheming clans and ambitious royal women that had been as much a part of previous successions as any vote of the Great Lukiiko. With apparently apolitical speed, the succession demonstrated how colonial authorities had ended older forms of political contention.”
Mutabani wa Mwanga II Ssekabaka Daudi Chwa II:
By Multi Media
1st February, 2019
SSEKABAKA DANIEL BASAMMULA MWANGA II
Gili emyaka 104 kasookedde nga mbaga ya Ssekabaka Daudi Chwa ebaawo. Embaga ya Daudi Chwa yaliwo nga 19/09/1914. Yagattibwa ne Nnaabagereka Irene Drussila Namaganda mu lutikko e Namirembe. Chwa bw'atyo yafuuka omukulembeze ow'ennono omubereberye mu buvanjuba bwa Afrika okuwasa embaga enzungu.
Bya AHMED KATEREGGA
Posted: 4/6/2014:
Minisita wa Buganda avunaanyizibwa ku byamateeka n’ensonga za Ssemateeka Mw. Apollo Makubuya asabye wazimbibwewo ekuijjukizo kya Ssekabaka Daniel Basammula Mwanga ll ng’omu ku bamwoyo gwa ggwanga abaalwanyisa ennyo obufuzi bw’amatwale mu kifo ky’okumuvumiriranga obuvumirizi olw’okutta Abajulizi.
Mw. Makubuya agamba nti yeewuunya okulaba nga Kabaka Mwanga ll talina kijjukizo kyonna eky’olukale ekimujjukirwako sso nga ye ne muganda we Ssekabaka John Kabarega owa Bunyoro, baalwana masajja okutaasa ensi zaabwe obutawambibwa Bungereza ne balemererwa bulemererwa.
Ekifaananyi kino kyakubirwa Bukumbi e Mwanza mu 1885. Abajulizi 20 baali bagenze kwaniriza Msgr. Leon Livinhac eyali aweerezeddwa mu Buganda. Wano baali tebannafuuka Bajulizi. Baali bato bulala okwesalirawo.
Agattako:
Ne Gen. Gabriel Kintu, eyali omuduumizi w’abayeekera Abakatoliki, abaalwanirira ennyo Ssekabaka Mwanga, ne bwe yali amaze okuggyibwa ku Nnamulondo mu 1897, ne batuuka n’okusala ensalo okugenda e Tanzania mu 1914, nga Ssematalo eyasooka (1914-1918) abaluseewo, gye baalwanira ku ludda lwa Girmaani nga bagenderera okufuumuula kuno Abangereza, naye talina kijjukizo kyonna nga mwoyo gwa ggwanga.
Abagabe ba Kabaka abaamulyamu olukwe ne bakulembera eggye eryamuwambira e Lango nga Apollo Kaggwa, Semei Kakungulu ne Andreya Luwandagga buli omu Abazungu gwe baasasula Lupiya 1,000 olw’okuwamba Kabaka waabwe lwaki batenderezebwa mu kifo ky’okuvumirirwa obuvumirirwa?
Okumanya Mwanga yali muganzi eri abantu ba bulijjo, bwe baawambibwa ne Kabaleega ne baleetebwa e Kiteezi mu Kyaddondo gye baggyibwa okutwalibwa ku mwalo e Busaabala okusaabazibwa okuwang’angusirwa e Sesere, Abazungu n’abaleebeesi baabwe baali balowooza nti abantu bagenda kubajeeja, kyokka baalabira awo nga basimba ku luguudo okussa ekitiibwa mu Kabaka waabwe, era nga basaba Abazungu bamusonyiwe.
Ekirowoozo kye baalina okumusibira mu Lubiri e Mmengo baakisazaamu ne basalawo kumuwang’angusiza ddala kubanga baali bakimanyi nti Abaganda baali basobola okwegugunga ne bamuzza ku Bwakabaka.”, bw’agamba Makubuya yabadde ayitaayita mu katabo, “Mwanga ll: Resisitance to Imposition of Colonial Rule in Buganda 1884-1899” akawandiikibwa kakensa w’ebyafaayo, Polof. Samwiri Lwanga Lunyiigo.
Yagambye nti yeewuunya abantu okutendereza abakuza ba Ssekabaka Daudi Cwa ll nga Apollo Kaggwa, Stanislas Mugwanya ne Zakariya Kisingiri, olw’okwekobaana n’Abangereza ne baggya obuyinza ku Kabaka ne babweddiza nga bayita mu ndagaano ya 1900 n’agamba nti singa baali balumirirwa ensi yaabwe, tebandifeebezza Buganda eyali ensi eyeemalirira okufuuka pulovinsi mu Uganda ekuumibwa.
“Waakiri bwe twandizzeemu okwefuga, twandibadde twemalirira nga bw’olaba Rwanda, Burundi oba Obwakabaka bwa Lesotho oba Swaziland,” bwatyo bwe yategeezezza n’agattako nti n’endagaano ya 1955, gye batenda nti yaggya Kabaka mu lwokaano lw’ebyobufuzi, yayongera bwongezi kumunafuya nti era Abaganda si kye baali baagala.
Mw. Makubuya akkiriziganya ne Polof. Lunyiigo nti abawandiisi b’ebyafaayo bya Buganda ne Afirika babadde ne kyekubiira nga balaga abaalwanyisa obufuzi bw’amatwale nga Mwanga ng’abatemu sso ng’Abazungu nga Capt. Lugard be batemu bennyini n’anokolayo lwe baayokya Ekereziya y’e Lubaga, Kabaka Mwanga n’addukira ku Bulingugwe enkumi n’enkumi z’abantu battirwayo oba okubbira mu nnyanja Nalubaale baleme okuttibwa emmundu luwandula masasi, nti kyokka Abangereza kantanyi wa Paundi za Bungereza 10,000 baamusasula baminsani b’e Lubaga bokka Kabaka n’abantu be abattibwa tebaaliyirirwa.
Ekyafaayo ekirala ekikulu mu katabo kano, ekitatera kwogerwako kwe kuba nti nga Mwanga ne Kabarega bagenda bati okusaabazibwa, baabatizibwa omuminsani Omupolositante, John Ashe amannya ga Daniel ne John wadde nga kimanyiddwa nti Mwanga eddiini yasomanga ya Kikatoliki.
Kabaka Mwanga nga bwe yakuba Olubiri e Mmengo, omuwandiisi omu J.S. Kasirye (Abateregga ku Namulondo ya Buganda kye agamba nti ekifo ekitatama), n’asimisaawo n’ennyanja mu Ndeeba, gye yagambye nti yali tawuliranga ku Kabaka mulala yali agisimisizza.
E Mmengo ye wasaanidde okumuzimbira ekijjukizo. Kasirye agamba nti Mwanga okutta Abaajulizi yaweesa Buganda ne Uganda ekitiibwa.
Okujjukira abajulizi; Namugongo awuumye:
Namugongo
Posted: Jun 03, 2014
Abasumba abakulidde okusinza kwa ba Christians e Nakiyanja
Bya Muwanga Kakooza ne Benjamin Ssebaggala
NAMUGONGO awuumye namungi w’omuntu omubadde ne Pulezidenti Museveni bwe beeyiyeyo ku biggwa by’Abajjulizi Abakatulikiti n’Abapolositante e Namugongo okukuza olunaku lw’abajjulizi.
Pulezidenti Museveni yeyabadde omugenyi omukulu era yasabidde ku kiggwa ky’Abakatuliki e Namugongo ng’ate abantu abalala bangi omwabadde ne baddiini nabo beeyiye ku ky’Abapolositante e Nakiyanja okwakulembeddwa Ssabalabirizi Stanley Ntagali.
Pulezidenti Museveni yagambye nti ekiggwa ky’Abajjulizi ssi kya Bakatulikiti oba Bapolositante ssi kya Uganda yokka wabula kya Africa n’ensi yonna okutwalira awamu n’agamba nti gavumenti ejja kukola ekisoboka okukikulakulanya.
Ssabasumba w’esaza lya Klezia ekkulu ery’e Kampala Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga yagambye nti ng’Abakristu bwebakkiririza mu Kristu Yezu n’Abasiraamu bakkirza Nabbi Issa era ekiseera kyonna bamulinda akomewo okulamula abalamu n’abafu n’asaba Abasumba abaavudde e Nigeria okutegeeza Abatujju ba Boko Haram okukomyawo abaana abawala bebaawamba kubanga Nabbi Issa gwebakkiriza takkiriza byebakola.
Mu kusaba e Nakiyanja , Kaggo Patrick Luwaga Mugumbule eyetisse obubaka bwa Kabaka yavumiridde ebikolwa by’obutujju n’obuli bw’enguzi n’agamba biraga ng’abakiriza bwe bavudde ku kitangaala ky’abajjulizi.
Era n’akunga abantu okulwanirira emirembe n’obwenkanya naddala mu kiseera ky’okulonda kwa 2016 eggwanga lye kwolekede.
AMAZIMA GAVAYO KUBYOKUTTA OMUZUNGU HANNINGTON E BUSIA, MU GANDA KINGDOM.
Budimo: The tale of a tree and Bishop Hannington’s remains:
The Omutaabi tree, now named Hannington tree where Bishop Hannington’s body is said to have been hosted for four days in Budimo village in Busia District. PHOTO BY Dominic Bukenya
By Henry Lubega
Posted Saturday, February 21 2015
IN SUMMARY
Historic: From the naked eye, it is just like any other ordinary thicket with thorny trees. Around its edge is a moat with two drawbridges on the extreme ends. A few meters away stands the Omutaabi tree believed to be more than 200 years old, which played host to the remains of Bishop Hannington for four days in Budimo village in Busia District
The thicket was once a fortress to the Badimo people, who were forced away from their home because of sleeping sickness around 1870. Some moved to Kenya and settled at present day Kadimo, while others migrated to present day Namayingo District.
Seventy one-year-old Duncan Wandera Egondi is a grandson of the Banyideti, who co-occupied the fortress left by the Badimo with chief Gulyali’s people, the Balyali. “By the time the Banyideti came here, the Balyali had already settled here.
The fortress was surrounded with a moat, which was a form of defence against intruders. There was only one entrance for each clan. The Balyali and Banyudeti had separate entrances.”
Wandera explains what has been passed down to him by his father. “Two men, Ochola and Osore, came carrying the remains of Bishop James Hannington, an Anglican missionary, from Kyando [present day Mayuge District], where he had been killed on their way to the coast. But according to their culture at the time, a body of a foreigner could not be allowed into the fortress.
Chief Luba Munulo (L) shakes hands with Chief Peter Mumia as a sign of reconciliation between the chiefdom of Luba and the Wanga Kingdom over the killing of Bishop Hannington. Looking on is Justice James Ogoola, the organiser of the Hannington memorial.
The two men were allowed to stay outside the fortress and rest as long as they wished. It was from there that they got their food and water.
They put the body, which was tied in banana fibres, in a tree to keep it away from hyenas and made a bonfire at night to keep warm and keep the wild animals away,” says Wandera.
After four days of rest, the two men wanted to carry on with their journey and again culture demanded that they could not go away without the land being cleansed. “The Balayli asked my grandfather, Mason Aguru, a Munyideti, to give Osore and Ochola a white bull and a white sheep as a sign of cleansing the land. I was told the reason they gave them white animals was because they were carrying a white man’s body,” Wandera recalls.
Memories
“Over there,” Wandera says, pointing to the spot where the memorial stone stands, “is where the first church was.” The residents started a church in the area in memory of the killed bishop. Moving a few meters away, he recalls the exact location of the school, Budimo Sub-grade School, which he attended. “Both the school and the church were made of grass from the ground to the roof. Very often termites would attack the structures and eat them down. After the collapse of the church in the late 1950s, a new one was built where the current one stands today,” says Wandera.
L-R: Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo of Tororo Archdiocese, Bishop Simon Bogere Egesa of Bukedi Diocese, Archbishop of York John Sentamu, Justice James Ogoola, the chairperson of the Uganda Judicial Commission, and Bishop Emeritus Nikodemus Okille of Bukedi Diocese, behind the Hannington memorial plaque in Budimo, Busia District on Wednesday during the commemoration of Bishop Hannington and the 48 martyrs who died with him
The school Wandera went to had only two classes. After Primary Two, the pupils had to go either to the main primary schools, which, according to Wandera, were not in the area then, or end their education.
“I do believe and I know my age mates would agree with me that the coming of the Bishop’s body to Budimo gave birth to Christianity. Short of that, the religion would have taken much longer to reach here,” Wandera recounts.
According to Wandera, the courage shown by the two men who carried the bishop’s body, brought fame to the area. The fame did not come as a result of the body staying here but what it brought with - Christianity. Early Christians from this area became very prominent people. Some of those include the late Awori, father of former minister Aggrey Awori.
He was the first person in the whole area to become a canon and he went on to spread the gospel to Kenya.
Ever since the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey [now retired], declared the place a shrine in 1998, there have been annual services held on the ground.
“I have been coming here every year since 1998 when it was declared a shrine. I am proud that my grandfather did what he did. And whenever I see people coming here to remember that servant of God, I feel proud of what my clan did,” Seventy one-year-old Duncan Wandera Egondi, a grandson of the Banyideti, says.
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