Uganda Senior Police officers are facing eviction from Buganda State Police Barracks:
By Simon Ssekidde
Added 31st May 2016
Currently Mpigi Central Police station is faced with the challenge of housing
Officers at Mpigi Police Station gear up for deployment recently. (Senior officers have been told to leave the barracks).
Senior Police officers at Mpigi Central Police Station have been asked to vacate houses in the police barracks and rent rooms outside the barracks.
In the letter dated 23rd May 2016, authored by the District Police Commander, Ahmad Kimera Sseguya, he directed all officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and above to immediately vacate the houses where they are currently staying.
According to Kimera, all officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police and above are not allowed to sleep in the police barracks because they receive housing allowance in their salary every month.
“We have junior officers who are renting outside the barracks yet they are supposed to sleep inside the Police barracks, these senior officers are supposed to sleep outside the barracks and not inside because their housing allowances are consolidated in the salary” Kimera said.
Currently there are nine Senior Police officers sleeping in houses inside the barracks at Mpigi Central Police station who are facing eviction according to Kimera.
Kimera added that Cadet Officers are however excused because they are not yet confirmed ASPs and therefore they do not receive housing allowances.
Currently, the station is faced with the challenge of housing.
One of the officers who is facing eviction but preferred enormity, said the directive came at a time when they have no money to rent rooms outside the barracks and that they are expensive which they cannot afford now.
“We cannot afford to rent rooms outside the barracks now because they are expensive, we are still looking for money to take our children to school and they are now asking us to leave the barracks” he said.
'Paasita' eyeeyita Yesu bamugga-lidde: Agaana abagoberezi be emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu ddwaaliro, n'okusoma
By Musasi wa Bukedde
Added 1st July 2016
POLIISI mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke ekutte ab’enzikiriza egaana abantu okulya emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu malwaliro n’okutwala abaana ku ssomero abaabadde bakubye olukuhhaana okusaasaanya enjiri yaabwe
Emu ku makanisa amanji agagoberera ISA MASIYA mu nsi Buganda.
POLIISI mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke ekutte ab’enzikiriza egaana abantu okulya emmere enfumbe, okugenda mu malwaliro n’okutwala abaana ku ssomero abaabadde bakubye olukuhhaana okusaasaanya enjiri yaabwe.
Baakwatiddwa ku kyalo Tongo mu ggombolola y’e Kapeeka mu disitulikiti y’e Nakaseke.
Omwogezi wa poliisi mu kitundu kya Savana, Lameka Kigozi yategeezezza nti abaakwatiddwa baggaliddwa ku poliisi e Kiwoko ne mukama waabwe Emmanuel Semakula 35, ng’ono yeeyita ISA MASIYA era agamba nti agaba n’emikisa.
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Ensi Buganda ejjudde nyo eddini. Ono naye agenda kwefunira linya LYA SADAAKA (ekiweebwayo) MU DDINI ENO EYA TONDA nga Baganda banaffe wano e Namugongo bwebajjukirwa okukamala.
MAY NGA 24 BULI MWAKA OMUGANDA ALINA OKUJJUKIRA OLUTALO LW'OBOTE OKUWAMBA OBUGANDA. OBWAKABAKA BWA BUGANDA BWAVAWO. ENSI REPUBLIC NEYIYIZIBWA.
Mmengo erabudde abawandii
sa abantu abali ku Ttaka ly’Obwa
Kabaka
May 05, 2015
Kyewalabye (ku ddyo) ng’ayogerera mu musomo.
Bya Musasi waffe
AKULIRA ekitongole ky’ebyettaka mu bwakabaka ekya Buganda Land Board (BLB):
Kyewalabye Male, alabudde abaami ba Kabaka abagenda okwenyigira mu kuwandiisa ebibanja by’abasenze ku ttaka ly’Obwakabaka beewale obukumpanya n’emivuyo kuba bayinza okusibwa.
Yagambye nti wadde ng’enteekateeka eno egenderedde kuyamba bantu ba Ssaabasajja kufuna biwandiiko ebituufu mu mateeka ku bibajnja byabwe, wandibaawo bannakigwanyizi abayinza okukozesa omukisa guno okwenoonyeza ebyabwe.
Bino Male, eyabadde n’abakozi ba BLB ne katikkiro w’ebyalo bya Kabaka, Lubega Mutunzi, yabyogedde mu kuggalawo omusomo ogwetabiddwaamu Abaamagombolola, Abeemiruka n’Abatongole mu ssaza ly’e Kyaggwe ku mbuga ya Ssekiboobo e Mukono ogwategekeddwa okubabangula ku nkola gye bagenda okugoberera nga basomesa n’okuwandiisa abasenze ku ttaka ly’Obwakabaka. Enteekateeka eno yatandika nga May 4, 2015.
Ssekiboobo Benjamin Kigongo yagambye nti ebibanja ebitalambuddwa si bya kuwandiikibwa olw’okwewala enkaayana.
Nb: Ekizibu ky'abaami ba Ssabasajja kyelaga kyoka. Baddidde abobuyinza babiri babateese mu kalo ka Buganda akedda. Ebyawandiikibwa bitugamba ki? Toyinza kuwuliriza bakama bo babiri. Oleka ko omu okumuwulira nowulira omulala. Tugambe ki? Mufumbiro bwemufumbiramu abafumbiro abangi Mmere kiki eyo evayo?
Genda mukalo kafe wano e Buganda. Owe Gombolola atuuka okubuuza ettaka lye kitebe kye werikoma. Bamugamba kimu. LC 1 yaliteekako ba Investor abava e Buyindi. Ate ekubo elyaffe eryedda elyayita wano ku Saza lya Kangawo. Olwo Kangawo abuuza: Bamugamba kimu. Disi yasibawo Sengenge ensonga zino ziri mu National Land Board. Okunsiba Sebo Mwami tekulimu. Tonda bwatakuuma abakuuma bakumira bwerere Jjajja. Kugwa mubunya bwewesimira nga olaba. Kitalo nyo.
Bazudde obulyazama
nyi bwe ttaka lya Buganda mu ofiisi ze Wakiso:
By Rogers Kibirige
Added 30th September 2016
Ying. Sabiiti (owookubiri ku ddyo) ne babaka banne nga baliko bye babuuza omukozi mu minisitule y’ebyetta e Wakiso (ku ddyo).
Bya ROGERS KIBIRIGE
EMIVUYO egiri mu ofiisi ya minisitule y’ebyettaka esangibwa e Wakiso ku kitebe kya disitulikiti giwuniikirizza ababaka.
Bakozesa bboggo eri abatuuze ate abalala empapula zaabwe teziwera. Ono ye kacica muyite cculugu ababaka ba palamenti abaalambudde ofiisi za minisitule y’ebyettaka zino ku Lwokusatu gwe baasanzeeyo.
Ababaka abaakulembeddwa ssentebe w’akakiiko akalondola enkola y’emirimu aka (Physical infrastructure Committee) Ying. Denis Sabiiti (Rubanda) baategeezezza nti kyannaku okulaba ng’abakozi ba Minisitule ab’e Wakiso babonyabonya abantu ne babatambuzanga okubakolera ku nsonga z’ettaka kyokka bwe bamala ne babamma ebyapa.
Sabiiti yayongeddeko nti baazudde nti abakozi ba Minisitule balina obutakkaanya n’abakola mu ofiisi y’ebyettaka eya disitulikiti y’e Wakiso ekireetedde entambuza y’emirimu okuzingama.
Kwe kusaba minisitule n’abakulembeze ba disitulikiti okugonjoola ensonga eno mu bwangu.
Yayongeddeko nti n’abakozi abasangibwa mu kifo abantu we batuukira, engeri gye bakwatamu bakasitoma n’abagenyi eraga nti si batendeke kimala era beetaaga okuddamu okubangulwa mu bwangu.
Yategeezezza nti byonna bye baasanze e Wakiso, bagenda kubikolamu lipooti bagitwale mu palamenti y’eggwanga ekubaganyizibweko ebirowoozo.
Baalabudde nti ssinga minisitule y’ebyettaka tetereeza bizibu biri Wakiso, eggyibwewo kuba ebeera tegasa Bannayuganda.
Ye ssentebe wa disitulikiti y’e Wakiso, Matia Lwanga Bwanika yategeezezza nti ebbanga lyonna abadde yeemulugunya ku ngeri abakozi ba minisitule gye bakolamu emirimu nga teri avaayo.
Yasabye nti ababaka bye bazudde bireme kukoma mu lipooti, wabula abavunaanyizibwa ku mivuyo egiri mu minisitule ne ofiisi y’e Wakiso, bakolweko.
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Abakozi bano batukiriza mulimu gwa Bible ogwayogerwa ko Jjajja Isa Masiya 10/40 AD. E Buganda nakatono kolina nako kalikujjibwako nekaweebwa alina ekingi enyo.
Buganda demands Shs 10bn from Unra — land board boss
Written by ZAHRA ABIGABA
Last Updated: 23 November 2015
Buganda Land Board’s Chief Executive Officer Kiwalabye Male
The Buganda Land Board wrote to the Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra) commission of inquiry raising concerns on land compensation.
The board noted that the Kabaka has never been compensated since the inception of Unra and that they demand nearly Shs 10 billion for Unra’s failure to pay the Kabaka. This prompted the commission to ask the Buganda Land Board chief executive officer, David Kyewalabye Male, to re-appear at the inquiry.
The inquiry, chaired by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, has commissioners Patrick Rusongoza, Abraham Nkata, Ben Okello Luwum and Richard Mongati, with Andrew Kasirye as lead counsel. ZAHRA ABIGABA brings you excerpts from the proceedings:
Kasirye: What is your name?
Kyewalabye: I am David Kyewalabye Male.
Kasirye: How old are you?
Kyewalabye: I am 46 years old.
Kasirye: What do you do for a living?
Kyewalabye: I work as the chief executive officer of the Buganda Land Board.
Kasirye: When did you join the Buganda Land Board?
Kyewalabye: Since February 2007.
Kasirye: What is the Buganda Land Board?
Kyewalabye: The Buganda Land Board is a company mandated with the management of all the land vested in his royal highness the Kabaka of Buganda. This mandate includes the collection of all rental and related income accruing from the use of the Kabaka’s land, including compensation by the state and related organs or bodies.
Kasirye: What are the complaints you are bringing on behalf of the Kabaka and the Buganda Land Board against the Uganda National Roads Authority?
Kyewalabye: Our complaint as the Buganda Land Board on behalf of the Kabaka is with regard to the failure and the refusal by Unra to provide the Kabaka with compensation for the use and acquisition of large tracts of land in spite of various demands and reminders to pay. My lord, what puzzles us is that leasehold tenants and bibanja tenants continue to be compensated while the Kabaka is completely ignored.
Kasirye: Do you know the roads /areas affected and Unra never compensated?
Kyewalabye: The areas include Kibuye-Entebbe phase 2 which was completed in 1998 but up-to-date we have not seen any attempts at payment for Kibuye-Zzana (a 5km stretch), Kampala Northern bypass, Masanafu-Bukalagi-Namungona-Kasubi; all these have not been compensated yet works are going on. Then we have got the Entebbe expressway, which also includes the Munyonyo spur, Kigo, Lunya, Buggu-Kibiri-Kirindi and Mutungo, Mpigi-Maddu, Sembabule road, Lukalu B, Kiriti Sabwe hill, Kabasanda, Mirembe and Ngomanene villages. Mukono-Kyetume [the famous Katosi road], Kisoga-Nyenga road and the affected areas include Kiyola, Katosi central and Kiwologoma villages.
Kasirye: Are there any other complaints you have to table before the commission?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord. There are titles given to third parties on the Kabaka’s land without going through the normal process and the areas affected are Munyonyo block 255 and plot 98. The Uganda land commission issued these titles [but] they were fraudulently acquired.
Kasirye: What does that particular road have to do with Unra?
Kyewalabye: The claimants at Munyonyo road have already contacted Unra with their fake titles and compensation is done. Again, the same block 93 where the Catholic shrine is, Mr Obey got the titles on the same piece of land and claims have been passed on to Unra and Unra seems to have recognised it and we are asking for the titles to be recalled and cancelled.
We, therefore, request the commission to go on with the investigations and verify all titles issued on this land before any payments are being made. Otherwise, we will suffer irrecoverable damages if these dubious payments are made at our own expense. And our humble prayer to the commission is that, ‘make all necessary recommendations to enable the payments of all dues that are by law ours.’
Kasirye: Is there any other thing you would like to add?
Kyewalabye: The issue with Kampala northern bypass, Unra took titles and has not returned them. Unfortunately, the Kabaka’s land titles comprise huge chunks of land, like 300-600 acres of land. Unra takes land titles and takes ages without returning them and this affects other tenants on the Kabaka’s land.
Kasirye: Do you know how much Unra is supposed to pay Buganda Land Board?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord. It is close to Shs 10 billion.
Kasirye: And do you know the acreage of land to be compensated?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord. It is close to 70 acres of land. And if Unra fails to pay the Buganda Land Board in the given time we have given them, then the matter will be taken to court.
Mongati: Mr Kyewalabye, I just want clarification. The normal procedure is that when they are paying kibanja owners, the mailo owner or superior owner must approve. Has this been done?
Kyewalabye: In some cases, my lord, but not all.
Mongati: So, are you saying that bibanja owners have been paid sometimes without the consent of the owner?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord.
Mongati: Do you know these cases?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord. We have evidence, for instance on the Mpigi-Maddu road, but I think they are quite a number of them.
Nkata: Is the Kabaka’s land, wherever it is available, well demarcated? Are there maps and plans one can see?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord. We have titles and in some areas the boundaries have been opened, but various consultants have been involved in these processes. They know how best you can arrive at this.
Nkata: For the interest of the general public, do people know where the Kabaka’s land starts and stops, especially in the central region?
Kyewalabye: Yes, my lord, they do.
Nkata: Soon Salama road is going to be worked on and I am aware that there are multiple land tenures on that road and the issue that has always been contagious is people claiming that they are on Kabaka’s land. Then there are also princesses and royals on that land that claim that it is their land and also landowners. Has this matter been clarified because, as the Munyonyo road will be worked on, this matter is likely to delay the public good because of that unclear demarcation of land? Can you assure the public that this matter has been sorted?
Kyewalabye: Thank you, my lord. As you are aware, the Kabaka is a land title holder, not kibanjas holder; so, once it is titled land, it is very clear with demarcations and we work with land surveyors. And even the various royals who hold land, they are also indicated on the titles and the 1993 Act that invested the land to Kabaka indicates the royals; either it’s the Namasole, Katikkiro, Omulamuzi. But once we have the titles, that is no problem.
We have always requested Unra to work with Buganda Land Board when it comes to Kabaka’s land. The Kabaka is a very big landlord, not somebody who just holds two or three acres of land. We are very committed to this because we are interested parties to the development of this country and, in any case, when these roads are done, the Kabaka benefits more because it uplifts the value of the land.
Bamugemereire: Thank you very much and we appreciate that you have found the commission useful in assisting you to investigate this matter further. We will do our best and I hope that you find the answers.
azabigaba@gmail.com
Company eno ekunganya rent okuva mu bagagga be ttaka mu kibuga Kampala elabika esasula URA omusolo munene ddala okukulakulanya ensi ya Uganda. Naye no enfuna ya sente ebiro bino siyamulembe nakamu kubapangisa b'ettaka. Ggwe ate oba ne company ya UNRA company ngagga nyo.
Kattikiro wa Buganda akyaye okwanirizibwa nga Kabaka wa Buganda---Owebweru?
On January 28, 2015, in a move that may surprise both his admirers and detractors, the Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga announced that Buganda chiefs and other hosts must stop welcoming him to their areas in a manner which should be reserved for the Kabaka. The televised announcement came after more than a year of complaints by Baganda of different walks of life that the Katikkiro was trying to replace centuries-old Baganda cultural institutions and traditions by expanding his powers and responsibilities beyond what the Baganda constitution (Ennono) allows.
Addressing Ssaza (county) and Ggombolola (sub-county) chiefs, at Bulange Mengo, the Katikkiro told them that going forward, they must stop welcoming him in a style that befits the Kabaka. People must stop erecting archways (ebiyitirirwa) for him, prostrating before him and doing other things that should be reserved for welcoming the Kabaka. Speaking in Luganda, Mayiga said, “In the past I have been to many events where I am inappropriately welcomed, although I cannot blame you because of the high excitement you may have. However, you must reserve those types of welcomes for the Kabaka.”
Since he got his job, Mayiga has endured frequent criticism from members of the Buganda royal clan (Abalangira), Baganda youth organizations (Nkoba za Mbogo, BANGAWA and Ffe Buganda Nze Buganda), Baganda groups in Diaspora and many ordinary Baganda who accused him of, among other things, attempting to destroy Buganda’s cultural foundation. The fact that Katikkiro Mayiga has been a key player in several widely unpopular Buganda deals with President Museveni (Regional Tier and MOU) and, recently, the Aga Khan plan to commercialize the Kabaka’s Palace, has widened the divide between the Katikkiro and traditional Baganda of all shades.
One of the most visible and contraversial practices by Katikkiro Mayiga is his use of a large motorcade, with a heavy detail of AK-47 totting Uganda Special Forces soldiers which project military power on his tours around Buganda. And the fact that the tour organizers often erect archways (ebiyitirirwa) and hire boda-bodas (motorcycle taxis) to enhance crowds and excitement. Many traditional Baganda allege that this is clear evidence that Mr. Mayiga is trying to overshadow the Kabaka and isolate him from his people. Mr. Mayiga’s announcement on Wednesday seems to have been directed at addressing this issue.
Notably, one group of people that has consistently stood behind Mr. Mayiga and his programs are certain Kampala traders, money lenders, sports betting operators and local real-estate investors. And for the most part, Mr. Mayiga’s wealthy supporters have helped him raise billions of shillings under his Ettofaali campaign. Even most of his detractors privately admit that Mayiga has done an impressive job in inspiring Baganda to wake up and believe that they do not want to be victims forever. Lately, however, there are signs that both Baganda and other Ugandans are starting to develop Ettofaali fatigue and the awakened Baganda seem to be expecting Katikkiro Mayiga to start delivering from the billions of Shillings that he has collected.
The audio recording below is one example of the many speeches that have been made in protest of Mr. Mayiga’s policies. Ow’ek. Ssewava Sserubiri, former minister in Buganda Government, made that speech in mid-2014, at a party organized by Nkoba za Mbogo student’s organization.
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EKIKA NJOVU.
OMUZIRO:NJOVU
AKABBIRO
NVUBU.
OMUTAKA
MUKALO
OBUTAKA
KAMBUGU
Buliji.
ESSAZA
BUSIRO
OMUBALA
Esimbye amasanga, Nakate ajja.
EKIKA MBWA
OMUZIRO:MBWA
AKABBIRO
Kyuuma kye basiba mu Mbwa.
OMUTAKA
MUTASINGWA.
OBUTAKA
KIGGWA
ESSAZA
BUSUJJU.
OMUBALA
Goba Omukazi oleete Embwa.
Arch-Bishop we York, Ebulaya akakasi
zza nti Ssekaba
ka Daniel Mwanga II Basammu
la
Butagali, talagira nga kutta kwa Bishop Hanning
ton omwaka 1888:
Archbishop of York commissions Hannington sanctuary in Busia, Uganda.
L-R: Tororo Catholic Diocese Bishop Emmanuel Obbo, Bukedi Diocese Bishop Simon Bogere Egesa, Archbishop of York John Sentamu, chairperson of the Uganda Judicial Commission Justice James Ogoola and former Bishop of Bukedi Diocese Nikodemus Okille pose in front of a tree in Budimo village, Busia District, where the remains of the bishop were kept for four days during 1888.
PHOTO BY DOMINIC BUKENYA
By Henry Lubega
Posted Friday, February 20 2015
Traditional, religious and political leaders in Uganda, Kenya and York in Britain have paid homage to the late Bishop of the Equatorial Africa James Hannington at the Hannington Shrine in Budimo village, Busia District.
Religious leaders led by Archbishop of York John Sentamu, Bishop of Bukedi Diocese Simon Bogere Egesa and Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Tororo Emmanuel Obbo among others, attended the function on Wednesday.
For the first time in more than a century, the great grandsons of the chiefs of the two kingdoms where Bishop Hannington was loved and where he was killed, met.
Chief Luba Munulo Juma, the great grandson of chief Luba in whose dominion (Busoga) and on whose orders Hannington was killed, met with chief Peter Mumia II, the great grandson to Paramount chief of the Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia, who had given Hannington porters and guides to Kabaka Mwanga’s palace.
The paramount chief later allowed Bishop Hannington’s remains to be buried in his territory at the cost of his people.
During his visit to the shrine, Archbishop Sentamu commissioned the construction of the administration block of Bishop of York Bible College, Canterbury Square, Hannington Tabernacle Chapel and the York Gardens in Budimo.
Sentamu’s visit was crowned by the ecumenical service conducted by bishops Bogere Egesa and Obbo.
The head of the organising committee, Justice James Ogoola, said Archbishop Sentamu’s visit was not only a religious symbol, but a reconciliation ceremony between the people of Luba in Uganda and their counterparts from Mumias in western Kenya.
“I wanted to reconcile the descendants of the two dramatists in Hannington’s last days. One gave him escorts and guides, the other killed him. The two families met for the first time and I made sure I gave each of them a Lusamia Bible and asked them to shake hands as a sign of reconciliation,” Justice Ogoola, also the chairperson of the Uganda Judicial Commission, said.
The place was first dedicated by then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey in 1998, as a Hannington shrine.
Chief Luba Munulo Juma in his remarks said: “I don’t feel guilty for what my great grandfather did, the bishop died because of his stubbornness before the cultural leader.”
Chief Peter Mumia II said Bishop Hannington was a Christian not an explorer, killed by those who did not understand him.
More developments
According to Justice Ogoola, plans are also underway to make the shrine a national pilgrimage for Christians to remember Bishop Hannington for his sacrifice for the new Christian faith that had just arrived in the middle of the continent of Africa during 1888.
hlubega@
ug.nationmedia.com
Nantaba wants elderly scheme probed
Outgoing Lands state minister Ida Nantaba (in gomesi) celebrates with the newly elected Kayunga speaker Saleh Balinsoni (2nd left) during the swearing in of district leaders for the Republican government of Uganda May 2016.
PHOTO BY FRED MUZAALE
By Fred Muzaale
Posted Monday, May 30 2016
Kayunga. Outgoing Lands state minister Ida Nantaba has asked the Inspector General of Government to investigate how the outgoing Kayunga District leadership selected beneficiaries of the Senior Citizens Grant given to elderly persons.
Ms Nantaba, who is also the district Woman MP, claims the 100 elderly persons per sub-county in the district were selected based on sectarian and political grounds.
“It hurts me as a leader to find that more than 900 beneficiaries of the senior citizens’ grant in this district all come from the same area and are from almost one tribe. I ask the IGG to take interest in this matter and probe how these beneficiaries were selected,” Ms Nantaba said on Tuesday.
Take oath
This was during the swearing-in of the district LC5 chairperson, Mr Tom Sserwanga, and his councillors at Ntenjeru District headquarters.
The grant, one of the core components of the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment, started in 2010 with financing by government and development partners.
Kayunga is among the districts where the programme will be rolled out during this financial year.
However, the Elderly and Disabled Affairs State minister, Mr Sulaiman Madada, dismissed the claims by Ms Nantaba, saying beneficiaries had been selected on merit.
The former district LC5 chairman, Mr Steven Dagada said: “The selection of beneficiaries was based on age, but also on who is in more need for assistance.”
fmuzaale@ug.
nationmedia.com
Omusolo ku ttaka lye Buganda ne bizimbe gwakwo-ngera ku nnyingiza ya Central Gavume
nti
Feb 17, 2015
BAMMEMBA ku lukiiko olufuzi olw’ekitongole ky’emisolo mu ggwnga (URA) bwe baabadde basisinkanye akakiiko ka palamenti akavunaanyizi
bwa ku byenfuna wabaddewo okugamba nti omusolo ddala mutono oguva mu byobulimu bw’ogeraagera
nya n’ensimbi eziva mu makubo amalala agayingiza ensimbi mu ggwanika ly’eggwanga.
Nzikiriza nti ensimbi entono eziyingira mu ggwanga zisobola okwongerwako singa tugaziya amakubo agayingiza. Nategeezezza olukiiko nti Uganda yeesinga okuyingiza ensimbi entono bw’ogigeraageranya n’amawanga amalala agali mu mukago gwa East Africa.
Singa ekirowoozo kyange kibeera kiguliddwa kisoboka gavumenti n’erifuula etteeka ne liyambako okugaziya amakubo mwe bayingiriza ensimbi mu ggwanika ly’eggwanga. Kyokka kino nsaba kimanyibwe nti kirowoozo kyange ng’omuntu, sinnaba kukyanjula eri gavumenti wadde minisitule y’ebyenfuna n’okuteekeratee
kera eggwanga.
Oluvannyuma lw’abantu ab’enjawulo okuwa endowooza zabwe ku nsonga eno ndowoozezza nti kyetaagisa okwongera okutangaaza ensonga eno ey’okuggya omusolo ku ttaka libeere nga waliwo emirimu egikolerwako oba nedda.
Ekiseera ekiyise Uganda eyongedde ku sente zeeyingiza nga tetunuulidde bagabi ba buyambi waakiri ebitundu 7 ku 100 buli mwaka gwa byansimbi kyokka ekizibu kikyali nti emikisa egiriwo tegikozeseddwa kugafuula makubo agavaamu omusolo okwongera ku nnyigiza y’eggwanga.
Ekiseera kino sente eziva mu musolo ng’ozigeraagera
nyizza n’ennyingiza y’eggwanga yonna zeeyongedde nga kati ziri ebitundu 11.7 ku 100 mu mwaka gw’ebyensimbi 2013/2014 era sente zino ziri wansi bw’ogeraageranya n’amawanga agatwetoolodde wamu ne ku mutendera gw’ensi yonna.
Enkyukakyuka mu nnyingiza ebaddewo okuva mu mwaka gwa 2000/01 eraga nti ennyingiza y’eggwanga ekyali wansi bw’ogeraageranya n’omutindo gw’ensi yonna. Uganda eteekwa okwongeramu amaanyi ku musolo gw’esolooza munda mu ggwanga okugatta empungu eriwo wakati waayo n’amawanga amalala mu byensimbi bwetubeera nga tuli baakugenda mu masso nga tuvuganya.
Etundutundu lya 27.21 ku 100, ku byenfuna bya Uganda liva mu byabulimi ebikolerwa ku ttaka kyokka ekkowe lino livaamu omusolo mutono nnyo era wano wensinziira okuwa ekiteeso nti eggwanga liteekewo enkola ennambulukufu esobola okuteekawo omusolo omulambulukufu okuggya sente mu by’obulimi n’okussaawo omusolo ku ttaka.
Amakowe amalala agasaana okutunuulira mu mbeera eno kuliko: eby’okuzimba, ebyenjigiriza n’obusuubuzi bw’ettaka kubanga ennyingiza yabyo eri wagguluko.
Enkola eriwo ewa amakubo gavumenti geetaddewo okuggya omusolo ku kkampuni ezisuubula ettaka n’amasomero g’obwannannyini era wano wensinziira okukidding’ana nti mu nkola yeemu n’ebyobulimi bitunuulirwe. Okulemwa okuggya omusolo ku nnyingiza mu byobulimi kiraga nti wakyaliwo obuzibu mu mitendera gy’okunoonya omusolo ekivaako okuyingiza sente entono mu ggwanga.
Amawanga nga Denmark, Estonia, Chile ne South Africa zitumbudde nnyo omusolo ku byobulimi ne kiyambako okuyingiza sente mu gavumenti zabwe. Endowooza yange ng’omutuuze, nkiraba ng’okuggya omusolo ku ttaka kisobola okwongera enkulaakulana kubanga kijja kuwaliriza bannannyini ttaka okulikulaakulanya baleme kuliragajjalira.
Ndowooza nti kino ekirowooza gavumenti esobola okukigula n’ekiteekako amateeka agakifuga okusobola okwongera ku makubo mw’eggya omusolo. Amawanga mangi gavudde ku kusolooza obusuulu ne bateekawo emiwendo emirambulukufu ku musolo gwe baggya ku ttaka. Endowooza eno esobola okwongerwako n’ekulaakulanyizi
The government of Uganda has been found guilty of putting a 2009 curfew on the King of the State of Buganda. The case has taken the Ugandan Courts six years to come to an agreed judicial Judgement.
President Yoweri Museveni (L) shaking hands with Buganda king Ronald Mwenda Mutebi at some function.
File photo
By Juliet Kigongo
Posted Saturday, December 19 2015
KAMPALA, UGANDA.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that police was wrong to prevent the Kabaka of Buganda from visiting his subjects in Kayunga district on September 12, 2009.
In a majority ruling of three to two, Justices Remmy Kasule, Egonda–Ntende and Rubby Opio Aweri concurred with the four petitioners, all Buganda kingdom subjects, that it is everyone’s right to move freely, reside or settle in any part of the country. The judges concluded that the Kabaka was exercising his constitutional right of free movement.
“The role of the Uganda Police was to regulate and put in place security measures to ensure that both Baganda and the Banyala who had threatened to demonstrate over the said visit are safe,” the judges noted.
The judges ordered government to pay costs of the case to the petitioners. There is no compesation whatsover for those who lost their lives and property. Mr Edward Lugonvu, Dr Adam Kimala, Mr Charles Ssenkungu and Ms Saida Najjuka. However, two of the judges - Eldard Mwangusya and Prof Lillian Tibatemwa, dissented and agreed with the government that blocking the Kabaka’s visit was to ensure peace because there was imminent chaos.
BRIG. Kasirye Ggwanga yeekandazze n’ava mu kakiiko k’ebyettaka e Mubende gye yabadde ayitiddwa okunnyonnyola ku mivuyo gy’ettaka.
Mr Kasirye Ggwanga
16 September, 2017
By Bukedde newspaper, Uganda
Kampala, Uganda:Kyokka n’akakiiko kalemeddeko omulamuzi n’amulagira nti ateekwa okudda. Kasirye mu kwekandagga yamaze kubuuzibwa ku ngeri gye yayambako yinvesita enzaalwa y’e Girimaani okusengula abantu ku ttaka e Mubende nga tebaliyiriddwa. Ebert Byenkya, munnamateeka w’akakiiko kano yagambye nti, Kasirye Ggwanga yabadde ayitiddwa ku Lwokusatu okwanukula ebibuuzo by’akakiiko wabula bwe yamaze okukola sitatimenti ng’abantu abalala bwe bakola, teyabawadde budde kumubuuza bibuuzo bye bateekeddwa kumubuuza ne yeekandagga. Ono, teyalabise mu lutuula lw’akakiiko omubeera ne bannamawulire lwe yabadde ateekeddwa okulabikamu ne baddamu okumuyita olunaku lw’eggulo ku Lwokuna. Yatuuse e Mubende mu budde bw’emisana era ku ssaawa nga 8:00 era yalabiddwaako nga yeetala ava muno adda muli era waayise akaseera katono n’abulawo.
'NABABUULIDDE BYE BAABADDE BEETAAGA' Ggwanga bwe yatuukiriddwa yagambye nti, yagenze mu kakiiko k’ettaka e Mubende ku Lwokusatu okubabuulira by’amanyi ku mivuyo gye kanoonyerezaako ku byaliwo ng’Abagirimaani basengula abantu be baasanga ku ttaka, wabula n’agaana okubyogerera mu lujjudde era sitetimenti yagikoledde mu kifo eky’enjawulo. “Nze sirina musango mu kakiiko kano wabula babadde baagala mbabuulire ebyaliwo ng’abantu bano basengulwa ku ttaka na ki ki ekiyinza okukolebwa okumalawo emivuyo gino", bwatyo Kasirye Ggwanga bwe yategeezezza ku ssimu. Yagambye nti “Bwe bambuuzizza ensasula gye baasasulamu abantu nabategeezezza nti kituufu mu kiseera kino nze nali Gavana wa Mubende wabula ekizibu ekyaliwo ku Mubende, Bannayuganda baali bamwerabira nti eriyo ettaka ng’ate ddenne nnyo.” Ggwanga bwe yategeezezza. Yagasseeko nti, yiika yali egula 150,000/- kubanga yali nsiko era nga teri makubo n’akola ekkubo okuva e Maddu okutuuka e Kassanda ekyayamba ennyo ku nkulaakulana okweyongera. “Nkakasa nti abantu mu bitundu bino abali ku ttaka bonna baasasulwa era tewali yalaga kunyigirizibwa kwonna kubanga ze zaali ssente ezigya mu ttaka lyabwe era sakkirizanga kusengula muntu nga tasasuddwa", Ggwanga bwe yategeezezza. Yagambye nti, bwe baalabye ng’ettaka lirinnye, kwe kwagala okuzza emisango mu kakiiko nga bagamba nti tebaasasulwa.
Yayongeddeko nti, abantu be bataasasula be bano abajja ng’ekiro ku ttaka ne bagumba mu bitundu gye baamaze okusasula nga bamaze okutegeera nti waliwo omugagga asasula abantu. “Nasabye bayise ekiragiro baddemu okukuba maapu y’ebyapa by’ettaka ly’e Mubende lyonna bazuule ekituufu kubanga n’ekitongole kya NFA baakozesa omukisa guno okuwamba ettaka eritali lyabwe ne bakuba ebyapa mu busaana ng’ate si bibira", Ggwanga bwe yategeezezza.
MINISITA MURULI AWUNIIKIRIZZA AKAKIIKO
Omulamuzi Bamugemerere ne bakamisona abali ku kakiiko k’ettaka bawuniikiridde ku ngeri minisita gye yakwasibwa omulimu gw’okuyamba abantu abaagobwa ku ttaka n’agukola gadibe ngalye. Minisita Muruli Mukasa owa minisitule evunaanyizibwa ku bakozi ba Gavumenti, ye yamazeeko akakiiko k’ettaka ebyewungula ng’alaga engeri abantu gye baasengulwa ku ttaka eriweza yiika 7,680 nga tebasoose kupima bunene bwa bibanja byabwe yadde okuwa omuwendo ku byobugagga bye balinako. Ono, Pulezidenti Museveni yali yamuwa obuvunaanyizibwa okubeera ssentebe w’akakiiko akaatondebwawo okunoonyereza ku mivuyo, ettemu, okumenya amayumba n’okwonoona ebintu by’abatuuze ku kyalo Bukoba mu ggomboloola y’e Butuntu mu disitulikiti y’e Mubende nga kigambibwa nti byakolebwa ku lw’omugagga Abid Alam owa Alam Group, kyokka ate n’adda ku ludda lwa mugagga abatuuze ne basigala mu bbanga.
Obujulizi obwaleetebwa mu maaso g’omulamuzi Catherine Bamugemereire, abatuuze balumirizza nti, mu kifo ky’okubayamba, Muruli n’abakungu ba Gavumenti badda ku ludda lw’Omuyindi era n’abalagira okukkiriza ssente ezitagya mu bintu byabwe bave ku ttaka. Muruli yazze n’ebiwandiiko ebiraga engeri abantu gye baasasulwamu naye nga tebiraga bunene bw’ettaka bwe baalina n’ebirime bye balinako, kamisona Robert Ssebunya, n’amutabukira n’amubuuza oba nga ddala Munnayuganda era ng'alumirirwa eggwanga lye. Ssebunnya: Sirowooza nti lipooti gye wakola wagiwa Pulezidenti kubanga singa wakikola yandibadde agikuddiza oddemu omulimu. Omuntu bw’asoma lipooti ayinza okulowooza teyakolebwa Munnayuganda oyinza otya okuliyirira omuntu alina ekitundu kya yiika 450,000/ ate nga kw'alimira? Muruli: (Yasoose kusirikirira) Oweekitiibwa nze nasanga abatuuze abamu baamaze dda okutegeeragana n’Omuyindi ssente ez’okubasasula. Ssebunnya:
Mu kitundu mwalimu Klezia eyazimbibwa mu myaka gya 50 n’essomero ku biwandiiko by’otuwadde nga tewali we kiragibwa nga byasasulwa ate nga Faaza n'Abakatoliki baatutegeeza nti byamenyebwa abantu b’Omuyindi. Muruli: Bwe twalambula ettaka twalabako kkanisa z’abalokole zokka ne tusasula bannanyini zo era tetwasangako ssomero lyonna yadde Klezia.
RDC W’E MUBENDE AKWATIDDWA Omulamuzi Bamugemereire yalagidde RDC w’e Mubende Florence Beyunga okukwatibwa oluvannyuma lw’okulemererwa okunnyonnyola akakiiko ku mivuyo gy’ettaka lino.Beyunga yabadde alabiseeko mu kakiiko eggulo ku Ssaawa 7:00 ez’emisana kyokka bwe yatandise okutamattama n’okunanaagira nga bamubuuza ebibuuzo abiddamu ngeri ya matankane nga mpale z’abaseveni, Bamugemererire kwe kulagira akwatibwe era ne bamukwatirawo. RDC yabadde yeegaana nti tawuliranga ku bantu basibwa n’okutulugunyizibwa olw’ensonga z’ettaka era awo kwe kulagira akwatibwe olw’okulimba akakiiko.
Obutakkaanya mu Battaka ba Buganda:
Aug 18, 2014
Bya Lilian Nalubega
ABATAKA abakulu b’obusolya, Bakatikkiro baabwe n’ab’amasiga okuva mu bika byonna beevumbye olusirika mu Lubiri e Mmengo. abakulu b’ebika ne baayatulidde bakatikkiro baabwe ekyabagobya mu lukiiko lw’ab’obusolya era ne babalagira bamanye we balina okukoma.
Mu kiseera kye kimu abataka abakulu b’ebika baweereddwa amagezi okulondanga bakatikkiro be bamaze okwekenneenya n’okuzuula nga ddala balina obusobozi okukola ebyo ebibasuubirwamu era nga banaabawa ekitiibwa nga bamanyi n’ekkomo ly’obuvunaanyizibwa bwabwe.
Katikkiro wa Buganda eyawummula, Joseph Mulwanyammuli Ssemwogerere, abataka yabakalaatidde okunnyikiza okussa ekitiibwa mu buwangwa bwaffe n’ennono nti kubanga tewali kintu kiyinza kugenda mu maaso nga bwo bulekeddwa bbali. Yawagiddwa Minisita w’eby’amawulire e Mmengo, Denis Ssengendo eyagambye nti entobo z’ebika zigaanyi okunywera ekivuddeko ebika okuyuuga n’abazzukulu okulemwa okumanya ekituufu kye balina okutambulirako.
Olusirika luno olwabadde olw’olunaku olumu olutakkiriziddwaamu bakatikkiro ba Bika kubaako bye boogera wadde nga baabaddewo, lwayogereddwaamu abasomesa babiri bokka okwabadde Anatoli Kiriggwajjo okuva mu yunivasite y’e Makerere abaatadde essira ku nkulaakulana mu bika n’engeri y’okukuumamu ennono n’obuwangwa bwaffe. Lwagguddwaawo Omukubiriza w’Olukiiko lw’abataka Omutaka Kayiira Gaajuule eyalaze obwennyamivu olw’Abataka okwefunyirira ku kwagala okumaliranga ensonga z’obutakkaanya bwabwe mu mawulire n’abamu nga baagala kuzitwala wa Kabaka butereevu sso nga bandibadde bazeemalira.
Omutaka Kayiira yagambye nti abantu beerabira nti Kabaka aba n’eby’okukola ebirala ate nga bingi ne bamutwalira obusonga obutaliimu ekintu ekyennyamiza nga n’abamu kibaweebuula.
Omutaka Kayita Musoke ye yasunsulidde abataka obukulu bw’obukulembeze n’obuvunaanyizibwa ku bifundikwa eby’enjawulo mu Buganda era ye yakawang’amudde bwe yaggyeeyo obuvunaanyizibwa n’ebirina okunnyonnyola abakulu b’amasiga be baani ne bakatikkiro b’ebika we balina okukoma.
1 Ow’essiga aba mwana wa mukulu wa kika, Omutaka w’akasolya.
2 Amasiga mu kika tegeeyongerako bungi ng’abamu bwe bagenda bagamba oba nga bwe kiri mu miwendo gy’ebika era baba bawulize eri bakadde baabwe abakulu b’ebika.
3 Be bataawulula enkaayana n’obutakkaanya mu bazzukulu naddala ku mitendera okuva ku ssiga okukkirira wansi n’okutuukira ddala ku mpya era be bateekateeka okwabya ennyimbe n’okutuuza omukulu w’ekika ssinga aba abaddeko afa.
2 Waliwo Bakatikkiro b’ebika nga bo ba nsikirano kyokka abo abasigadde tebakola mirimu gya nsikirano. Okugeza bano tebaabya wadde okusumika omusika mu kika n’ebirala ebiringa ebyo.
3 Bakatikkiro b’ebika balondebwa bulondebwa omukulu w’ekika oba oluusi ng’ali n’abakulu b’amasiga n’abalala ababa bakwatibwako mu kika ekyo era aweebwa ebbanga eggere okumala ku ntebe so ssi kulwako ng’abamu bwe balowooza ne batuuka n’okulowooza nti be bakulu b’ebika!
“Tusanze obuzibu bungi ng’ab’Obusolya bwe bafa, bakatikkiro baabwe bakozesa omukisa okuba nti baba baludde ku bukulu obwo nga bingi ebirina okukolebwa mu nnono babimanyi olwo ne beefuula abakulu b’ebika ne bakola n’emikolo egitabakwatako.
Kyewuunyisa ate nga kisoboka omutaka eyali katikkiro w’ekika ky’ekibe bwe twali tukola emikolo ku Kabaka ng’agenda okutuuzibwa e Naggalabi ku Nnamulondo bwe yayagala n’okukola emikolo ku Kabaka kyokka ng’akimanyi nti ssi mukulu wa kika wabula omuntu aludde mu kifo nga ne mukama we yafa dda!’ Kayita bwe yatangaazizza.
Katikkiro alina kuba muwulize eri Mukama we omukulu w’ekika era tabeera mukiise wa nkalakkalira mu lukiiko lw’abataka abakulu b’obusolya okuggyako ng’atumiddwa mukama we oba ng’ayitiddwa olukiiko okubaako bye bakwasiza awamu olw’okutwala Obuganda mu maaso.
Kayita mu kusomesa kwe yakikkaatirizza nti era bbo ng’abataka b’obusolya, tebalina butakkaanya na bakatikkiro baabwe kyokka balina okumanya we bakoma baleme kweyingiza mu nsonga za nnono ezirina okukolebwako bakama baabwe olw’okwewala okudibaga obuwangwa bwaffe.
Abataka b’Obusolya yabawadde amagezi beggyeko bakatikkiro abatamanyi buvunaanyizibwa bwabwe na we balina okukoma balonde abo bwe banakkaanya.
Bannayuganda e Bungereza basabye Museveni aggyewo doola 400 ez’obutuuze:
Jan 02, 2015
Bya Musasi waffe owa Bukedde Ugandan newspaper:
BANNAYUGANDA abali mu Bungereza beeyamye obutakolagana na muntu yenna ayagala okutabangula Uganda ng’asinziira ebweru w’eggwanga.
Mu ngeri y’emu, beebazizza Pulezidenti Museveni okukkiriza Gen. David Sejusa okudda ku butaka okuva e London gye yeewangangusiriza nti kyokka era bo tebayinza kukolagana naye kuba tebakyayagala ddukadduka kwe kusaba Pulezidenti asseewo akakiiko akakola ku baba beetaaze ekisonyiwo.
Ku kabaga kaabwe ak’okwaniriza omwaka e Manchester, baasabye Pulezidenti aggyewo doola 400 omuntu z’asasula ng’ayagala obutuuze bwa Uganda ssinga aba alina obw’eggwanga eddala, era nti abaagala okudda kuno basige ensimbi waakiri baweebwengayo emyaka ebiri nga tebasasula musolo.
Bo abawagizi ba NRM e Bungereza nga bayita mu ssentebe, Patrick Asiimwe n’omwogezi waabwe Moses Kimuli, baasanyukidde enkyukakyuka ezaakoleddwa mu kibiina ne beeyama okuwagira Pulezidenti Museveni.
The Kingdom of Kooki within the Kingdom of Buganda has declared a 10-day mourning for the Military Police of Uganda's rough arrest of their King:
Vice President Edward Ssekandi’s police guards drag the Kamuswaga of Kooki Chiefdom, Apollo Sansa Kabumbuli, out of his car on Masaka road.
Courtesy photo.
By Paul Adude
Posted Monday, February 8 2016
Entebbe. Aggrieved by the manner in which their traditional leader was manhandled by Vice President Edward Ssekandi’s police guards during his arrest last Tuesday, Kooki Kingdom has announced a 10-day period of mourning to express its annoyance.
The Kamuswaga of Kooki Chiefdom, Apollo Sansa Kabumbuli, has also asked the Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, to punish the officers who allegedly tortured him. In a February 4 notice through his lawyers of Muwema and Company Advocates, the cultural leader alleges that he was “unlawfully and unjustifiably tortured by the vice president’s guards. “Your officers’ acts were not only intended to torture our client but to humiliate him ... despite the fact that he was driving his official vehicle well embodied with the official emblem,” the lawyers demand notice states.
“The purpose of this letter is to demand that you immediately reprimand whoever was involved in the torturous acts of a very respectable member of society, make an official public apology to him and his subjects and duly compensate him for the humiliation occasioned to him and his subjects.”
Speaking at Entebbe Airport moments before the Kamuswaga left for medical treatment in Germany on Saturday, Kingdom officials said the mourning period is meant to express their dissatisfaction. Images have been awash on social media showing men dressed in police uniform appearing to arrest the Kamuswaga who lay helplessly on the tarmac.
The Kamuswaga, who was casually dressed and driving himself on the fateful day, was arrested at Kinyanya on Masaka-Bukunda section on Masaka–Kyotera road. Commentators have said the manner of arrest was dehumanising and not befitting a person of his standing in society, especially among his subjects.
The Vice President’s office has since not commented on the matter. However, a statement issued by Mr Asan Kasingye, the Police Force’s chairperson interagency communication task team, said police apologises to the leader, his family and the wider Kooki fraternity, over the distress and dishonour it could have caused him. He said State House has been informed about the matter.
Accusation
The Kamuswaga was accused of overtaking the Vice President’s convoy in a dangerous way.
Israeli government to African refugees: Go back to Africa or go to prison:
HOLOT, Israel — As Europe struggles to stem a spring flood of migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to cross a deadly Mediterranean Sea, Israel has begun to toughen its stance toward refugees, telling unwanted Africans here they must leave now or face an indefinite stay in prison.
Israeli authorities are sending letters to the first of 45,000 Eritrean and Sudanese refugees, informing them they have 30 days to accept Israel’s offer of $3,500 in cash and a one-way ticket home or to an unnamed third country in Africa, or face incarceration at Saharonim prison.
Israeli leaders have proclaimed that their tough approach — building a fence along its border, denying work permits for illegal migrants, forcing them into a detention center in the desert — may ultimately save lives by dissuading migrants from attempting a perilous journey. Critics of the Israeli policy counter that a country built by refugees should be more accepting of those fleeing war, poverty and oppression.
But these days, even liberal Europe is considering a more muscular approach. The European Union began a push Monday for U.N. authorization to deploy military force in the Mediterranean to stop migrant smuggling ships.
The new measures to press the Africans to leave Israel comes at a time of heightened fears among the refugees, who were stunned last month by a widely circulated video allegedly showing three Eritreans who left Israel killed by Islamic State militants in Libya. Friends and relatives said they had traveled there in a bid to reach Europe.
“We saw the video, but we thought maybe it wasn’t true, maybe it was just a hoax,” said Aman Beyene, an Eritrean asylum seeker who has spent 14 months at an Israeli detention center.
The 38-year-old Eritrean accountant sat at a picnic table in the dirt parking lot of the Holot detention facility, a compound of single-story cement-block dormitories housing 2,000 Africans, surrounded by a fence spooled with razor wire in the Negev desert.
Beyene spoke slowly as he recalled watching the video showing a man thought to be his friend Tesfay Kidane, 29, dressed in an orange jumpsuit beheaded on a beach in Libya by Muslim extremists. He said Kidane felt despondent being cooped at the Holot facility, so he accepted the Israelis’ offer to be flown to a third country — likely Uganda or Rwanda — and from there made his way to Libya, where he was kidnapped by the Islamic State.
Though the detainees at Holot are free to leave the compound during the day, the nearest city is an hour’s bus ride away and the men are forbidden to work. If they fail to return by nightfall, they are sent to a prison across the street.
Interviews with Eritreans and Sudanese at Holot suggest that many are still dreaming of reaching Europe through the chaos of Libya — despite knowing that more than 1,800 Africans have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this year and others have been taken captive by the Islamic State.
“Being beheaded by ISIS or sinking on a boat is scary,” said Mutasim Ali, 28, who arrived in Israel in 2009 from the Darfur region in Sudan and has spent the past year detained in the detention center. “But you can’t really stay here, wasting your life, doing nothing.”
He pointed to the men like him who spend their days milling about in circles, staring at their mobile phones, waiting for the next meal.
Before Israel began cracking down on African migrants a few years ago, the Africans were highly visible in bustling cities, working in kitchens and doing menial labor. There are still neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv filled with Africans. Many Israelis complained they were being “invaded.”
Israel is a nation built by Jewish refugees, and those with Jewish ancestry are encouraged, even courted, to move here and provided wide-ranging assistance. A million Russian speakers came in the 1990s, and Jews from Ethiopia continue to arrive each month.
But fearful that a wave of impoverished Africans, mostly Muslims from Sudan and Christians from Eritrea, would overwhelm the Jewish nature of the state, Israel spent more than $350 million to build a 140-mile fence along its entire border with Egypt. Undocumented migrants to Israel are called “infiltrators” by the Israeli government.
The fence also shut down human traffickers in the Sinai who had become increasingly sadistic, with refugees describing how they were imprisoned in “torture camps,” where the Bedouin smugglers raped women and burned captives with molten plastic to extort relatives to send more money to free them.
As they’ve watched Europe hit by a wave of African refugees, Israeli leaders say their policies are fair.
“While there are differences between us — the migrants traveling to Europe must cross a sea while those heading for Israel have a direct overland route — you can see the righteousness of our government’s policy to build a fence on the border with Egypt, which blocks the migrant workers before they enter Israel,” wrote Israeli transportation minister Israel Katz on his Facebook pagelast month.
Yonatan Jakubowicz of the Israeli Immigration Policy Center, a think tank aimed at promoting “a coherent immigration policy for Israel,” pointed out many countries simply jail illegal migrants or deport them immediately, which Israel did not do to the Africans.
He said the new measures were designed to help those who have been denied asylum or have not applied for asylum to be returned home or to third countries.
“What we are saying is that Israel is not sending anyone by force to a third country,” he said.
Over the past two years, more than 9,000 Africans accepted the Israelis’ offer and departed.
“It is a form of coercion, but it is not forced deportation,” said Sigal Rozen, public policy director of an Israeli human rights group called Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, which has taken up the cause of the African refugees.
More than 300,000 Eritreans have been offered asylum around the world; more than 84 percent are recognized as refugees or offered complimentary protection in other host countries, according to the United Nations. In Israel, the recognition rate is less than 1 percent for the past six years. Only four Eritreans and no Sudanese have been accepted for asylum, Rozen said.
“Israel should do more,” she said.
Rozen said the Sudanese, who fled genocide and war, “are now waiting in line to go back,” having concluded there is no future for them in Israel.
Eritreans are more fearful. They fled a dictatorship that conscripts men and women into years of military service that human rights groups compare to virtual slavery. If the Eritreans return, the advocates say, they are jailed and tortured.
Even so, according to Israeli authorities, about 1,500 asylum seekers have volunteered to leave to unnamed third countries in Africa.
In letters to Eritrean refugees at the Holot detention center, the Israeli government promises that “money will be given to you at the airport in a secure manner. When you arrive at the third country, people will receive you at the airport and give you information about life in the country and other important information.”
Eritrean activists in Israel say they are not welcomed at all, but find their documents seized upon arrival, are shaken down for bribes and generally shunned.
Israel is reportedly in negotiations with African nations to accept more refugees and create a more transparent process — instead of the secretive one pursued today, where Israeli officials decline to discuss the voluntary returns with the media and do not tell the refugees where they are going until they are handed a plane ticket on the day of departure.
The model of paying a third country to accept unwanted refugees is a new idea. Israeli media have speculated that Israel could offer technology, favorable contracts, arms or other assistance, including cash, to countries that would accept the Africans and give them temporary visas.
Meseret Fisahaie was born in Israel to Eritrean refugees who came here in the 1970s. She works as a translator and interviewer with the Hotline group. Her relative Kidane was beheaded by ISIS.
“He was a quiet man, a gentle man,” she remembered.
Kidane worked for seven years cleaning hotel rooms and washing dishes in Tel Aviv, jobs many Israelis shun.
“I couldn’t stop him from going,” she said. “I had a bad feeling about this. People ask me now, what should they do? I tell them try to stay. Maybe things will change.”
ABATAKA bakulu b’obusolya balaze okusomoozebwa Buganda kwetubiddemu kwe bagambye nti kuvudde ku kudibaga olulimi, okubulwa olutindo olugatta abazzukulu baabwe abali kuno n’ebweru w’eggwanga, amasiro okuba nga tegannaggwa kuzimbibwa n’ebirala.
Bano baategeezezza nti mu kiseera kino amasiro g’e Kasubi ne Wamala gandibadde gaggwa dda okuzimbibwa nti kyokka gakolebwa kasoobo ne basaba nti bwe wabaawo ebigalemesa okuggwa mu buwangwa n’ennono bikolweko omulimu gw’okugazimba kusobole okugenda mu maaso mu bwangu.
Baabadde mu lukiiko lwabwe olwa buli mwezi olwatudde mu Lubiri e Mmengo ku Lwokuna. Baategeezezza nti abazzukulu bangi okuva mu bika bye bakulembera bali mu mawanga g’ebweru era nga bakola emirimu egivaamu ensimbi nti kyokka tebamanyi bifa ku bika byabwe nga kino ky’ekimu ku bireetedde ebika okusigalira emabega.
Baasabye abazzukulu okufaayo okutwala olulimi lwabwe mu maaso nga balukozesa mu ngeri esaanidde, beewale okukopperera ebiluzza emabega ate n’okuluyigiriza abaana be bazaala.
Mu lukiiko lwe lumu omutaka Joash Kakonge Gguluddene Mutasingwa nga ye mukulu w’ekika ky’e Mbwa yayanjulidde Abataka, Katikkiro w’ekika omuggya, Ssaalongo Daud Malagala eyazze mu kifo kya Hajji Erias Ssajjabbi era n’amukwasa Omukubiriza W’olukiiko luno omutaka Kayiira Gajuule eyamwanirizza era n’amusaba bulijjo okuweereza ekika kye ng’ayita mu nteekateeka y’abataka ba Buganda ennambulukufu.
In the State of Buganda, at Mubende, 5000 bibanja holders are to get certificates of occupancy(kyapa mungalo):
By Nicholas Kajoba
Added 2nd October 2018
Obbo said there have been many wrangles between bibanja holders and landlords in the districts of Mubende, Kassanda and Mityana.
Mapping: Ministry of lands spokesperson, Obbo and the GIZ expert on awareness and communication official Namuli point to the mapping area during the monitoring and sensitisation activity in Myanzi sub-county, Kassanda district. PHOTO: Nicholas Kajoba
The Government is to issue certificates of occupancy to over 5000 bibanja holders in Myanzi sub-county, Kassanda district under the Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda to Increase Productivity of Small Scale Farmers on Private Mailo-Land (ILGU) project.
The project supported by the European Union(EU) and the German government is being implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur lnternationale Zusammenarbeit(GIZ), in partnership with the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. The move aims at addressing land conflicts in Kassanda district.
The ministry’s spokesperson, Dennis Obbo said there have been many wrangles between bibanja holders and landlords in the districts of Mubende, Kassanda and Mityana.
He was on a monitoring and sensitisation tour of the Myanzi sub-county, on Saturday.
“We realised that many people have been on land for many years yet they do not know who their landlords are, and even the landlords had no idea of who the tenants on their land were. Other places have absent landlords and even those settling there, do not know where to pay ground rates,” he noted.
He said the project is being implemented in the three districts of Kassanda, Mityana and Mubende.
The project team leader,GIZ, Horsten Hubergiz said the project involves mapping of parcels (Bibanja) for the willing bibanja holders with consent of their landlords and conflict resolution of new emerging cases.
The LCIII chairperson, Myanzi bub-county, Joseph Nsubuga said they have many land wrangles including illegal evictions.
He said under the arrangement, people are required to pay a modest fee of sh10, 000 to apply for the issuance of the certificate.
Nsubuga said bibanja holders and landlords who were initially hostile were sensitised and they welcomed the project.
He stressed that the project has helped to reduce on the cases of illegal eviction and wrangles.
“All people now first seek guidance from landlords or political leaders before making any land transaction,” Nsubuga noted.
He explained that some landlords did not know the value of land on which some of their tenants were occupying until mapping was started and boundaries were drawn.
Nsubuga stressed that certificates will prove ownership and protect the bibanja owners from illegal evictions without compensation.
Evaristo Kiryowa,70, a paralegal from Myanzi Parish, said the project has helped many squatters who have been occupying land for over 20 years to know theirlandlord and even start paying ground rate (busuulu).
Bibanja owners were also sensitised on their land rights and started paying ground rates.
Abalangira batutte ekiwandiiko omuli okwemulugunya kwabwe e Mmengo:
Oct 21, 2014
Bya Lilian Nalubega
ABALANGIRA n’Abambejja beesitudde ne bagenda e Mmengo okwoleka obutali bumativu bwabwe ku ngeri gye bayisibwamu mu Bwakabaka sso nga bagamba nti bo bantu bakulu abatasaana kuyisibwamu maaso.
Baategeezezza nti ensonga z’Abalangira zimaze gakwatibwa era nga baagala zitereezebwe baddemu okuba n’ekitiibwa ekyabaweebwanga edda wano mu Buganda.
Beevumbye akafubo ne Minista w’ebyamawulire e Mmengo Denis Ssengendo Walusimbi n’omukungu avunaanyizibwa ku nsonga z’Olukiiko n’abagenyi David Ntege era nga ensisinkano eno yabadde ya kwetabwamu n’omuwandiisi wa Kabaka ow’ekyama Peter Mpanga kyokka n’atasobola.
Baategeezezza nti emirundi mingi ku mikolo Kabaka kw’ali asindiikirizibwa, takkirizibwa kumwaniriza sso ng’omuggo Segulira- ennume gw’akuuma gwe guwa Kabaka amaanyi nga yandimubadde ku lusegere. Baategeezezza nti era waliwo n’ennono n’obulombolombo ebissiddwaawo ku mulembe guno awatali kwebuuza ku Balangira n’Abambejja ekintu ekikyamu mu bwakabaka bwa Buganda.
Abalangira bano gye buvuddeko baliko ekiwandiiko ekyenjawulo kye baafulumya nga balaga okulumwa kwe kumu nga kino kyassibwako omukono Omulangira Lukenge Katoogo ow’omutuba gwa Kayima Ssennyimba.
Oluvannyuma baasisinkanye omumyuka wa Katikkiro Mohamood Ssekimpi ne babaako bye baamutegeeza nga bali ku wankaaki wa Bulange we yasangiddwa ng’atuuka butuusi mu Bulange.
Omulangira Ssimbwa, Kitaawe wa Kabaka afudde
Nov 06, 2014
Omulangira Ssimbwa ng'ali ku gumu ku Muganda we Mutesa II 1966.
mikolo gyasembyeyo okubaako
BYA CATHERINE LUTWAMA, BENJAMIN SSEBAGGALA NE ANTHONY SEMPEEREZA
OMULANGIRA David Alexander Ssimbwaafiiridde mu ddwaliro e Nakasero ku Lwokuna mu ttuntu saawa 6:53 ng’aweza emyaka 83.
Taata wa Kabaka omuto Ssimbwa yatwaliddwa mu ddwaliro e Nakasero ku Lwokutaano wiiki ewedde ng’ali bubi abadde atawaanyizibwa ekirwadde kya puleesa nga n’omutima munafu era amaze ennaku eziwerako mu kkoma.
Omwogezi wa Buganda Denis Walusimbi Seng’endo yakakasizza nti Omulangira aseeredde kyokka nga baabadde bakyalinda Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga ajje abikire Obuganda mu butongole yabadde akyali Kabula.
• Yatandika kkampuni eya ‘Chwa II Foundation ebadde erwanirira ettaka n’ebyobugagga bya kitaawe Daudi Chwa.
• Afudde tanunudde ttaka lye e Munyonyo ly’agamba nti liriko abagagga b’omu Kampala n’abamu ku banene mu gavumenti ne Mmengo.
• Afudde asiimye pulezidenti Museveni okuddaabiriza ennyumba ye e Kabowa Obote gye yayonoona, kyokka afudde akukkuluma olwa pulezidenti Museveni obutamuyamba kufuna bintu bye kuva China ate n’obutamuyamba ku bamututteeko ettaka lye.
Uganda National Road Authority has been conned of billions of shillings by fake claimants on Buganda land.
By FREDERIC MUSISI
Posted Sunday, May 3 2015
Kampala,State of Buganda-
The Inspector General of Government (IGG) has launched investigations into how the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was fleeced of billions of shillings by fake claimants who received compensation for the land along the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway yet the land belongs to government.
The land
The land is a government gazzetted Central Forest Reserve in Wakiso District.
Documents seen by Sunday Monitor indicate that Wakiso District surveyors and some UNRA officials processed several titles for the forest reserve land owned by the National Forestry Authority (NFA), a government agency.
A huge amount of money, which is not yet ascertained but estimated in billions, was paid out to fake claimants and the IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja intervened when another Shs4 billion was about to be paid to the masqueraders in July 2014. She subsequently suspended the compensation for the road project.
“We have taken serious note of your directive and information regarding the intended fraud and have, as directed, halted all payments under the project. However, we are concerned that the blanket freeze of all compensation payments rather than in the forest area where the alleged illegalities happened, may have far wider ramifications,” former UNRA executive director Ssebbugga Kimeze wrote to the IGG on August 6, 2014.
He noted that the road project funders, China’s Exim Import Bank, were getting jittery over the slow progress on the road construction because of the unconcluded compensation of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs).
The IGG waived the suspension of the compensation payments except for the contentious forest area, covering three villages of Nakigalala, Katale and Kajjansi.
“We have reviewed our directive and agreed that the directive be revised to cover payments of compensation claims around the forest reserve area,” Justice Mulyagonja wrote back to UNRA on August 19, 2014.
“The order will also include stopping compensation claims premised on certificates for land that were issued after the survey and gazetting of the Kampala-Entebbe Express Highway alignment, which was done on February 8, 2013,” the IGG added.
The IGG spokesperson, Ms Ali Munira, said the investigations are still ongoing but declined to reveal details on the progress.
There are documents showing several plots had been parceled out of the forest reserve with people’s names tagged to them as bona fide owners.
On December 14, 2014, the IGG wrote to NFA seeking clarification on whether the land titles were of the land in the Central Reserve Forest in the three villages.
A report submitted by NFA signed by the executive director Michael Mugisa on March 3, 2015, disowned the titles and described the claimants as masqueraders.
“Under legal notice number 7 of 1932, Kajjansi Forest was demarcated class of forest. The forest referred to as crown land (CL) 467, mapped on sheet numbers 71/3 as per the statutory instruments of 1932, 148 and 1998.
The plots surveyed are found within the CFR (Central Forest Reserve),” Mr Mugisa wrote.
Mr Mugisa told Sunday Monitor on Friday that the problem originated from the Lands ministry and Wakiso District lands office.
The partitioned plots are more than 20 belonging to various individuals, including D. Migereko, Ms R. Namubiru, and Ms S. Mbeguya. Others are: Mr R. Eku, Mr S. Kyako & two others, Intraco (U) Limited, Mr J. Baluruno, Mr M. Lubega, Mr Y. Ssenteza & Ms L. Mwende, Lala Apartments, Mr N. Nsubuga, Mr H. Mukasa, Ms J. M. Nabateregga, Ms H. Nassuna, Mr M. Kamoga, Mr H. Mugumya and Mr R. Ssempala.
Common fraud
The UNRA head of corporate communications, Mr Dan Alinange, admitted the IGG is investigating the dubious acquisition of the NFA land and the contested compensations to the claimants. He said it is “highly possible” that it is Wakiso District officials who created the fake titles on the government land.
“They must have apportioned the land to themselves when they learnt that a big project was passing through their area. Usually, government officials build structures overnight because they want to be paid and it is a big challenge for us,” Mr Alinange said.
He said if NFA says the land is a forest reserve, they also have to present a title for the area.
The temporary Estate Manager of land for the State of Buganda Mr Kiwalabye speaks out:
Written by Deo Walusimbi
Last Updated: 03 June 2015
Kiwalabye Male (R) during the interview
Over the last 20 years, KIWALABYE MALE, the chief executive officer of Buganda Land Board (BLB), has served Buganda kingdom in various capacities notably as CEO of BUCADEF, and royal treasurer. Kiwalabye recently spoke to Deo Walusimbi about his management of Buganda’s land.
What is the difference between the land being managed by Buganda Land Board and Kabaka’s land?
Statutorily, all land that was returned to Kabaka by virtue of the 1993 act is under management of Buganda Land Board…and the land returned in 2013 by MOU [between the central government and Mengo].
However, with the recent changes in the institution, whereby there has been segregation between land and property management, BLB manages all kingdom’s land, but doesn’t manage the buildings on there and that is the difference.
So, what constitutes Kabaka’s land?
There is private land belonging to Kabaka as a person which people normally confuse with that of Buganda, but Kabaka’s land is under custodianship of the royal treasury. But for us, we manage that land where Ronald Mutebi is appearing as Kabaka.
It’s almost a song by every Muganda to demand Buganda’s 9,000 square miles from government. May I know their boundaries?
Those 9,000 miles come from the famous 1900 agreement where land was distributed by the British in various categories to chiefs, institutions, the kingdom, etc. But those 9,000 miles don’t include the administrative units like counties, forests, swamps and wetlands.
When Buganda was getting its independence in 1962, the Duke then returned what belonged to Buganda and they set up BLB by an act of Parliament to run what was popularized as 9,000 miles. But when the constitution was abrogated in 1967, the Kabaka was overthrown and all that land became public land – including land which belonged to Kabaka.
Can you estimate how much land was returned by the MOU vis-à-vis the land still in the hands of government?
That MOU virtually returns a big part of Buganda’s land because when you read it, it says, all that land confiscated by former regimes is hereby returned to Buganda and what remains is to segregate.
We have not received titles for most of this land; we have just received 123, but the way the land law works, even if I don’t have a title but a notice has been given and there is an instrument, that land belongs to the Kabaka; because even now we are still receiving titles on the 350 square miles which was returned in 1993…
How are you as BLB planning to develop Buganda land now under your control?
Our mandate changed. In the past, BLB had the mandate to manage and develop the land; that is why Muganzilwazza building in Katwe was built. But with the restructuring of the kingdom, BLB cannot put up such a building anymore because it was made to function like Uganda Land Commission; we are custodians of land.
We can plan for it, yes, but we [then] attract various developers. Now (of course) there are other bodies like Buganda Investments and Commercial Investments Ltd, and Namulondo Investments, which is a property management entity and any other body the kingdom would wish.
Who issued that moratorium against you and what motivated it?
I think it was realigning various institutions of the kingdom because in the past, there was only BLB. But now with the new system headed by katikkiro [Peter Mayiga], they sat as cabinet, they [focused] on what we did best and I think they said, BLB has strategically placed itself in land management.
Since those various roles were taken away, you can now find BLB in Kabula, Kalangala, Ssese, Buvuma, etc because I have moved on to concentrate on what I can do best which is land management.
Don’t you feel as BLB’s head, your wings clipped by the new system?
Not at all because even what they took from us is still on land; how would you have a building without negotiating with BLB? They only, strategically, just put things in the right direction.
People often accuse BLB of unreliability through introducing various ways of how one becomes a bona fide occupant on land belonging to the Kabaka, citing an example of KK. This company was contracted by the kingdom to register tenants in Kampala at Shs 820,000 per plot, but you are now re-doing the exercise under a different (ebbaluwa entongole) arrangement. What is going on?
Actually, BLB is one of the most reliable land bodies in the country and we have got an award from Uganda Land Alliance for excelling in sensitizing people about land issues.
For somebody to be a bona fide occupant on land, it’s not courtesy of BLB, but it’s by law. So, there is no way BLB can come and say you are not bona fide. [But] Land is about wealth, value. So, you can’t say, you have something valuable without any documentation for it.
So, our vision as BLB is to ensure that people secure their tenancy. It doesn’t mean that they don’t have it now, but it’s not secure without documentation. We are not changing positions; we are, through companies like KK, only helping people to secure their tenancy.
But KK was accused of defrauding people!
KK was a good idea which was abused. I think the kingdom got the right gun and gave it to a mad man because it gave it to a wrong person, I participated in the pre-talks (with KK) because I was the royal treasurer then, but before it was concluded, I went for further studies in UK.
But one of the things I had recommended was that these [KK] people should never be allowed to touch people’s money; they should only do the consultancy work. But when some of us left, the controllers of the institution gave them [KK] a blank cheque and they even stopped people from paying money to BLB.
They [KK] set up an office in Kabaka Anjagala and got agents in Mengo who were telling people that there is no business in Mengo, go to KK. So, these people lost interest in organising people on Kabaka’s land yet the principal idea was to identify people on Kabaka’s land.
You cannot set up an agency to work on Kabaka’s land and cut out the principal agent (BLB) who has got the specialty to oversee the land and let the [agency] report to katikkiro’s office. With all due respect, I know Owek. [Dan] Muliika would not like this, but that was a mistake.
Who owns this KK?
The man died sometime back…he was called Mr Kabuye and he was staying abroad; but he had children who are managing it.
So, what did you do about KK?
When I came back, I participated in the process of cancellation of that exercise and said let them take money meant to be a processing fee, but give us the information. And they failed in both providing the information and passing on the money.
So, you make tenants registered by KK to repay for the same?
We terminated everything and gave people time and whoever had paid money to KK with receipt should give us fresh papers and we never asked for a shilling from those people KK registered.
So, whoever registered with KK and came to BLB has a file with us and that was taking responsibility as a kingdom – that a mistake had been made, but these are Kabaka’s subjects. However, we are carrying on with registration because in land economics, land without a title has no value.
If you want to realise this, wait when government [wants to build a road through your untitled plot]. However beautiful house you have put on it, they will tell you to go to the landlord.
That is why we are telling our people that this is good for you and that is why we did it in Nansana under a different arrangement with a special survey scheme for Shs 650,000. It’s all intended to ensure that these people have got security of tenure… thus introduction of [ebbaluwa entongole].
What steps are you taking to curb fraud amongst BLB staff?
We have zero tolerance for such malpractices and there are many staff we have terminated in some of these cases. There is a fresh case of somebody who has even gone to police where one of [our] staff took over his kibanja and built a house.
So, we terminated that staff and we supported this old man to prosecute him. The problem is that people have made corruption part of their life and they think that they can’t get a service without paying money. That is why some complain that Kiwalabye is one of the hardest people to see in Mengo because I don’t believe in that style of work.
Sometime, people make allegations without evidence; but if anybody has evidence against any staff, they should come forward.
Another problem is that some of our staff give an impression that they bring money to us [the heads] because some of our names feature out there. But why would you pay money if the property is rightfully yours?
We have got a whistle- blowers’ line which is free, and we are putting in place various mechanisms to combat [fraud].
Talking about the katikkiro and the restructuring of the system on the start of his reign, how are you finding it working with a man who is rumoured to be extremely strict?
I have worked with katikkiro for a long time in various capacities. So really, I have no problem working with him.
What he stands for is what the kingdom stands for and katikkiro works in Kabaka’s [name]. If I have a problem working with the Katikkkiro, it means I have a problem working with the Kabaka.
When he says ‘be accountable’, how can that be a problem? If he says ‘be customer-responsive’ – and he keeps on writing these letters. As somebody who is progressive, I must follow and I am part of the key stakeholders because this revolution is for us because I have a background of Nkobazambogo.
He is very tight on what he wants, and the good thing is that I am also tight on my staff.
So, have you now dropped your ambitions to join politics in Kiboga?
I offered myself to serve Kabaka. The positions I have held in the kingdom, it is not a matter of myself wishing to go because I have gone from the lowest to the highest level.
So, it’s not a simple matter to leave this higher position to go for a constituency in Kiboga. I know there have been pressures from Kiboga people [although] I am from Mityana; [but] wishing is one thing and going is another. Most importantly, I have not talked to the people who are supposed to clear me. So, I am not standing anywhere and when time comes to serve the country, I will.
As BLB, you are in position to know how Nabagereka primary school was demolished; would you like to tell us?
Nabagereka P/S is not a kingdom school, but it was built by government after Lubiri had been taken over by the army. There were two schools, but the people couldn’t access the military barracks and government looked for land and maintained the name.
Fortunately or unfortunately, they put them on Buganda land. What people don’t know is that in 2006, a private developer called Boost Investments approached Uganda Land Commission which was now the controlling authority of that land.
ULC leased out those plots [housing Nabagereka P/S] to Boost Investments under minute 13/2006 A485 of Uganda Land Commission. We told them that ‘you are leasing out our land’ and then Boost approached BLB to be regularized within the law.
It surrendered the lease it had with ULC for a conditional lease of surrender. So, BLB simply regularised the lease and if [ULC] says it never leased the school, then we don’t know what it means unless its shows you when it refunded the developer’s money.
So, Buganda kingdom has got nothing to do with the demolition of Nabagereka P/S and many cases will appear like that with the returned land because [land] had already been given away.
How far have you gone with surveying the returned land?
We have recovered about eight square miles, but it’s a big exercise because you have to open the boundaries and do proper survey and identify who are there…
What do you make of continuous attacks by Tamale Mirundi?
Who is he?
He is a presidential spokesperson.
Maybe you know his job description, for me, I don’t. I can’t talk about him because if you tell me that he is a spokesman for the president and he is speaking for me, then I really wonder.
But I have not listened to him. I just hear people talking about it, but practically, I am somebody who wants to listen to what adds value and I want to listen to somebody who has got a trail of what we can talk about.
But BLB has got a feedback system, whether negative or positive, without waiting for people who we don’t know whether they are speaking under the influence of anything.
What challenges have you encountered while serving this kingdom?
They are quite enormous. There is a feeling that the kingdom is us and whatever we say is what goes on. That is a challenge because you get [a lot of] resistance on the way. There are those who think that if they can be able to put you down, they have won the whole battle; but we ignore them as I have told you [regarding] Tamale Mirundi.
The institution has no resources, but I have no one to blame because I am supposed to participate in creating resources for this kingdom. [There is also a tendency] by some people who want to discuss land matters when they have little kind of information; it is a challenge. And then the workload, but we are training people in terms of work culture, and capacity. And of course, lastly, people on Kabaka’s land don’t want to meet their obligations; they think that waving to the Kabaka is enough…
Some of your critics claim you are part of a Mengo clique which pulls down whoever initiates new systems.
Who has come here and has been thrown out, courtesy of us?
They cite Owek Muliika whose reign hardly lasted a year.
Which systems did he [Muliika] introduce? Let him print a copy of systems he produced to people. That is the biggest mistake people make; when they come to serve here, they think that the kingdom has started with them.
They think whoever has been in Mengo is foolish and has just been making mistakes and now with them the Kabaka has chosen a wise group to come and prevail on foolish ones.
No! Whoever is brought on board is brought to add value. The person they allege is Owek. Muliika, but I never worked with him; I came back from studies when he was on his way out because he didn’t last for one year.
I don’t think there is anybody who has brought strict systems here like Owek. Mayiga. Why is it that he is going [into] his third year with us?
KATIKKIRO Charles Peter Mayiga alabudde Omulangira Henry Bbemba okukomya okweyingiza mu nsonga z’olusozi Jinja Mawuuno nti kubanga Kabaka yamala dda okulukwasa abantu abatuufu era abaluvunaanyizibwako mu kiseera kino.
Okusinziira ku kiwandiiko ekyafulumiziddwa ofiisi ya Katikkiro, n’abantu bonna ababadde bakolagana
n’omulangira Bbemba ku by’ettaka ly’olusozi luno olusangibwa e Jinja Kawempe, baweereddwa
amagezi okukikomya mbagirawo nga ab’ebyokwerinda n’abakuumi abassiddwaawo okulukuuma tebannabakwata.
Katikkiro yategeezezza nti okuva Kabaka bwe yalonda Ssaabalangira omuggya, Godfrey Musanje Kikulwe nga February 18, 2015 n’olukiiko lwe, ow’omutuba gwa Kaweesa, Omulangira Joseph Ssuuna Kaweesa y’avunaanyizibwa ku ttaka lya Jinja Mawuuno.
Yategeezezza nti Bamaze n’okutuukirira ab’ebyokwerinda nga mu kiseera kino balondoola
ekifo okulaba nga tekisaalimbirwako bantu batali batuufu.
Ensonda zaategeezezza nti Katikkiro okuvaayo bwati bamaze kufuna okwemulugunya okumala ng’Omulangira Bbemba agenda mu maaso n’okutunda ettaka ly’embuga eno ekitakkirizibwa
nti kubanga ttaka lya Bwakabaka eritatundibwa.
Amasasi ne ttiyaggaasi binyoose nga poliisi etaasa abaazirwanako:
By Paddy Bukenya
Added 25th August 2017
Amasasi ne ttiyaggaasi binyoose nga poliisi etaasa abaazirwanako
Amasasi ne ttiya gaasi binyoose nga poliisi etaasa abatuuze n'abaazirwanako be basanze nga basaawa emmwaanyi n'ensuku zaabwe eBunjako.
Ekibinja kyabatuuze abasoba 500 balumbye abaazirwanako abasoba mu 30 ababadde bagumbye ku ttaka ly'abatuuze nga basaawa emmwaanyi zaabwe n'ensuku nga bagamba nannyini ttaka Omulangira David Mawanda Namugala yabawaawo.
Abatuuze be Bunjoko mu gombolola ye Buwama mu mpigi okulumba abaazirwanako kiddiridde abaazirwanako okusaawa emisiri gy'emmwaanyi za batuuze egisoba mw'ena n'ensuku ekibagye mu mbeera ne baddukira ew'omubaka waabwe John Bosco Lubyayi kyokka bwe bamututte mu nnimiro zaabwe ezaasaayiddwa nga bamulambuza ne basangayo abaazirwanako nga basaawa ne bakubagana emiggo okukakkana nga poliisi ebakubyemu amasasi ne ttiyagaasi.
Nga poliisi emaze okubakubamu omukka ogubalagala ne babuna emiwabo abaazirwanako we bafunidde omwagaanya ne badduka era abatuuze ne bateekera obuyumba bwabwe bwe babadde basulamu omuliro n'ebikozesebwa byabwe ebirala okuli nengoye.
Abatuuze bano balumiriza Col Alfred Nangendo akulira Bonna bagaggawale okukulemberamu abantu bano okubasaayira ebirime byabwe nga agamba nti nannyini ttaka omulangira Mawanda yeyabawaddewo balimiriwo kasooli era nga kigambibwa yabawadde yiika 100 ezirimu emmere yabatuuze kye bagamba nti kiyinza okubaviirako okufa enjala ng'ate President Museveni yabasuubiza okulibagulira ettaka lino baleme kubasengula.
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Okufuna kwabwe kuno okutajja kuggwa kulabika kwekubakubiriza mukamawabwe abeere mubufuzi okutuusa emyaka 90 nga President Mugabe owe Zimbabwe!
Banange bo ba veterans abazilwanako muntalo za 1966/79/86/ tebakula nabo ettaka nelibalya nga banabbwe bebaali balwanyisa, nabo bafune kubuyinza?
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