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Olukiiko lwa Buganda lwanjudde embalirira ya buwumbi 7
The Kabaka of Buganda launches a book on Ssekabaka Muteesa II struggles:
Posted Friday, 27 May, 2016
By the Monitor, Uganda
Kabaka Mutebi (centre) with Mr Patrick Makumbi (right) and Dr Colin Sentongo (left) at the book launch at Bulange in Mengo, Kampala.
Kampala in the State Kingdom of Buganda:
Kabaka Ronald Mutebi on Wednesday, 25th May 2016, launched a book about the struggles of his late father and former Buganda king, Edward Muteesa II, touching on Uganda’s history before and after independence.
The book titled The Brave King, revisits the stories of Muteesa’s exiling, first between 1953 and 1955, and again from 1966 to 1969 when he died in London. The author, Mr Patrick Makumbi, drew from the documents preserved by his father, 99-year-old Thomas Makumbi, who was an official at Mengo, Buganda’s power capital.
“I was very happy to write the preface to this book,” Kabaka Mutebi said, adding: “It will help the readers understand what Kabaka Muteesa went through in those days.”
When Mutesa was exiled in 1953, the older Makumbi, the father of the author, led a team of six Buganda officials to negotiate with the British about the king’s return to Buganda, which was secured in 1955. The other members of the team were Mr Apollo Kironde, Mr Matayo Mugwanya, Mr Amos Sempa, Mr Eridadi Mulira and Mr Ernest Kalibbala.
Kabaka Mutebi, while officiating at the function, called on more people to document what they saw during those days, saying “it is a good thing” that some of those who witnessed or participated in the events are still alive. Muteesa himself wrote about the period in question in his autobiography, The Desecration of my Kingdom, and Kabaka Mutebi’s endorsement of Mr Makumbi’s new book will be seen as an extension of the kingdom’s bid to manage the narrative.
Mr Apollo Makubuya, Buganda’s third deputy Katikkiro, at the launch held at Bulange-Mengo said there have been attempts to misrepresent history by “those who do not like us”.
Accusations and counter accusations of betrayal between Buganda Kingdom and Obote are rooted in a rather happy start, when Buganda’s party Kabaka Yekka (KY) teamed up with Obote’s Uganda People’s Congress to defeat the Democratic Party and form government at independence in 1962.
But the two centres of power soon quarrelled violently and were involved in what many have regarded as a critical turning point in Uganda’s history. The army, on Obote’s orders, stormed Muteesa’s palace on May 24, 1966, killing multitudes and forcing the king-president into exile.
Mr Makubuya said his grandfather was among those killed during the attack, an occasion the kingdom commemorates yearly on May 24. He said in addition to explaining how Buganda and Muteesa suffered during that period, Mr Makumbi’s book will clarify a number of other issues, including how colonialism thwarted Buganda’s development efforts.
He said Buganda stiffly resisted colonialism and the demands of colonial governor Andrew Cohen in particular, to the extent of winning a court case in London against the exiling of Muteesa. In all its efforts, Mr Makubuya said, Buganda was consistently seeking autonomy, and that the kingdom can “never” lose sight of this objective.
Mr Makumbi, the author, said his father could not attend the launch due to old age.
The publication of the book was financed by Dr Colin Sentongo, who said at the launch that KY, which ceased to exist in the 1960s, is the only political party he has ever belonged to.
The fathers of Mr Makumbi and Dr Sentongo met with Muteesa as students at Kings College Budo, from where, Mr Sentongo said, the three men forged a life-long friendship. It is probably much for this reason that Kabaka Mutebi warmed up to Mr Sentongo and Mr Makumbi at the launch.
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Fiscal Budget y'Ensi Buganda ebiro bino:
Posted 7th July, 2014
By Dickson Kulumba
Omuwanika wa Buganda, Eve Nagawa Mukasa
Omukyala Eve asomye embalirira y’Obwakabaka bwa Buganda eya 2014/2015 nga ya buwumbi 7 (7,411,638,600/-) .
Embalirira eno eri wansi w’omulamwa 'Okwolesebwa n’Ebigendererwa' egendereddwamu okutumbula enkulaakulana okuli; okumaliriza Amasiro g’e Kasubi ne Wamala, Masengere, okulongoosa Ennyanja ya Kabaka, okussawo etterekero ly’ebyedda, okukulaakulanya ettaka ly’e Kigo ne Makindye 'State Lodge', okuzimba olubiri lw’omulangira Juma Katebe, okuzimba olubiri lwa Namasole, okuddaabiriza embuga z’Amasaza wamu n’okuzimba eddwaliro ly’abakyala.
Nagawa yagambye nti ensimbi zino zisuubirwa okuva mu Buganda Land Board, Amasomero, Minisitule ez’enjawulo, mu bupangisa, amakampuni g’Obwakabaka, ebitongole ebigaba obuyambi n’obuwumbi buna okuva mu Gavumenti eya wakati.
Ng’ayogera mu lukiiko luno, Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga yasabye abantu okutambulira ku kiragiro kya Kabaka eky’abantu okujjumbiro ebifo by’obulambuzi era n'ategeza nti pulojekiti zonna Obwakabaka ze butandiseeko ssi zaakukoma mu kkubo, zirina okumalirizibwa n’olwekyo enkola y’okunoonya Ettoffaali ekyagenda mu maaso kubanga Kabaka ayitibwa mufumbya Gganda n'antabalirira batyabi- ensimbi zikyetaagisa.
Olukiiko luno lwetabiddwamu abakiise bangi ddala ne baminisita ba Kabaka nga lwakubiriziddwa, Sipiika Nelson Kawalya eyagambye nti embalirira eno abakiise basaanye okugenda n’ekiwandiiko kino, bwe banakomawo mu lukiiko luno basobole okugiyisa.
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 bamuggalidde: 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.
No.19 refers to the numbers of surrounding African territories of British Empire interests
THE THEN GANDA KINGDOM TERRITORY OF 18 CENTURY TURNED INTO THE UGANDA KINGDOM OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE WITH 20 MAPPED TERRITORIALCOUNTIES, 1900. (in brown red colour No.19).
(copy-right of the international British colonial office)
Eyali Katikkiro, Dan Muliika akubye ebituli mu liizi ya Kyapa mu ngalo: Minzaani ekozesebwa ku liizi egudde olubege
By Sarah Zawedde
Added 16th May 2017
EYALIKO Katikkiro wa Buganda, Dan Muliika alabudde ku nkola ya Mmengo ey’Ekyapa mu ngalo n’agamba nti etadde Abaganda bannakabala n’abagwira abaguze kuno ebibanja kyokka nga balina ettaka ewaabwe gye bava mu luse lumu.Yayogedde ne SARAH ZAWEDDE.
Mr Dan Muliika
KIZIBU okwogera ku liizi eya Kyapa mu ngalo kubanga nagenze mu kakiiko k’ebyettaka e Mmengo bampe ku ffoomu ya liizi ndabe bw’ejjuzibwamu oba nange nsobola okugifuna ne baηηamba nti teriiyo!
Liizi ebeera kontulakiti wakati wa nnannyini ttaka n’omuntu agifuna. Liizi za njawulo era buli muntu abeera n’obukodyo bwe bw’ayinza okuteeka mu liizi okusinzira ku kigendererwa .
Liizi eyinza okubeera ennungi oba embi okusinziira ku ngeri gy’ebagiddwaamu ate nnannyini liizi waddembe okugizza obuggya oba okugaana.
Zibeeramu obukwakkulizo obwetaagisa okumala okwekenneenya nga tonnaba kugiteekako mukono.
Liizi gye bakolera Mehta eyinza okuba nga tefaanagana gye bakukoledde mu kaseera kano.
Noolwekyo Mmengo obutayombagana na bantu twandibadde tusooka okutegeera liizi eno.
Abaleese enkola eno tebeebuuzizza ku bantu baabulijjo bannanyini ttaka ku nsonga eno ekitegeeza nti nabo basigala mu bbanga .
Nsaba Katikkiro aleme kugoberera nkola ya gavumenti ya wakati egaana abantu baabulijjo okwogera ku nsonga zino.
Abantu bano buli lwe boogera ku bukyamu n’obulungi obuli mu nkola ya Kyapa mu ngalo kibeera kikendeeza obuzibu Katikkiro bw’atuddeko.
Katikkiro mmwebaza kubanga afubye okuwandiisa ebibanja byaffe twewale enkaayana ezibaddewo naye tekitegeeza nti omuntu bw’awandiisibwa ayingira butereevu mu nkola ya liizi.
EBIZIBU KU TTAKA
Ebireese obuzibu ku ttaka mu Uganda biwerako naye ekisooka bwe butabeerawo nteekateeka nnuηηamu ekwata ku byettaka mu gavumenti eya wakati ate ng’erabika yabuutikira gavumenti ezeebitundu ezaali zimanyi ku nkola y’ettaka.
Bangi okwogera ku ttaka balyogerako lwa Buganda. Ng’Abazungu tebannajja mu Buganda, ettaka lyakulemberwanga Kabaka nga ye muyima.
Mu Buganda bwe twogera ku Kabaka tetutegeeza muntu alimu nga Mutebi, wabula tutegeeza Obwakabaka. Mu lulimi olutuufu, Kabaka yabeeranga omuyima wa byonna kubanga n’abantu tuli ba Kabaka, ettaka n’ebintu byonna.
Ettaka erisinga lyateekebwanga mu bika wabula nga mulimu ery’ennono nga bw’owulira nti Obuganda bwaliwanga Amasiro, abakungu abalabirira Obwakabaka n’ebirala.
Omuzungu bwe yajja n’atuyigiriza okupima ettaka tusobole okulibala mu sikweya mayiro. Era mu ndagaano ya 1900 ekyo kyakolebwa.
Sikweya Mayiro 8000 lyagabanyizibwa abakungu nga Bakatikkiro, sikweya mayiro 350 za lusuku lwa Kabaka nga mwalimu eza bannaalinnya.
Wabula sikweya mayiro 9000 zaakwasibwa Gavana azikuume ku lw’abantu.
Ettaka bwe lyagabibwa mu 1900, lyaleetawo endooliito kubanga abantu bonna tebaafuna ttaka. Kino kye kyavaako okuteekawo etteeka ly’ettaka mu 1928.
Kye kyavaako okuleeta ekintu kye bayita ekibanja. Ekibanja kyava mu mbeera ya bantu abamu abataafuna ttaka . Era bannyini ttaka be baabawaayo ebibanja wabula nga basigala babanjibwa Obusuulu n’envujjo.
Ebiseera ebyo twabipimisanga luwaanyi oba omulamula era ebibanja twabikuuma era ng’omutongole amanyi bulungi omuntu w’ayita nga tetunnaba kufuna bano ababbi b’ettaka aba LC.
Okuva mu 1928 tewaddayo kubeerawo nkaayana era abamu ku bannannyini ttaka be baayitanga abasenze okutuula ku ttaka lyabwe.
EMIVUYO KU TTAKA
Omuzungu bwe yali ava wano 1961 ng’ateekateeka okutuddiza obuyinza okutuggya mu bufuge, yakomyawo ebintu byaffe byonna n’ettaka lye baali bakuuma era wano we wasibuka ekya Buganda Land Board.
Abazungu baddira abakumpanya ne babateera obukulembeze okuva ku Obote okutuuka kati.
Olw’okuba gavumenti ya wakati yalemererwa okuteekawo enteekateeka ennungi ey’okulabirira ettaka lyaffe amawanga mangi geetabise nga tebalina nteekateeka nga mu Buganda bwe bakola.
Era bano be baagendanga beesenza ku ttaka ly’omuntu erisangiddwaawo, sso ng’Omuganda nnakabala yali asooka kunoonya nnyini ttaka n’amweyanjulira.
Abantu bano balina emmundu, tebagambibwako kyokka nga gwe batiisa tolina mmundu. Kino kimu ku byongedde okutabula eby’ettaka .
Abali mu gavumenti eya wakati baateeka amateeka ku ttaka nga n’agamu gawagira okubba ettaka ly’abantu.
Okugeza, mu 1998 bassaawo etteeka nti ssinga omuntu asenga ku ttaka lyo okumala emyaka 12 nga tomugobyewo wabeera wafuuse wawe.
Kino kiringa agamba nti ssinga omuntu atwala kkooti yange n’amala nayo emyezi mukaaga nga simukutte nayo efuuka yiye. Kyannaku nti amateeka gano baagayisa mu Palamenti erina okuteeseza abantu okubaggya mu buzibu.
Omuyindi oba Omuzungu nga takkirizibwa kufuna ttaka. Ennaku zino yinvesita akyayinza okusinga nnannyini ttaka obuyinza!
Ekiti ekyokubiri nga kizibu n’okumanya nti weekiri be bayittibwa Abalaalo abava mu nsi ezituliraanye ne bayiika bangi awatali abakugira.
Bava e Rwanda, D.R Congo, Tanzania ne Burundi. Beewandiisa ne bafuna endagamuntu, bawambye ettaka n’okwesenza ku bibanja by’abantu.
Okugeza e Busunju, nnamwandu w’eyaliko minisita w’ebyemizannyo Owek. Ssemugabi alwanagana n’ekibinja bwe kityo ekyagala okutwala ettaka lyabwe era ensonga ziri mu kkooti.
BANDIRIKUTTE BATYA?
Gavumenti ya wakati bwe yandyagadde okuteekawo akakiiko kagiyambe okutereeza eby’ettaka kandibadde kava mu bannanyini ttaka okuva mu bitundu 15 eby’eggwanga .
Amawanga gano 15 era galambikibwa ku mulyango gwa palamenti okuli n’obubonero bwago. Kuliko Buganda, Bunyoro, Busoga, Kigezi, Ankole, Toro, West Nile, Madi, Lango, Acholi, Teso, Karlamoja, Sebei, Bugishu ne Bukedi nga be bakola eggwanga. Bano be bandibadde bavaamu akakiiko nga bannannyini kitundu era nga be beebuuzibwako.
Kati gavumenti eya wakati etaddewo akakiiko akakulirwa omulamuzi Bamugemereirwe ku byettaka.
Gwe nalabyeyo ng’ayinza okukiikirira Buganda ye Robert Sebunya, kyokka oyo muwi wa magezi owa Pulezidenti ate nga be bantu abawubisa Pulezidenti buli kiseera. Buli ggwanga lyandibadde liweereza omuntu waalyo mu kakiiko kano.
Commuting in Kampala international City in the year 2016 after 50 years of Buganda state leaving the British colonial Protectorate rule:
Written by JONATHAN KAMOGA
Created: 24 June 2016
Six months since Kampala's pilot train service launched, JONATHAN KAMOGA finds that it just may be proving doubting Thomases wrong.
Musa Kiguli was tired of paying high taxi fares, only to end up in sickening, time-consuming traffic jams; and on December 7, 2015, he had a chance to try something different.
“This was like a turning point for me; as soon as the train started operating, I made a decision to use it to and from work every day,” says the clinical officer who lives in Seeta and works in Kampala.
Kiguli’s decision won him both praise and favours from his bosses, who were happy with his sudden respect for punctuality. I am talking to Kiguli at 6:30am on a cold Wednesday morning, just outside the main building of Namanve train station waiting to board the first train that leaves for Kampala at exactly 7:00am.
A morning train arrives at Kireka
The five-coach train is parked a few metres away, with technicians pulling plugs and tightening bolts. About 20 other passengers are waiting near the ticket office while others are buying their tickets.
About ten minutes later, we are in one of the coaches; Kiguli, who constantly glances at his watch, sits next to me on my right. In a coach meant for 200 passengers, we are about 150. With all the seats taken, some people have to stand.
“I have managed to save a lot on transport, taxis are expensive. At least I can save about Shs 2,000 a day when I use the train,” Kiguli says.
He tells me about the corporate types he finds on the train. These, mostly from Mukono, drive to Namanve each morning, park their vehicles somewhere, and jump onto the train.
“Most people think that using this train is for only poor people but I tell you we move with lawyers, civil servants and other big people,” Kiguli says as the train sets off for Kampala.
Our first stop is at Namboole stadium at 7:10am; a few people dash off as a few more jump on – all within barely 60 seconds – before we set off again. Six minutes later, we stop in Kireka, again for one minute.
“We are going to be in Kampala just in 45 minutes unlike the people who are using the taxis; they have to meet traffic jam and of course they will be delayed,”Kiguli tells me, “Since I have to be at work by 8:30am, I think the best means to help me be there on time is this train.”
Not that it’s all smooth sailing. Kiguli, for instance, hates survival-for-the-fittest commotion as passengers push and shove to enter the train.
“My wife was injured the first time she used the train, the steps of the coaches are of a rare form and are dangerous,” Kiguli says.
As a first-time train passenger, I am nervous. With each bend the train makes, my heart skips a beat. The breeze sweeping in through the open windows joins efforts with the three ceiling fans to make it feel rather cold. I am not the only first-timer here. Seated opposite me is Gertrude Nabukenya, fresh from university heading to town for a job interview at exactly 8:00am.
“I am sure I will be there on time, unlike if I used a taxi. I was afraid of using the train all along and I must admit I am still a little scared.” She says.
Children struggle to get onto the evening train
Two brief stops at Nakawa and Makerere University Business School by 7:35am see a few more people off the train as we continue to Kampala train station. At 7:48am, our arrival at the station is announced by the continuous hooting of the train. Within five minutes, all the coaches, with combined capacity of 100 passengers, are empty as passengers hurriedly walk out to get on with the day’s business.
The train will stay here until 5:30pm, when it makes its second journey back to Namanve.
EXPERIMENT
This one-year pilot study train service is run by Uganda Railways Corporation and Rift Valley Railways in partnership with Kampala Capital City Authority. Mr Brian Lugwire, the project manager at Uganda Railways, attributes the increasing passenger numbers to intensive marketing – and presumably a good job by its staff of 20 train attendants and cashiers.
“We got a marketing consultant firm on board that did most of the adverts and maybe our own people who have marketed it,” Lugwire says.
He adds that they are receiving passengers from different spheres of life and, therefore, are working on providing means suitable for all.
“We are in talks with Namboole stadium management to help us provide parking space for our clients who need to park their cars and use the train. We have written to them and we await their reply,” he says.
SECOND SHIFT
At 5:00pm, I am at Kampala train station to catch the train back to Namanve. Lugwire says this second trip mostly carries middle-class people leaving work. It is not as packed as the morning one, but the numbers are good. Most passengers get seats, although a few are standing as we leave at 5:30pm.
At the defined stopovers, a few get off as others get on. It is a quiet and relatively-smooth ride to Namanve, unlike the bumpy and tense morning shift. A few passengers order drinks like sodas and water on the train, and there is a toilet on board. We reach Namanve at 6:18pm, two minutes after the scheduled arrival time.
After a few minutes of clearing the cabins and switching engines, we are on our way back to Kampala to pick those waiting to take the last shift that leaves at 7:50pm. At the Kampala station, hundreds are waiting for the train: men, women, boys and girls. Some are on the metallic seats in the waiting area. Others are standing by the track, train tickets in hands .
Christine Nakkazi, a 26-year-old hairdresser, is sitting with her mother Stella Atenyi. Both are from work at their family salon in Kisenyi and are heading home to Mukono.
“I really hate the fact that the train station is very far away from the city centre,” Nakkazi tells me. “You have to walk all the way from Kisenyi to here if you do not have money for a boda boda.”
Her mother suggests that life would have been much easier if a passenger spot was fixed in the very heart of Kampala city beyond the train station to help passengers avoid boda boda costs or the long walks to the station.
“It would be even much better if the train goes past Namanve to Mukono,” the old woman says “Most of us who use it daily come from that side,”.
However Lugwire says this is just a pilot study and they are weighting both the positives and the negatives to evaluate it at the end of the one year.
“The marketing firm we hired is also responsible for collecting complaints of the customers so we can work on them after the pilot study,” he says.
As usual, the struggle to get a seat starts as soon as the train arrives. The merciless pushing at the entrance doesn’t spare me this time. Without any journalistic immunity, I instinctively push a few bodies aside – who push back.
“All of us are going to enter, I don’t see the reason why you people should push yourselves,” a female voice behind me shouts.
“Yes all of us will enter but some of us will be seated while others are standing,” says a voice from inside, its owner probably already seated .
Passengers in the 5.30pm train at the Kampala station
By the time I get in, all the seats are taken. I have to stand all the way. Having been on all the shifts in the day, the last one is undoubtedly my best. From the look of things, it carries the biggest number of people in the day. A quick head count in my coach suggests we are at least 180 talkative passengers.
Uganda Cranes, Besigye and Museveni dominate conversations, while the quiet passengers lock their tired faces to their mobile phone screens. It is 7:40pm and we have been in the stationary train for 30 minutes now. Many passengers complain because we are not setting off. Others standing with me are already getting tired.
On my right is Justus Okello, a 65-year-old Luweero war veteran, who can’t get anyone to offer him a seat.
“I am from hospital. See, here are my malaria drugs,” Okello says, showing me a white paper bag containing various tablets.
Looking around, I see a wall notice about seats reserved for pregnant women and old people. I approach the young man sitting directly below the notice and explain Okello’s situation and why he needs to give up his seat for the old man.
“Who told him to come in late? Let him stand,” the boy replies.
Just then, at 7:58pm, the train hoots, and we crawl out of the station.
“Is this the speed at which this thing travels?” a woman asked her neighbour who answers jokingly in the affirmative. However a few seconds later, the train gains speed, making the usual stopovers.
Strangely, I feel quietly proud each time the train crosses the road with vehicles stuck in traffic. Quite many passengers alight at Namboole, giving me a seat next to two girls in their senior six vacation. Mariam and Jamillah Ahmed are going to Namanve and have never used the train before but the events of the day forced the sisters to.
“We dropped our money in town, luckily enough we remained with Shs 3,000,” Mariam says. “Because the taxis were asking for Shs.2,500 from each of us, we decided to use the cheaper train.”
They are surprised that many people use the train which they have always ignored. At 8:40pm, the train, nearly empty, grinds to a halt at Namanve, where it will stay till tomorrow morning. As I walk down a dark road to the Kampala-Jinja highway to pick a taxi home, my mind flashes back to last December.
Not many gave the train a chance when it launched. Indeed, many people still think no one uses the train in Kampala. But today, from clinical officer Musa Kiguli who braves the morning cold, hospital patient Justus Okello, to desperate sisters Mariam and Jamillah, I have travelled with happy train users. For helping them to save time and money, and avoid stressful traffic jams, this train is a blessing.
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These African city commuters seem glad that the NRM leadership is steering their destiny to greater heights of technology. One reckons such transport was on during the 1950s and 60s when M7 was a mere shoolboy looking after cattle for his Step father!
Buganda yaakugenda mu maaso n'okwenyigira mu byobusuubuzi
By Dickson Kulumba
Added 24th July 2018
Katikkiro ng'atongoza amazzi
KATIKKIRO Charles Peter Mayiga agambye nti Obwakabaka bwakugenda mu maaso n'okusuubula okusobola okufuna ensimbi ate ezinakola ebintu ebigasa abantu baabwo.
Bino yabyogeredde Bulange- Mmengo Ku mukolo kwatongolezza amazzi g'Obwakabaka agaatumiddwa Olwendo n'alagira nti geganda kukozesebwanga Ku mikolo gy'Obwakabaka ssaako n'egyo egy'Obuwangwa n'ennono egikolebwa abantu mu Buganda.
"Waliwo bangi abanenya nti Obwakabaka ngenda kubufuula bwa busuubuzi. Yee nga nkyali Katikkiro bujja kugenda mu maaso n'okusuubula. Bwetutakole ekyo Kabaka anaggya wa ensimbi eziweerera abaana, okujjanjaba abantu be. Okusiiga obusiizi Bulange eno kyetaaga obukadde 80, amasannyalaze gaayo ga bukadde obusukka 30 omwezi n'ebirala bingo," Mayiga bweyategezezza.
Amazzi gano okusinziira Ku akulira ekitongole kya Majestic Brands, Ronald Kawaddwa gagenda kukolebwa aba Veto Food Industries Ltd e Namanve.
Emmanuel Katongole nga y'akulira Vero yagambye nti Obwakabaka nabo bakufuna ebirungi ntoko okuva mu mukago guno ogwatereddwako omukono olunaku lweggulo.
Amazzi gano okusinzira Ku Muwanika wa Buganda, Waggwa Nsibirwa gegasse Ku Kkampuni n'obuyiiya obukoleddwa Obwakabaka okuyingiza Ssente mu Ggwanika ate n'okufunira abavubuka emirimu.
Ku mukolo gwe gumu abantu abenjawulo baleese ensimbi eziri mu bukadde 35 mu nkola eyitibwa Akeejago okuwagira okutegeka emikolo gy'Amatikkira ga Kabaka ag'omwaka guno obwa Jubireewo.
Mu baleese ensimbi kuliko aba Total obukadde 20, Victory School Of Beauty 400,000/-, Mumsa High School 700,000/-, Ab'ekibiina ki TUBUGA 100,000/-. Abaana Phinnella Nalugemwa, Stanley Luswata 30,000/-, Aisha Nakaweesi 10,000/- ate Abasomerako e Buddo nga bakulembeddwamu Christopher Luswata bawaddeyo 2,000,000/-
Dr. Twaha Kaawaase nga ye Ssentebe w'emikolo gya Jubireewo yayongedde naakunga abantu okuleeta kyonna kyebalina kubanga bakyabalinda basanyukire wamu ne Kabaka ng'ajjaguza emyaka 25 bukya atuula Ku Nnamulondo ya Buganda.
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Queen wa Bungereza jo juuzi balaze bwayingiza omusiimbi omuyitirivu ku ttaka ensi ya Bungereza lyeyamulekera erya bajajjabe afune nga mu akasente okusinga okulinda omusaala gwomusolo nabo abamuwa obuwi. Mengo twabagamba dda. Mùlekerawo okusabiriza sente wano e Buganda!
Mengo oba Buganda bwetegende mumaaso okwenyigira mu busuubuzi sente enazijja wa? Ye abaffe abo abawa Mengo oba Buganda obukadde nobusiriivu bwensimbi bo bazigya wa? Ne baziwa gwe Buganda oba Mengo atagenda mumaaso nokukola nokusuubula ensimbi kumulembe guno!
Oba ani yali aganye Buganda oba Mengo okwenyigira mubusubuzi bwensi ya Uganda?
Ebbeeyi ku masannyalaze erinnye:
Kampala | Jul 15, 2015
Bya musasi wa Bukedde, KAMPALA, BUGANDA:
Aboota amasannyalaze bagenda kusasula Umeme 150/- buli yuniti ku zisooka 15 ze banaakozesa olwo eziyitamu basasule 558.4/- buli yuniti okuva mu July w’omwaka guno okutuuka mu September.
Ekitongole ekivunaanyizibwa ku by’amasannyalaze ekya ERA ekigereka ebbeeyi kye kyalangiridde bino ne kigamba nti entabwe evudde ku doola erinnya, bbeeyi y’ebintu okupaala n’okulinnya kwa bbeeyi y’amafuta.
Amasannyalaze ag’okwota geeyongeddeko 39/- buli yuniti. Ate bannamakolero
abanene bayongezeddwaamu 20/- nga kati baakusasula 328/- buli yuniti.
Akulira kkampuni ya ERA, Benon Mutambi yagambye nti doola yalinnye okuva ku 2,779/- n’edda ku 3,054 okuva mu May w’omwaka guno.
Yagambye nti ebbeeyi yandibadde eri waggulu okusingako wano kyokka kkampuni ezikola n’okubunyisa amasannyalaze zikyagumye akazito kano tezinnakasa ku bakozesa masannyalaze .
Omwogezi w’ekitongole kya UMEME , Henry Rugambwa yagambye nti ebbeeyi empya egenda kussibwa ku bakasitoma.
DANIEL Lukyamuzi Aliwaali yaleka ettaka e Bulemeezi Block 25 plot 11 erikunukkiriza mu yiika 42 ku kyalo Kayindu ekiri mu ggombolola y’e Kalagala e Luweero. Aliwaali nga tannafa mu 1944 yaleka alaamidde omwana wa mukulu we okumusikira kubanga abaana be baali bato.
Wabula abeng’anda baaziringitanya obusika, abaana ne basaasaana ekyawa omugagga omu Michael Kintu omwagaanya okugenda ku kyalo okukumpanya ettaka lino. Kalondoozi wa Bukedde akulaze engeri abagagga gye bakozesaamu balooya ne ofiisi z’ebyettaka okubbako abantu ettaka lyabwe.
Micheal Kintu yawamba ettaka lya bamulekwa ku kyalo Kayindu e Bulemeezi n’assaako ffaamu ng’agamba nti ettaka lirye. Ekyewuunyisa ekisooka, Kintu agamba nti ettaka lino liri ku Bulemezi Block 10 plot 8, nti liwezaako yiika 20 n’obutundu ekitali kituufu!
James Musoke Kamya, omu ku baana b’omugenzi Aliwaali bwe yakizuula nti ettaka lyali liwambiddwa, yatandika okunoonya engeri gy’alinunulamu wabula abantu be yatuukirira okumuyambako okwali mukulu we n’omusika kitaabwe gwe yalaamira, baafa mangu mu ngeri ya kibwatukira.
Taata yafa tukyali bato, nze nnalina emyaka munaana. Olw’okuba twali bato, yalaamira omwana wa muganda we Lozio Mukajanga y’abeera amusikira nga ky’anoonya nti oyo ayinza okukuuma emmaali yaffe abato.
Bwe yafa mu 1944, waliwo ab’ekika abamu abaakyusa obusika ne budda mu ffe abaana olwo ne batusindika e Masaka bo ne batwala ebyaffe kumpi kubimalawo.
E Masaka twavaayo mu 1947, ne tuddamu okubeera ne maama Solome Najjuka ku ttaka lya taata era ono yayamba nnyo kubanga taata yali amubuuliddeko nti yali aguze ttaka.
Maama bwe yafa, nnagenda e Masaka gye nnatandika okukolera nga mmala ebbanga ddene nga sikomawo ku Kayindu. Nakomawo mu 1999 nga nzize kulambula ku Bataka!
Nneewuunya nnyo okusanga nga Kintu yali akoze ffaamu ku ttaka lyaffe! Nabuuza muganda wange Peter Katongole eyali abeera ku ttaka engeri Kintu gye yajjamue n’antegeeza nti Kintu yamusindiikiriza ng’agamba nti ttaka lirye, nti ffe twajjawo mu bukyamu!
James Musoke Kamya amaze emyaka egisoba mu 10 nga yeezooba ne Kintu.
Ebintu byayongera okunsobera kubanga kulowooza nti osanga Kintu yagula ku Katongole. Kwe kugenda ew’omusika waffe Lozio Mukaajanga e Ntebe ne mmusaba okuyamba ku nsonga eno kyokka ono yafa mu ngeri gye tutaategeera. Twali twakamala okumuziika, ne mukulu wange Katongole eyali abeera ku ttaka e Kayindu naye n’afa kibwatukira!
Abantu bange bwe baamala okufa, abakulu b’Ekika bampa obuyinza okunoonyereza ku nsonga z’ettaka lino mu 2001. Natandika okuyigga Kintu twogere ng’abantu abakulu naye nga muzibu wa kukwasa.
Lumu nnamukubira ne mmuyitiramu ensonga era n’ansaba tusisinkane wa Ssentebe e Kayindu twogere. Nakung’aanya abakulu mu Kika ne mbatwala kyokka bwe twatuuka ewa Ssentebe, Kintu teyalabikako!
Bwe nnali ntegese okumuwaabira, yansaba tuddemu tusisinkane ewa ssentebe. Nnali ne looya wange, eyo gye yang’ambira nti ettaka lirye!
Nasalawo okutwala omusango mu kkooti e Luweero nga nvunaana Kintu wabula omusango gwali gukyagenda mu maaso ne funa obulwadde obw’amaanyi nga sisobola kugenda mu kkooti ebbanga eddene.
Kyokka looya wange n’agaana okutegeeza kkooti ekyaleetera omulamuzi okulowooza nti nnali ng’aanye okugenda mu kkooti.
Olw’okuba nga nnalaba ng’ekkubo lyokka lye nnalina okuwangula Kintu, nasalawo okufuna looya omulala atwale mu maaso n’omusango guno.
Waliwo eyandagirira mu kitongole ekikola ku mateeka ekya Legal Aid Project. Nnagendayo nga February 15, 2012 ne bampa looya gwe nnategeerako erya Moses akole ku nsonga zange.
Bwe nnazaayo omusango mu kkooti e Luweero, ekyennaku, looya ono ate ekifo ky’okunnyamba yatandika okwebulankanya mu biseera bya kkooti era tewali n’olunaku n’olumu lwe yajjako mu kkooti.
Teyakoma ku butajja mu kkooti wabula teyang’ambanga lunaku kkooti lw’egenda kutuula kwogera ku nsonga zange.
Era omulamuzi yaddamu n’agoba omusango gwange omulundi ogwokubiri nga bagamba nti nnali sijja mu kkooti!
Bazzukulu ba Aliwaali nabo Kintu yabagoba ku ttaka
Ng’agoba omusango guno nga 27 September 2012, omulamuzi wa kkooti y’e Luweero, Harriet Namata Nsibambi yasoma emirundi 10 gye bampita mu kkooti nga sigendayo kyokka nga oyo eyalinga looya wange yali tang’amba ate nga nnali mugambye endeetere obubaka ew’omulamuzi nga bwendi omuladde.
Newankubadde nga nnagezaako okunnyonnyola omulamuzi obulwadde bwe nnali nfunye ne mmulaga n’ebbaluwa yagaana okunkwatirwa ekisa.
OMUWANDIISI WA KKOOTI AWAMBA FAYIRO YANGE
Kino kyankwasa obusungu kubanga nnabuuzanga looya olunaku kkooti lw’egenda okutuula ng’ambuzaabuza. Bwe nnamulagira azzeeyo omusango mu kkooti yang’amba nti fayiro yali yamubulako!
Bwe nnalaba yeekwasa, ne mmuwa fayiro eyange kyokka ate yakuulamu empapula ezimu n’agenda mbu agenda kujulira kyokka teyakikola, ate n’empapula zange teyazizza.
Okugaanira empapula ezaali zikwata ku musango kyammala okundabula nti osanga yali alina gw’akolera nze nga simanyi.
Bwe nnalaba nga looya eyali ampeereddwa tannyambye, nnatwala kkopi ya fayiro endala ew’omuwandiisi wa kkooti (court clerk) gwe manyiiko erya Byekwaso e Luweero nga njagala ampe amagezi kiki kye nnalina okukola.
Ekyennaku naye yampambako kkopi ya fayiro gye nnalina nga 21 July 2012 era okugifuna nnamala kulemerako nnyo ate nga nkozesezza amagezi mangi. Nafuna okutya nga ndaba bonna baali bakolagana n’omulabe wange.
‘Ettaka nnaligula n’abaaliriko ne mbasasula’
Peter Katongole yafa mu ngeri etategeerekeka
BALOOYA AB’EBBEEYI
Eyo y’ensonga eyavaako okufuna aba Balikuddembe & Co Advocates ne mbayitiramu omusango gwange. Abo bansaba obukadde 11!
Zino omu ku batabani bange ye yazisasula. Wabula kyambuukako nabo bwe baatandika okuzannya obuzannyo bwa balooya be nnali nfunye mu kusooka. Ng’omusango tegutambula, nga tebambuulira we tutuuse era nga ne kkooti lw’egenda okutuula oluusi simanya!
Lumu nnali mpitaayita ne ngwa ku looya aba kkampuni eno gwe baali bampadde ng’ali mu kafubo ne looya wa Kintu.
Era waayitawo akaseera katono, kkampuni eno n’empita ne bang’amba nti Kintu yali ayagala nzikirize ampe ekyapa awali ebiggya ebintu tubimale era nti bwe mba nga njagala aw’okulimira ajja kunguza yiika ku bukadde 10 kyokka nze ne ng’aana kubanga ettaka eryo lyali lyaffe.
Baddamu ne bampita nti Kintu yali ansabye nzikirize ampe yiika ssatu tubimale naye nga sisobola kukkiriza. Kino kyampa okutegeera nti nabano nabo baali batandise okukolagana n’omulabe wange.
EKyapa kya kintu
Ettaka taata lye yaleka lya yiika 42 ku Block 25 plot 11. Ye Kintu agamba nti erirye liri ku Bulemezi ku Block 10 plot 8 era liwerako yiika 20 ekyewuunyisa!
Ekyapa Kintu ky’alina kigamba nti kyadda mu mannya ga Daudi Muzannyi nga 14/07/1988 ku ssaawa 9:39 ezolweggulo ne kidda mu mannya ga Kasalina Navvuga nga 14/07/1988 ku saawa 9:44 olwo ne kidda mu mannya ga Kintu nga August 25, 1994. Buno bulimba kubanga Muzannyi yali yafa dda nnyo!
MICHEAL KINTU
Bwe nnabuzizza Kintu ku nsonga zino yanteegezezza bwati;
Ettaka eryo baalinguza era nnasasula abantu abaliriko. Mw’abo mwalimu ne muganda wa Musoke, Katongole era y’omu ku be nnasasula.
Era nze ku kyalo bammanyi nti nze nnannyini ttaka omutuufu. Wabula Musoke yalema okubeera omumativu n’agezaako okutwala ensonga mu kkooti wabula ne zigobwa nga balaba nga nze mutuufu.
Olw’okuba nga baali baziiseewo abantu baabwe, nnakwatibwa ekisa ne njagala Musoke mmuweeko ekyapa ky’oku biggya naye ye n’agaana nti ayagala ttaka lyonna kye sisobola kukkiriza.
Egimu ku miri egiri ku ttaka lino Kintu agitemye, ettaka erimu alitunze
Ebibuuzo
1. Bwe kiba nga Muzannyi yafa mu myaka gya 1958, kisoboka kitya okuba ng’ekyapa kyadda mu mannya ge mu 1988?
2. Bwe kiba nga Kintu agamba nti ettaka lye Bulemezi ku Block 10 plot 8 era liwerako yiika 20 kijja kitya ng’ebiwandiiko mu ofiisi z’ebyettaka bigamba nti ettaka eryo liri Bulemezi ku Block 25 plot 11?
3. Bw’aba nga Kintu akakasa nti ettaka lirye, aggya wa omutima ogwagala Musoke akkirize amusalireko amuwe ekyapa?
4. Lwaki buli looya akwata ku musango guno agukola gadibengalye?
Churchill with the King of Buganda Daudi Cwa II at Kampala, 1907
Uganda, on the equator and surrounded by the great lakes of central Africa, is one of the last parts of the continent to be reached by outsiders. Arab traders in search of slaves and ivory arrive in the 1840s, soon followed by two British explorers. Speke is here in 1862. Stanley follows in 1875.
The ruler visited by both Speke and Stanley is Mutesa, the king (or kabaka) of Buganda. His kingdom is one of four in this region which have become firmly established by the mid-nineteenth century. The others, lying to the west, are Ankole, Toro and Bunyoro.
The existence of these African kingdoms has a profound influence on the development of Uganda during the colonial period. But when the Scramble for africa begins, in the 1880s, this remote interior region is not immediately in the sights of any of the colonial predators.
It is seen at the time merely as a distant place lying beyond the territories of the sultan of Zanzibar, which are in dispute between Britain and Germany. When separate spheres of interest are agreed, in 1886, the area of modern Kenya falls to Britain. Beyond it, round the north shore of Lake Victoria, lies Buganda. Britain expects this to be little more than the far corner of its new colony. Events prove otherwise.
British East Africa Company: AD 1888-1895
As with the areas being colonized by Rhodes at this same period in southern Africa, the British government is reluctant to take active responsibility for the region of east Africa which is now its acknowledged sphere of interest. Instead it assigns to a commercial company the right to administer and develop the territory. The Imperial British East Africa Company is set up for the purpose in 1888, a year ahead of Rhodes's British South Africa Company.
The region given into the company's care stretches all the way from the east coast to the kingdom of Buganda, on the northwest shore of Lake Victoria.
It is evident to all that the development of this region depends on the construction of a railway from the coast to Lake Victoria, but circumstances conspire to make this task far beyond the abilities of the East Africa Company. The running sore which saps their energy and their funds is Buganda.
Being in a sense beyond Lake Victoria, Germany is able to argue that this region (the most powerful kingdom within the territory of Uganda) is not covered by the Territorial agreement with Britain. Moreover the irrepressible Karl Peters now forces the issue. In 1890 he arrives at Kampala and persuades the kabaka (the king of Buganda) to sign a treaty accepting a German protectorate over his kingdom.
A possibly dangerous confrontation between the imperial powers is averted when the British prime minister, Lord salisbury, proposes a deal which Berlin, remarkably, accepts. Salisbury offers the tiny and apparently useless island of Heligoland (in British possession since 1814) in return for German recognition of British protectorates in Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria (the southern province of Sudan). But Germany derives her own benefit from the deal. Heligoland subsequently proves an invaluable naval base in two world wars.
Meanwhile the East Africa Company faces further problems in Buganda, where civil war breaks out between factions led by British Protestant missionaries and their French Catholic rivals.
In January 1892 there is heavy gunfire between and among the four hills which form Kampala. On the top of one hill is the palace of the kabaka. On another the French have completed a Catholic cathedral of wooden poles and reeds. On a third the Protestants are building their church. On the fourth is the fort established for the company by Frederick Lugard, who is the only combatant with the advantage of a Maxim machine gun.
Lugard prevails. But the loss of life and destruction of property in this unseemly European squabble makes it plain that the East Africa Company is incapable of fulfilling its duties.
In 1894 the British government declares a protectorate over Buganda. Two years later British control is extended to cover the western kingdoms of Ankole, Toro and Bunyoro - to form, together with Buganda, the Uganda Protectorate.
Meanwhile the much larger region of Kenya has been relatively calm, even if the East Africa Company has achieved little of value there. But in taking responsibility for Uganda, the British government needs to be sure of the new protectorate's access to the sea. So in 1895 the company's charter is revoked (with compensation of £250,000). Kenya becomes another new responsibility of the British government, as the East Africa Protectorate.
The Uganda Protectorate: AD 1896-1962
Recent events in Uganda have made evident the difficulties likely to be faced by any colonial power. As a result the British government appoints in 1899 a seasoned administrator, Harry johnston, as special commissioner to Uganda. His brief is to recommend the most effective form of administration.
The evident power of the local African kings convinces Johnston that control must be exercised through them. Buganda is by far the most significant of the kingdoms. The Johnston policy becomes effective with the Buganda Agreement of 1900.
Under the terms of this agreement the kabaka's status is recognized by Britain, as is the authority of his council of chiefs. The chiefs' collective approval of the British protectorate over the region is eased by Johnston's acknowledgement of their freehold right to their lands (a concept alien to African tribal traditions, but nevertheless extremely welcome to the chiefs themselves).
Johnston subsequently makes similar agreements with the rulers of Toro (in 1900) and of Ankole (in 1901). With this much achieved, and a clear pattern set for the Uganda Protectorate, Johnston returns to Britain.
Later commissioners develop Johnston's solution for Uganda into a clear-cut distinction between it and neighbouring Kenya. White settlers are actively encouraged to move into Kenya's highlands, a region to the immediate southeast of Uganda. But Johnston's successor declares that Uganda is not suitable for European settlement.
Many disagree, and pressure builds to allow the establishment of European farms and plantations - until another commissioner, still in the years before World War I, makes it a point of principle that Uganda is to be an African state. The economics of the protectorate support this policy. Uganda grows prosperous as cotton, introduced by the British, is grown with great success by African peasant farmers.
But a federal system of semi-independent monarchies proves less appropriate in the years after World War II, when all African colonies are moving towards independence. Young educated Africans, the likely leaders of the future, are out of sympathy with feudal Uganda. And the dominant position of Buganda, by far the most powerful of the kingdoms, causes an imbalance in Ugandan politics - with much talk of possible secession by the kabaka and his council of chiefs.
By the early 1960s the leading Ugandan politician is Milton Obote, founder of the UPC (Uganda People's Congress), a party drawing its support from the northern regions of the country. Its main political platform is opposition to the hegemony of the southern kingdom of Buganda.
Britain grants Uganda full internal self-government in March 1962. In the following month Obote is elected prime minister. It is he who negotiates the terms of the constitution under which Uganda becomes independent in October 1962.
Confronted by the problem of Buganda, Obote accepts a constitution which gives federal status and a degree of autonomy to four traditional kingdoms, of which Buganda is by far the most powerful. In the same spirit Obote approves the election in 1963 of the kabaka, Mutesa II, to the largely ceremonial role of president and head of state. It proves to be a short-lived collaboration.
Obote and Amin: AD 1962-1985
By 1966 the deteriorating relationship between Obote and Mutesa comes to an abrupt end. Obote sends a force, led by his newly appointed army commander Idi Amin, to attack the kabaka's palace. Mutesa flees to exile in Britain.
Obote immediately introduces a new constitution. This abolishes the hereditary kingdoms, ends the nation's federal structure and provides for an executive president - a post taken by Obote himself in addition to his role as prime minister. With the help of army and police he terrorizes any remaining political opponents. But meanwhile an ostensible ally, more ruthless even than himself, is making good use of the widespread discontent.
In 1971, when Obote is abroad, his regime is toppled in a coup led by Idi Amin. Obote settles just over the border from Uganda in neighbouring Tanzania, where he maintains a small army of Ugandan exiles under the command of Tito Okello.
Here Obote bides his time while the unbalanced Idi Amin subjects Uganda to a regime of arbitrary terror. The country's economy is severely damaged when he suddenly expels in 1972 all Uganda's Asians, a mainstay of the nation's trading middle class. His obsessions take more local form in the persecution of tribes other than his own. Between 100,000 and 500,000 Ugandans are reported to be murdered or tortured during Amin's seven years in power.
In 1978 Amin takes one unbalanced step too far. He invades Tanzania. Julius Nyerere, the Tanzanian president, takes the opportunity not only to repel Amin's army but also to topple his grotesque neighbour. Tanzanian troops, joining forces with Obote's private army, reach Kampala in April 1979. Amin flees (and lives on, to the century's end and beyond, as an exile in Saudi Arabia).
During the following twelve months there are two interim governments led by returning Ugandan exiles. But in May 1980 a Ugandan general, Tito Okello, organizes a coup which brings Obote back into power. He is confirmed as president in a general election six months later. Uganda lurches back from a mad dictatorship to a repressive regime held in check only by anarchy.
During the 1980s Obote uses violent means to reimpose his rule, while the country continues to suffer economic chaos and tribal massacres carried out by armed factions beyond anyone's control. In 1985 Tito Okello intervenes once more, driving Obote back into exile (eventually in Zambia).
But both Obote and Okello are already peripheral figures. The only well organized faction in these years of chaos is a guerrilla army led by Yoweri Museveni.
Museveni: from AD 1986
Yoweri Museveni was briefly Uganda's minister of defence during the interim government after the fall of Amin. When Obote returns to power as president in 1980, and his party (the UPC) wins a majority in elections widely regarded as fraudulent, Museveni refuses to accept this turning back of the clock. He withdraws into the bush and forms a guerrilla group, subsequently known as the National Resistance Army (NRA).
During the 1980s the NRA steadily extends the area of southern and western Uganda under its control. And Okello, after toppling Obote in 1985, proves no match for Museveni.
By January 1986 the NRA is in control of the capital, Kampala. Museveni proclaims a government of national unity, with himself as president. It is a turning point in Uganda's history.
A decade later the country is back under the rule of law (apart from some northern regions, where rebellion rumbles on). The economy is making vast strides (an annual growth rate of 5% in the early 1990s and of more than 8% in 1996). There are improvements in education, health and transport. International approval brings a willingness to invest and to lend. The nation, emerging from two decades of appalling chaos, is suddenly almost a model for Africa.
The only flaw, to western eyes, is that this remains one-party rule. It is an essentially pragmatic state in which good ideas from any part of the political spectrum are welcome (even Uganda's kings now have a role restored to them). But the new constitution of 1995 limits executive power to the National Resistance Movement, the party emerging from Museveni's guerrilla army.
Democracy is a subject on which Museveni has strong and interesting views. He criticizes western insistence on the multiparty model, seeing it as simplistic to assume that a single pattern can be appropriate in every circumstance. In his view parties in Africa, often based on tribal allegiances, are often likely to frustrate democracy.
Museveni argues instead that the important elements are the benefits taken for granted in a functioning multiparty democracy - universal suffrage, the secret ballot, a free press and the separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers. He describes his Uganda as a 'no-party democracy', claiming that people of widely differing views can argue their case to the electorate as competing individuals (it is campaigning as a party that is banned).
This is a somewhat utopian blueprint depending, like Enlightened despotism, on people of good will at the top. It may be in token of this that Museveni regularly promises a date in the future for the legitimizing of opposition parties.
Okujjukira kwa Buganda okwefuga nga 8 October 1962 kubadde mu saza lye Busiro, Buganda State:
Publish Date: Oct 08, 2015
By Peter Busomoke
Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II on Tuesday kicked off his tour of Busiro County as part of activities to mark Buganda's independence anniversary.
Ettaka lya Buganda nga bwelitundibwa mubumenyi bwa mateeka ga Uganda:
Kampala, Buganda State
| Jun 17, 2015
Ennaku zino bayinza okukwata omuntu ku luguudo bonna ne bamutunuulira ne wabulawo ayamba! Ekyennaku nti bangi be bakwata, si bakuumaddembe be babakwata, wabula ebibinja by’ababbi ebifunye ebikozesebwa bya poliisi omuli emmundu, empingu n’emmotoka ezirimu ttinti. Kalondoozi wa Bukedde akulaze abali emabega wa bino.
OBADDE okimanyi nti waliwo abantu baabulijjo abalina empingu ne batuuni z’abaserikale, bye bakozesa okulijja abantu n’okubakuba mu Kampala wakati emisana ttuku?
Bano bakukwata ne ba kukubisa batuuni, nebakulijja ku mpigu wakati ku miggo n’ensambaggere nga ggwe olowooza nti bapoliisi oba magye sso nga bantu baabulijjo.
Tebatya muntu yenna wadde poliisi ezirawuna oba abaserikale. Bwe bakukwata n’owoggana nga bakubatika engalo mu kamwa. Buli kimu bakikola mu ddakiika ntono nnyo obutakwatibwa, oba okutuusibwako obulabe abantu babulijjo.
Sula Kaddu, omutuuze w’e Kawempe- Mbogo mu Kampala, ekintu kye kimu kye yaguddeko ku lunaku lw’Abajulizi. Yakwatiddwa wakati wa Uganda Museum ne Pyramid ku ssaawa munaana ez’emisana ne bamusikambula mu mmotoka ye ne batandika okumukuba batuuni n ‘ensambaggere.
Kaddu akola bwabbulooka bw’ettaka era atuula ku kizimbe kya Sunset akeedi mu Kampala. Byonna ebyamutuukako abinyumya bwati;
Waliwo bakasitoma abankubira essimu nti baagala ettaka mu bitundu by’e Kisaasi, Kkulambiro ne Kyanja. Waliwo bbulooka omu ayitibwa Kiggundu Sam eyankubira essimu nti waliwo desimoolo 2.5, kyokka nze nnali nnoonya 20.
Kiggundu yangumya nti, kuliko ekkubo ate nga ne nnannyini lyo alina ebizibu. Ettaka lino lyali Najjeera 2. Nnakubira kasitoma wange ayitibwa Jeffrey Lukejja naye nze nga mmuyita Jeff, eyajja ne mmutwala awali ettaka eryo n’alisiima.
Kaddu baamumenye evviivi n’omugongo, atambulira ku miggo.
Nakubira ne looya wange Noordine Ssegujja agende mu ofiisi y’ebyettaka anoonyereze ku ttaka lino oba ttuufu. Naye yazuula nti ttuufu, liri mu mannya ga Moses Kisembo. Bino nnabitegeeza kasitoma wange nti ddala ettaka teririna mutawaana.
Naddamu ne nkubira Kiggundu ampe ku ssimu ya nnyini ttaka Moses Kisembo abeera e Mubende.
Ono yankakasa nti ddala ettaka lirye naye ekyapa mukazi we y’akirina era balitunda. Nti ssente bajja kuzigabana naye wadde baayawukana.
Nnamusaba ajje tusisinkane ku ttaka era yajja ne twogera. Yakubira mukyala we essimu n’amugamba nti, ye ali ku Jinja road awali Sports View Hotel e Kireka ye nga w’ayagala tumusange.
Twagenda ne tumusanga nnali ne bba Kisembo, ne kasitoma wange Jeff , ne tukkiriziganya obukadde 40.
Kyokka tetwamaliriza nga waliwo ebiwandiiko ebitaliiwo, ye Jeff yalinayo okuziikwa kwa Katumba owa Jobia Hotel eyafiira mu kabenje.
Yatuleka tuttaanya obuguzi. Twasalawo tudding’ane enkeera. Bwe bwakya looya Noordine yankubira essimu nti ettaka liri wasava nnyo naye alyegombye, ne mmugamba nti ssaagala kwekyusakyusa kubanga nnali nakkiriziganyizza dda ne kasitoma wange Jeff.
BABBULOOKA ABALALA
Mba nkyalinda Jeff ne wabaawo bbulooka wa Noordine eyankubira essimu nti bo ettaka balyagala, liri wasava era nti balifunidde kasitoma alipaazizza ebbeeyi ate ng’asasulirawo.
Yammatiza nti gino mirimu oli mutegeeze nga bwe waliwo alipaazizza. Nategeeza Jeff nti ettaka lituvudde mu ngalo balipaazizza, era ye yang’amba kimu nti waakiri ayongeremu ku ssente kuba yali ayagaddewo.
Babbulooka bano bansanga ndi ne nnyini ttaka Kisembo ku ttaka ne bamumatiza nti basasula obukadde 50. Kisembo yakyuka nze n’anvaako nga takyayagala kumpuliriza nadda ku babbulooka abapya!
Nuwagira yakutuka omugongo
KADDU agamba: Omu ku babbulooka yagamba nti ye kasitoma we yeetegese okusasulirawo, era twatuula mu mmotoka ye ne tugenda ew’omugagga gwe yali afunye ayitibwa Julius Nuwagaba.
Twadda ku lw’e Ntinda awali minisitule y’ensonga z’omunda .Twasanga Nuwagaba ne batandika okwogera. Kisembo ne Nuwagaba batuuka ekiseera nga boogera Lunyankoye ekyamwongera obuvumu okumwesiga.
Ku ofiisi za Nuwagaba twavaawo n’atussa mu mmotoka ye ne tuvuga nga tudda e Ntinda , tuba tugenda nga kasitoma wange Jeff ankubira nnyo amasimu ku byettaka eryo, wabula Nuwagaba n’amboggolera nti, “Ggwe toddamu okukwatira mu mmotoka yange amasimu! Nninamu ssente zange nnyingi, ensi ngimanyi!
NUWAGABA ASASULA
Tuba tugenda mu mmotoka, Kisembo n’abategeeza nti ekyapa mukyala we y’akirina. Omukyala ono nnategeerako lya Peace. Kisembo yasaba Nuwagaba aleme kusasula ng’omukyala alaba kuba ssente zonna yali ayinza okuzimuggyako kubanga yamulekera abaana nga baawukana.
Olwo Nuwagaba yamusuubiza okumwongeramu obukadde 5 ziwere 55, Ssente twazijja wakawe e Ntinda olwo netudda ku mamerito Hotel omukyala wa Kisembo gye twamusanga.
Ono naye baayogera mu Lunyankole ne Nuwagaba era n’amulaga ne kkaadi. Kisembo ne mukyala we baasooka kwegeyaamu bokka era ne badda. Olwo Kisembo n’ategeeza nti omukyala afune obukadde 35 era ne bazimuwa ye n’agenda ate Kisembo ne tugenda naye ewa looya we okukola endagaano n’okufuna ssente ze obukadde15 kw’ogatta n’obukadde obutaano obw’ebbali.
Julius yawandiika endagaano awo ey’amangu.
Naye n’agamba nti agenda wa looya kubakozesa ndagaano. Nze bbulooka wa Kisembo yampaako 1,200,000/- ne nzira ewange.
Bano baateesa enkeera baddeyo ku ttaka ne Kisembo abalage obuyinja, ate n’endagaano ne bazimuwa atwalire mukyala we asseeko omukono. Kisembo bwe yagenda teyaddamu kulabika, enkeera nnakuba ku ssimu ye nga takwata nga njagala kumanya oba byonna abimalirizza. Yaggyako n’essimu ye!
OLUKWE LW’OKUNKWATA
Kisembo teyaddayo kulabika era bbulooka we bwe yankubira nti, Kisembo talabikako n’endagaano tazireetanga ono namuddamu nti nga bwe yatulaga ettaka ate nga liri mu mannya ge mwe mugende mubeere ku ttaka lyammwe.
Kisembo kirabika yali mufere era ne kasitoma wange Jeff yawona okubbibwa. Nuwagaba ye yalugwamu naye nze byonna ssaabimanya. Bbulooka wa Nuwagaba yankubira essimu ng’agamba nti jjangu ondage ettaka eddala waliwo omugagga alyagala.
Nze nengenda kubanga nalina awali ettaka eddala eritundwa era nagenda. Olwamala okulimulaga netukomawo mu mmotoka yange ne mmusuula e Ntinda nze ne nvuga okudda eka.
Mba nzira eka nga ntuuse awo ku Uganda Museum ne bankiika mmotoka Premio , ne muvaamu abasajja babiri ne batandika okunkuba bbatuuni emisana ttuku .
Nnawoggana naye nga bang’amba kimu kubawa obukadde bwabwe 50, nti ettaka lya Kisembo teryaliyo.
Banzigyako amasimu gange gonna ate n’obusente bwe nnali nfunyeeko bwonna baabutwala. Nagezaako okuwoggana nga bankuba naye nga Nuwagana anteeka engalo mu kamwa. Bansika mu mmotoka ne banteeka mu yaabwe olwo ng’enda okulaba nga bbulooka gwe mbadde naye nga mmulambuza ettaka y’avuga Premio eno!
EMPINGU
Baavuga badda Bwaise, bwe twatuuka ku Eden Pub ne baggyayo empingu bbiri ne bansiba ne bankuba nnyo ne nzirika. Bantwala eka ewange ne baggulawo ne baaza buli kintu kyonna nga banoonya ssente zaabwe. Ekyennaku waaliwo ssente za mukyala wange 1,800,000/- nga ziterese za ddwaaliro ne bazitwala.
KU POLIISI E KIRA
Bankuba nnyo ne balaba nga nzirise, sikyasobola kutambula. Bansuula ku poliisi ya Kira divizoni n’emmotoka yange, olwo okugulu kwange bakumenye sirina kye mpulira.
Abapoliisi ya Kira nabo tebanfaako, waliwo n’eyansamba mu bbwa ne mpulira nga nfa! Bansuula mu kaduukulu naye waliwo akulira abasibe (RP) eyannyamba n’ampa ku mazzi ga kaabuyonjo ne nnywa nga nfa enkalamata.
Yateekako abasibe basatu abannyamba okunsitula okutwala emmanju. Kyokka akadukulu kaali kazibu nnyo kubanga kaliimu abasibe abaakwatibwa e Namugongo nga bangi. Era yanyamba ne bampa ekyanya mu kadukulu nsobole okufuna empewo kubanga nali sissa bulungi ono nno yasaba 20,000/-.
Julius Nuwagaba mugguddeko omusango ku poliisi e Kawempe ogw’okunkuba okutuuka okunzita nga si nze nnatwala ssente ze . Guli ku fayiroSD/46/10/06/2015. Ate ne mukyala wange agguddewo omusango gw’okubba ssente guli ku fayiro SD/44/10/06/2015.
Dr. Kalyemenya M.W.M, eyeekebejja amagumba mu poliisi yagambye mu bbaluwa ye nti eggumba ly’okugulu baalikyusa!
Kaddu ng’alaga omugongo gwe baakuba
NUWAGABA
ONO yantegeezezza nti ekyapa ekyamulaga ekya Kisembo kyali kicupuli kuba mu ofiisi y’ebyettaka baakizuula nti kyali kyakyusibwa.
Abo bonna abeenyigira mu bubbi buno ekitongole kya Flying Squad kibanoonya. Ate si nze nnakuba Kaddu naye nnataasa mutaase. Kaddu ne banne babbi nnyo, bali mu kibinja. Nabawa obukadde 50 era njagala bazinzirize.
POLIISI
Omwogezi wa Poliisi mu Uganda, Fred Enanga yagambye: Kikyamu abantu okukozesa ebintu byonna ebyefaanaanyirizaako ebyabaserikale. Muno mulimu yunifoomu, batuuni, ebidduka n’empingu.
Eno y’ensonga lwaki ebintu byonna eby’abaserikale ba Poliisi, byatongozebwa. Kyokka abantu abamu basobola okubifuna mu bumenyi bw’amateeka, era y’ensonga lwaki abaakwata n’okukuba Kaddu tubanoonya tubavunaane.
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Churchill with the King of Buganda Daudi Cwa II at Kampala, 1907
Aba punta nga bali mukukuba ettaka lya Buganda
