“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Chinua Achebe quoted. Bobi wine is now the hunted. Turning against Buganda is like setting fire on your own roof.
NUP activists and their president seems to be in a moonshot of ascending to the most prestigious seat in our mother land. They should be crying like a Vudu as their alleged attack on the Kabaka and Mengo is the last straw in their back.
As it’s said, the day the blind man sees, the first thing he does is to throw away the stick that has helped him all his life. It should be noted that Buganda region has been the biggest stronghold of NUP but the attack to the king has changed the cards. There is no doubt NRM and president Museveni will reclaim Buganda come 2026. The ghetto family has thrown away the stick of magic charm.
Its worth to mention that NUP bloggers and other social media activists led by Lumbuye(whom NUP have never disassociated with) have been the key crusaders of spreading derogatory and false information during Kabaka’s treatment abroad, claiming that Kabaka had been poisoned and kidnapped. what a shame!
It’s alleged that on Saturday 18th May at the burial of the late Pascal Ssekasamba, in Lwengo District, the ghetto gladiator used it as a platform to incite the people to demand for the Kabaka’s whereabouts; “you (people) all have the freedom to demand the whereabouts of Kabaka because I am also in pain.” the ghetto gladiator said.
Kingdom officials and the premier vowed not to tolerate that nonsense. They vehemently refuted and trashed the allegations that the Kabaka had been kidnapped by the government and was being held hostage by the Namibian government. “The Kabaka’s health and well-being remain a priority for us all. Let us respect his decision to rest and not spread gossip for political gain, like it has been while he was in Namibia,” The premier said said.
As it’s always said that a thief always has 40 days, they all got ashamed when the king returned home looking stronger and healthier. They gasped with No more words to defend their naked lies.
The king addressed his subjects on his 30th anniversary to the throne celebrations and spit fire towards those oppotunists. The King gave a stern warning against such individuals and groups hellbent on undermining the Kingdom.
Out of shame, the self proclaimed “Omubanda wa Kabaka ” feared to attend the celebrations of the king he was demanding and this cemented his alleged accusations of undermining the king.
In Uganda, History has it that You can’t attack the Kabaka and get away with it. No one has ever ascended to the presidency in Uganda with out the support of Buganda king. Even president Museveni got a breakthrough in the bush war after inviting “Sabataka” to the war zone who boosted the Morale of people and the rest is history.
Ben Kiwanuka’s failure to ally with Kabaka Mutesa failed him to become the first prime minister on attainment of Uganda’s independence. When elections were held in April 1962, Ben Kiwanuka’s party lost to the alliance of Milton Obote’s Uganda People’s Congress and the Buganda traditionalist party, Kabaka Yekka.
When Obote’s relationship soured with the Kabaka and Mengo culminating into the 1966 Buganda crisis, efforts to overthrow obote were easily orchestrated and Idi Amin toppled Obote. He even brought back the body of the fallen Kabaka to maintain his grip on power.
The Mengo factor was part of the reasons for the overthrow of Amin justified and this was justified by the subsequent short lived governments of Godfrey Binaisa,Yusufu Lule and Paulo Muwanga.
Until now, Gen. Museveni, the maverick president aludes to the saying that “Art is a man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.” He has always tried hard to maintain a good relationship with Mengo and he has ably tried to quickly solve the controversies which have arisen in his 38 year tenure. He is like the mother hen which does not relent in hatching Eggs just because the hawk took her chicks.
Looking at the world from the blind man’s point of view is what the self proclaimed president cherishes. That this country has sorely needed to be driven a long hatred and myths. NUP which was formerly known as a replica of the KABAKA YEKA, has become a total disgrace to Mengo, Buganda traditionalists and majority of the royal subjects.
To Bobi Wine
You have failed to manage your ambition, greed, opportunism and anxiety. It’s a serious leadership problem. When you fail to manage your ambition, then you cause instability within the institution. You create the problem so that you look like the solution. You have chosen a self destruction path. You have fallen.
To the voters
Never make an early morning appointment with a man who has just married a new wife.
The Opposition is too weak, fragmented and ideology-less to unseat the NRM out of power. Therefore I urge you to join/vote NRM in order to build a better uganda.
“Ayi Sabasajja Kabaka awangaale“
The writer, George Mubiru, is a Jinja based researcher, political analyst and Assistant RCC JINJA City.
Tel. 0754877595
Email: georgemubiru93@gmail.com
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