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By Mahir Balunywa
Center For Critical Thinking and Alternative Analysis.
Last night I listened to an audio on the Impala platform. The audio sounded like the Rt.Hon.Alitwala Kadaga was cautioning the Basoga against a click of Some Basoga elites who have now taken it as a fully paid job to not only fight her out of Busoga Kingdom affairs, but also put an end to the kingdom.
Going by the audio (if it’s really her words) one would rightly posit that the Busoga kingdom is in a crisis state. The crisis seems to be internal with external funding. The internal leadership of the Kingdom is now set to flash out a woman who has fought for the restoration of the kingdom in Busoga.
These internal contradictions now point to the emerging facts that those pro Bukedea are now fighting the hegemony of celebrated political Kadaga in Busoga, they have infiltrated the Kingdom leadership, acquired all the financial resources to dislodge her and later hand over the Kingdom to Bukedea.
This faction has also marshalled out a strategy to replace the same celebrated Kadaga from the position of NRM chairperson of eastern region. They seem to be fronting another adversarial force. And they appear to be heavily funded,yet militarily vibrant, shameless without remorse and regrets to their actions on Busoga,a region they natively belong.
Another group of eminent Basoga politicians have to the contrary said ” No, over our dead bodies”. These have now come up with a campaign to restore and protect the legacy of the Right Hon. Alitwala Kadaga.
These seem to be a group of classical substance who look at Busoga beyond NRM rule. As elders, cool headed, they recall what Busoga has gone through the successive years and are opposed to to the DISINTERGRATION of Busoga. incidentally both groups belong to the same ruling political party.
As I listened to the audio, I asked my self: Will the kingdom survive this crisis? Might this clash be leading to the end of the kingdom? What are the issues at stake in Busoga currently? Is there an asymmetrical relationship with the recent appointments of the Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director of KCCA who are all from Busoga and more so one from Kamuli? Is this part of the long protracted battle which began right from dislodging Alitwala from National Speakership now dawning on her in Kamuli? Where does all this leave Busoga and Alitwala in 2026 national politics? Can Kadaga be undermined and leave Busoga overmined?
In respect,a legendary Japanese political philosopher Francis Fukuyama in his book ” End of History”, once remarked that what is going on today is not new, it has happened before, go back into history to diagnose the current problems, the solutions to the current problems lies in history. This has made me dive into the history of Busoga in an attempt to find answers to what appears to be nagging me this Sunday morning.
Back in history, Nadiope approached Obote and told him how UPC was bound to collapse in case Wako retained Kyabazingaship of Busoga. Obote advised Nadiope to go to court, which Nadiope religiously did.
After long court proceedings, Nadiope realized he had no chances of winning the case, as such he again approached Obote who instructed Chief Justice Uodo Udoma. A day to the court ruling, Obote telephoned Udoma and gave him instructions to declare Nadiope the winner or else he parked his bags back to Nigeria where he was a citizen.
The following morning, Udoma arrived at Jinja High court to make his ruling before I highly packed and charged court of Basoga who had traveled over night from Gadumire, chanting and dancing in the compound of Jinja town hall, the venue of the court.
Justice Udoma took to his seat, read a long ruling with session breaks and ultimately told the court that Wako won the valid reasons for the case. Before completing his judgement the Baisuka from Gadumire who were the majority in court chanted.
However after a short lapse, Justice Udoma proceeded and added that Nadiope won the case. He promised to present his long written judgment in future, which future never came to date.
This however left the Gadumire group in dilemma. One prominent elder in attendance remarked in profusive confusion,.” Atiano Omulamuzi akobereki,ati Nadiope asingire omusango, Wako asingire ensonga?” The Nadiope group left court chanting as they were later joined by UPCs in Busoga in celebrating their court victory.
However For other reasons not relevant right now later Nadiope fell out with Obote and Obote decided to imprison Nadiope his former vice president. Slowly but surely the Busoga kingdom was extinct and was later over taken by the bigger 1966 crisis events which marked the end of kingdoms in Uganda.
The rest is now history .
Conclusion:
Going forward is to appeal to the two groups to think beyond their current positions and locate value Busoga as their mother land. Community interest should be put above personal interests. To this effect I did author a small book at the Islamic University in Uganda titled,” When institutional and individual interest clash”( 2015). In respect Chinua Achebe rightly remarked that ” When the center fails to hold things fall apart”.
There should be a limit to our self seeking interests when man dies he goes with nothing but his nakedness and all what we consume finally ends up in the toilet. Primitive accumulation of resources finally killed capitalism that’s why legendary social Marxist Marx and his colleague Engels argued that finally communism will trump at the end of capitalism. After accumulating all this ill-gotten money again you bring it back to those whom you stole from. The love for money is synonymous to the worship of it this is purely political idolatry.
Go back to the human traditions of putting humanity in totality first. Use your academic qualifications ( that is if they are genuinely acquired) to reason and help your people out of abject poverty.
At times we don’t need to go to school to be able to distinguish between good and bad. Bad is evil and we all know how evil looks like. Don’t paint evil with good,bse not even Satan will side with you.
“For God and my Country”
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