What started as a mere controversy over the new land amendment bill tabled in the Ugandan parliament early this month, has evolved into a major row touching on the powers and privileges of the country's traditional kingdoms.
Indeed, the controversial land bill that has now drawn President Yoweri Museveni into a sticky dispute threatening to cost him influence in regions which have all along been critical support bases of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
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