Francis Mugerwa
3 November 2008
Bunyoro Kingdom has rejected Buganda's boundaries that include Buruuli County as part of Buganda Kingdom. Bunyoro Kingdom's Prime Minister Emmanuel Aliba Kiiza said including Buruuli in Buganda Kingdom's territory is an attempt to interchange facts and destabilise the Baruuli.
"Buruuli is part of the great Bunyoro. Buganda's attempts to include it in its territory is a provocative and a deliberate effort to distance the Baruuli from their ancestry," Dr Kiiza told Daily Monitor. Buganda recently drew a map specifying its territorial boundaries and included the contested Buruuli County as part of Buganda Kingdom.
Buganda's premier recently revealed that the Kabaka intends to appoint more representatives of Buruuli in the Lukiiko.
Dr Kiiza said Buganda should not be allowed to hold the country at ransom. "The government should not allow Buganda to sneeze and Bunyoro catches the cold," he said.
He said the boundaries have nothing to do with Bunyoro's culture and traditions.
"The boundaries which Buganda is emphasising were introduced by colonialists whom we resisted and whose activities continue to negatively impact on Uganda and Africa," Dr Kiiza said. He said the imperialists divided Africans along tribes and created boundaries which destabilised the unity that prevailed in African states.
In October, leaders of Buruuli and Banyala visited Bunyoro Kingdom's Solomon Gafabusa Iguru and paid allegiance to him.
They recognised Bunyoro as their ancestry and agreed to form the Bunyoro, Buruuli and Bunyala cultural trust to unite the three cultural institutions.
Dr Kiiza said the continued demand to include Buruuli as part of Buganda will force Bunyoro to demand "several other counties that were formerly under Bunyoro." He said Bunyoro is drafting a proposal to the government to include Nakasongola district as part of Bunyoro's regional tier government.
Speculation is rife that the government is using Bunyoro to weaken Buganda which has for long been at loggerheads with the central government over the 9,000 square miles of land, Mengo's quest for federo and the rejection of the Land Bill.
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