New Vision (Kampala)
Moses Mulondo
30 October 2009
Kampala — THE Buganda kingdom has postponed its Ttabamiruka (conference), which had been scheduled to take place this month. According to Mengo Attorney General Apolo Makubuya it has been postponed to December.
"We could not have the conference after the disruptions of the recent developments," he said. "But we have not cancelled it. We shall hold it in December."
Sources in Mengo say the conference theme, 'the Uganda we want', will be debated at subsequent regional conferences, which will be organised in the different parts of the country.
One of the presenters, the former Buganda Katikkiro Dan Muliika, told Saturday Vision that he intends to make a number of suggestions including a national dialogue and consultations of all Ugandans.
"We are at the crossroads, and not only Buganda, but the entire country," he said. "We need to discover what brought us where we are, the circumstances that existed before colonialism, during colonialism, and after colonialism in order to forge the way forward."
The December conference will be the second Ttabamiluka the Buganda kingdom is organising after the first one at Hotel Africana last year got disrupted by the news of the arrest of the Mengo ministers.
"Through discussions and consensus, the citizens of Uganda have to put in place a just system through which they can co-exist amicably," said Muliika.
"I am calling this the re-making of Uganda. In this new system, power should be taken away from politicians and given back to the citizens and their respective indigenous entities."
He said he will propose a national convention that should comprise the 15 nations that made the 1962 constitution. These are Busoga, Bugisu, Buganda, Bunyoro, Kigezi, Ankole, Bukedi, Tooro, West Nile, Madi, Acholi, Lango, Karamoja, Sebei, and Teso.
Meanwhile, reports from Mengo indicate that the kingdom has finalised the reorganisation of its civic education committee to launch a full-blown campaign for federalism in the different parts of Buganda and the rest of Uganda.
The committee started with a one day sensitisation workshop for all its members where the chairperson of the committee, Betty Nambooze, announced a new system of mobilisation involving telephone.
According to the system, phone contacts of everyone in Buganda would be obtained and various messages sent for "development purposes".
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