Culture \Long Live, your Majesty, Kabaka wa Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Permit me to share with you my dream of the great Buganda. Like the history of most nations, Buganda is a history of battles, blood and conquests. Back in the days the three were the canon that defined who is master or servant. However, thanks to the emergence of trade, industry and technology, power has been redefined.

Take for example, the princes of Saudi Arabia, have taken their place in world affairs not because of their royalty, or because of their control of the large desert, but because, they have used their oil to build trading empires. When the other day, Saturday Monitor published young people like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google among the world's most powerful people, I imagined what a difference it would make if Baganda youth once again made the top richest people in Uganda.

Your Majesty, Buganda is at cross-roads. At this critical stage empires have collapsed, great men have fallen and history re-written. But also, at this stage, great people have taken the opportunity to stand up to be counted. The Greek, Roman, Ottoman, British empires, failed due to the breakdown in the work ethic of their people. But my admiration goes to the Arab kingdoms that have been versatile in reinventing themselves. That's why you see their names on the Forbes Magazine's rich and powerful lists. They took business interests across their borders and that was their pass to global reputation.

Therefore, my king, an economic kingdom that goes beyond Buganda is what we need. Whereas there are voices making arguments and counter arguments about federo, everywhere on airwaves, allow me to add, these discussions could be retrogressive without economic muscle. They are just Trojan horses. Remember Prince Hector, the chief warrior of Troy? Yes. When he was killed in a battle at the gates of Troy, the Greek king Odysseus had an idea to destroy Troy forever. He left a wooden horse on wheels outside the fortified city of Troy, but with soldiers hiding inside it. When the Trojans found the horse, one of the Greeks who claimed he was hated by his countrymen said, "The horse was an offering to the god of Troy, Athena".

The Trojans themselves rolled the horse into the city. They left the horse at the temple of Athena and celebrated the end of the war. When everyone was asleep the Greeks came out of the horse and all the Trojan men were killed. All the Trojan women and children were taken to Greece as slaves. How they missed their defender, Hector!

My Kabaka, federo could become a Trojan horse if you don't invest real power. Like the Trojans who took the horse into its walls but without power to fight the Greeks in the middle of the night, so is federo without streams of wealth.

In the past, Your Majesty, it was wealth that made your people the envy in the Great Lakes region. It was wealth that attracted Abanyala, Abaluuli, Abakooki, Abavuma, Abasese, etc, to accept to be your subjects. But today, your kingdom is turning into the seat of poverty. No where do you find idle youth like in Buganda. These people need to hear you sound the Sagala agalamidde drum, once again.

A drive to inspire Baganda to be industrious, like they have been in the past, to dominate in commerce, academia, culture and entertainment, build industries and embrace technology would give you the goal of your desire and rejuvenate Buganda's lost glory.

Long live, Kabaka wa Buganda.