There is a Luganda adage that says, “Omuganda wab’alya tayogera” when a Muganda is eating, he does not talk. This perfectly describes what Omulangira Kirimwa did at his Thanksgiving ceremony.
We are looking at the intentional actions that took place during that function. First, his name “Kirimwa” was written as “Kilimwa,” and secondly, the Buganda anthem was not sung. We cannot say these two things happened by mistake. Mr. Kirimwa is an upright man who knows how to write Luganda and has always written his name correctly on official documents. For example, my name is “Mbalire” officially; any alteration such as “Mbalile” means it is no longer me. Therefore, Mr. Kirimwa cannot convince us that writing his name as “Kilimwa” instead of “Kirimwa” was not intentional.
That aside, It is uncommon at any Muganda function especially for a Omulangira for the Buganda anthem not to be sung. Balangira and Bambejja are the ruling class of the Buganda Kingdom, which led the Kingdom for a thousand years. A person from such a Royal family is expected to put the glory of Buganda first. Another surprising thing is that the MC was also Mulangira (Juuko Musa). So, two Balangira/two royals forgot the Buganda anthem? Clearly, none of this happened by mistake at least one would remind the other. They played Uganda and South Africa anthem but unfortunately they forgot their own song!
Baganda who join NRM first undergo training to dump Buganda. You know the NRM ideology is to destroy Buganda. Museveni knows that the biggest threat to his dynasty is Buganda. He has already neutralised the rest of Uganda. Northerners, especially the Acholi and Langi, now lick his feet. Banyankole he even took away their right to vote. If you speak of vote rigging and you have never been to Ankole, Kigezi, Tooro, or Bunyoro, then you know nothing about rigging.
When you go to the East, the Karamojong according to Museveni are sub-humans. Iteso have also been bent to serve him. His workers from Teso like Mukula serve as Museveni’s son peggyboys. Anita Among even changed the Holy Trinity from “the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” to “Museveni and Muhoozi.” The only people who remain a thorn in his flesh are the Baganda. And he knows: if you don’t have Buganda, you don’t have Busoga. That is why he now concentrates on subduing Buganda, where he wants to establish his dynasty.
That is why Museveni is running like a headless chicken. He recruits Baganda even those many consider insignificant like Full Figure, Bebe Cool, Butcherman, and others. And now he is going after lesser-known individuals, including diaspora community chairpersons like Omulangira Kirimwa. To Museveni, Kirimwa is a “useful idiot,” because people like Kirimwa cannot contemplate the real agenda of their boss. They think they are part of government and working for government. They will tell you “Museveni is not a bad person; it is the people around him who are bad.” But they never ask themselves: if Museveni is a good man, why does he not behave like Mandela? Why not like Seretse Khama of Botswana, or Jerry Rawlings of Ghana? Why not like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore?
Rawlings and Lee Kuan Yew ruled with an iron fist at the beginning, but later democratized their countries and relinquished power. Museveni, however, wants to establish a North Korea–like dynasty or worse. He intends to end the Buganda Kingdom, which has existed for ten centuries, and replace it with the Museveni dynasty.
Museveni uses two methods: pseudo-democracy and military force. He is a modern dictator; that is why he organizes elections every five years, imprisons his opponents, and even kills others. Then he recruits community chairpersons and other opinion leaders, giving them crumbs, and they in turn tell you to “obey the current government so that the one you want finds you alive.” What kind of nonsense is that? If you obey an illegitimate government, are you not legitimising it?
By obeying such a government, next time it will tell you to disown your culture to stop singing the Buganda anthem at public functions and you will obey because you want the government you like to find you alive. You start blaming the victims.
People like Kibalama were abducted and never seen again. Instead of demanding justice for Kibalama’s family, Mr. Kirevu and company tell you to obey the current government so that the one you want finds you alive.
They passed the coffee bill, and since its passing, the price of coffee has kept falling. Museveni removed term limits Ugandans obeyed. He removed age limits Ugandans still obeyed. And here we are.
Museveni killed people in Buganda during the bush war and told us that Obote was the one killing them, making Baganda hate northerners. He projected himself as the protector of the Southerners (the Bantu) and instilled fear in us that if he left, northerners would return and kill us. This narrative sustained him for years.
Museveni’s long-term plan has always been to establish his own kingdom on land that does not belong to his ancestors – Buganda land. But he has found it difficult to dismantle a dynasty that has existed for 1,000 years.
People of Buganda are waking up and demanding what belongs to them. Knowing the strength and influence of Buganda in Uganda’s politics, Museveni is now running to the northerners to recreate a relationship with them. It is ironic that the people he once called killers are the ones he now needs to help establish his dynasty. Unfortunately for him, their votes are not enough to give him the majority that southerners once gave him.
Before, he did not need northerners because southerners provided enough votes. Now the game plan has changed. He kills people, yet Obote whom he accused of killing southerners is long gone. Museveni now needs people who can sanitise his atrocities. That is why he recruits people like Omulangira Kirevu, a community leader, to tell people to obey the current government so that the one they want finds them alive; to tell people to “concentrate on what brought you here”; “leave Uganda politics”; and many other scripts.
He organizes luxury parties using nrm money where the Buganda anthem, which ignites the spirit of nationalism, is deliberately not sung. He misspells his name and does not care. People like Ssenkubuge, who have militant voices, are unwelcome at such functions because they may use the platform to mobilize people.
Yes – this was not a mistake. It was intentional. Omulangira is eating, and therefore he must not talk.
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