Museveni Ready To Grab Buganda’s 9,000 Square Miles By “Returning” It To Mmengo

According one disgruntled aide to Yoweri Museveni, his boss has assembled a Buganda Land Brigade (BLB), a parody of the Buganda Land Board, to help him permanently grab Buganda land by returning it to Mmengo. Museveni used the same tactic to remove all political and economic power from Kabakaship by “returning Kabakaship” to Baganda. The new move follows a spirited show of resistance from patriotic Baganda against Museveni’s plans to amend the already anti-Buganda 1998 Land Act. The amendments would enable the Banyankore and Rwandese occupiers of Buganda to “legally” grab Kabaka’s land as well as the 9,000 square miles of Buganda land that the Uganda Government is illegally holding by force.

As described by the 1900 Buganda Land agreement and the 1962 Uganda Independence constitution, Buganda land is 19,600 square miles in total. Of these, 10,500 (including forests) belongs to the native peoples of Buganda, to be held in trust by Kabaka of Buganda. The Kabaka institution itself owns 350, Buganda Government county estates 300 and religious institutions about 100 square miles. Only about 8,350, or 40%, of Buganda land is available for open market buying and selling. But Museveni is determined never to let Baganda and the religious institutions that they dominate control 60% of a territory that he intends to make the center of his Hima/Tutsi/Nyamulange empire.

Taking advantage of certain weak and compromised leaders at Mmengo, Museveni thinks that the best way to take Baganda land is to “give it back to them”, as he did with the Kabaka. According to Museveni’s aide, who personally owns land in Buganda, the dictator intends to use a “bait and switch” trick to grab Buganda land. He is using an army of surrogates to discredit the Baganda who are demanding the return of Buganda land and to create an atmosphere of fear. In the meantime he will quietly bribe MPs and pass the law. At the same time, settlement of Balaalo, Bakiga and other foreigners on Buganda’s land will continue. And when no one expects it, Museveni will hand over the 9,000 to Buganda Land Board (BLB) “on condition that BLB treats the Balaalo and other foreign occupants according to the law”. Museveni has four key men in Mmengo ready to sell this hoax as a really good thing for Buganda, much the way Mulwanyamuli, Katende, Mayiga and Makubuya tried to sell Regional Tier.

Museveni’s aid says that, “Baganda need to become much smarter and tougher with Museveni and his Baganda cronies. He intends to do with the 9,000 miles what he did with the Kabakaship; give you “byooya bya nswa” – land that you own but which is mostly occupied by Balaalo that you cannot touch. As far as Museveni is concerned nothing can stop him. Yet all that Mmengo needs to do is reject it Muliika-style and even officially inform Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Congo, Sudan, USA, EU and the UN Secretary General. The only problem is that it is way above Ssendaula's capacity.”

After investigating the aide’s claims through other sources in Museveni’s establishment, Sekanyolya can report that Museveni’s Buganda Land Brigade, as he humorously calls it, is organized into three main teams. The Hooligans are paid to publicly harass and weaken Muliika, Kyanjo, Nambooze, Kamya, Lubega, Mpanga and others they call “radicals”. This team includes people like drugee Kasirye Ggwanga, Tamale Mirundi, Sebunya Kibirige, Professor Semakula, Nathan Batungi (Makerere University), Peter Muliira, Ahamed Kateregga Musaazi, Sulaiman Madada, Ian Kyeyune, Kintu Musoke and various RDCs and LC officials in Buganda. Their main weapons are misinformation, disruption of Baganda land seminars and threats. Key Banyarwanda, Banyankore and Bakiga figures are specifically instructed to keep quiet - even Batungi is suppose dress up his attacks as "academic facts".

The second team of the Persuaders includes, supposedly prominent Baganda. Their charge is to preach “moderation” and warn Baganda about the dangers of being radical. Regional Tier architects Peter Charles Mayiga and Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere are key players on this list because they are specifically charged with convincing the Catholic Church in Buganda to aggressively preach “moderation and negotiations”. Namirembe is considered no major threat and Apollo Nsibambi is assigned to “keep them down”. Also on this list of Persuaders are Katikkiro Ssendawula, Deputy Lukiiko Speaker Semajege (a Rwandese member of the Rwanda Intelligence), Uganda Speaker Sekandi, retired Bishop Nkoyooyo and others

Finally, is the Insider Team consisting of compromised officials and NRM diehards at Mmengo, who bring critical intelligence back to Museveni. Names are withheld at this time to protect sources but Sekanyola can report that the Uganda state house is facilitating tens of Baganda Musevenists to attend the ongoing Buganda land seminars and even donate money, but quietly plant rumours and bribe locals to “ignore the radicals”. Nambooze and her team are well advised to insist that at all land seminars those who support the unconditional return of Baganda’s 9,000 square mile raise their hands. And that those who do not occupy any part of Buganda’s 9,000 miles (and forests), which Museveni has refused to return, also raise their hands. Many on the Insider Team will reveal themselves with surprising ease.