Did Catholic-Protestant Chasm Influence the NSSF Saga?

I was stunned when I read Muniini’s last week’s piece on Mbabazi and the NSSF saga. I did not know the religious divide had such a bearing on Ankole politics in this day and age. I had read about the Baganda’s historical challenges with Muslim-Catholic-Protestant court politics, which may have had a great influence on Uganda’s fate, but which seem less pronounced these days--at least not to the extent of a faction taking over Mengo only to be driven out by another. In the Acoli region there may have been some elements of it, but I never experienced or saw any intense religious divide.

To emphasize Muniini’s point, a writer in the now defunct Monitor’s readers’ view section talked of how his father often urged his fellow Banyankole to abandon the religious chasms in the region, but to no avail.
The writer went on to say that the NSSF saga is rooted in this chasm. Apparently since Centenary Bank belongs to Catholics, no worthy Ankole protestant would patronize it. Hence, the urgent need to buy controlling shares in the National Bank of Commerce lest the Nigerians gobbled the bank. Where else to go but dip their thieving hands into the NSSF and, if push came to shove, they would muscle their way out of it. So far they are showing they are their fathers' boys.

I thought the NRM had wiped out sectarianism. Up North our NRM lords tell us it is our past primitive sectarianism that caused the past problems of Uganda--that is why our young are being subjected to the micky mouse NRM brainwashing cadre courses. When president Museveni seems partial to high-level thieves from his home turf, it is not sectarianism. When all the generals are 90% from his hood, it is not sectarianism. Who can argue with a man who is second to God?

While we are at it; in the land of the infamous Goldenberg gazillion shillings swindle in the Moi era, trouble is brewing in Kenya’s NSSF . What up with the Afrikans? Workers of Afrika unite!