The statistical odds of many Ugandans reaching the age of 54 is not for the average Okello. And so it was an occasion of joy celebrating the birthday of the calm and level-headed King of Buganda whose ancestors were often erratic, if not mentally deranged. As characterizes many such occasions in Uganda, however, court jesters came out in full swing with such nonsense as: Buganda is special and must be so treated.
Buganda certainly has a crucial role to play in Uganda, just as much as Karamoja. When the clergy disrobes and gets right down being irrational, calling for a special Buganda, many Ugandans have a problem. We have been déjà vu down this path before, and it has not been pretty.
At the dawn of Independence the Mengo cabal wanted a special Buganda role—which effectively meant a special roles for themselves—even at the cost of disenfranchising the general population of Buganda. The Baganda effectively did not vote for the Independence government—an act that was patently corrupt, if not outright illegal. What would have happened had Baganda voted? Would their numerical advantage (which the NRM now salivates over) not been decisive and the history of Uganda been different?
We are in the era of democratic dispensation of free elections. However flawed the process has been, why is the Buganda population electing the ones who might be emasculating the “special Buganda?” Something is not jiving here.
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