{UAH} MAWOGOLA IS AN INTEGRATED PART OF BUGANDA

BAMOOLI AND MMENGO HAVE A PROBLEM

The claim for  Abengabi Emmooli to claim a cultural autonomy from the rest of Baganda is not justifiable. Abengabi Emmooli just like the rest of Baganda, are an integral part of Baganda and Buganda.

However, their clan head, the late Omutaka Muntu Frank Museveni, had petitioned the Kabaka through the Katikkiro ( then Eng. J.B. Walusimbi) for recognition of Engabi Emmooli as a full clan (as it was before) other being a sub clan under Engabi Ensamba. The petition, l think, is pending, and under investigations.

However Abengabi Emmooli is only one of other Bannabwera clans (natives of Mawogola) the majority of which are well integrated in the Baganda clan system. They don't represent the rest of Bannabwera.

In fact, instead of packaging the petition as Bannabwera, they just package it as Bamooli, which makes it even more narrow, because they are a minority even among Bannabwera.

Secondly, they are divided between the pastoralists , some of which have almost turned into Bahima (like Brig. James Mugira), and cultivators (like Mutaawe Muwonge, DP leader in Mijwala County, Ssembabule District) , many of them are well integrated into Baganda and don't even speak Lunnabwera (Runyabwera) dialect but speak only Luganda.

In the actual fact, Mzee Benedicto Kalibbala, a former Sza Chief Muteesa Mawogola, of Nseenene clan, is a Munnabwera. Mr. Emmanuel Sekimpi, the first RC Chairperson Ssembabule District, and Chairperson of the organizing Committee of the Coronation Anniversary, is a Munnabwera, to mention but a few. To some of them to remind them of the Bannabwera origin, is like an insult.

The Bamooli royals or chiefs ( led by the then Ruler, Muntu Njovu, who is among the signatories of Buganda Agreement of 1900), and their officials and notables, were among the beneficiaries of the Mailo Land Bonanza. Muntu himself got two Mailo Estates, one at Bulera (now the main estate of Abengabi Emmooli) and Kyebando (where Muntus are  buried). His brother, was allocated where there is Nkoge Railway Station and Kabamba Army School of infantry and his descendants  include, among others Brig. James Mugira.

However, for  Mmengo to claim, that they don't know Abengabi Emmooli, or Abannabwera, for that matter, may also be seen as shallow  as Buganda is not a tribe but a nation of different communities who are all loyal to the Kabaka and have been part and parcel of Buganda ever since Buganda's civil wars of the late 18^th century between Kabaka Junju ( who conquered Bwiru now Buddu and Bwera now Mawogola) and Ssemakookiro.

It is also surprising that some local politicians in Ssembabule District pretended not to know the group at all. Fortunately, the newly installed Saza Chief, Ssaalongo Felix Nsamba Kabajjo acknowledged that he received their petition and forwarded it the Katikkiro.

Lastly, it is high time Buganda awarded it past heroes especially those who helped to conquer and integrate outlying counties like Mawogola. A Muganda general, Andereya Luwandagga and his lieutenants like Prince Nyansi Bulenzi Kasajja, who helped to pacify Mawogola from rebel activities of Kabaka Mwanga loyalists led by Gabrieli Kintu ( before they led to German Esat Africa in 1914 and fought the First World War on the German's side and lost)should be awarded proximuously. Luwandagga later became the first Saza Chief (muteesa of Mawogola) in 1901 and Nyansi Kasajja became the first Muluka Chjief of Miyenje now Nsoga that covered much of former Lwentale and now Mijwala and Lugusuulu sub counties and Ssembabule Town Council. Their grand and great grand children are still living in Mawogola.

Mmengo should also build a monument at Nanzigombe, on the westetrn bank of River Katonga, where Kabaka Mwanga, after being defeated at Kabuwoko in Buddu in 1897, crossed Mawogola to Buwekula in Mubende and later joined forces with Omukama Kabalega of Bunyoro to fight the British colonialists.

ENDS..

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