{UAH} OBOTE AND KIWANUKA: DID THEY SAY IT?

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Sometimes we in the media distort messages by politicians to suit a certain agenda and quote people out of context. It is a practice common in many countries including the so-called big democracies. It is known as media bias.

During the debate on Uganda's new constitution in 1995, in reaction to Ssabalangira Prince Besweri Mulondo's rejection of federo as fronted by then UPC's (now NRMs') John Elyano Eresu, both New Vision and The Monitor quoted Cecilia Ogwal as saying Mulondo's action had proved that "a good Muganda is a dead one".

It has variously been said that it was Obote who first said "a good Muganda is a dead one".

In fact, then Brigadier David Tinyefuza, while still NRA 5th Division Commander in Lira addressed a rally at Coronation Park there where he mocked that "this Obote of yours used to say that a good Muganda is  a dead one yet he shares his bed with a Muganda. I don't know if he enjoys sleeping with dead people'.

It was also said that Benedicto Kiwanuka once said in the early years before independence that "if Muslims think they are the only ones to slaughter animals, then why don't they slaughter pigs as well?"

Is there any recorded proof that those leaders actually said what they were said to have said, apart from Cecila Ogwal whose words were recorded?

Billie