{UAH} Regional tier rituals can cleanse Capt Lugard’s ghost
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Regional tier rituals can cleanse Capt Lugard's ghost
Myriads of articles are being written, opinions opined and the world is baffled with the violent clash between government and the Rwenzururu/ Bakonzo cultural leader, King Charles Wesley Mumbere
Wednesday December 7 2016
Police on Sunday buried the remains of 52 unclaimed bodies of victims of fresh Kasese clashes. PHOTO BY MORIS MUMBERE
Myriads of articles are being written, opinions opined and the world is baffled with the violent clash between government and the Rwenzururu/ Bakonzo cultural leader, King Charles Wesley Mumbere. This saw close to 100 people perish in a bloody clash and millions kept frenzied: what ritual can clean this blood?
What impressed me most was the article written by my mentor, the DP President Norbert Mao titled; "Capt. Lugard's ghost still haunts the Mountains of the moon" in Sunday Monitor of December 4. He wittingly brought fourth the dirty colonial history of how in 1891, Captain Lugard forcibly put Bakonzo under Toro. This led to bloody confrontations between 1962 till 1982 by Bakonzo against Toro. He noted President Amin's efforts in May 1971 that led to the establishment of Kasese and Bundibugyo districts.
He underscores President Museveni's take after the clash, the President noted that the core interest of people of Uganda are "security and prosperity". Mao maintains that our political architecture has failed.
He says there is need to have a just society for the interest of building a nation. True to that! He appreciated the role of the President in taming the army (UPDF) but unpinned the 10 points programme.
The moral question remains, what can finally cleanse Capt Lugard's ghost haunting the Mountain of the moon? At 54, Uganda is mature enough not to make mistakes and get solutions to what has riddled it's political, social, cultural and economic heritage.
It must be able to discern what forefathers and nation builders envisaged! From dysfunctional democracy to mad and systemic corruption, Uganda loses Shs500-billion yearly which is close to $300 million. Like Mao noted, we must not blame the NRM government but our sad past. We need the right prescription not blame game. If we are to achieve Vision 2040 we must start thinking positively. If it's to be, it's up to us! Our ship is halfway full of water and we must scuttle not to sink!
The bloody clash diminishes humanity and paints Africa as barbaric; kills the Pan African spirit. The framers of Our Constitution almost hit the jackpot of lifting the country from the dirty past but hesitated.
Article 178 is the right medicine to Uganda's hemorrhaged wound. Art 178A(1) says two or more districts may cooperate to form a regional government to perform the functions and services specified in the fifth Schedule to the Constitution; Sub section (3) Subject to Clause (1) and to the provision of this Constitution, the districts of the regions of Buganda, Bunyoro, Busoga, Acholi and Lango, specified in the First Schedule to this Constitution, shall be deemed to have agreed to form a regional government for the purposes of this article. It gives clear structures, strategies and legal framework to which to form a regional tier.
Denmark gives a clear model for Uganda; before independence, in the 1961 Lancaster meeting in London prior to independence, Uganda was a monarchy. The current political system in Demark, a Parliamentary democracy, and Constitutional Monarchy blend, so well since it was established in 1901.
This arrangement saw Denmark develop, remained peaceful and no doubt when adopted will solve a few tribal and regional conflicts.
Regional tier is its cousin. The regions will now practice the legal frame work of sharing resources. The centre will monitor, advice but the regional governments will have devolution of powers from the centre.
Denmark has a unique political system, which is a combination of a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. However, before Denmark's current stable governmental system had been created, Denmark had a long and often chaotic past like Uganda. Remember, a hyena cannot smell its stench! Let's wake up.
Mr Lutukumoi is the deputy RDC Kitgum
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