{UAH} THE LATE BYANYIMA WAS PRINCIPLED BUT NOT RIGID

THE LATE BONIFACE BYANYIMA ON DREAM TV AND BBS TELEFAYINA EYAFFE
Brothers and sisters, this morning was on BBS Telefayina Eyaffe, and l
said what l had stated on Dream TV on Friday evening.
I recalled how in one of a series of press conference l covered at DP
headquarters in early nineties, one time the late Boniface Byanyima
told us how on the day, the former President Milton Obote abrogated
1962 Independence Constitution and replaced it with 1966 Pigeon-hole
Constitution, he sent a helicopter to him at Mbarara which picked him
and landed at Kampala Club. He proceeded to Parliament where the
constitution was abrogated. After adjournment, he went back to Kampala
Club and the helicopter returned him to Mbarara.
The late Byanyima was not one of the five members who declined to
declare oath of allegiance to the new constitution and lost their
seats. Among them l remember the late Visram Namubiru, and the late
Sempa..
Probably, as a DP, he belonged to those who wanted to teach KY a
lesson for unprincipled alliance with UPC, Or else, he wanted to fight
from within, to borrow, from the late Abu Mayanja, which, according to
him, had been sanctioned by Sir Edward Muteesa ll.
The other one was when the late Byanyima had an interview with Andrew
Mwenda. He said that the MPs who were declared after 1980
controversial general elections, were personally approved by Paulo
Muwanga whether they were UPC or DP.
According to him, if one was not personally liked by Muwanga, even he
was a UPC, he was rigged out.
This is in addition to what the late Milton Obote talked about
Byanyima, again in an interview with Mwenda, on a death bed in
Southern Africa. He called him a nationalist who should not have been
in DFP but in UPC.
Jimmy Akena in Parliament on Friday, said that despite belonging to
DP, Byanyima was a regional stakeholder of Uganda School Supply, in
Western Uganda, which was a subsidiary of Milton Obote Foundation,
the commercial wing of UPC.
Hussein Lumumba Amin, also said, that Byanyima was a friend to his
father and he said that Amin was a good man but was fought by Nyerere
and the Whites who wanted to return Obote to power.
That implies that the late Byanyima was principled but not rigid. He
could move with times if it warranted.
At a personal level, since the late Byanyima was mentor, to Hon. Sam
Kuteesa, whom he enabled to become MP for Mbarara North in 1980, who
is Mawogola C.A.D. and MP since 1994 up to present day, who is one of
my political mentors, so l have also indirectly benefited from one of
the nationalists that fought for Uganda's independence. May his soul
rest in eternal peace.
As for the caution from Eng. Winnie Byanyima, there is no doubt that
NRM will use its majority in parliament, local governments and popular
support to do away with age limits the way it did with term limits in
2005. We may even end up in a government of national unity where power
may be shared by President Museveni and Dr. Kizza Besigye and others.
So it is high time other stakeholders like Buganda to negotiate for
their deal, and to me, that should be the quasi federal, the then
Katikkiro Joseph Mulwanyammuli Ssemwogerere, had negotiated in 2005,
which radicals like Dan Muliika rejected and we ended up with nothing.
Embarrassments like a Buganda Land Board, which is a constitutional
would have been a statutory authority, but not a privately owned
company as it is the case today, which shocked observers and onlookers
when its CEO Kyewalabye Male made submission to the current
commission of inquiry into land wrangles.
Goodnight.

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