{UAH} Copied:OWEK DAVID MPANGA, MINISTER FOR SPECIAL DUTIES, BUGANDA KINGDOM, FOR HIS PAN-AFRICANISM 23-07-2021

OWEK DAVID MPANGA, MINISTER FOR SPECIAL DUTIES, BUGANDA KINGDOM, FOR HIS PAN-AFRICANISM 23-07-2021

Owek David Mpanga raised several issues about land.

1. He wondered why the World Bank should be quoted as pushing for free land in Buganda and Uganda for investors when it does not do this in Kenya and South Africa which are moreover more industrialised and developed. He wondered why champions of free market economy would play these double standards and made it sound as a suspicious ploy to grab public and Mailo land in Buganda. 

2. He wondered why issues raised by Bamugemeirirwe Commission on land conflicts have never been made public 

3. He counselled that most Mailo Land Owners (including him and me) bought their land and it is not true as Minister of State for Land Sam Mayanja claims that Mailo Land Owners got free land

4. He added that even if there were mistakes of colonial masters, they cannot be the legal basis for resolving the Minister's emotional feelings, and therefore referred the matter to policy and the Attorney General of Uganda instead of making it personal 

5. He mentioned two forms of land purchase and ownership, lease offers from Buganda Land Board and Mailo purchase and transfer from Mailo landlords 

6. He mentioned that Buganda is accommodative unlike many other Uganda regions and ethnic groups and that nobody has ever been denied owning land legally in Buganda 

7. He mentioned that we need to be level minded and sober when discussing this sensitive matter because Radical Land Reforms lead to economic woes like happened during Obote 1 and Amin, who targeted Buganda Land and also gave the example of similar economic woes in Zimbabwe arising from Radical land reforms 

8. He counselled that politicians should not demonise people of Buganda and seek to turn the rest of Uganda against Buganda as being tribalistic

9. He wondered why pressure is exerted on Buganda to forcefully settle non Baganda (of a particular ethnic group) in Buganda claiming that Buganda has benefitted from other tribes for her "development". He reckoned that Buganda has always advocated for Federalism to enable equal development throughout the country. He also averred that an equalisation fund would be setup to subsidise the low rate development of the underprivileged regions like Karamoja 

10. He mentioned that there should not be discrimination on the enactment of laws and designing of policies to target Baganda or any other group. 

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