BELOVED CHILDREN IN CHRIST

Having heard that I was called to attend a conference in America and that I shall be away for a certain time, many of you have asked me to leave you some guiding principles, which you could follow during the critical period of my absence, that is during the time of changes in Government. Read this letter carefully: it will guide you in many ways.

Archbishop J. C. Kiwanuka

A FEW FACTS

Since the middle of September, I have heard grave complaints from many of you. Some came to show me wounds inflicted by their neighbours who had beaten them. Your appeals to me always contained the fact that the major reproach addressed to you was “You are a Catholic! You are a traitor to the Kabaka and to your country.”

I ask you, “Why do they make such preposterous accusations against you? Have they got any ground for it?” The answer is always the same. “It appears that among the Catholics, there are some who registered for voting (for the last, elections), and there were also some who joined the Democratic Party”. To this, I reply: There are also Catholics who registered as members of the Uganda People’s Congress and of the Uganda National Congress.

However, none of them are molested. My conclusion in such cases is that there must be other grounds for such attacks. I advised many to go to those in authority: If what they say is true, I added, the authorities will certainly give them justice. But their answer is that they came to me because they have found that the authorities to whom I would send them, many, who held responsible posts, were, themselves behind the attacks.

I was still hearing of such cases when the Katikkiro sent a telegram from England, which stated, “among those attending the London Conference, there are some people who do not want Buganda to receive what belongs to her” (kufuna byayo). This disturbed the country more still and many said, “Let them be cursed”, although we were not told what it was that “belonged to Buganda” and what it was that they did not wish to give back to the country.

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