While speaking at the burial of Lt Col Sserwanga Lwanga in Bumanje, Ssese islands in Kalangala district sometime back, president Museveni said he was shocked that Buganda region did not love him yet he had played an instrumental role in restoring the kingdom.

Museveni said “there are leaders here who don’t like other Ugandans. They don’t like me (Museveni), a man who came to help you (Buganda kingdom). Why don’t you (people in Buganda kingdom) like me? What have I done?”  This information is got from The Daily Monitor of January 15, 1996.

Without mentioning names, Museveni said that Buganda had leaders who connived to disorganize the country.

He says the Banyankore also had bad leaders but the Baganda have leaders who don’t like to unite the country and don’t want to be assisted. Museveni said he came to assist Buganda to develop.

Museveni added that Sserwanga was a unique Muganda in that he worked hard to unite other people. Museveni’s comments came at a time when Buganda had intensified its demand for a federal system of governance. The relationship between Mengo (Buganda kingdom) and Museveni has grown colder since that time the height of which culminated into Buganda riots in 2009 after president Museveni’s soldiers blocked the Kabaka and Katikkiro JB Walusimbi from going to Kayunga (Bugerere).

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