NUBIAN COMMUNITY FACES POLITICAL EVICTION IN BOMBO TOWN
1,000 Nubians face eviction from Bombo
LAND BONANZA: Yasiin Mugerwa & Olandason Wanyama
KAMPALA/BOMBO
AN estimated 1,000 people, mainly Nubian families, face eviction from Bombo Town Council in Luweero District.
Daily Monitor has learnt that the government wants to take up the 50- acre land to relocate the Rehabilitation Centre for the disabled persons currently situated at Lweza in Wakiso District, which has been taken over by an investor.
Officials of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, in October last year, quietly offered the land in Lweza to an unnamed investor.
Under the deal, the investor is expected to construct a new multi-purpose training centre for persons with disabilities in Bombo town council to replace that at Lweza.
The deal, which the Parliamentary committee on Gender, Labour and Social development sanctioned last November, has, however, provoked strong protests from the Nubians who say the Buganda Kingdom donated the Bombo land to them during the colonial era.
"As long as we live, we are going to fight for our ancestral land," Mr Mohammad Wahib, the chairman of the Nubian community, said in an interview on January 16.
Documents obtained by Daily Monitor show that there is controversy over the ownership of the land on Block 1026; Plot 65 Namaliga in Bombo Town with Henley Property Developers Limited; a Kampala-based private Company, being the latest claimant.
The company claims it bought the land from Mr James Ddagirira, who allegedly acquired it from Mr Hussein Musa Mayanja, an administrator of the late Stanley Kisingiri's estates, who in the late 19th century served as an agent of Kabaka Daudi Chwa of Buganda.
But the Nubians, who originally migrated from Sudan and fought alongside Buganda Kingdom and other colonial British forces, said the Kabaka of Buganda rewarded them with the land in Bombo after they suppressed the anti-imperialism Banyoro uprising of 1880-87.
That notwithstanding, senior government and Henley Company officials toured the disputed land on December 19, 2007 to prepare for a formal takeover by the Gender Ministry before its planned transfer to the investor for erecting the proposed modern centre for PWDs.
"Henley (Property Developers Limited) is working closely with the Ministry of Gender for the realisation of this objective," Mr Richard Mubiru, the company's corporate affairs director said in a December 31, 2007 letter addressed to Mr Geoffrey Kyomukama, the Bombo town clerk.
When Daily Monitor visited Bombo town council last week, the Nubian community firmly rejected any tacit maneuvers by the government to either evict or compensate them for the land.
"We have lived here and are going to continue living here (in Bombo) because this is our ancestral land," 73-year-old Captain Ramathan Kassim, who says he is a former governor of South Buganda Province in the 1970s, said.
"It is ridiculous that the government should have a hand in this," he charged.
This nascent row over the land in Bombo comes at a time when the central government is pushing for amendments to the 1998 Land Act that would, among other things, make it harder for landlords to evict tenants.
The Amendment Bill 2007 has already stirred resistance from Mengo, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, which accuses the government of fronting a suspect legislation to dispossess registered landowners of their land.
Meanwhile the central government argues that the new law would enhance security of tenure for both the landlords and tenants and criminalise evictions.
Mengo reacts
Mengo officials last week spoke angrily over the proposed takeover of the Bombo land by the government and urged the residents not to yield to "land grabbers".
"This is land grabbing because Nubians are Kabaka's subjects and well represented in the kingdom," Mr Medard Ssegona, the state minister for Information in Buganda kingdom said adding, "They (Nubians) should resist eviction because Buganda genuinely gave them this land".
The LCII Chairman for Nkokonjeru Parish, Mr Habib Juma said: "Whoever wants to evict our people should bring a letter from the Buganda Kingdom canceling the offer."
If the government succeeds to possess the disputed land, about 1,000 or more people in Lutamandwa, Gangama and Kabulanaka in Bombo Town would be thrown out from what they say is their "customary land".
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1,000 Nubians face eviction from Bombo
LAND BONANZA: Yasiin Mugerwa & Olandason Wanyama
KAMPALA/BOMBO
AN estimated 1,000 people, mainly Nubian families, face eviction from Bombo Town Council in Luweero District.
Daily Monitor has learnt that the government wants to take up the 50- acre land to relocate the Rehabilitation Centre for the disabled persons currently situated at Lweza in Wakiso District, which has been taken over by an investor.
Officials of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, in October last year, quietly offered the land in Lweza to an unnamed investor.
Under the deal, the investor is expected to construct a new multi-purpose training centre for persons with disabilities in Bombo town council to replace that at Lweza.
The deal, which the Parliamentary committee on Gender, Labour and Social development sanctioned last November, has, however, provoked strong protests from the Nubians who say the Buganda Kingdom donated the Bombo land to them during the colonial era.
"As long as we live, we are going to fight for our ancestral land," Mr Mohammad Wahib, the chairman of the Nubian community, said in an interview on January 16.
Documents obtained by Daily Monitor show that there is controversy over the ownership of the land on Block 1026; Plot 65 Namaliga in Bombo Town with Henley Property Developers Limited; a Kampala-based private Company, being the latest claimant.
The company claims it bought the land from Mr James Ddagirira, who allegedly acquired it from Mr Hussein Musa Mayanja, an administrator of the late Stanley Kisingiri's estates, who in the late 19th century served as an agent of Kabaka Daudi Chwa of Buganda.
But the Nubians, who originally migrated from Sudan and fought alongside Buganda Kingdom and other colonial British forces, said the Kabaka of Buganda rewarded them with the land in Bombo after they suppressed the anti-imperialism Banyoro uprising of 1880-87.
That notwithstanding, senior government and Henley Company officials toured the disputed land on December 19, 2007 to prepare for a formal takeover by the Gender Ministry before its planned transfer to the investor for erecting the proposed modern centre for PWDs.
"Henley (Property Developers Limited) is working closely with the Ministry of Gender for the realisation of this objective," Mr Richard Mubiru, the company's corporate affairs director said in a December 31, 2007 letter addressed to Mr Geoffrey Kyomukama, the Bombo town clerk.
When Daily Monitor visited Bombo town council last week, the Nubian community firmly rejected any tacit maneuvers by the government to either evict or compensate them for the land.
"We have lived here and are going to continue living here (in Bombo) because this is our ancestral land," 73-year-old Captain Ramathan Kassim, who says he is a former governor of South Buganda Province in the 1970s, said.
"It is ridiculous that the government should have a hand in this," he charged.
This nascent row over the land in Bombo comes at a time when the central government is pushing for amendments to the 1998 Land Act that would, among other things, make it harder for landlords to evict tenants.
The Amendment Bill 2007 has already stirred resistance from Mengo, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, which accuses the government of fronting a suspect legislation to dispossess registered landowners of their land.
Meanwhile the central government argues that the new law would enhance security of tenure for both the landlords and tenants and criminalise evictions.
Mengo reacts
Mengo officials last week spoke angrily over the proposed takeover of the Bombo land by the government and urged the residents not to yield to "land grabbers".
"This is land grabbing because Nubians are Kabaka's subjects and well represented in the kingdom," Mr Medard Ssegona, the state minister for Information in Buganda kingdom said adding, "They (Nubians) should resist eviction because Buganda genuinely gave them this land".
The LCII Chairman for Nkokonjeru Parish, Mr Habib Juma said: "Whoever wants to evict our people should bring a letter from the Buganda Kingdom canceling the offer."
If the government succeeds to possess the disputed land, about 1,000 or more people in Lutamandwa, Gangama and Kabulanaka in Bombo Town would be thrown out from what they say is their "customary land". Re. what is going on in Uganda now, is what Lado Community wrote. why some people who claim to be Ugandans, and some are considor Foreighners. totaly wrong Idea. as I explain some time back, there are no tribe called Nubians. the Nubian Language are like swahili in which many tribes understand each in communications. the few people that came from sudan and fought 100 years back, the mority were killed by ugandan rebels that entered uganda in 1979. it was part of plan of why the Former President of Uganda the Late Al Haji Idi Amin was overthrown. read what is writened in Lado Community Article in my weblogs. explains details of the plan. now people that called Nubians. are Ugandans tribes who have Intermerriage in all tribes in uganda, they are all Muslims. call themselve Nubians, civilised society. this matter has to go to united nation to Intervene and solve this matter once and for all. it is a very serious case & urgent matter before bloodshed happens. This community lives in harmony with baganda for the period of over 100 years. now some crazy people bringing bad move. this must stop. Bravo.
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LAND BONANZA: Yasiin Mugerwa & Olandason Wanyama
KAMPALA/BOMBO
AN estimated 1,000 people, mainly Nubian families, face eviction from Bombo Town Council in Luweero District.
Daily Monitor has learnt that the government wants to take up the 50- acre land to relocate the Rehabilitation Centre for the disabled persons currently situated at Lweza in Wakiso District, which has been taken over by an investor.
Officials of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, in October last year, quietly offered the land in Lweza to an unnamed investor.
Under the deal, the investor is expected to construct a new multi-purpose training centre for persons with disabilities in Bombo town council to replace that at Lweza.
The deal, which the Parliamentary committee on Gender, Labour and Social development sanctioned last November, has, however, provoked strong protests from the Nubians who say the Buganda Kingdom donated the Bombo land to them during the colonial era.
"As long as we live, we are going to fight for our ancestral land," Mr Mohammad Wahib, the chairman of the Nubian community, said in an interview on January 16.
Documents obtained by Daily Monitor show that there is controversy over the ownership of the land on Block 1026; Plot 65 Namaliga in Bombo Town with Henley Property Developers Limited; a Kampala-based private Company, being the latest claimant.
The company claims it bought the land from Mr James Ddagirira, who allegedly acquired it from Mr Hussein Musa Mayanja, an administrator of the late Stanley Kisingiri's estates, who in the late 19th century served as an agent of Kabaka Daudi Chwa of Buganda.
But the Nubians, who originally migrated from Sudan and fought alongside Buganda Kingdom and other colonial British forces, said the Kabaka of Buganda rewarded them with the land in Bombo after they suppressed the anti-imperialism Banyoro uprising of 1880-87.
That notwithstanding, senior government and Henley Company officials toured the disputed land on December 19, 2007 to prepare for a formal takeover by the Gender Ministry before its planned transfer to the investor for erecting the proposed modern centre for PWDs.
"Henley (Property Developers Limited) is working closely with the Ministry of Gender for the realisation of this objective," Mr Richard Mubiru, the company's corporate affairs director said in a December 31, 2007 letter addressed to Mr Geoffrey Kyomukama, the Bombo town clerk.
When Daily Monitor visited Bombo town council last week, the Nubian community firmly rejected any tacit maneuvers by the government to either evict or compensate them for the land.
"We have lived here and are going to continue living here (in Bombo) because this is our ancestral land," 73-year-old Captain Ramathan Kassim, who says he is a former governor of South Buganda Province in the 1970s, said.
"It is ridiculous that the government should have a hand in this," he charged.
This nascent row over the land in Bombo comes at a time when the central government is pushing for amendments to the 1998 Land Act that would, among other things, make it harder for landlords to evict tenants.
The Amendment Bill 2007 has already stirred resistance from Mengo, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, which accuses the government of fronting a suspect legislation to dispossess registered landowners of their land.
Meanwhile the central government argues that the new law would enhance security of tenure for both the landlords and tenants and criminalise evictions.
Mengo reacts
Mengo officials last week spoke angrily over the proposed takeover of the Bombo land by the government and urged the residents not to yield to "land grabbers".
"This is land grabbing because Nubians are Kabaka's subjects and well represented in the kingdom," Mr Medard Ssegona, the state minister for Information in Buganda kingdom said adding, "They (Nubians) should resist eviction because Buganda genuinely gave them this land".
The LCII Chairman for Nkokonjeru Parish, Mr Habib Juma said: "Whoever wants to evict our people should bring a letter from the Buganda Kingdom canceling the offer."
If the government succeeds to possess the disputed land, about 1,000 or more people in Lutamandwa, Gangama and Kabulanaka in Bombo Town would be thrown out from what they say is their "customary land".
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1,000 Nubians face eviction from Bombo
LAND BONANZA: Yasiin Mugerwa & Olandason Wanyama
KAMPALA/BOMBO
AN estimated 1,000 people, mainly Nubian families, face eviction from Bombo Town Council in Luweero District.
Daily Monitor has learnt that the government wants to take up the 50- acre land to relocate the Rehabilitation Centre for the disabled persons currently situated at Lweza in Wakiso District, which has been taken over by an investor.
Officials of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, in October last year, quietly offered the land in Lweza to an unnamed investor.
Under the deal, the investor is expected to construct a new multi-purpose training centre for persons with disabilities in Bombo town council to replace that at Lweza.
The deal, which the Parliamentary committee on Gender, Labour and Social development sanctioned last November, has, however, provoked strong protests from the Nubians who say the Buganda Kingdom donated the Bombo land to them during the colonial era.
"As long as we live, we are going to fight for our ancestral land," Mr Mohammad Wahib, the chairman of the Nubian community, said in an interview on January 16.
Documents obtained by Daily Monitor show that there is controversy over the ownership of the land on Block 1026; Plot 65 Namaliga in Bombo Town with Henley Property Developers Limited; a Kampala-based private Company, being the latest claimant.
The company claims it bought the land from Mr James Ddagirira, who allegedly acquired it from Mr Hussein Musa Mayanja, an administrator of the late Stanley Kisingiri's estates, who in the late 19th century served as an agent of Kabaka Daudi Chwa of Buganda.
But the Nubians, who originally migrated from Sudan and fought alongside Buganda Kingdom and other colonial British forces, said the Kabaka of Buganda rewarded them with the land in Bombo after they suppressed the anti-imperialism Banyoro uprising of 1880-87.
That notwithstanding, senior government and Henley Company officials toured the disputed land on December 19, 2007 to prepare for a formal takeover by the Gender Ministry before its planned transfer to the investor for erecting the proposed modern centre for PWDs.
"Henley (Property Developers Limited) is working closely with the Ministry of Gender for the realisation of this objective," Mr Richard Mubiru, the company's corporate affairs director said in a December 31, 2007 letter addressed to Mr Geoffrey Kyomukama, the Bombo town clerk.
When Daily Monitor visited Bombo town council last week, the Nubian community firmly rejected any tacit maneuvers by the government to either evict or compensate them for the land.
"We have lived here and are going to continue living here (in Bombo) because this is our ancestral land," 73-year-old Captain Ramathan Kassim, who says he is a former governor of South Buganda Province in the 1970s, said.
"It is ridiculous that the government should have a hand in this," he charged.
This nascent row over the land in Bombo comes at a time when the central government is pushing for amendments to the 1998 Land Act that would, among other things, make it harder for landlords to evict tenants.
The Amendment Bill 2007 has already stirred resistance from Mengo, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, which accuses the government of fronting a suspect legislation to dispossess registered landowners of their land.
Meanwhile the central government argues that the new law would enhance security of tenure for both the landlords and tenants and criminalise evictions.
Mengo reacts
Mengo officials last week spoke angrily over the proposed takeover of the Bombo land by the government and urged the residents not to yield to "land grabbers".
"This is land grabbing because Nubians are Kabaka's subjects and well represented in the kingdom," Mr Medard Ssegona, the state minister for Information in Buganda kingdom said adding, "They (Nubians) should resist eviction because Buganda genuinely gave them this land".
The LCII Chairman for Nkokonjeru Parish, Mr Habib Juma said: "Whoever wants to evict our people should bring a letter from the Buganda Kingdom canceling the offer."
If the government succeeds to possess the disputed land, about 1,000 or more people in Lutamandwa, Gangama and Kabulanaka in Bombo Town would be thrown out from what they say is their "customary land". Re. what is going on in Uganda now, is what Lado Community wrote. why some people who claim to be Ugandans, and some are considor Foreighners. totaly wrong Idea. as I explain some time back, there are no tribe called Nubians. the Nubian Language are like swahili in which many tribes understand each in communications. the few people that came from sudan and fought 100 years back, the mority were killed by ugandan rebels that entered uganda in 1979. it was part of plan of why the Former President of Uganda the Late Al Haji Idi Amin was overthrown. read what is writened in Lado Community Article in my weblogs. explains details of the plan. now people that called Nubians. are Ugandans tribes who have Intermerriage in all tribes in uganda, they are all Muslims. call themselve Nubians, civilised society. this matter has to go to united nation to Intervene and solve this matter once and for all. it is a very serious case & urgent matter before bloodshed happens. This community lives in harmony with baganda for the period of over 100 years. now some crazy people bringing bad move. this must stop. Bravo.
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FIND OUT OF WRONG INFORMATION GIVEN TO AFRICANS ( ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE LADO MUSLIMS CALLED NUBIANS ) IN THE LITERATURE TEXT BELOW .
Pan Africanism And The King Atabua of Lado
1945 - The Pan Africanism Association was formed .
Agofe / King Atabua of Lado became the Chairman of the African Chiefs / Heads in the Conference which was held in Manchester in 1945 , and Kwame Nkrumah ( His first name was Francis ) became the secretary and Jomo Kenyatta ( His real name was Johnston Kamau) he became assistant secretary. But the Agofe / King will be Assassinated because He asked USSR to raise the question of Lado at the UN in 1947 for Independence . Why did the British Kill the Chairman and this King is not even recorded in the African History even yet as a founder member of the Pan Africanism ?
Lets find more about this Man - King of Lado then
A British Imperial Army ( King's African Rifles ) was established in 1891 under the Kavalli Agreement of 17 September 1891. The Agreement was signed by the English Captain Frederick D. Lugard who later became the Governor- General of Nigeria and Major Selim Matera , a Citizen of Lado
It was him Governor - .General. Lugard who developed the British Colonial Doctrine called The Dual Mandate ( Indirect Rule ), which is still in force through the Commonwealth Pyramid Divide-and-Rule System with the Queen / King on top, and under the Sovereign Head are the British Administrators, and below them the Local African Chiefs. The only difference today is that the British Administrators are replaced by the African Presidents who are operating as Governor -Generals dancing to the tune of Remote Control .
These British Commonwealth African Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers rule in the firm belief that they are the True Sovereign Heads of their Countries. But in actual fact they have been reduced to mere Governor - Generals / Administrators ( International Public Law ). In Reality then this explains why the many different Indiginous Peoples of Africa, consisting of four Main Social Entities - " Races " ( Bantus, Hamitics, Sudanics and Nilotics ) believe they are Independent . That is also the reason behind the Conflict between the Tutsis ( Hamitics ) and the Hutus ( Bantus ) in Rwanda and Burundi. However, few people realise that the Real Owners of Rwanda and Burundi are the Indigenous People, the Twa People ( Batua ) , who are close counsins of the Pygmies. Rwanda and Burundi ( formerly Urundi ) used to be one Country, along with Tanganyika, before the First World War. The Territory belonged to Germany and was known as German East Africa.
In Colonial Legacy -
When the First World War ended, Rwanda - Urundi ( Burundi ) was given to Belgium, and Tanganyika to the British under the Versailles Treaty of 28 June 1919. To this , today's Conflict between the Tutsis and the Hutus is a direct result of the Division of the former German Colonies into two parts, one for Britain (Tanganyika) and one for Belgium ( Rwanda -Urundi ). . But for the Deliberate Discrimination , the Belgians chose to rule by appointing the Minority Tutsis " Most Favored Ethnic Group ", which carried them forward as the African Intelligentsia Class or the Ruling Elite, who as the new Slave Masters were used to suppress all the other Ethnic Groups. This is the Root of the Problem, and unless that is recognised and a Political Solution is found, there will be no end to the Bloodshed and Genocide in Central Africa ( which the Western / Europeans see it best lying within for their interest ) .
This similar situation is what actually the British / Belgium ( 1947 ) long stated over Lado Kingdom in Africa but they still have not succeded ----- The Displaced Persons, the Stateless Persons and the Internal Refugee Problem, among them the so called Nubians ( the Lado Muslim Community ) who are being held mainly in Uganda and Kenya as Prisoners in Reservations, the so called Restricted Settlements ( Bombo, Soroti and Gulu in Uganda and Kibira near Nairobi in Kenya ) was started by the British since 1897 . These People are always referred to simply as " The Nubians " though they are Muslims of Lado origin ( Luu and Lui People ) who were removed by the British Colonial Authority because of their Mutiny the same year 1897 when they were ordered to go and fight against their own People in Lado .The leaders were executed in Uganda including their Military Commander, Bilal Amin, the Grandfather of Idi Amin ( The Sudanese Mutiny of 1897 ) .
The British have never forgotten nor forgiven the Lado Muslims for this Breach of Discipline, which explains why these displaced People referred to as " The Nubians in East Africa ", and are still being punished now as " Unwanted Persons." Apart from being held in the Special Settlements as Prisoners, the Lado Muslims ( Nubians ) are being heavily discriminated against, very much like the American Indians were treated by the European Invaders one hundred years ago .
When Lado the leader Agofe Atabua reached the military rank of Colonel, serving in the Kings African Rifles ( KAR ) 4th Regiment which was British, with headquaters in Bombo, Uganda , He went to fight for the British in Burma in 2° World War ( WWII ) with the 4th Regiment of the Kings Africans Rifles, which later was stationed in Jinja, Uganda. The Lado leader resigned to carry out the Independence of Lado in 1947. He was replaced by a British Colonel called Alan Knight, a man with humane feelings He was a sort of friendly to Africans : an Englishman, a rare case anyway. The Lado leader was assassinated on 14th April 1948, because he asked USSR to raise the question of Lado at the UN in 1947, and the British found that was not the right thing to do.
They said He was opening the eyes of many Africans and African countries , and above all his Role as the First Chairman known to be of the Pan Africanism Association was a deadly Snake poison to the global Western Anglo - American Political Interests in Africa . With the death of the King Atabua was actually the end of Pan Africanism with its founded Head Quarters at Arua - Arua in the Independent Kingdom State of Lado as Lado is Rightly situated in the Heart of Africa . All Members present in the meeting of 1945 agreed to that . The British had to do something quick inorder to cover up this most important History part of Africa in a most meditated way to draw the African Minds to establish a new system of a giving Independence to the African People by encouraging the Secretary of the King Atabua to take over to work on this issue of Indepedences but without Sovereignty issue at hand to the African people .
This Agreement with Nkuruma led to the initiatives of the formation of Organisation of African Unit in the African Independence Conference held in Accra in 1958 .
In 1961, the OAU Charter was drawn up by three African blocs : one called the Casablanca Group, another called the Monrovia Group, and the third called the Brazzaville Group. So the three Groups formed the Organisation of African Unity. The only concerned Organisation in Africa yet , therefore still , till todate is OAU
In conclusion OAU charter was concluded on 25th May 1963, in Addis Ababa, starting on 25th May, 1947 but picked up later by - because the leader John Anacleto Atobua Agami from Lado Kingdom was killed in 1948 on April . It was Francis Kwame Nkrumah later, was the one who organised the African Independence Conference in Accra in 1958 as He was the Secretary to the King John Anacleta Atabua Agami of the Pan Africanism . OAU took its roots from Pan Africanism .
Lado advocated and will continue to do so for Pan Africanism to live with one flag for the Unity of Africa . It is high time that be put in Existence .
The name Pan Africanism sounds good and in its History philosophy as was formed for the first time and the philosophy goes to generations and generations of Africa . Pan Africanism has been given to us Black people by our Grand forefathers to ensure and contnue to Safe Guard the Basic interests and Rights to the Existence of all Blacks on this planet and in this Universe as a whole . This is the Biggest Gift to us Blacks we can be proud of and therefore it is our due Rights to defend it with no Jokes . Many of our Forefathers have already been slaughtered by the enemies of Blacks for the purpose of Pan Africanism .
What the Hell is all about with such strage denominations like African Union ( AU ) and again now changing to another name United States of Africa ( USA) . I hope this is not the Madness of some of the Africa puppet Leaders ( Western Anglo - American controlled ) mentors thinking for Africa and all the Blacks , once again .
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LADO ---
Institute of Sudanic Studies - ISS
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