As Sarah Nalukenge Puts it: MYSTERIOUS MURDERS OF BAGANDA Over the past 10 years, the number of mysterious and unsolved murder cases of Baganda has grown to a point where a murder only makes the news when a victim is a prominent Kampala businessman. However, the murders of local Baganda, small businessmen and opinion leaders, especially those opposed to the Uganda government, continue unabated across the whole KINGDOM. The pattern is so predictable that some Baganda believe that it is part of a strategic scheme to terrorize Baganda to a point at which they are too afraid to claim their rights. Prominent Baganda leaders seem unwilling to talk about this theory. In Kampala and other major towns, for instance, the main victims are usually Baganda businessmen, especially those who are in partnership with corrupt and ruthless members of Uganda’s ruling class. However, the biggest number of victims are small businessmen and opinion leaders in small towns and VILLAGES, who attempt to resist the creeping take-over of local life by people they consider foreigners. Unfortunately, these murders are rarely reported in English language news and, therefore, not visible to the outside world. This week, BugandaWatch reports the murder of 62-year old STEPHEN Bagenda of Nakwaya village in the Ggombolola of Kikandwa in the Ssaza of Ssingo. He was murdered in cold blood during the very early morning of November 22, 2014. In one of the signature rituals that were introduced to Buganda in the mid 1990s, he was stripped NAKED and his tongue cut out. Bagenda was not a rich businessman or politician. However, he was considered a wise elder and opinion leader in his Kikandwa area, with no known enemies. The residents of Nakwaya village are terrorized, and they are not willing to talk about the case beyond saying that the deceased was a good man and they cannot understand why he could have been killed. The situation is complicated by the fact that virtually all the police officers in the area are either from Northern or Western Uganda. It is difficult for the local Baganda to freely discuss their problems and fears with police staff who largely behave like a foreign occupation force. INDEED, the local police commander, Ms. Faith Apio, who spoke in broken Luganda, could only promise to “condemn people who commit these kinds of crimes.” SOURCE: BUGANDAWATCH.COM
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:22:51 +0000
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