Haa, For Buganda's cultural leader, the Kabaka of Buganda and his kingdom, May 24th will now be a public holiday in Buganda to commemorate the infamous attack of the Mengo palace ( =LUBIRI in Luganda Language) by the former president Appolo Milton Obote's Army, a mengo minister has annonced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQMDT6JbMEE King of Buganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60-qIAHtYD8 Queen of Buganda
It was this attack that forced Kabaka Muteesa of Buganda and First President of Uganda, to flee into exile in 1966 and save his life. It was a very devastating event in the life and history of Buganda and Uganda. And as if Obote was not satisfied with that, if am not mistaken, he went on to have himself declared the Leader, the President of the now REPUBLIC of UGANDA and that the Kabaka was no longer the President, and thet there were no more kinds and kingdoms had been abolished as Uganda was now a REPUBLIC and that as from now onwards the 8th Sept 1967 would be a day to remember Uganda as a republic without the Kings, no more Kabaka of Buganda, no Mukama of Bunyoro, no Mukama of Tooro, and no Mugabe of Ankole and no Kyabazinga of Busoga
By inviting Amin Dada and the military to help attack the kings palace, Obote had mede a miscalculated step and decision:
MAY 24th SHOULD BE REMEMBERED
AS THE DAY WHEN THE MILITARY
WAS INTRODUCED TO THE STAGE
AND TASTE OF POLITICS IN UGANDA
AND SINCE THEN
THE MILITARY HAS NEVER LEFT
THE POLITICAL SCENE OF THE NATION...
... this is not the case in Kenya and Tanzania
am just wondering how Uganda's involvement of the military and the politics will fit into the new EAST AFRICAN FEDERATION (EAF) and whether also in the newly to be created Parliament of East Africa whether the Tanzanians and Kenyans will allow the military to be Members of this new EAF Parliament