Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine, the leader of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party, has called upon all Baganda, both within the country and abroad, to rise and break away from the rest of Uganda.
Bobi Wine has told fellow Baganda people to isolate other tribes in the country and everything associated with them, claiming the rest of Ugandans hate Buganda and its people.
Kyagulanyi, in his social media post (his X account), appealed to fellow Baganda to come together and chase away non-Baganda who are settling within the central region.
He used the Luganda phrase “buli mbuzi ku’nkondo yayo,” which can literally be translated as everyone must go back to where he or she belongs.
“I call upon you, my elders, parents, brothers, and sisters, to wake up and reclaim what belongs to us; we must send our enemies back to where they came from. They hate us, and therefore we must have our own country where we are all loved,” Kyagulanyi posted.
He also encouraged Baganda to use all possible means available to ensure that other tribes are eliminated from the central region.
His statements follow a claim that the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Anet Among, made tribal statements against the Baganda during a Parliamentary session and debate on the National Coffee (Amendment) Bill, 2024, on October 24, 2024.
The bill is part of the wider rationalization and merging of different government agencies, commissions, and authorities with their mother ministries to ensure effective service delivery and cutting costs as well as government expenditure.