If we all speak for our tribes, who will speak for Uganda?
By Muhimbise George
The death of former Speaker Jacob Oulanya opened the debate of tribalism, sectarianism & nepotism. It was indeed the ugly truth that we must contend with!
After Oulanya's death, the MPs from Acholi, Lango and WestNile unanimously demanded that the next Speaker must be from the north lest they would boycott the voting exercise!
Although the matter was resolved and they turned up to vote for a non northerner, am sure that whatever was given or promised to them was merely a pain killer and not a medicine to their problem.
Ofcourse, the MPs from the North were neither the first nor the last to make such a demand, and so one can't simply blame them without understanding their context.
The bakiga from Kabale demanded that the next governor be a Mukiga simply because...
