Kabaka Edward Muteesa II, the president of the post Colonial Uganda escaped narrowly and fled into exile, after three years of what Obote openly called a puppet government. The attack sparked discontent among majority Baganda and later spurred 1970 coup by army chief Idi Amin against President Obote.

Buganda Kingdom attorney general David Mpanga said commemoration seeks to relay the importance of addressing political challenges with political responses. Mpanga said some of the issues that sparked the Kabaka Crisis have not been answered up to date.

“Political questions should be answered with political answers acceptable democratically. Legal questions should also be answered in court. When Milton Obote attacked Muteesa II, there was power struggle of what was Kabaka’s role politically and undefined sharing of financial resources which have not been resolved to date,” Mpanga said.

“The attack on the Lubiri was answering a political question militarily and 50 years later, we still see political and legal questions being answered militarily,” Mpanga observed.

Buganda deputy prime minister Emmanuel Sendawula said the annual celebrations were ‘ordered’ by Kabaka Ronald Mutebi to remind the young generation of the unfortunate incident that happened to Buganda leaving indelible marks.

Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga led a brief prayer attended by Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala while Msgr Karoli Kimbowa made a paper presentation of the attack.

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In his capacity as the head of the Catholic Church and an African, Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala knows that sending condolences to the families of the people who die is a must. So we have been told that the cardinal has sent his condolences to the family of the police officer, Assistant Inspector of Police John Bosco Ariong who died on duty last week.

But the cardinal also cautioned the government not to apportion blame for the death of AIP John Bosco Ariong. Instead, the cardinal says the death of Ariong should be blamed on poor government policies.

We hear that the cardinal said that the government has directly or indirectly played a role in widening the gap between the police and the public.

Meanwhile, the FDC leader Col. Kiiza Besigye has said that he used to know Uganda police as the most corrupt institution in Uganda but not as the most brutal and feared Force in Uganda. Besigye asked the police to get back to professionalism and leave politics to politicians.

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