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Uganda: Bunyoro Asks Govt for Oil, Tourism Cash
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The Monitor (Kampala)
8 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008
Francis Mugerwa
Details of the discussion between President Museveni and officials of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom on Sunday have emerged in which President Museveni allegedly promised the government's support to Bunyoro's development plans.
"We requested the government to support us transform our region and the President was very positive about our proposals," the Bunyoro kingdom Deputy Premier, Ms Proscovia Bamutura, told Daily Monitor in a phone interview on Wednesday.
The closed door meeting between the Bunyoro Cabinet and President Museveni, was held in Karuziika palace, the official residence of king of the Banyoro on Sunday. The meeting is reported to have centered on the need to strengthen the relations between the central government and Bunyoro Kingdom.
The Bunyoro cabinet presented a two-page memorandum to President Museveni in which it requested for funding on its Shs24 billion budget, a share on the profits accruing from oil exploitation and the need for the government to improve the welfare of the kingdom's subjects, infrastructure and agricultural development.
Poverty and poor infrastructure, Ms Bamutura said, were identified by the cabinet as key hindrances to Bunyoro's development. "We request for specific and known royalties for the kingdom from oil proceeds, minerals and other assets like forests, game reserves, Kinyara Sugar works, Bugambe Tea Estate and the Kingdom's assets at county and sub county levels," the memorandum reads in part.
The Cabinet also requested the government to resolve the land and ethnic conflicts in Buliisa and Kibaale districts by implementing the Ruth Mukama Report. "The President promised to address all our concerns because we have never had any sour relations with the government and we never wish them to occur," Ms Bamutura said.
President Museveni"s visit to Bunyoro, the fourth this year, is reportedly seen as a move to create an alliance with the government and sideline Buganda, which has been very vocal and opposed to the amendment of the Land Act and its quest for federalism.
The kingdom's memorandum to the President states that it plans to revive and strengthen the clan system through propagation of cultural values, traditions and norms with a view of cultivating mutual respect among individuals, households, and communities at all levels.
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The kingdom has requested the government to facilitate it to improve and mechanise agriculture with focus on Bunyoro's traditional foods which are facing extinction.
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