Busoga kingdom has expressed 'sadness' over the election loss of the former speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga.
Kadaga suffered a humiliating defeat to her former deputy Jacob Oulanyah after insisting on contesting as an independent candidate after her ruling party, NRM endorsed Oulanyah as the flag bearer. During yesterday's vote at Kololo Independence ceremonial grounds, Kadaga polled 197 votes against Oulanyah's 310 votes.
The Kamuli Woman MP, who had served as speaker for 10 years was seeking a third term. Busoga kingdom spokesperson, Andrew Ntange, says that they had anticipated getting more influential political positions but were instead shocked by Kadaga's loss.
"As a kingdom, we are under no obligation to make political commentary over the election processes of the speaker of parliament of the republic, but we cannot say that all is well with us because our prayer was that we get more and more of our illustrious sons and daughters in more lucrative positions without losing any, we didn't see this coming and we didn't know the scheme was deep, well calculated and spirited," he said in a statement.
Adding that, "We are going to learn to live with it now that, it has dawned on us. We call for calm and peace and do ask our champion, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga to invoke the lioness in her, to come to terms with this and find only advantages in this. As for Busoga, such is politics and we faced the ugly side of it, let's move forward."
Wilberforce Mudiope, one of the elders within the says that over the years most leaders have always capitalized on elevating their individual fights rather than fostering the general transformation of the sub-region as a whole.
Mudiope says that instead of lobbying for economic empowerment projects, leaders have instead rallied with foreign allies to boost individual fights against their own, which has continuously retarded efforts of transforming Busoga which has enhanced the tribal stereotypes against the Basoga that they only start to mentally mature after 45 years.
Party and kingdom power struggles and wars have previously pitted Kadaga against former minister the State Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development.
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