Museveni’s recognition of Banyarwanda refugees as an indigenous group is a potential cultural, political powder keg
One roadblock to resolution of the myriads of questions, crises or disputes in our environment is that there is no national consensus that they exist. What is happening is to postpone to the future. The constitutional recognition of Banyarwanda by the Uganda Constitution 1995 as one of the indigenous groups of Uganda is not only despising Ugandan indigenous groups but also a recipe for future conflicts, chaos and violence in our environment.
Six-million-dollar question: Are ‘wildebeest-like’ Bararo nomads still part of indigenous Ugandan communities?
We know that some years ago, during the reign of President Jakaya Kikwete in Tanzania, thousands of nomadic pastoralists were chased from Tanzania and they ended up in Uganda. When you tell the nomadic pastoralists to go where they came from, are you also telling them to go back to Tanzania?
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