By Otim Nape
Senior Presidential Advisor on Media John Nagenda has directed the feuding political factions in Busoga not to dare involve President YK Museveni in their wrangles arguing that the international Pan-Africanist man from Rwakitura is way too big for such pettiness and village quarrels. Writing in his ever very controversial Saturday column in the Vision paper, Nagenda refers to a group of Busoga royal guards who earlier in the week were reported to have gone on their bended knees begging Minister Persis Namuganza to ask Museveni to intervene and stop the wranglings between groups supporting different individuals for the position of Kyabazingaship. Nagenda says that amounted to excessive trivialization of the Presidency. He says the fact that the minister entertained such suggestions is proof of how ridiculous the situation has become. Nagenda, who recalls first visiting the populous region in 1948 when he was only 10 years, says he considers the region home to many of his close friends but he has an obligation, as someone who will be 80 on 25th April, to tell the truth as it is. He ends with a rhetorical question thus: “Will people kindly stop this harassing of the Presidency and give our Leader time to attend to his real duties?” The latest phase of wrangling clearly has two leadership one offered by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga (backing Gabula for the kingship) and another led by budding Minister Persis Namuganza who professes Edward Columbus Wambuzi Zibondo to be the legitimate king of Busoga.
