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Buganda boycott affects New Vision, Bukedde Sales

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Newspaper Vendors in Masaka are registering low turn-over due to a resolution by the Buganda Kingdom Lukiiko calling the people of Buganda to boycott buying Bukedde and the New Vision newspapers.

The resolution by the Buganda Lukiiko on Monday followed the expiry of an ultimatum given to New Vision to retract a story they considered published under ill faith.

The story published on 11 July, 2009, alleged that a cabinet Minister in the central government was holding the Bulange land title over a one billion shilling debt the Kabaka Ronald Mutebi had obtained from the unnamed Minister to run his private business.

Fortunate Kukunda, the New Vision sales agent in Masaka the papers says they were not affected much on the first day of the boycott, but are beginning to feel the pinch given Buganda Kingdom’s intensification of the boycott calls.

She however adds that although most vendors are complaining of low sales, the effect is not big. Bukedde is the most affected compared to the New Vision because most newspaper readers in Masaka read Luganda and less English.

Alex Muhumuza, one of the vendors in Masaka town says that since most of the people working in public offices read the New Vision, its sales are still normal.

However Sarah Nabawanda, an office administrator in Masaka town is among those that have chosen to do away with the paper until the Buganda kingdom officials have called off the boycott.

In Masaka taxi park, vendors of the two papers have been chased away, while passengers holding any of the papers are finding a hard time in catching a taxi from the park.
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Bashir Ssenyondo Dada the Spokesman of the Masaka Taxi drivers says that the drivers in the taxi resolved not to deal with anyone found with a copy of any of the papers.

This explains why on Wednesday morning a taxi driver only identified as Mutooro survived a beating when his colleagues found him reading a copy of Bukedde, while 2 passengers were thrown out of taxi after they were found with copies of the news paper.

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Total Rubish
written by Circulation, July 23, 2009
This story is totally untrue and is typical Mwenda style journalism i.e you adopt a view, look for evidence, if you fail to find it, make up the evidence and publish!. The fact is that New Vision and Bukedde circulation has continued to rise since then!
journalist
written by charles, July 23, 2009
thats nonsense. I really believe we are past an era of denying the public information. Should we now compare Mengo to former president Amin. In any case if Buganda feels aggrieved let them present their case before the courts of law. otherwise equally other tribes could decide to suspend advertising with media houses associated with Buganda. And who do you think will feel the pinch. Today more people are literate and they can tell lies from the truth. It should not be establishments like Mengo to determine for the rest what is true or not. It is a very bad precedent, and if Mengo does not review its position, in future the same medicine will be used unto them.
Ms
written by Namutebi Belinda, July 23, 2009
:pinch: The title, sent by Mengo shows that several transactions took place on the Bulange plot, reducing its size from 5.45 ha (13 acres) to 2.210 acres and then to 1.643 acres. We still need an explanation from our kingdom on these developments from the orginal title, to this one!
Boycott
written by de Balzini, July 23, 2009
Let me give you a bit of Mengo/Baganda boycott history.
In the late 1950, through the 60s till independence, and through Obote I, some Baganda staged a boycott aganist Asian shops. They did not agree that Asians should run commerce and industry while the deprived locals (Baganda) looked on.
Famously, a one Augustino Kamya led these boycotts in the 60s, and the results were Obote's common man's charter, and later 1972. The Economic War! Amin threw out the Asians and gave their businesses to some of the top Ganda wealthy fellas in this town! (No names, I beg your pardon).
Finally someone had 'heard' the sustained cries (boycotts) of the Baganda and acted.
Question is, will somebody hear Mengo's 2009 Bukedde and Vision boycott?
Over to you.
Take it or leave it
written by Alex, July 23, 2009
Take it or like it, the boycott is on and the pinch to the relevant media has started being felt I guess. Just go near one of the venders in your area and ask about the proceeds since the declaration of the boycott. Simple! For me I am in for boycott but I read the papers on internet, thus denying the media in question a direct income. Else where, some people have decided to buy only one copy for the village and share that. This in a way has also affected the volume of sales. But those who are willing to buy, please don’t harass them simply convince them not to buy. For reading I encourage all of you to read but let a few buy - one person out of 10 and share that. Why am I saying so? I don’t want you to be behind ideas/news. The land grabbers will use this opportunity to apply for lifting of caveats on you property while you don’t know. Any way this is my opinion. You are also entitled to yours. The message is Keep reading but the very few should buy and share and don’t harass the one you have found buying simply sensitize him/her. Wish you a successful boycott. And Mwenda thank you for the research.
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written by nabutanyi edgar, July 23, 2009
if the baganda can sustain this boycott, it would become a foundation for future civil disobedience struggles. image if the elections were 'stolen' and we boycotted airtime from all mobile phone companies! the pinch in the pocket would drive the cheats in relenting. all ugandans should join. actually this is a better form of resistance compared to demostration because tear gas and kiboko don't work here.
Dr.
written by Hosea, July 24, 2009
For real this shows backwardness,uncivilised,and not dealing with the question as it is.
The king and his entourages should settle the wind with those who stirred it not with innocent readers. Again they should know that we also more than reading the paper online.
The country is ruled by the president not by the king, so i think the government should show its muscle in this.
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written by kawooya nabil mungere, July 24, 2009
that paper is faceing some hard time.,coz some reporters in the new vision talld me that they ued to print about 35000 copies in uganda and they return atlist 2000 -copies in aday the by the byocot they now printe about 27000. and noiw they return a bout 7000 copies. those are fact that they are feeling the cost. the -other cost is coming at the time of compastion ! do you knoiw what iut means to ny the tital of the "KABAKA OF BUGANA"? thats the cost they are to face.
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written by Imhotep, July 24, 2009
Yeah i agree with Hosea, the most corrupt government the country has ever seen should show its muscle on this. Then we shall see who wins. Some people have indeed taken Buganda for granted. They seem to think that because they have got guns, they are immovable. Quite frankly i think this is what we need to rid ourselves of these johnies! Buganda should show its fighting spirit that has been in a slumber all this time. No government shall survive if Buganda is not at peace, please know this Hosea. You guys your time has come and it starts here and now unless you clean up your act. It is Baganda children that are sacrificed! It is our schools that are burnt down! It is our people without jobs! The list is endless. And now this! Find another capital city. Nigeria did!
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written by a guest, July 24, 2009
ehhhh! Charles,did i hear u utter that "nonsense"word?well,it could be a language problem.If not anyway,how dare do you use such a word to describe a situation that has been held with atmost civility? At least by the Mengo officials.

You suggested that they go to courts of law.Ehhhh...please don't teach you Grandfather how they eat eggs.How can little charlie lecture Mengo about courts of law??Do you know where civility begun?Excuse mi sir!!

By the way,Mengo from the start indicated that it would go to courts of law in the event NV didn't appologise.Indeed they have done so and most importantly,they have reported to the most important court....the public.That is the one hitting the likes of you most hard!!

You talk of other institutions doing the same to Mengo.Well,let them go ahead,who looses.By the way,they don't come to CBS to favour Buganda,they only come b'se of the great listernship of CBS.

You also talk of literacy???Then why didn't the so called literate at the NV editorial realise that this was bogus libel intended to defame the OMUTANDA.

For you your information,to many of us,elite inclusive,what our Kabaka says is what matters most.Period!! :woohoo: :woohoo:

Saabasajja awangaale!!
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written by Deo Mukasa, July 24, 2009
Well Hosea,you are describing Mengo as backward,how about the Newvision which publishes defamatory stories?
If you read the paper online,Mengo's intension is to simply affect the hard copy sales.In anycase,in a 3rdworld like uganda,how many read papers online???
You also insinuiated that it's your president who rules,well,let him order people to read the papers.Wapiiiiiiii.....we won't until MAGULUNYONDO instructs his subjects,you inclusive(since you can only be in BUGANDA)

Awangaale Sabasajja.
true
written by MUSOKE, July 24, 2009
lets go ahead and boycott those papers until that company aplogises
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written by Mullah, July 24, 2009
Deo Mukasa, you mean people in Buganda are told everything by one man!!!! And you call yourselves intelligent! You are proud because you accept someone's stupid command? So what were your brains made for?

It is strange but true, that in the 21st century someone tells you not to read a newspaper and you accept. So will you in other fora then go and claim for instance that you're fighting for your rights, or doing civic education? Or claim you want democratic governance? You have already told the whole world that you accept to be dictated upon by one man. This, fellow Ugandans, is why a muganda will never make a good president for the whole republic, because they all kneel before their tribal chief. Imagine the president doing that.

Bazzukulu b'Ochieng mwabaaki?
Ugandan
written by Eddie Bindhe, July 24, 2009
This story is very true newspapers vendors along Masaka-Bukoba highway are stranded with piles of Bukedde and New vision. The vendors have also been banned from selling the embattled newspapers from Mayors gardens. two days a ago. a news vendor was beaten by taxi operators accusing him and his newpapers of lowering the reputation of kabaka. The new Vision simply forgot to measure the ethical implication of the Bulange story. They were at crossroad with what is known in journalism as ethical dilemma. they apparently intended to lower kabaka's status.
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written by Owundo, July 27, 2009
Its really a big shame for mengo to do that!! If u would well know the role of Kabaka as a traditional King and not a politician!

I dont think boycotting the Newvision and Bukedde is the solution! its like they are stabbing their back. These papers have employeed their sons and daughters all those who are in Buganda Kingdom!

How would Kampala itself look like when its occupied by only baganda??

Plz beta find a clear way of sorting out such issues! Not to be ill advised!

As the sayg goes " Agali awamu gegaluma enyama' so dont bring within your selves and friends!
Bad Manners
written by kagulu ttebuchwereke, July 27, 2009
Let us keep on the fire burning til those incompetant newspapers make sensible decisions whether they close down or oplogise to Ssabasajja Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi Government at Mmengo, we are tired of people badly brought from homes without chality, no respect to elderly in this country.
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written by Musajja Alumbwa, July 28, 2009
Some of us who have means to print, we print the online copy and distribute to friends
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written by joe, July 29, 2009
Whilst boycotts do in certain situations serve a purpose, any form of violence should be dealt with swiftly . If indeed taxi operators are beating people up , the law must be brought to bear against the perpetrators.
jeo-WAPI
written by Zziwa, July 29, 2009
Where was the law when the so called Kiboko squard beat up people? People have the right not to buy news papers especially, those owned by this corrupt regime. PLEASE don't buy New-Vision and Bukedde. Here in Diaspora we are asking our relatives and friends not to buy them and word has spled like wild fire. Next people should not listen to goverment owned radios and TV stations. Twakoowa dda dda.
Is It Fact?
written by Mazima Buyinza, July 29, 2009
New Vision : From 37,400 copies to 18,538 copies
Bukedde: From 21,500 copies to 840 copies
New Vision's Kabushenga a war Criminal
written by Dennis Okello, July 30, 2009
The New Vision Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary, Robert Kabushenga and Gervase Ndyanabo respectively are inviting the 1994 Rwandan history to our motherland. The language used by Kabushenga in Observe Newspaper, is no different to that used 15 years ago by Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines.
Whoever reads Kabushenga's comments now views The New Vision as Radio Mille Collines.
Their language is not only a sign of arrogance but serial criminals with poisonous language. The world, Africa and Ugandan in particular should mark comments used by Kabushenga and Ndyanabo for future reference.
Kabushenga, today you might be moving around with escorts, have access to guns but remember the likes of former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein ended-up in a funny style.
If the best Kabushenga can offer to Ugandan is intimidation, it is real sign of State Power and motivating people to ****. I believe Kabushenga at this moment knows that he committed an offence and he should be charged with Conspiracy to Murder.
If not, he made the remark in full approval by his masters, perhaps with a ploy to drive the country into a State of Emergency situation ahead of 2011 presidential campaigns.
Kabushenga’s comments have no difference to those made by Rwandan song-writer Simon Bikindi on an extremist Hutu radio Station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) during the1994 Genocide.
Robert Kabushenga with your stupidity, unpleasantly reasoning and venomous utterance you deserve to end up like this footage; http://www.break.com/index/gra...video.html
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written by Musoke, July 30, 2009
Its a big shame on us Bagando if we think we can from fetting information when internet is there and broad band is on the way.
This confirms the notion that we are still backwards in our thinking.
bravo buganda
written by NABUTANYI, July 30, 2009
civil disobedience is a strong tool of resistance and the baganda have changed for the better. the power of the pocket is very strong and the lesson is being taught to corporate uganda.
Buganda's Opus Dei
written by Andrew, July 30, 2009
A few years ago when some royals from Buganda challenged Mutebi's parentage, he quickly sold his house in Nakasero. The stage was set for him to flee. He knows who he is and he is not secure.
That the land title has been subdivided and re registered in his personal company is no secret. And let you not be deceived about the sale of buganda land by the buganda land board. Mutebi knows what is taking place, but he cant do anything to them because they know who he is (ok, who he isn't, really). He is not legit.
So the tacit understanding among the clique at Mengo is: let us enrich ourselves but it must seem like we are serving the broader interests of buganda. After all, the average muganda is no monument of intellect, and they believe anything you say about their king. Nobody is going to ask any questions.

This is how the buganda version of Opus Dei is constituted: Mutebi is a bastard and the clique at mengo know it. They even have the guts to say it among themselves. But for the scheme to work there must be a figurehead king. They cannot openly come out openly to say what they know, because the eating will end. But for keeping quiet, they are free to sell off buganda properties. So for being used to hoodwink the idiots in buganda, he also has his Rexba. That explains why that title is registered in Rexba's names. Remember he also bought a market in Ndeeba at 400,000/= from Buganda kingdom. So you are still wondering why that title was subdivided? Who says you cant have two properties sitting on land with the same title?

The expalnation given by the katikkiro was to hoodwink the morons in buganda. It doesnt hold any water.
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written by Andrew, July 30, 2009
have the guts to say it among themselves. But for the scheme to work there must be a figurehead king. They cannot openly come out openly to say what they know, because the eating will end. But for keeping quiet, they are free to sell off buganda properties. So for being used to hoodwink the idiots in buganda, he also has his Rexba. That explains why that title is registered in Rexba's names. Remember he also bought a market in Ndeeba at 400,000/= from Buganda kingdom. So you are still wondering why that title was subdivided? Who says you cant have two properties sitting on land with the same title?

The expalnation given by the katikkiro was to hoodwink the morons in buganda. It doesnt hold any water.
STUPID OKELLO
written by DAVID, July 31, 2009
Stop your double standards in your ill-fated attempts of endearing yourself to the parochial Mengo tribal chauvinists(NB:Not all Baganda support Mengo's cause).Haven't you heard the hatred sentiments that are being spewed on the CBS radio???,where is your rationality???,are you applying for a "Buganda" passport???,Have you forgotten the names the Ganda fanatics whom you're allying with christened your Acholi folk???,Why are you reading the History of the Rwandan Genocide upside-down to the satisfaction of your gullible followers???
du ex machina
written by kabushengiosis, July 31, 2009
kabushenga run....and run far... :woohoo:
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written by marylin, July 31, 2009
i realise many people have an ego problem they can't believe the power of buganda still holds despite the fact that those in power have the machinery and the money! We still have our rights as buganda to express what we feel, its constitutional and u guyz who make reckless statements should just shut up!
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written by Andrew, July 31, 2009
Musajja Alumbwa, So you're still reading it. Moron.
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written by Paul, July 31, 2009
Mullah, Daudi Ochieng's grand children are dense. If you have ever seen a herd of sheep, that is their behaviour. It is sheer thickness to see how these idiots accept everything they are told by their imbecile of a king. If he says dont read new vision, all of them follow. When he says no sex with your wives for a month, all of them will abstain.
They are possessed.

This is a slave mentality which they have passed on to their children and grand children. Good news though, some are enlightened and are opposed to their stupid culture.

More than 200 years after the French said enough is enough to similar treatment, these lumpens are embracing it.
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written by Musoke, July 31, 2009
Me am just comfused now, Andrew is even making me more confuse.
Is this really true? Am a Muganda, But if this is really true then am not interested in Buganda Kingdom issues any more because this means the Acholi son has taken the Buganda Kingdom without any blood shade. The question now is; who is smart? No wander they dont take us seriously.
Reasonable
written by a guest, July 31, 2009
I think this just shows the end of buganda. But its demise is by that group at mengo. Ask buganda land board where they have sold all the land. And if the kabaka is catered for by the kingdom then he doesnt have to personally engage in business. But taking kingdom properties and registering them in his personal company is stealing.
maybe even the buganda land board have been registering kingdom land in their own names or companies. This calls for investigations. Andrew dont you think the newvision refusing to apologize they have a strong case?
A Rwandan Sympathiser
written by Kaliisa, August 01, 2009
David Okello grow a brain and all those NV boycott sympathisers....All well meaning Baganda open your eyes and see what a bunch Xenophobic Mafias the Mengo clique is !!!!!
ANDREW SHOULD SHOW HIS OTHER NAME IF HE IS TELLING
written by BUGAYA DENNIS, August 01, 2009
The propaganda about the kabaka has always been on . We baganda shall never be apologetic about our way of life. I wonder why andrew is dense! i personally examined that title and its in the name 'kabaka of Buganda' not REXBAR! .Does he even know that buganda land board does lease but not sell? go 2 mengo and crosscheck.about the kabaka's parantage the same people were in govt ,protected by soldiers uttering such nosense. If any one is civilised as they say can u challenge parantage without biological evidence.That is being gerous.We shall guard our throne and we shall attack who ever attacks it.We shall not buy those papers .iF They arenot feeling the pinch why has kabushenga petitioned media council.LONG LIVE SSAABASAJJA!!!!!!!1
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written by What The.......!!!???, August 06, 2009
So the great minds on this forum believe that the Kabaka is a land grabbing foreigner, that Baganda are idiots for listening to their king, that only Baganda should sympathise with Buganda (as shown by the vicious mindless skewering of a Mr Okello) and that Kabushenga's agenda is to scupper Buganda. Indeed. Grown adults with kids that want to grow up to be like them.
Observe: My people -and indeed my King- are historically amalgamations of a huge number of people adjoined by means of conquest. We are a huge percentage Banyoro. We are part Basoga. We are part this and that all the way to all corners of Uganda. But we speak as one Buganda. That is why no matter what people say, Buganda is not willing to, can and will NEVER be able to throw all other tribes out of Buganda. Now whereas I am forced by law to give a hoot about a president that does not give a hoot about me, my Kabaka (be he half Northie or Rwandese or whatever) GIVES A HOOT ABOUT ME. AND MY KIDS. AND MY KIDS' KIDS. And for that, even if nothing in my lifetime ever comes out of Mengo to directly affect me, I will bow down to and listen to my king. If you don't belong anywhere comparable or do not get it, Do Not Hate. Just pick lessons where you can. Fools.
well done
written by lizzy, August 24, 2009
i extend my regard to all the works of independent keep it up
thanks Lizzy
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