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Date: 5th July 2025
Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu.
Greetings. My social-media Manager has drawn my attention to the
lies and distortions on the social-media about the issue of the Balaalo in
Northern, North Western and Eastern Uganda. The mistakes by the Balaalo in
those areas are the following:
1. Okwonesa (cattle or other
livestock, grazing on other People's crops). Is that part of patriotism of a
United Uganda? Is that part of the freedom of Movement of Ugandans within
Uganda?
2. That kwonesa (livestock eating
People's crops), comes from introducing cattle in an area where there is no
senge-nge (barbed wire)-good barbed wires or even chain links (obutiimba) to
deal with the goats.
3. Even those who may have fenced,
they may not have permanent water sources on the farm (bought or rented).
Hence, in the dry season, they move out to look for water and, hence, kwonera
People (livestock eating People's crops).
4. Then, there is fencing carelessly
by blocking People's routes to the Nile River or other Public. It is this one
that should involve the lawyers. Which land did you, the Mulaalo, buy or rent?
Was it Communal land fraudulently sold or rented by a few People or was it
private land? The legality of the land ownership, however, is not the immediate
irritant. Whether you legally bought or rented the land, you have no right to
kwoneseza People (your livestock grazing on People’s crops); nor do you have
the right to block People’s access routes.
5. Regarding the Kwonesa, that is
why removing the Cattle and other livestock that come from outside that area
from the area, is appropriate, so that the issue of legal ownership can be
settled peacefully. The non-Acholi, non- Northerners who do crop agriculture in
the area, do not generate the same outcry. Why? They do not Kwonesa. Crops do
not Kwoona other crops.
6. These patriotic Balaalo that love
Uganda so much that they move around in disorderly ways, have invaded
Government ranches. This patriotic action stops the Goverment from doing its
planned projects there, such as cattle breeding. It also instigates the locals
to ask them
7. Did these Balaalo get legal
Cattle Movement permits, in the first place? This is ebaruha y'okufuruka
(Movement Permit). The givers of these permits should always ensure that there
are no problems (diseases, ownership, etc.) where the Cattle are coming from
and no problems where the Cattle are going (diseases, space, Kwonesa potential,
etc). If the permits were legally given, why was the scarcity of water, the
lack of fencing, the Kwonesa, etc not checked?
8. Did they get Cattle Movement
permits into the Government ranches? Therefore, Our great freedom fighter
Andrew Mwenda, should not misdirect his efforts about my Executive Orders
condoning tribal Chauvinism that frowns at Ugandans migrating legally to other
areas. I know of a Munyoro woman, Adyeeri, who is a big farmer in Nwoya,
growing fruits. She is very much loved from what I saw by the Locals. The
resentment by the Locals and my Executive Orders are not about the legal and
rational actors. They are both directed at the illegal and the
irrational."
"9. Northerners, also kwoneseza
one another (livestock eating crops). However, I hear, that for them, they have
their local practices, which are also common in other areas, where you kutsibika
(tying) the offending cow until the owner comes to redeem it and pays a fine.
However, apparently, these justice measures cannot be followed by some of the
arrogant Balaalo who will come with their armed relatives from the Army and,
therefore, these simple justice practices cannot apply to such powerful People.
That is why they need the Executive Order of the President of Uganda.
Signed:
Yoweri K. Museveni
Ssaabalwany
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