President Yoweri Museveni has on Thursday afternoon received a delegation of the minority tribes who were complaining about marginalization in Kasese district.
The minority groups represented included the Basongora, Banyabindi, Bagabo and Bakyingwe [Banyabutumbi] as well as some other immigrant tribes [Bafurukyi] that initiated an the idea of a scheme to create a Yiira Republic involving the Bakonjo of Congo and those from Uganda.
However, Museveni told the delegation that if a Yiira Republic were ever to be created, it would never ever involve even a single inch of Uganda urging them to drop the idea.
“The people who fought for the freedom of Uganda would never allow that to happen. Anybody involved in that dangerous dream will see his efforts come to no avail,” he said at a meeting held at State House in Entebbe.
The President reminded them that the constitution guarantees all Ugandans to enjoy their rights and outlaws sectarian marginalization.
“Your complaints, therefore, would be discussed by all stakeholders in the area to find a just solution. It is not correct for you to suspect all the Bakonjo of ill intentions,” he said.
The President added that as normally happens in such situations, it is the leaders who mislead the people which he said is wrong.
“You should therefore not distrust all the Bakonjo. You should instead, work to expose the promoters of tribal chauvinism,” he said.
The delegations were led by Hon Kafunda Boaz, a former Member of Parliament for Busongora.