Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, the Speaker of Parliament, is facing stiff resistance for failing to help Buganda get back its property from the central government.
Ssekandi seeks to retain the Bukoto central parliamentary seta in the 2011 general elections. But his quest for the seat could be quashed by a group of Buganda loyalists.
The loyalists have vowed to decampaign Ssekandi on grounds that as a speaker of Parliament, he has blocked Buganda's quest for the return of Buganda properties.
Tofiri Malokweza Kivumbi, the Buganda Kingdom official, leading the campaign to unseat Ssekandi, says that Ssekandi failed to use his position as the Speaker of Parliament, to allow Government grant Buganda a Federal system of Governance.
Kivumbi says Buganda wants its 9000-mile piece of land back, all the county and sub county headquarters throughout the country among others.
Kivumbi, also a voter at Bukoto sub county headquarters, says Buganda is concerned that a number of sub county headquarters' land has now been taken over by unknown people without consulting the landlords.
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Buganda kingdom loyalists have held a series of meetings in Kiziba, Busagala, Kabonera among others to sensitize Kabaka's subjects to vote out Ssekandi.
But the speaker of parliament has dismissed the campaigns as baseless. Ssekandi says Buganda is wrong on its claims. He claims that he personally advocated for Federal System of governance during the Constituency Assembly.
Ssekandi however says he dropped the idea, because it is not politically viable to grant Buganda federal at the expense of other regions. He says what Uganda wants are regional governments and not a single federal form of government to specifically give it to Buganda.
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In 2009, unknown people claiming to be rebels issued leaflets in Kyanamukaka sub county, one of the areas making up Bukoto central asking residents to relocate from there or else be killed.
The authors of the letters accused Ssekandi of blocking Buganda's quest for the return of its properties.
