MUTESA'S SHORTCOMINGS WERE MULTIFACETED, SHOCKING.....BWIINO!.

Edward Mutesa's shortcomings were legion, on all fronts....personality, administrative, family etc etc.

Some time in the early 1960s, I chanced to see a letter written by some severely disgruntled insiders in the Mmengo establishment.  The letter dated back to the time of that 1953 crisis or shortly before.  Those gentlemen who wrote it had very bitter words for their Kabaka, criticising him on matters to do with his persoanlity, general propriety, lack of frugality, uncaring attitude towards his subjects, vindictiveness, etc.  

Some people in Mmengo were in fact determined to have him thrown off the throne, but ironically what saved the day for Edward Mutesa was his deportation!  Andrew Cohen liberated Mutesa!!  Believe it or not.  He gave him a boost in popularity at a time when things were not good at all in Bulange/Mmengo.  

See below extracts of the letter....excerpted for source protection/protection of the authors descendants:

 

First excerpt, he was an overspender and non-caring for his subjects:

 

Second excerpt, no wonder that he was very mean even towards his own Nabagereka.....

 

 

Third excerpt, he was reportedly very vindictive....

 

Fourth, he had no regard for his ministers, some of whom wrote this very letter.....

 

 

Fifth, he was loose-mannered especially with ladies.....

 

 

This is just a sample of some of the problems that made many including that MP of Surrey question whether he was fit to lead the people of Buganda....

Do not ask for more........

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lance Corporal (Rtd) Patrick Otto 

"THE SAME HEAT THAT MELTS THE BUTTER HARDENS THE EGG"