The Hindu : dated December 2, 1953: U.K. De-recognises King of Buganda

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dated December 2, 1953: U.K. De-recognises King of Buganda

On the 30th of November, the British Government withdrew recognition and ordered exile of the 29-year old King Kabaka Mutsea the Second of Buganda, the central province of Uganda. The British Governor of Uganda, Sir Andrew Cohen, said that the King had not co-operated loyally with the British Government on matters of major importance. Demands for self-government for Buganda were made, Britain said, in violation of a treaty signed by the King of Buganda as far back as in 1900. Reports reaching Kampala, capital of Uganda, said that Nainya Salwango, eldest sister of the deposed King, died suddenly of shock on hearing the news of the British action. She had been an important figure in the traditional hierarchy of Buganda, which seemed headed for a serious crisis following the action by Whitehall. In the British House of Commons, Colonial Secretary Sir Oliver Lyttelton said that the demand for a separate State of independent Buganda threatened the welfare of the people. If the King was allowed to stay on in Buganda, there was grave danger of bloodshed. The Secretary in his speech had to contend with continued jeers from the Labour Opposition, whose members demanded that Sir Oliver resign his post. Mr. James Griffith, Colonial Secretary in the former Labour Government, said that the de-recognition and exile came as shocking news about a colony which had made much progress.

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