ABSTRACT
A er careful consideration, I have decided to approach you on a matter which has been causing me a great deal of anxiety and unrest in my mind as well as in the minds of my Chiefs. ere have been some changes of vital importance in the policy of Native Administration of the Protectorate since your departure from this country and I fear these changes are not calculated to be bene cial to the welfare of the Baganda. As a consequence of these changes, I have been compelled to draw up a careful Analysis of our principal Agreement of 1900, which is the basis of the Constitution of the Native Government of Buganda Kingdom; and I have also drawn up a Memorandum dealing fully with this Constitution; and have also set out in detail the e ect upon the Constitution of the present practices and procedure introduced and followed by the British Government which are clearly in con ict with the intention, if not the actual terms, of the principal Agreement referred to above. I feel con dent that you will agree with me that the intention of this Agreement was to leave the internal administration of the Kingdom of Buganda entirely in the hands of / its Kabaka (or “King”) under His Majesty’s protection of course. But in actual practice, the interference in the Native Administration of Buganda on the part of the Administrative
O cers of the British Government has resulted in the deprivation of my prestige and control over my Chiefs and people, and the reduction of the powers of my Chiefs over their people.
