This was the AGM for the Old Boys of 1965 after the Motor accident.
The Monument at Mt. St. Teresa Kisubi
12 students of SMACK who perished in a road accident in 1964
Architect Henry Sentoogo
Mr. Agaba former Headmaster of SMACK
In
the photo former President Obote (on the left) and Kabaka Edward Mutesa
II, whose conflict precipitated into the accident. The people who were
jubilating and in a convoy of cars were mistaken to be a politically
motivated development at a time when there was political unrest between
the Central Government and Buganda Government when Kabaka Mutesa II was
the President of Uganda.
Photos
left to right: Former President Apollo Milton Obote (RIP) being greeted
by the SMACK teachers; then the prefects and Brother Kyemwa taking him
on the tour of the Memorial Library. Speaking on the issue of
integration, Obote firmly told
his audience that the integration, which at times was called nation
building, could not be willed. “I, the President of Uganda, you as
youths of Uganda, our fathers or any other person in Uganda cannot do
just as God did in the creation of the earth. It is not within our
power as human beings to say “Let there be integration” and to hope or
expect that we shall have integration tomorrow morning. We have to work
consciously towards integration and perhaps the most encouraging
element in this conscious effort to build one Uganda is what I have
already referred to, namely, the positive response of our youth in
supporting this policy.” Obote went to
explain: “I do not think it necessary that I should discuss with you why
this trend in the affairs of Uganda should be encouraged. It is this.
Before the coming of the British, the world of our grandfathers ended
with the tribal boundaries.
It would be a disservice to our youth if they were to grow in the twentieth century or in the centuries to come, in the world of our grandfathers. To you, your vision is greater than what our grandfathers had and your area of operation must be in Uganda as a whole and not just some corner of this beautiful land. It is easy to formulate this type of policy, the policy of integration, the policy of building one Uganda, but it is another thing to define what must be done and be able to do it.
There is still tremendous prejudice in our country. There is considerable ignorance of how people in different parts of Uganda live. Here again it is just not possible to will away prejudices, but we must work consciously to remove them. We must show by example that we mean to build one Uganda. You might have heard in the past of prejudices of various types.
It would be a disservice to our youth if they were to grow in the twentieth century or in the centuries to come, in the world of our grandfathers. To you, your vision is greater than what our grandfathers had and your area of operation must be in Uganda as a whole and not just some corner of this beautiful land. It is easy to formulate this type of policy, the policy of integration, the policy of building one Uganda, but it is another thing to define what must be done and be able to do it.
There is still tremendous prejudice in our country. There is considerable ignorance of how people in different parts of Uganda live. Here again it is just not possible to will away prejudices, but we must work consciously to remove them. We must show by example that we mean to build one Uganda. You might have heard in the past of prejudices of various types.
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