§ 62. Mr. WALTER BAKERasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has received a memorandum from the hereditary Kabaka of Buganda on the proposed federation of East African Colonies and the probable effect on the kingdom of Buganda, in which he suggests that Buganda should be afforded the same consideration and treatment as that afforded Basutoland; and whether His Majesty's Government will re-affirm the assurances already given that the rights and liberties of the natives of Buganda shall suffer no diminution?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI have not received such a memorandum. I have, how-ever, already asked the Governor of Uganda to assure the Kabaka that, whatever changes may be made in East Africa as a result of the inquiry into the question of future policy, the supervision of the welfare of Buganda will rest with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who will, as in the past, attach the greatest importance to the Buganda Agreement as the means whereby it is possible, through the constituted native Government, to provide for the progress of the country and its people; and that, if the experience of time shows that the Agreement can usefully be varied, it will be varied only with the full consent of the Kabaka and his councillors.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODWould it not be possible for the same assurances to be given to the Tikuyu and other native tribes in Africa, that they shall have the same protection?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI hardly think that that arises on a question relating to a memorial from the Kabaka and people of Buganda.