The ‘Constitutional Committee Report’ or ‘Wild Report’ was produced after deliberations of the Ugandan Constitutional Commitee were concluded. The Committee was set up by Governor Frederick Crawford and it consulted Ugandan members of the legislative council. The Committee was met with controversy as it lacked Bugandan representation.

The Wild Report sought to balance the interests of the Ugandan kingdoms, and Buganda in particular, with Ugandan society at large which was in favour of independence from Britain.

On the future form of government in Uganda, the report stated:

“We have received a good deal of evidence on the question of the form which the Government of Uganda should take in the future; that is to say, whether there should be a unitary government or a federal government; and if a federal government, whether this should be on a provincial or district basis. A very great majority of people in the Eastern, Northern and Western Provinces–according to the evidence which we have received–favour the unitary system of government for Uganda. The relationship of Buganda with the Central Government and the British Government, which appears to many to be a deferal relationship and unlikely to be altered in the near future, has caused a number of people in the Eastern, Northern and Western Provinces to think in terms of a federal system of government for the whole of Uganda as the most expedient, though not the most desirable, solution. These thoughts have found expression in at least two areas, namely, Toro and Acholi. In the production of fairly detailed sets of proposals for the organisation of a federal state of Uganda. Examination of these detailed proposals exposes the difficulties of introducing any such system and it needs to be emphasized that there is very far from general support for the ideas which have been mooted, whether for a federal government on a provincial basis, or a federal government on a district basis. People are reluctant to abandon the idea of a unitary government, seeing in that the ideal solution.”

Source: Report of the Constitutional Committee 1959, (Uganda Protectorate: Entebbe, 1959), p. 42