[Ugnet] Fwd: Will the Real Omusinga Please Stand Up?

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Kasese set to welcome Mumbere

TROUBLED: Mumbere addressing supporters at Pope Paul Centre on Saturday By John Nzinjah Arrangements to welcome Charles Wesley Mumbere as the Bakonzo/Bamba cultural leader (Omusinga) are in final stages in Kasese district. However, a group of the Bakonzo and Bamba, led by National Political Commissar Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, has insisted that they are suing Mumbere and pro-Obusinga leaders if they do not abandon their plans of establishing a monarchy. The chairman of the organising committee, Yolamu Mulima, said, �We are following the law and the constitution. Those who do not want the Obusinga will stay in peace and the majority of us who like it will support it,� he said on Friday. He was part of a delegation that welcomed Mumbere at Entebbe airport on Saturday. The delegation of about 500 included 25 district councillors, clan leaders, Rwenzururu veterans, prominent elders from Bundibugyo and Kasese districts and a group of traditional dancers and Obusinga supporters. Kasese district chairm an Yokasi Bihande led the delegation. Bihande said at the World AIDS Day celebrations recently that, �We are not shaken by Kiyonga�s threats. This is a majority will. Those opposed to the Obusinga can go and hang.� Published on: Tuesday, 28th December, 2004

 

Mumbere just royal guard, says rival

By Kiganda Ssonko

Charles Wesley Mumbere is an ordinary person from a clan that produces royal guards and traditional healers, a man claiming to be the rightful king of the Bakonzo/Bamba has said.

Swalleh Tibamwenda Basikania told journalists at his residence in Old Kampala on Sunday that Mumbere was not a king.

�Mumbere is an ordinary Ugandan from Abahira clan known to be traditional healers and royal guards. Even Masanduku, his grandfather, was a healer. Among the Bakonzo and Bamba, a king must come from the Abasukali-Banyangalha clan, which is my lineage,� he said.

Mumbere returned home from the US on Saturday.

Tibamwenda asked the government to inaugurate him as the king of the Bakonzo and Bamba.

�The Bakonzo and Bamba are behind other tribes b ecause they don�t have a person to guide them on development. As a king, I will promote development programmes like other kings do for their subjects,� he said.

Tibamwenda showed journalists documents from the government in which he is mentioned as the crown prince of the Bakonzo.

�The Government and my subjects should ignore Mumbere. What I want now is a royal palace and a diplomatic passport to enable me source assistance from international friends,� he said.

He refuted the existence of the Rwenzururu kingdom, saying it was a movement set up in 1960 by Mumbere�s father, Isaya Mukirane Iremangoma Kibanzanga, to fight Batoro oppression.

New Vision: Tuesday, 28th December, 2004

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