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GEN. KATUMBA WAMALA IN HOT SOUP: PARLIAMENT WANT HIM QUIZZED OVER HIRED GOV’T PROPERTY TO NRM BOSS NAMAYANJA’S HUBBY FOR CAMPAIGNS

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 Whistle blower wants to petition IGG to intervene over abuse of office

NEWS EDITOR

JUST a few days since President Museveni warned parasites and corrupt officials in his government vowing to send them to hell, his Works and Transport Minister Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala is in trouble over government property hired to Charles Nsereko Kavuma, the NRM Nakaseke South aspiring member of Parliament to use them for his early campaigns.

INFLUENCED? NRM Treasurer Rose Namayanja Nsereko

Some of the graders and tractors hired to Nsereko Kawuma have No. Plates UG 2148 W and UG 1721W
A Whistle blower wants the intervention of Inspector General of Government  (IGG) to investigate and ascertain under which circumstance did the Ministry hire out tractors and graders used in road construction to Nsereko who already declared his intentions to run for Member of Parliament Nakaseke South Constituency during NRM Party primaries.

Namayanja hubby in early campaigns

Nsereko is husband to ruling NRM treasurer Rose Namayanja Nsereko and there are allegations that she had an influence in this.
We are reliably informed that Parliament has also picked interest in this and want Gen. Katumba to be quizzed on what Members of Parliament  refer to as abuse of office. 

WANTED TO EXPLAIN: Works and Transport Minister Katumba Wamala

Nsereko proudly informed media that, “I thank the Works and Transport ministry who gave me these tractors. We pay allowances to Ministry drivers and other operators, look after them for the period they spend here and also fix their mechanical problems. The Ministry remains with only one responsibility, to come over and see the work done.”

Charles Nsereko Kawuma with hired government tractors and graders

The roads worked upon include; Kalagala – Kansiri, Namirembe, Bugala, Segalye – Kasana, Kololo in Kapeeka, Kirema – Kabere, Kasiga – Kyererezi, Namirembe – Bukakata, etc.
Members of Parliament however say, “These roads were passed by parliament but these people used an opportunity to buy their schedule from ministry of works. They are using them to campeign. This is unacceptable, it is abuse of office. The Works and Roads minister Gen. Katumba must explain.”

EVIDENCE: One of the graders hired to Namayanja Nsereko’s husband

MPs want to know, how roads which were passed and meant to be worked upon by the government are now given to aspiring politicians to take them over saying, something fishy worth investigations must have taken place.
Whistle blower says, it is unacceptable for a ministry to hire out government property to politicians and give them permission to repair them if they get mechanical problems.
“What if they repair them with substandard spare parts? Did Minister Katumba himself sanction this? This is what we expect IGG to investigate about.” Says the whistle blower.

IN NAKASEKE: Ministry of Works and Transport tractors

Asked what his take is, when his would be competitor Kawuma Nsereko is now using government property to campaign,  incumbent MP for Nakaseke South Hon. Paul Ssemakula Luttamaguzi said, he doesn’t have time for such, “Namayanja is plotting for her lover but voters are not fools.” 
“These roads are supposed to be worked upon by government because our people pay taxes. As Parliament, we passed and allocated money for those roads. How come it is Namayanja’s husband working on them? Who is he in the Ministry of Works and Transport? Let her withdraw tax payers’ money and use it to fund her lover’s campaigns, voters will teach her a lesson.” Said  Hon. Luttamaguzi.

MP Hon. Luttamaguzi swearing in at Parliament four years ago

In an interview with The News Editor Media recently, Hon. Luttamaguzi said, Namayanja is a day dreamer,  Nakaseke South people can’t substitute their danger man with her weak husband.
He said, “Personally i dont have time to fight her. She was Nakaseke MP for three terms,  once a minister and now NRM treasurer. Go and ask her, what did she do for Nakaseke? How did our people benefit from her?”
“Namayanja has now brought her husband to stand against me in the forth coming elections.How has her foundation benefited Nakaseke. Even the road going to her husband’s home, it is me who lobbied government to work on it.” Hon. Luttamaguzi told us in an exclusive interview.
Last year, MP Luttamaguzi ambushed Hon. Namayanja’s function in Nakaseke and hundreds of his supportes disorganized it. 
Luttamaguzi said, “I don’t fear NRM. I floored them in 2016, they can’t manage me. Namayanja organized a function at Kaddunda to launch her husband’s campaigns but when I ambushed her, she fell short of words. They thought I would not attend.”
“They hired about 10 bodabodas to accompany him, but me i came with a forest of bodabodas. The function came to a standstill and groups of both male and female youth accompanied their MP. I received a wonderful welcome and Namayanja almost took off.” Said Luttamaguzi adding that, “Namayanja  wanted her husband to contest unopposed in NRM. They must be targetting billions of Museveni money. Go and tell them, they are day dreamers. They will be humiliated.”
Luttamaguzi’s 2016 win in Nakaseke South, shocked many. He is the only DP MP voted during a general election in Luweero Triangle.

Read also: https://www.newseditor.co.ug/2020/02/04/hon-luttamaguzi-how-i-was-conned-of-my-first-salary-by-a-fellow-mp/
A very hardworking and Pro people MP, Luttamaguzi has continued to consolidate his support. 
One of the most vocal legislators among the new MPs, Luttamaguzi is a voice of the voiceless in Nakaseke, always on frontline to fight land grabbers.  
Luttamaguzi has continously supported youth, women, church projects, farmers and religious affliations.
Analysts say, his 2021 win is guaranteed. He commands support not only from opposition but even in the ruling NRM.
He is a very active and generous legislator. 
The award winner for the most active MP in the 10th Parliament, all signs show, will bounce back in 2021. 

DID GEN. KASIRYE GGWANGA DIE 5 DAYS AGO? WHY ANNOUNCED DEAD ON HEROES DAY? THE SHOCKING UNTOLD STORY!

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Gen. Ggwanga and Bobi Wine have been very close

NEWS EDITOR

Rtd. MAJ. Gen. Samuel Wasswa Kasirye Ggwanga Gawalegabi has been finally announced dead on Heroes’ day, a few hours to Commander of armed forces President Museveni’s National address.

The announcement comes after speculations of his death, five days ago!

On Thursday last week, we were tipped about the sad news of the demise of this mighty war Gen!

“We have information that Gen. Kasirye Gwanga is dead. Verify that information.” Said a source very close to State powers.

When we consulted his personal friend Dustan Steven Busuulwa a reknown  journalist told us, “I am not so sure, but in the afternoon, he was in a very critical situation at Nakasero Hospital.”

Since then, there has been total silence over Kasirye Gwanga’s health.

Born 68 years ago, Gen. Kasirye Gwanga shocked the Nation when on March 16th 2020 announced how he was the brain preparing People Power’s danger man Hon. Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, a Ugandan Pop star, training him to become the next Ugandan President.

He however advised Bobi Wine to stand for President in 2026 not 2021.

Since that day,  his life has not been the same until his death.

What has killed Gen. Gwanga? We are working on the full exclusive story.

A TRIBUTE TO MY DEAR FRIEND FRANCIS MUTAZINDWA: COUNSEL DENIS NYOMBI ON THE DEATH OF FORMER RED PEPPER BOSS

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GONE: Media Chief Francis Mutazindwa! Will be buried in Fortportal on Tuesday

OBITUARY

UNLIKE most advocates who started step one of their legal careers in law firms, I started my legal career as a legal editor in one media house.

I met a team of young men and women who were gifted, hard working and so passionate with their work. They had a common factor- very easy with life. Arguebly, you would think they are born of the same mum and Dad.

It’s that ease with which they did their day to day seemingly easy but rather hard assignments that propelled their drive to good results and on the other hand, that breed their excitement in publications leading to dramatic legal battles.

In search for an index that would give me a clear understanding of a journalist’s life, and how journalists get to be,I met a humble, soft spoken, tall slender gentleman.
His voice varied with the weight of the point he was bringing across. His tena was deep most times.

Counsel Denis Nyombi

He often drove in, early. Doned on his sky blue jeans and a stripped shirt. With a green coat that he carefully placed behind his driver’s seat, as soon as he parked in his usual slot, in his signature Toyota land cruisers that would only vary in number plates from UAM to UAK, With black being his specific color choice, Mutazindwa Francis entered the news room and strolled slowly to his big table where we both shared a cubicle.

Our bond started to build slowly. He talked to me as his son and like a father he was so much concerned about my health and life. We shared so much about life and his life stories have shaped my life. A case in point one night about 9pm, while waiting for what was called the lead story, l played some old Kenyan song “Kasongo” off my laptop. He told me he loved that song so much that it reminded him of his uncle who was in love with a certain gal and whenever she was coming to visit him, the uncle always danced to that song.

I have been left now with that song’s memory. It will always remind me of Mutaz, wherever I listen to it.
Wherever we were through with work, he drove me upto my place of residence. Upon reaching home, he would send me a text. Confirming how he has reached well.
He took me through key features of journalism. But atmost, through the aspects of life as a young man.
He shared with me his stories as a young man who had just left University.

We laughed , we debated , we shared tea, chapatis, bread, food etc and all sorts of stories. Wherever I got a small outside deal, we shared the fruits and he often told me, ” Kati ogenda kukimansila?” meaning, have we got something to eat?
Even when he stepped out of the media house we kept in touch. We were so close that when his wife- Molly passed on, He instructed to align the estate.

At my graduation party, Francis appeared and gave me words of love, courage and inspiration.
Just this May, Francis was silent. I sent him a text, asking about him. He told me he was in hospital. I had planned to drive to Mbarara to see him. Only to see social media stories of “RIP.”

Mutazindwa Francis, a man in whose symbolic shadow, i know many young journalists walk. A friend whose shoulder was big enough to hold all of us. A father whose passion to his two children Isaac and Isabella whom I have talked to this morning, was un measured, has walked his walk, and played his part.
Rest In Peace my Friend in you I met a father figure.

Denis Nyombi is a lawyer working with Denis Nyombi & Co. Advocates (+256 754 592 447)

THE DEITY (ABALONGO) ARE SECURE: MENGO SPEAKS OUT ON KASUBI ROYAL TOMBS NEW FIRE

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VERY SAFE: Muzibu-Azaala-Mpanga, the main Mausoleum at Kasubi Royal Tombs

NEWS EDITOR

THE Kingdom of Buganda has today evenning cleared the air on the fire that gutted one of the three deity houses (Ennyumba z’Abalongo) at the Kasubi Royal Tombs saying, no need worry, all is well. 

Owek Noah Kiyimba, Minister of Information and Protocol who doubles as  Kingdom Spokesman has said, this particular house is hundreds of metres away from Muzibu-Azaala-Mpanga, the main mausoleum at Kasubi Royal Tombs that is being reconstructed following the March 2010 fire.

“Fortunately, a team of workers and residents at the Kasubi Royal Tombs using the fire extinguishers within Kasubi managed to put out the fire with assistance from the Uganda Police Fire Brigade who arrived within a short period of time after the fire broke out.” Said Kingdom Spokesman revealing that,  “The deity (Abalongo) were protected during this period and none was destroyed during this fire outbreak.”

The media were today allowed to access part of the Kasubi Royal Tombs to ascertain the extent of the fire and accordingly inform the people of Buganda.

Also Read: https://www.newseditor.co.ug/2020/06/05/breaking-fire-at-kasubi-tombs-again-muzibuazaalampanga-is-very-safe/

Owek. Kiyimba has said, “The Kingdom of Buganda would like to thank the workers and residents at Kasubi Royal Tombs and the Uganda Police Fire Brigade for their steadfastness in putting out this fire.”

Police has embarked on investigations to establish the cause of the fire outbreak and we’ll communicate as soon as we have a report from them. 

BREAKING: FIRE AT KASUBI TOMBS AGAIN, MUZIBUAZAALAMPANGA IS VERY SAFE!

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NEWS EDITOR

IT’S SAD! News reaching us from Buganda Kingdom, one of the small houses in Kasubi Tombs has caught fire but the main Muzibuazaalampanga which has reached a stage of completion is very safe.

In a released police statement, Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesman Patrick Onyange has said, “There was a minor fire out break at Kasubi tombs in one of the huts, which was quickly extinguished by our officers from the Directorate of Fire and Rescue Services.”

“The fire broke out at around 1300hours in one of the structures that were meters away from the main tomb. Police were informed and four fire tenders were dispatched to professionally handle the incident.” Said Onyango, adding that,
“The fire crew reached and extinguished the fire.
The cause of the fire outbreak is not yet established.
Investigations has commenced on what caused the fire outbreak.”
“The extent of the damage is yet to be computed.
We appeal to members of the public to be calm as we investigate the incident.” Says SP Patrick Onyango.

Kasubi Tombs were set ablaze in March 2010 and are now under construction and expected to be completed soon.

We have been however reliably informed, Muzibuazaalampanga is very safe!

Our teams have been deployed at the scene! We are following up the story

COVID 19! PANIC AS UGANDAN PRIME MINISTER DR. RUGUNDA IS SENT INTO ISOLATION AFTER HIS TEAM TESTED POSITIVE, MINISTERS IN TROUBLE

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BY MEDDIE KITYO
NEWS EDITOR

Rt. Hon. DR. LIVINGSTONE Ruhakana Ruganda, the  Prime minister of Uganda who has been very influential in the war against deadly Covid 19 has been sent into self isolation after his close contacts tested positive!
God is great, the first results after testing show, he is negative.
However, this has caused much panic among top shots especially in state House, cabinet and office of the Prime Minister who have been working very closely with Dr. Rugunda. 
There is now a lot of tension and many are likely to be sent into quarantine.
We are even told, journalists covering ministry of Health are all asked to go for compulsory Covid 19 testing.
According to his tweet today, Ndugu Rugunda says,  the decision to go into isolation has been taken as a health measure.
Rugunda, a professional doctor has written, “Friends, I have gone into self isolation  after some of my contacts tested positive for Covid 19. My own test result is negative, however, I have taken this decision to support a health recommended measure.”
By press time, no official statement from Government has been given in reference to Prime mimister’s incident.

Watch the space

NO WAY: SUPREME COURT HALTS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ORDERS TO EVICT 6 MPS FROM PARLIAMENT

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NEWS EDITOR

THE Ultimate court of the land has today allowed stay of execution of constitutional court orders annulling the election of six members of the 10th Parliament representing the newly created municipalities and giving them orders to vacate parliament.

Supreme Court has now ruled, these MPS  should not go out.

The legislators had been ejected from the August House by last year’s constitutional court decision for contesting in non-existing constuiences. 

The affected MPs were; Mr Patrick Ochan (Apac, UPC party), Dr Elioda Tumwesigye (Sheema, NRM party), Mr Tarsis Rwaburindore (Ibanda, NRM party), Mr Hashim Sulaiman (Nebbi, NRM party), Mr Asuman Basalirwa (Bugiri, Jeema party) and Mr Abraham Lokii (Kotido, NRM party).

The Justices of the court in their unanimous decision, held that the elections in the aforementioned constituents/ municipalities, were conducted neither in general elections nor as a way of by-elections which are the only recognised ways of electing MPs into Parliament.

In a majority ruling of 6-1 today, Judges Stellah Arach Amoko, Rubby Opio Aweri, Lillian Tibatemwa, Paul Mugamba, Richard Buteera and Mike Chibita ruled that there are serious Constiutional and legal matters presented, that the Supreme court may address in an appeal filed by the Attorney General and the Electoral commission before the MPs are kicked out of the house.

In its ruling last year, the Constitutional court ordered that MPs in municipalites that were created after the 2016 General elections leave the House saying that they were unlawfully elected to Parliament before the dissolution of the current parliament.

The court further faulted the EC for organising elections in areas where there were no vacancies.

MIRACLE OR WIFE CHEATED? SCIENTISTS CONTINUE TO SCRATCH HEADS OVER A NIGERIAN COUPLE WHO GAVE BIRTH TO A WHITE BLONDE BABY

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People Speak out, Doubt DNA Tests

NEWS EDITOR

AMAZING things will never cease to happen in the world! Sometime back, a Nigerian married Black couple of Ben and Angela Ihegboro gave birth to a bouncing White, blue-eyed blonde baby, leaving the world with un answered questions and up to now, Genetic experts are still scratching heads over the incident. 
The couple lives in Woolwich, South London and by the time they got a White Blonde baby Nmanchi, they had other children: Chisom and sister, Dumebi.
Nmachi, whose name means ‘Beauty of God’ in Nigerian parlance, was born at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, where doctors there told them she is not an albino.
According to a report in the Sun of London, Ben, a railway customer services adviser, said: he and his wife just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages – not saying anything.
When husband got to the hospital, he was upset by what he saw, thinking that his wife had cheated on him, this can not be his baby.
Ben, who went to Britain with Angela years ago and works with South Eastern trains said, “She doesn’t look like an albino child anyway – not like the ones I have seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy White baby.”
He wanted answers from the mother of his children on what went wrong.
The doctors intervened, explaining to him that it was indeed possible for two black parents to give birth to a white child but it was 1 in a million chance!
He rejected this school of thought until the DNA test was carried out and confirmed. 
Ben was was the real biological father of the white baby. 
There’s surely more to Ben and Angella’s miracle than meets the eye!
What would you do if you were Ben?

PEOPLE SPEAK OUT: 
Noor Nalwadda: Its very possible if you understood very well Genetics.
Edrine Bulime: Nalwadda, which Genetics did u understand? Get a pen and all your books, put on your school uniform, you need to go back to school for 16 years then u will comment about science.
Puma Ankie Blair: The lady knows the truth at her heart with or without the DNA test. So Ben should think twice genetically.
Kiiza Frederick Crawford: If Pawpaw and Sheep tested positive for Covid 19 in Tanzania how about DNA which involves breaking a marriage, more especially after seeing the man’s reaction?
Ajulo Joshua: My dear Ben, do several DNA tests from elsewhere. She lured u to her family doctor who she could have bribed.
Wesley Nants: Let it be me lord, next one in line.
Peter Nsamba: I would only sue the one responsible fo the DNA test results period.
Harold Kawili: He was cheated but the doctor was smart enough to cool down the situation.
Julius Abaaho: Stop fooling, understanding  people can’t take such lies. The baby is Albino but not White. So let’s not get taken down. If not then the lady cheated period.
Muzoora Simpson: Julius Abaaho, did u study Genetics before u write that? Albinos don’t have blonde hair I think you should understand that too.
David Kiwumulo: Muzoora Simpson I guess you are right but I can only believe after a series of DNA tests,  otherwise i smell cheating.
Julius Abaaho: Muzoora Simpson in your so called study how impossible is it for a baby to have blonde hair if it’s possible to have a none black colour. Anyway we cant be fooled. Because if you’re asked to bring evidence if there is any black couples ever produced a white kid am not sure if you can produce that evidence, you guys stop fooling people (Africans) that much . Who determines that DNA?
Muzoora Simpson: Julius Abaaho you need to go back to Genetics class and enhance your understanding. Albinos lack the cells responsible for melanin pigment that is responsible for skin colour. But its clear that kid is total white with blonde hair and its possible for black couples to have such a baby but it’s a rare case and its about 1 kid out of 10,000 kids who can be of the same traits.
James Ukwir: I have done some Genetics but this one goes against all Mendelian laws. The woman must explain very well!
Robert Kelly: I may accept the baby but I can not believe those DNA results.
Isadat Kassim: The doctors in that hospital didn’t want chaos to erupt otherwise the White kid is not for that man.
Wizzy Brian Khalifan: Two sperms from two different people can be combined if sex was done on the same day.  So she cheated.   And the child can have both men DNA’s.
Twinomujuni Dickson: Doctor saw Ben’ s reaction but he cooled Ben as a counsellor but this is real cheating I can’t believe.
Bienvemu Bienvenu Ndivyariye: Its impossible unless the kid is an albino. But muzungu i say NO.
Marc Yao: That means White people actually came from us then. Why are they offended when I tell them, ‘I’m your Daddy’?
Alexander Komakech: Black is the mother colour, check your colour formation mode scientific theories.
Waisinde Kalulu Samuel: It means that DNA results are nolonger dependable.
Ayaa Grace: It happens, could be pigmentation disorder or diet.
Atuheire Joseph: Now, the baby is from which country of whites?

RIP DAN KAMANYI: UNSUNG HERO WHO SET UP AN AMBUSH TO KILL PRESIDENT MILTON OBOTE OVER MENGO PALACE RAID IN 1966 DIES

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NEWS EDITOR

TODAY Tuesday, Buganda Kingdom received sad news about the demise of Dan Kamanyi, a civilian who bravely set up and commanded an ambush near Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi to kill then Ugandan President Dr. Apollo Milton Obote making him pay for attacking Mengo Palace.
In this raid code named ‘1966 Buganda Crisis’ which was led by then army commander Idi Amin Dada, Buganda King His Majesty Sir Edward Fredrick William David Walugembe Muteesa II was exiled and later in November 21st 1969 died in the United Kingdom (UK).
Un happy Baganda led by fearless Dan Kamanyi who was in his early 20s plotted to kill Obote as a price for his heartless actions against the Buganda Kingdom. 
“Together with other Kabaka’s subjects like Captain Mugalula, John Obo, Katabarwa, Dan Kiwanuka and Henry Kyeyune, we hatched a plot to kill Obote who had raided Mengo Palace, bombed it and exiled our King. We got powerful guns and set up an ambush at Silver Springs Hotel Bugoloobi to finish his life.” Narrated, now late Dan Kamanyi during an interview with NTV’s journalist Frank Walusimbi.
“Unfortunately,” Kamanyi said, “Obote was not in the Presidential convoy, it was his Vice President John Babiiha who received the bullets, thank God he escaped with wounds.”
The convoy was driving from Luzira where according to Kamanyi’s  intelligence, the head of State officiated at a function where he passed out prison warders and it ended very late at night in 1967, just a year after the Palace attack.
“After shooting at the ‘Presidential’ motorcade, we thought our mission was  successful. We quickly packed our guns in the waiting car, jumped into the car and headed to Namugongo at my father’s farm where guns were dropped before dispersing. Only to receive bad news later that it was Babiiha who was shot but he did not die.” Unapologetic Kamanyi, son to Ephraim Kamanyi former Buganda Kingdom minister, told NTV last year.

KAMANYI: WHY I WANTED TO REVENGE THE DAY OBOTE SOLDIERS ATTACKED MENGO PALACE
It’s now 54  years since then President Milton Obote on May 24th 1966 ordered the attack of Kabaka Muteesa’s Mengo Palace to bomb it down and kill the King.
God is great, Muteesa’s life was saved and he escaped from the jaws of blood thirsty Obote men. 
Giving an account of what happened and how the youthful Kamanyi wanted to revenge against Obote’s men, he was at his Parents’ home in Lungujja, just a few meters from Mengo.
“I was working in a coffee company owned by a Whiteman. By the time Uganda got Independence in 1962 I was in United Kingdom where I had gone on official duties. I returned a few years later.” Kamanyi said in an interview.
On the fateful day Mengo Palace was attacked, Kamanyi was at his parents’ home sleeping.
His father was away in the United States of America.
“It was my mother who woke me up to hear gun shots at Mengo. She told me, Kabaka Muteesa’s Palace was under attack. Because of the inherent love I had for my Kabaka, I decided to go and revenge to save my King.” Narrated Kamanyi.
He picked one of his father’s guns they used for hunting, put it in his small car and drove passed Lubiri SS to Lubaga Cathedral where he got a place to hide his car. He picked his gun, slopped down via Kabaka’s lake in Ndeeba to take on notorious Idi Amin men who were armed to the teeth. 
Kamanyi recalled an old man, a family friend who saw him carrying a gun and stopped him to inquire where he was going.
He told him, “My son, you can’t manage a forest of soldiers who have sorrounded the Palace.  Look at your age, see the gun you are carrying! You alone can’t manage. Please give me that gun.”
Kamanyi complied and handed over the gun. 
Now he was unarmed but still felt like he should do something to save Kabaka Muteesa. At that moment, Kampala was hit by a heavy downpour.
“I went where I had parked my car, entered it and started patrolling around Mengo and Lubaga. This is when I was stopped by men I knew very well and they asked me whether I can get another car.  I said yes. These men knew the whereabouts of Muteesa. Infact it was Cardinal Nsubuga who was hiding him.  I quickly got another car.” Kamanyi recalled.
Early the next day on May 25th 1966, he was sent with some of Muteesa’s body guards to get him some medicine since he was feeling  backache.
For starters, Muteesa, who was a trained soldier, had to jump over his tall Palace fence to escape. So he sustained some injuries.
“There was a pharmacy near City House in Kampala, where we got medicine for Muteesa. We also bought new clothes.” Kamanyi said in an interview given last year.
Some of the body guards were given transport facilitation to go to their villages.
“Muteesa entered into my car and I drove him to Butambaala from where he was received by his men. That is where I left him and drove back to Kampala to plot how to carry out a full blast revenge against Obote.” Said Kamanyi.
By then protests were everywhere in Buganda like in Kayunga where the police station was attacked. 
Kamanyi liased with some Kabaka loyalists who included Capt. Mugalula and others.

LUZIRA AMBUSH
Kamanyi, Mugalula and their colleagues started monitoring President Obote movements to ascertain when it would be  easier for them to execute their mission.
“This is how we got to know about a function in Luzira to be graced by the President. We identified Silver Springs Hotel Bugoloobi, as the best spot to end Obote’s life. We were all armed, ready for the mission. When we heard that our target would leave the function at night, we saw it as an opportunity to kill him without any one easily identifying us.” Kamanyi said.
Obote was not in the car, they instead shot at his vice president.

HOW OBOTE SURVIVED 
As if his gods were with him, Obote’s Principal Secretary directed the police lead car to switch off its warning lights so that the President’s convoy did not attract attention.
Obote left the venue almost an hour before the vice president John Babiiha. When president reached Entebbe, he was told that the vice president had been attacked around Silver Springs Hotel on his way from Luzira. If Obote’s lead car had not switched off its warning lights, he wouldn’t have survived. . 

KAMAYI ARRESTED
His father’s Lungujja home was raided by security operatives and on searching, guns were found at their home. 
Both Kamanyi and his father were arrested. 
“A Whiteman Gremlin who was a Police ballistics expert said, one of the guns I had was once at Luzira. I was imprisoned for six years for being found in possession of firearms.” Said Kamanyi. However, police had not discovered that the same gun was used to shoot at the presidential motorcade.
Investigations continued until they arrested Capt. Mugalula.
When Kamanyi was arrested, the rest fled the country. 
“Since I was not ready to reveal anyone involved, the operatives arrested my former girlfriend Lillian to tell them which people I dealt with. When they learnt that they had fled to Nairobi, she was taken to Nairobi to help identify them. She was taken by a female police woman, Martha.” Said Kamanyi.  
When they left Kampala, word reached guys in Nairobi that Lillian was under arrest and on her way to identify them.
The boys in Nairobi waylaid Lillian and Martha, kidnapped, and were eliminated. Their bodies were put in gunny bags and dropped in Arthi River. A Masai herdsman who had taken his cattle to drink water saw the bags and alerted police.
The other team which followed had reported its missing partners to the Kenyan police. When two female bodies were recovered they were called to identify them. 
This opened another lid in the hunt as the Kenyan government had not been alerted about Uganda’s police being in their territory. 
The Kenyan authorities started looking for five guys, but only three – Obo, Kiwanuka and Kyeyune – were the killers. They were pinned down at Stanley Hotel. At the hotel the boys also had paid off the people at the front desk to tip them off in case police came to the hotel. They were tipped off as police made its way to third floor where they were staying and jumped through the windows and ran away.
The group separated. That’s when police started picking them one after the other, and all the three who participated in the kidnap were hanged in Kenya.
Kamanyi said,  “The events in Nairobi were relayed to me by Senkoma while in Luzira. He had been one of Mutesa’s body guards who had run to Nairobi and was in contact with them before their death. He was arrested suspected to be part of the group but later released and got arrested when he came back.”
Back to Luzira,  Kamanyi and Mugalula found there inmates like Katabalwa, Ibingira, Opolot and others.
Mugalula and Kamanyi’s father were released. However Kamaanyi was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

AMIN 1971 COUP
Kamanyi and other inmates at Upper Prison celebrated on hearing that Obote’s government had fallen in a coup by his army commander Idi Amin Dada.
One evenning, while he was inside his cell, he heard prison officers knocking and out calling out his name. On getting out,  I was given my clothes. Commissioner Kigonya and the Prison Officer In Charge were all around. I kept wondering  what was going on, until Kigonya whispered to me that the President had sent for me.” Said Kamanyi.
That is the day, when Muteesa’s remains were returned from the UK.
Kamanyi was driven to Makindye presidential lodge like a VIP where they met high profile people who came to attend Muteesa’s burial.
Amin ordered his men to take Kamanyi to officers’ mess, Kampala Club in Nakasero.
It’s from here that Amin told Kamaanyi how he had been pardoned.
During Duwa prayers at Kibuli on the day Mutesa’s remains were returned, the Banganda royals thanked Amin for the gesture and sheiks who included Kulumba asked him to relese their son Kamanyi. 
At Officers’ Mess, Amin ordered Kamanyi to be taken to Bamunaanika Palace where Muteesa’s remains were taken for viewing.
Guarded by armed soldiers, Kamanyi was driven in a very big convoy to Bamunaanika and on reaching at the Palace, his way was  cleared to reach where Muteesa remains were.
“My mother who was around thought, I had been  brought to view Muteesa remains and be taken back to Luzira. It is commissioner Kigonya who informed her that i had received a presidential pardon. It was joy all over.” Recalled Kamanyi.

OBOTE II RE-ARRESTS KANYI
In 1979 when Amin was toppled by combined forces led by Tanzanian army and Obote reclaimed Presidency,  Kamaanyi was re arrested but luckily for him when Lutwa took over, he was released.

KABAKA HOST KAMANYI

Not so long, Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II hosted Dan Kamanyi and thanked him for serving the Kingdom deligently and all he did for his father Sir Edward Muteesa II

NALUBAALE MEDAL 
When cultural institutions were reinstalled and Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II enthroned, Kamanyi was given a Nalubaale medal saluting him for his bravery and fighting to save King Muteesa. 

FROM SELLING SUGAR & WHEAT IN KIKUUBO TO BUGANDA’S KATIKKIRO: HOW ADVOCATE BUWULE IDENTIFIED MAYIGA

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ADVOCATE Francis K. Buwule of Buwule & Mayiga Co. Advocates has written a book on Buganda Kingdom Premier Charles Peter Mayiga’s rise to the Katikkiroship, the most powerful office at the Kingdom’s Headquarters in Bulange – Mengo showing he was identified from Kikuubo to serve Kabaka. 
The book is titled, “MAYIGA: A Transformational Katikkiro.”
At a function held to launch it,  Advocate Buwule said the book chronicles their relationship with Katikkiro Mayiga, the issues that tested their friendship, the businesses they do together, and what he thinks of Mayiga as Katikkiro. 
“It is a jaw dropping book”, writes Denis Jjuuko from the office of the Katikkiro. 
Buwule tells a story about Owek. Mayiga, new to ears of many.
DP President General Norbert Mao has said, “No one is better qualified than Francis Buwule to write about Charles Peter Mayiga. This Katikkiro is the quintessential Mr. Straight Talk.”

Counsel Francis Buwule

“The Katikkiro still has a strong bond and relationship with his fellow learned Counsel Buwule for decades! This is a vivid example of his Obuyiiya, Obunyiikivu n’Obweerufu! I pity the idlers who have no work and no business Partners attacking our BEST Katikkiro.” Emanuel Pius Ssentongo has tweeted.

MAYIGA & BUWULE
Francis Buwule met Charles Peter Mayiga at Makerere University Law school and they became friends. 
After graduating at Law Development Centre (LDC), Buwule worked at Katende &  Ssempebwa Co. Advocates, one of leading law firms in Uganda. 
For Mayiga, he got a job at the Ministry of Justice as a State Attorney, but did not last long and he left to start a business in Kikuubo, Kampala selling wheat and sugar. In Kikuubo, he met businessmen like John Fred Kiyimba Freeman, Wilson Mukiibi Muzzanganda, Guster Lule and others, almost same names on Buganda Twezimbe Committee led by Omuk. Fred Kiyimba.
Buwule was unhappy with Mayiga’s decision to go to Kikuubo. Unlike today, Kikuubo was mainly for informal traders majority of whom hadn’t got the kind of qualifications Mayiga and Freeman Kiyimba had. 
Buwule considered Mayiga too bright and sophisticated to sell wheat and sugar.

MAYIGA IDENTIFIED
At Katende & Ssempebwa Co. Advocates, one of the founders, Owek. John W. Katende tasked Buwule to identify a young smart lawyer to work as Administrative Secretary to then Ssaabataka Supreme Council (SSC), the precursor to the restored Buganda Lukiiko. Buwule submitted a list with only one name — Charles Peter Mayiga.
John W. Katende invited Mayiga for a meeting. Rev Dan. Kajumba was on the panel. Mayiga accepted the interview mainly as way of stopping Buwule from nagging him. 
At the interview, Mayiga impressed his interviewers. With his Kikuubo business, he said money wasn’t a motivation but he felt he needed to right the wrongs of Obote. Mayiga had grown up in a home where the 1966 crisis was a always a topic of discussion on the dinner table. 
Unknown to Mayiga, by accepting to be the first employee to work in the soon to be reinstated Kingdom, he had signed a lifetime contract to serve Buganda. 
Just before he was appointed Katikkiro in May 2013, Mayiga had told Buwule that he wanted to quit and fully concentrate on his businesses. 

BUWULE & MAYIGA CO. ADVOCATES 
In 1993, Mayiga called Buwule and over a drink, Mayiga asked his friend when they will start a law firm. They identified three other friends including Owek Apollo Nelson Makubuya to be partners. 
The three friends pulled out leaving Buwule and Mayiga to go on their own. This delayed the start of Buwule & Mayiga Company Advocates by a few months. 

In 1994, Buwule left Katende & Ssempebwa Co. Advocates and with Mayiga, they started their law firm. 

Mayiga often jokes to ‘his brother’ Buwule that hadn’t it been him, he would be owning many malls in Kampala. Buwule usually responds that because of him, Mayiga superintends over the biggest mall in Uganda — Buganda Kingdom.

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