Solomon Muyita, Abubaker Kirunda and Lominda Afedraru
29 October 2008
With a few days left to the Busoga Kyabazinga elections this Friday, some Busoga personalities have openly backed candidates.
Retired Busoga Diocese Bishop Cyprian Bamwoze has gone public, calling upon the Busoga Royal Chiefs Council to elect the 19-year-old Prince Gabula William Kadhumbula Nadiope IV Kyabazinga.
"He is the least contentious, he is the least sectarian," Bishop Bamwoze said at the weekend. "When you look at others contesting for the same office, he is the best. He has managed to attract to himself people from all counties and political parties because he has no particular leanings to any single one of them."
The retired religious leader made the remarks over the weekend at a dinner that Prince Nadiope IV organised for eminent Basoga, especially those living in Kampala, at Bativa Hotel, Wandegeya.
Prince Nadiope did not attend the event in person.
Bishop Bamwoze, who hails from the same Kamuli District as Prince Nadiope said he had assumed the responsibility of being at the forefront to of mobilising support in Busoga for the university student and popularise him as next Kyabazinga. "He has a better vision for the people of Busoga. He respects fellow chiefs and can easily work together with them and promote Busoga's interests," Bishop Bamwoze said.
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court is yet to decide whether or not to temporarily block the elections. The application was filed by two chiefs whose chiefdoms are not eligible to contest for the position of the Kyabazinga.
Meanwhile, Patrick Izimba Gologolo, the chief of Kigulu County, whose candidacy the Kyabazingaship was halted by a court order due to leadership wrangles in the chiefdom is defiant.
Mr Izimba told journalists in Jinja on Saturday that the laws being used to put him out of race are not applicable to culture institutions. A deputy registrar of the Jinja High Court on October 2 issued a temporary injunction on Mr Gologolo's candidature, saying there was a possibility that he was unlawfully acting as the Ngobi of Kigulu.
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