By Denis Jjuuko

ON Saturday afternoon, Milbert Farah Kiggundu and Timothy Phillip Bentham were joined together as husband and wife at Kibuli Mosque. The couple later threw a lavish reception at Speke Resort Munyonyo.

What surprised everybody was the kundi show from the Obsessions dance troupe who entertained the guests. So who says Muslims condemn this kind of dressing?

The guest list included Ronald Mutebi, the Kabaka of Buganda, Princes David Wassajja and Kassim Nakibinge, Margaret Ssekagya, the Uganda Human Rights Commission boss and the Katikkiro of Buganda, Joseph Semogerere, who presented two Buganda Kingdom certificates which the groom bought at sh600,000.

Two days before the wedding, Bentham, a British banker with Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City, was initiated into the Kiganda culture at Prof Senteza Kajubiâ€™s home.

Bentham was â€˜baptisedâ€™ Mpagi and presented to Prof Masembe Kanyerezi, the deputy head of the Nsenene (grasshopper) clan, who then introduced him to Godfrey Kavuma, the deputy Katikkiro.

The Nsenene clan chant (Omubala) was chanted to its tune, as Prof Kajubi introduced his new son to the clan. This was because Mpagi had to be initiated into the Kiganda culture before his Kwanjula (introduction) ceremony and marriage to Dr Sulaiman Kiggunduâ€™s daughter Milbert Kiggundu, a banker with Bear Sterns Investment Bank in New York.

Kajubi who doubled as the master of ceremonies said he decided to become Mpagiâ€™s father because Kiggundu is one of his closest friends.

At the private function attended by 30 people, Kajubi humourously boasted about his three sets of twins and prayed that Mpagi is just as lucky.

Kajubi then presented a milk pot (ekyanzi), a symbol of Nsenene clan, to Mpagi. He explained that the Nsenene clanâ€™s role in the Kabakaâ€™s palace, was to provide milk for the Kabaka.

Mpagi was advised not to eat grasshoppers lest he gets a terrible skin rash! His responsibilities as a clan member were also spelt out and he was warned against offending the Kabaka as this could lead to the death of the whole clan.

Kajubi amused everybody at the ceremony when he said he had forgotten his wifeâ€™s name because they have been together for so long.

â€œWhen you stay with your wife for over a decade, you forget her name and start calling her â€˜honey,â€™ â€˜sweetieâ€™ or â€˜dear.â€™ He advised his new son to follow his example.

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