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MENGO - Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga has said that putting down the mantle of the Kingdom’s second-highest office depends on the pleasure of his Boss the Kabaka.

Mayiga says he hopes the right time will come for retirement as he has served his King and the Kingdom since 1991, adding he still loves what he is doing-overseeing the Kingdom’s move to the summit of social and economic transformation.

The Katikkiro was replying to the question posed by Charity Mbabazi Byarugaba, the Founder of the Pillars in the Palace during its Pillars Book Club night dubbed Meet the Author at Rozaho Bistro and Restaurant in Kololo, Kampala on Tuesday, November 2, 2022.

Charity Mbabazi asked Mayiga to discuss his retirement detailing when he hopes to hang up the Katikkiroship duties and advise people how to stay on course. (Credit: Dickson Kulumba)

Charity Mbabazi asked Mayiga to discuss his retirement detailing when he hopes to hang up the Katikkiroship duties and advise people how to stay on course.

“My colleagues and I draw a strategic plan every five years and we follow what has been drawn in the strategic plan of the Kingdom every five. I follow what is in the strategic plan, I don’t think there is a need of slowing down because I follow the plan,” said Mayiga.

Mayiga applauded the pillar members for starting the club and emphasised the importance of reading books to human beings’ prosperity. (All Photos by Dickson Kulumba)

He added, “We had the first strategic plan, now ending the second strategic one and we’re drawing a strategic plan 2023-2028. I don’t have to complete everything in the new strategic plan. I guess it will depend on my Boss.”

Pillars in the Palace is a christ centred home of personal and corporate Brands with over 200 members.

For the last two years, the club with around 85 members embarked on an annual target of reading at least 10 books each year, four of which are for local authors.

This year, one of the books read was Mayiga’s Work & Prosper and requested him to join them and sit in the AUTHOR’S SEAT to share wisdom from his book.

“I just hope the time comes for me to retire because am a very private person, people don’t know that. It’s difficult for me to convince anyone that I'm private. I know because I have been in public life for so long,” Mayiga elaborated on the retirement question discussed in chapter five of his book.

Mayiga (C) with pillar members in a photo moment.

Katikkiro Mayiga said he loves being in the serene environment and wishes that his retirement will enable him to start enjoying some bit of private life.

“I envy people who can come to a restaurant like this one and no one notices who they’re. I love serene environments, I love them. You go to a place, you sit down probably you read your book and nobody knows who you’re, I think that’s the best life. I don’t have that privilege now,” added Mayiga.

Mayiga applauded the pillar members for starting the club and emphasised the importance of reading books to human beings’ prosperity.

“Smart people read. You become global when you read. Therefore, I urge Ugandans to prioritise reading books. Those who can write are at an advantage because when you write, you learn twice-first from what you’re writing about and the new ideas you encounter while writing,” Mayiga told the pillar members.

Work & Prosper is Mayiga's fifth book he wrote in 2020 during the total lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic with others including King on the Throne, Uganda:7 Key Transformation ideas, Buganda ku Ntikko and Ettoffali.

Currently, Mayiga who assumed the Katikkiroship in May 2013 is translating King on the Throne into Luganda and afterwards, he promised to write a book about Leadership.

Mayiga is the fifth Katikkiro of Buganda during Kabaka Mutebi II's reign. Others who came before him include Jehoash Mayanja Nkangi 1993-1994, Joseph Mulwanyammuli Ssemwogerere 1994-2005, Dan Muliika 2005-2006, Eng. JB Walusimbi 2008-2013 and Emmanuel Ssendaula between 2007-2008.