Bainemigisha says a Will must be typed or handwritten; it is not like social media or high-profile tweets. He added that lawyers say that even if you are trapped in a collapsed building, you cannot record and send your instructions in the name of a Will. Under the Ugandan succession law, digital audio recordings or verbal instructions are entirely invalid. Therefore, stop here, ladies and gentlemen, and go and write Wills. If the postponement demon strikes you, remember the chaos in Tooro and insist.
Bainemigisha says last weekend, as we laid King Oyo to rest, we were exposed to a kind of disagreement among the Batooro that didn’t need tear gas, drones, or ambulance top lights flaring.
By: Admin ., Journalist @New Vision
Uganda is rarely this lucky. The succession confrontations were in Tooro and not in Kigezi or Buganda. We are used to being the unfortunate den of land grabbers,
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