Bunyoro Kingdon heir born in Kenya
BUNYORO Kitara Kingdom has at last got the heir to the throne after Omugo (queen) Margaret Karunga gave birth to a baby boy at the Nairobi Hospital over the weekend.
By Amlan Tumusiime
BUNYORO Kitara Kingdom has at last got the heir to the throne after Omugo (queen) Margaret Karunga gave birth to a baby boy at the Nairobi Hospital over the weekend.
“We have a baby boy who was delivered in Nairobi,†said Prince John Majugo, Iguru’s brother, speaking by telephone from the Karuziika (palace) in Hoima town yesterday. “We are very proud of him (prince).â€
Omukama (King) Solomon Gafabusa Iguru and Karunga married five years ago but had not had a child. Iguru has other children, one of them a son, outside wedlock. However, under the Bunyoro culture, only a child from a wedded wife may ascend the throne.
Iguru was not at the hospital when the Queen delivered but he rushed there after a call from the hospital. The couple was still in Nairobi by press time.
The news of the birth of the prince has excited Bunyoro. Local radio stations spent the whole of Saturday talking about it.
The Ababoopi clan, to which Karunga belongs, are planning to receive her from Nairobi in a special way to express their happiness, a source disclosed.
The birth comes a few days to Iguru’s 13th empango (coronation) anniversary celebrations scheduled for June 11. President Yoweri Museveni is expected as chief guest.
Preaching at Iguru and Karunga’s wedding in 2002, Bishop Yokaana Mukasa of Mityana Diocese told the couple: “I will be happy to hear that you have a baby because it is part of marriage. I pray that God makes it possible and it doesn’t take long.â€
Unfortunately, Bishop Mukasa did not live to see his prayer come true. He died in October 2005.
BUNYORO Kitara Kingdom has at last got the heir to the throne after Omugo (queen) Margaret Karunga gave birth to a baby boy at the Nairobi Hospital over the weekend.
“We have a baby boy who was delivered in Nairobi,†said Prince John Majugo, Iguru’s brother, speaking by telephone from the Karuziika (palace) in Hoima town yesterday. “We are very proud of him (prince).â€
Omukama (King) Solomon Gafabusa Iguru and Karunga married five years ago but had not had a child. Iguru has other children, one of them a son, outside wedlock. However, under the Bunyoro culture, only a child from a wedded wife may ascend the throne.
Iguru was not at the hospital when the Queen delivered but he rushed there after a call from the hospital. The couple was still in Nairobi by press time.
The news of the birth of the prince has excited Bunyoro. Local radio stations spent the whole of Saturday talking about it.
The Ababoopi clan, to which Karunga belongs, are planning to receive her from Nairobi in a special way to express their happiness, a source disclosed.
The birth comes a few days to Iguru’s 13th empango (coronation) anniversary celebrations scheduled for June 11. President Yoweri Museveni is expected as chief guest.
Preaching at Iguru and Karunga’s wedding in 2002, Bishop Yokaana Mukasa of Mityana Diocese told the couple: “I will be happy to hear that you have a baby because it is part of marriage. I pray that God makes it possible and it doesn’t take long.â€
Unfortunately, Bishop Mukasa did not live to see his prayer come true. He died in October 2005.