Buganda kingdom speaker laid to rest in Mpigi
THE speaker of the Buganda parliament (Lukiiko), Haji Lubega Kaddunabbi is dead. Kaddunabbi died on Saturday night at Mulago Hospital where he had been admitted.
By Henry Mukasa
and Paul Kiwuuwa
THE speaker of the Buganda parliament (Lukiiko), Haji Lubega Kaddunabbi is dead. Kaddunabbi died on Saturday night at Mulago Hospital where he had been admitted.
Kaddunabbi, 71, had in the course of the week been operated upon after he after developed complications in his digestive system.
He was buried on Sunday afternoon at his home in Bugoye in Butambala county, Mpigi district.
The acting Katikkiro, Emmanuel Ssendawula and the chairman of the Bataka elders’ council, Eng. Allan Waligo, led the kingdom in mourning.
Prince Kassim Nakibinge, who read the Kabaka’s eulogy, described Kaddunabbi as ‘an honest, trustworthy, diligent and non-dicriminative servant’.
Kaddunabbi was appointed speaker of the Lukiiko by Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi in the 2005.
He replaced Sheikh Muhabuba Ssemakalu.
Born in 1936, Kaddunabbi had served Buganda kingdom almost all his life.
He became a member of the Lukiiko in 1955 and served as the deputy and later Katambala (chief of Butambala county) in the 1960s.
He was remembered as one of the people who were close to then Kabaka Edward Muteesa II. In 1966, Kaddunabbi helped Mutesa escape to exile in the UK via Burundi after soldiers commanded by Idi Amin attacked the Kabaka’s palace at Mengo on orders of then Prime Minister Dr. Apollo Milton Obote.
Obote and Mutesa, who was President, had disagreed on the scope of their executive powers.
Kaddunabbi is survived by three wives and 27 children, one of them the Butambala MP, Ibrahim Kaddunabbi Lubega.
and Paul Kiwuuwa
THE speaker of the Buganda parliament (Lukiiko), Haji Lubega Kaddunabbi is dead. Kaddunabbi died on Saturday night at Mulago Hospital where he had been admitted.
Kaddunabbi, 71, had in the course of the week been operated upon after he after developed complications in his digestive system.
He was buried on Sunday afternoon at his home in Bugoye in Butambala county, Mpigi district.
The acting Katikkiro, Emmanuel Ssendawula and the chairman of the Bataka elders’ council, Eng. Allan Waligo, led the kingdom in mourning.
Prince Kassim Nakibinge, who read the Kabaka’s eulogy, described Kaddunabbi as ‘an honest, trustworthy, diligent and non-dicriminative servant’.
Kaddunabbi was appointed speaker of the Lukiiko by Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi in the 2005.
He replaced Sheikh Muhabuba Ssemakalu.
Born in 1936, Kaddunabbi had served Buganda kingdom almost all his life.
He became a member of the Lukiiko in 1955 and served as the deputy and later Katambala (chief of Butambala county) in the 1960s.
He was remembered as one of the people who were close to then Kabaka Edward Muteesa II. In 1966, Kaddunabbi helped Mutesa escape to exile in the UK via Burundi after soldiers commanded by Idi Amin attacked the Kabaka’s palace at Mengo on orders of then Prime Minister Dr. Apollo Milton Obote.
Obote and Mutesa, who was President, had disagreed on the scope of their executive powers.
Kaddunabbi is survived by three wives and 27 children, one of them the Butambala MP, Ibrahim Kaddunabbi Lubega.