Keep Out Of Politics, Nsibambi Tells Clergy
Jan 15, 2003
The Prime Minister, Professor Apolo Nsibambi, yesterday cautioned traditional and religious leaders against participating in partisan politics.
By Josephine Maseruka
The Prime Minister, Professor Apolo Nsibambi, yesterday cautioned traditional and religious leaders against participating in partisan politics.
Reading his eulogy at the funeral service of the late Rev. Canon Polycarp Kakooza at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, Nsibambi hailed Kakooza for being a ‘religious facilitator of national and religious integration.’
He said the 1995 Constitution prohibits traditional leaders from partisan politics.
“This should also apply to religious leaders because people tend to get divided over partisan politics. You should emulate Kakooza who has been a clergy and never engaged in partisan politics,†he said.
Nsibambi was among hundreds of mourners who thronged the cathedral to pay their last respects to Kakooza.
In his condolence message read by Nsibambi, President Museveni described the deceased as ‘indisputably, one of the most renowned sports administrators in the recent history of independent Uganda.’
Kabaka Ronald Mutebi yesterday honoured Kakooza for his great contribution to the Buganda monarchy by allowing his coffin be decorated with the Buganda kingdom flag colours.
The three-hour service was attended by government and Buganda kingdom officials and former president Godfrey Binaisa.
Kakooza, 90, was the only remaining child out of nine born to Sedulika Kibuuka of Kakunyu in Masaka district.
He is survived by seven children. His body was yesterday laid next to his wife’s grave at St Stephen Church Kabowa.
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The Prime Minister, Professor Apolo Nsibambi, yesterday cautioned traditional and religious leaders against participating in partisan politics.
Reading his eulogy at the funeral service of the late Rev. Canon Polycarp Kakooza at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, Nsibambi hailed Kakooza for being a ‘religious facilitator of national and religious integration.’
He said the 1995 Constitution prohibits traditional leaders from partisan politics.
“This should also apply to religious leaders because people tend to get divided over partisan politics. You should emulate Kakooza who has been a clergy and never engaged in partisan politics,†he said.
Nsibambi was among hundreds of mourners who thronged the cathedral to pay their last respects to Kakooza.
In his condolence message read by Nsibambi, President Museveni described the deceased as ‘indisputably, one of the most renowned sports administrators in the recent history of independent Uganda.’
Kabaka Ronald Mutebi yesterday honoured Kakooza for his great contribution to the Buganda monarchy by allowing his coffin be decorated with the Buganda kingdom flag colours.
The three-hour service was attended by government and Buganda kingdom officials and former president Godfrey Binaisa.
Kakooza, 90, was the only remaining child out of nine born to Sedulika Kibuuka of Kakunyu in Masaka district.
He is survived by seven children. His body was yesterday laid next to his wife’s grave at St Stephen Church Kabowa.
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