Busoga Kingdom has a new king

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The Busoga Kingdom, located in the Eastern part of Uganda across the Nile River, has a new king. News broke yesterday that the Busoga Royal Chiefs council at last elected a new king.

The Busoga Kingdom, located in the Eastern part of Uganda across the Nile River, has a new king. News broke yesterday that the Busoga Royal Chiefs council at last elected a new king. 10 out of the 11 traditional Busoga Chiefs were present at the council meeting, fulfilling the requirements for a quorum, and they then elected unopposed Prince William Nadiope Gabula IV as their new Kyabazinga.

The succession of the much respected late Kyabazinga Henry Wako Muloki, who passed in 2008, was for long marred by controversy, court cases and attempts to hold Chiefs meetings which had to be cancelled due to a lack of quorum which is required to legally elect a new king. It emerged that in an apparent attempt to bring some of the feuding Chiefs together for the purpose of finally selecting and electing a new king the constitution of the kingdom was also amended to allow for a 5 year term of the kingship, though that will still have to pass through the parliament of the kingdom which is set to meet later today to formally welcome their new cultural leader. Political leaders who hail from the Busoga Kingdom were swift to broadly welcome the announcement that a new king had been elected by a properly constituted electoral college of Chiefs

Fresh trouble however seems to brew already again for the kingdom as Prince Wambuzi, who was controversially elected in 2009 not long after the passing of the late Muloki, has threatened to go to court to stop the coronation as he considered himself as the rightfully elected monarch of the Busoga Kingdom. For now however, for all intent and purpose, Busoga finally has a new king again. Preparations will no doubt go into overdrive for the formal coronation which will be a major showcase event for Uganda as a whole and attract local, regional and international media coverage. The kings and cultural leaders of the other major kingdoms and chiefdom are all expected to attend the coronation and the date will be announced here to allow those interested in witnessing Ugandaโ€™s cultural heritage in action to come to the country and be among the spectators.

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