WHAT A DISGRACE! WHAT HAS TOORO COME TO?
The last time I can remember, Andrew Mwenda lost his nephew, Rubani (pictured below), and he has never stopped mourning him to this day.
Yet Best Kemigisa has barely had the space to bury her own son before Mwenda rushes to declare that she holds no special place in the Tooro Kingdom.
Mwenda, this is the woman who was Queen Mother to the very King whose throne you are fighting over. You cannot spend years arguing about the legitimacy, history and future of a throne, then suddenly erase the significance of the woman who occupied one of its most important traditional positions especially while she is mourning the death of her son.
Do you truly understand what it means to bury a son? Your own son. Your own child. To give birth to someone, watch them grow, and then be the one standing at their corpse.
You know what it means to mourn for your nephew, Rubani. You have carried that grief publicly and repeatedly. So why deny Best Kemigisa the same human dignity?
Before you debate her place in Tooro, remember that she is a mother who has just lost her son. A grieving mother should not have to defend her place in a Kingdom while burying her son.