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[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

"You must be courageous yet selfless, leaders yet carers and confident yet considerate" wise words -the late Queen Elizabeth.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@lulanzeashirafu He resembles the omukama of bunyoro

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

I can only imagine the tears on that plane and praying whether the journey shouldn't end but when it has to end, seeing your people vulnerable when you can do nothing to change the situation is the worst feeling. He will always be loved dear.

[Stella Nyanzi @drstellanyanzi]

THE SLOW PLANE RETURNS TO US
Slowly, the plane takes its time.
The long hours of the flight are heavy.
Tick and then tock, tick and then tock…
Tick and then tock, tick and then tock…
This return leg of the trip is painfully slow.
It is as if a snail replaced the plane from
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
Well, the plane better be gentle this time.
It bears our beloved Omukama of Tooro.
Deep inside its belly is a long white box.
The white box is inscribed with blue letters:
“Handle with care, boojo!”
Inside the white box in the slow plane’s belly
Lies the royal Omuguta of our King Oyo.
“Handle with care, beitu!”
He silently returns to us, in the slow plane.
He sat upright on the trip’s departure leg.
He returns to us lying down peacefully.
Alas, Amooti is resting in the slow plane!
Slowly, even gently the plane returns to us.
Omukama atulize. Enkuba etutiire.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@TimKalyegira I here whispers in tooro that the batuku are taking over everything regarding the kingship , im sure musuuga won't like this but anything aligning with late king Oyo we're in great support so that the queen mother is at peace.

[Kamugisha Vincent @KamugishaVincen]

@MariaAbesiga @basajjaaa True, the way Tooro was formed is the way Buganda and some other kingdoms in the region were formed breakaways from the Kitara empire.

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

KING OYO - IMPACT

Even in his death, King OYO is impactful, Fortportal and surrounding towns will fill to capacity during his burial. Tourism impact!

Am told the road to Fortportal is a beehive, construction efforts have gone up 10 times right now. Impact!

KING OYO did one of the most successful documentaries on the RWENZORI RANGES like you will read below! Impact !

The documentary associated with King Oyo (Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Tooro Kingdom) is the short film Rwenzori: The Source of Life (also referred to as King Oyo:

Royal Rwenzori Mountain Expedition). It follows his 10-day 2022 expedition to Margherita Peak (5,109 m), the highest point in the Rwenzori Mountains and in Uganda, and focuses on climate change, melting glaciers, conservation, and promoting sustainable mountain tourism. It was a joint project of UNDP Uganda, the Uganda Tourism Board, and Tooro Kingdom.

It received notable recognition in tourism and documentary film circles rather than becoming a mass-market hit. It won multiple international awards, including a Gold Trophy at the 2023 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, placement in the US International Awards (tourism products), a top-5 / third-place finish in the Tourism Products category at the 2023 World Tourism Film Awards in Valencia, and recognition at ART & TUR. Sources describe it as a four- or five-time award winner.2
It premiered first in the United States (California), then in Fort Portal and at a Kampala premiere at the International University of East Africa in late 2023. Related events drew large local crowds.

It was later added to the inflight entertainment on Brussels Airlines long-haul flights as a Destination Uganda promotion. Tourism officials publicly credited it (along with other efforts) with helping post-COVID recovery in Uganda’s tourism sector and increased interest in it was well-regarded and effective as a promotional and advocacy film—especially in tourism, conservation, and official circles, Its main impact was awards prestige, targeted screenings, and use in destination marketing.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@FredShaka @AKyambadde @ObukamaBwaTooro @Godfrey__K Best mutooro out there. Thanks mama Amelia

[Shaka Fred @FredShaka]

Video: So, Hon. Amelia Kyambadde has been a Mutooro all along?🤔

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@balmoistev The luo's are our mothers. You know very well children belong to their fathers. Don't confuse the 2

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@basajjaaa Bunyoro kitara and buganda kingdoms were founded by twin brothers isingoma and kato kintu. Who left home to start up his own kingdom but both twins were Bunyoro' s omukama babies.. we can start from there now.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@kyeruphiona Kingdom security matters most with peace at large. The rest is worldly treasures nothing more. In heaven you go with nothing.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@Comrade_Otoa That place looks well taken care of by the abaijukuru.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@Winnie_Byanyima Happy birthday to Anselm.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@drstellanyanzi We need a short hand book of this poem. Its interesting especially for people who don't know the real true about the royal family and the late king Oyo and are curiously speculating around news. Thanks Dr. Stellah

[Stella Nyanzi @drstellanyanzi]

WHISPERS WHIRLING IN TOORO
1) The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache!
“The king has died!”
“No, the king is just in critical condition.”
“No, the king died at 10:00PM.”
“No, the king died on the same day his father died.”
“No, the king died three days before the news.”
“No, the king never dies; he just transitions.”
“Oh, the king has not died, will not die…”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

2) The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache.
“The king died of poison!”
“No, the king had cancer!”
“No, the king was cursed.”
“No, the king had a brain tumour.”
“No, the king had cancer of the brain.”
“So, the king travelled for cancer treatment.”
“No, the king travelled for further studies.”
“No, the king travelled travelled for business.”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

3)The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache!
“The king had a child!”
“Didn’t the king have two children?”
“No, the king had no child!”
“But the king posed with photos of a child.”
“No, that was the princess’ child, not the king’s.”
“The Queen mother said the king had a child.”
“No, Omusuuga said the king had no child.”
“No, Omuhikira said the king had a child.”
“No, Babiito royal clan said the king had no child.”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

4) The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache.
“The king will have a royal funeral!”
“No, the king will have a state funeral.”
“No, the king will have a Christian funeral.”
“No, the king will have a customary funeral.”
“No, the king has no funeral for he never dies.”
“But the king will be mourned for three days.”
“No, the king is mourned for nine days straight.”
“A Munyankore man said we’ll mourn for 3 days.”
“No, the Babiito clan elders declared nine days.”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

5) The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache.
“The king had a wife.”
“No, the king had no wife.”
“A wife-less king at 34; was the king gay?”
“No, the king had a girlfriend.”
“No, the king as a good Christian had no girlfriend.”
“No, the king had many girlfriends.”
“No, the king’s girlfriend was the Queen Mother.”
“No, the Queen Mother knew the king’s girlfriend.”
“No, the Queen Mother was praying for his wife.”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

6) The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache.
“The Queen Mother is a Mutooro.”
“No, the Queen Mother is not a pure Mutooro.”
“No, the Queen Mother is Abatuku.”
“No, the Queen Mother is from Ntoroko.”
“No, the Queen Mother is from Congo.”
“No, the Queen Mother is from Libya.”
“No, the Queen Mother is a Muhema.”
“No, the Queen Mother is an impostor.”
“Eh, isn’t the Queen Mother a Mutooro?”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

7) The whispers in Tooro give me a toothache.
“The dead king’s father died of cancer.”
“No, the dead king’s father was poisoned.”
“No, the dead king’s father just died in sleep.”
“No, the dead king’s father was shot by bullets.”
“No, the dead king’s father, Kaboyo was cursed.”
“The dead king abandoned his ancestors.”
“No, Milton Obote desecrated the kingdom.”
“No, the dead king rebuilt the kingdom.”
“No, the Babiito graves in Bunyangabo are ruins.”
“So, the dead king neglected the royal tombs?”
“No, the dead king’s father neglected his father.”
“The royal graves are desolate and neglected.”
Amatta gaatikire. Enkuba etutiire.

[The Real KING OF THE JUNGLE @EdwardthembaSa]

A rare video footage of a wildlife javelin athlete…
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📍KNP

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@Ronkawamara Mahano munno. I feel your pain

[Ron Kazooba Kawamara @Ronkawamara]

He was everything a king ought to be. And more!

[David Soita Masinde. @davimasinde]

Who else has noticed that since King Oyo passed, Tooro has not closed ranks the way a senior death is supposed to?

In many cultures the funeral of a senior person pulls people into one room.

This one is doing the opposite. It is mapping the lines that were already there, only now they are visible in public.

You can see it in the funeral itself. The body is coming from abroad, so even the first movement, airport to Karuziika, is already a negotiation with custom that was written for a king who dies at home.

Nine days of mourning, the drum turned down, who convenes, who speaks, who walks where, who holds the protocol.

Every step is being argued as if the rite itself were the prize.Then the succession sits on top of that.

One statement says the crown is assured, that a prince exists and will be named in the proper time.

Another current, coming from clan elders charged with the search, treats that claim as something that still has to be proven inside the Babiito house. That is not a small disagreement.

That is two accounts of the same throne trying to occupy the same week.What is easy to miss is that a kingdom does not only mourn a man.

It rehearses who may speak for the dead.

When the living cannot agree on the arrangement of the funeral, they are already rehearsing the arrangement of power.

Protocol looks like courtesy until it becomes the first battlefield of the heir.

So the grief is real, and so is the fracture.

The death did not invent the clans or the rival claims on custom.

It removed the person who had been sitting on top of those differences, and now every contested step, from the body to the burial to the name that follows, is showing us what Tooro had been holding together by habit rather than by settled agreement.

[UN in Uganda @UNinUganda]

The United Nations in Uganda joins the Royal Family and the people of Tooro in mourning the passing of His Majesty King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV.

We honour his service to young people, culture, sustainable development, and his partnership with the UN family.

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@rwenzori_ I meant replaced

[Maria A Cherry @MariaAbesiga]

@rwenzori_ Early time leaders were extremely intelligent. Which king got reply because of dozing , did u try to mean if a king gets sick for a long period.