I recently experienced outstanding customer service at Caramel Restaurant, Munyonyo Shell. Due to an error, I mistakenly paid UGX 1,270,000 instead of the correct amount of UGX 127,000 through their merchant code.
Thanks to their robust digital financial management systems and EFRIS compliance, the overpayment was promptly detected.
The restaurant contacted me without delay the following morning and fully refunded the excess amount.
This level of integrity and responsiveness builds genuine trust with customers.
Trusted businesses like Caramel Restaurant continue to set a high standard.
I look forward to returning soon perhaps for another Ki Mojito and will be bringing Sarah along again.
Well done, Caramel Restaurant Munyonyo Shell. You are truly one in a million.
Mr Andrew Mwenda is being truly callous and disingenuous here.
In 2015, he wrote that QM single-handedly took charge of that Kingdom, mobilized resources and built it to where it is today. (See link here: https://t.co/vbRinRpEYT)
He said that thanks to his political brinkmanship (or “cunning”) President @KagutaMuseveni criticized PM Milton Obote for banning Kingdoms but when he returned them, he stripped them of their true power; both political and economic.
Mr Mwenda actually went further to show that King Oyo’s grandfather, Rukidi IV, whose will the Babiito are prioritizing over King Oyo’s, “used to earn royalties from Katwe Salt Lake, Kilembe Mines, Hima Cement, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Semliki National Park and other treasures that make Toro Kingdom the tourist capital of Uganda. Indeed, Rukidi IV owned shares in Katwe and Kilembe and earned dividends.”
What Mr Mwenda forgot to tell his readers is that all those assets he listed were in present day Rwenzururu Kingdom, which the Babiito elite lost due to the same arrogance, sense of superiority and refusal to devolve power that they demonstrate to this day.
Anyway, when King Oyo’s father took over the throne upon return of Kingdoms by the aforementioned Museveni, he inherited a shell.
It helps to know that “Tooro” was so skint that their King, Omukama Patrick David Matthew Kaboyo Rwamuhokya Olimi III had to work as Uganda’s Ambassador to Cuba from 1990 to 1993. Oyo took over in 1995, upon his father’s early demise.
So, here’s a recently widowed 20-some year old woman, who was always treated as an outsider by the Babiito, taking over ruins of a Kingdom and somehow turning it around and making it relevant again.
Andrew himself acknowledges that the Babiito shunned the Kingdom and they offered no help.
That help he says came from President Museveni, Sudhir, Gaddafi etc, thanks to what he referred to as Best Kemigisa’s “excellent social networking skills”.
Anyway, that was, I suppose, when Mr Mwenda was in good books with QM.
Now he says of her -at a time when she has lost a son she raised through sheer grit to become one of the most recognizable Monarchs IN THE WORLD-that her grief is fake.
He writes: “please, don’t falsely accuse Best Kemigisa of grieving. If she did, it was not necessarily grief of losing a son. That was secondary. Her primary grief was loss of power.”
That’s callous, in the extreme.
But even if it were true, the power that Mr Mwenda alludes to, comes from a Kingdom that he himself acknowledges she built from the ashes.
This is the same Andrew who will defend NRM/NRA’s right to rule in perpetuity because “they hunted their animal”.
The cynical Republican in me thinks that if hunting animals is to guarantee rule in perpetuity, the best place to see that is in Kingdoms.
After all, aren’t they by nature ruled by lineages of strongmen and women who “hunted their animal”?
If that wasn’t the case, Kasagama’s descendants would have made way for other Batooro to take turns at it.
That the QM might have been involved in some dubious dealings or even murder as Mr Mwenda accuses her of (which decision to conceal, he actually says he pragmatically defended and understood) should really be immaterial…by his logic.
In the past, Kings would kill thousands.
The Tooro that Mwenda, QM and co are jostling over isn’t any different. It’s built on skulls of thousands.
So, what’s a bad QM orchestrated property deal here and there? And it’s not like Mr Mwenda and his buddy Bob Kasango (MJRIP) didn’t play any role; is it?
But I digress
To casual observers, especially some of us from republican societies like Bugisu, all this noise and name calling seems rather hypocritical and shows a lack of understanding of the history of the very entity they’re fighting over.
But also, it is so on brand for Mr Mwenda. When an association serves his interests, he will go in hard for it. When it stops, he calls them murderers. See Obote family, Kizza Besigye etc
@AxamBoy@GabrielBuule Do you know how much money the government used to give kingdoms then? I remember how a Prince from Bunyoro sold kingdom Land to help with running the Kingdom because the government was giving cartoon money then. Anyway, what do I know?
It appears that the pre-burial stand-off that happened at King Oyo’s final hour was premised on an MOU signed between the Royal family, Government of Uganda and some representatives of the Babiito leadership.
This might explain why the QM wasn’t best pleased. There was an agreement that was apparently breached. (See frame 1 and 2)
Don’t ask me why that guy didn’t refer to it when he was dragging her in his most recent tweet where he called her and the President all manner of names. 🤦🏾♂️
@AmumpaireColli1@CanaryMugume Do you know how many land cases Omusuga is involved in? Hmmmm mwe live things of Tooro. I personally think she sold that land to fund the King's Education and take Care of his expenses which should be okay. That is done even in Bunyoro and Buganda.
@AxamBoy@GabrielBuule I just want to ask nga Falla....what is wrong with selling Kingdom land to fund the King's education and lifestyle? Isn't a King supposed to Live a life of a King?
PRINCE JONATHAN BAGUMA BBALA
Jonathan, today I want to speak to you as my friend.
Throughout these painful days, I have thought about you and prayed for you so many times. I know how much the King meant to you, and because I know you personally, I know there are parts of this loss that no photograph, headline or public tribute could ever explain.
I have seen your loyalty. I have seen how you stood with him. And I know that behind the titles and responsibilities was a relationship that meant so much more.
So today, I simply want to say thank you, my friend.
Thank you for everything you did for our King. Thank you for the years you stood beside him, served him, protected him and remained present. Thank you for being one of those people he could count on.
And now that our King has been laid to rest, my prayer turns especially to you.
Father God, please carry Jonathan. Give him strength for the days when everyone else has returned to normal but his heart is still grieving. Protect him, give him wisdom, guard his peace and surround him with genuine love.
Lord, You saw every sacrifice that nobody else saw. You know every memory, every conversation and every moment these two shared. May those memories eventually bring more comfort than pain.
Jonathan, you have spent so much time being strong and being there for others. Please know that you don’t have to carry this season alone.
I will continue praying for you.
May God preserve you, strengthen you and guide every step that comes next.
Thank you for standing with our King until the end. We will never forget it. 🫂😭♥️
Omukama Atulize.
@Dingdon47051700@CanaryMugume Two weeks? But Oyo's parents were both alive. You mean after they gave birth to King Oyo the parents just drove him to Omusuga's home?🤣