Samantha A

High on God & life! | Views expressed here are my own

[We fly over 🏟️ not into 🏢🏢🛩️ @Phixx23]

Dwight’s fire safety training scene literally clears the entire Friends show, and it’s not even close!👍🏿🙂
#powerpointisboring

[The Observer @observerug]

The now-deceased Tooro kingdom leader visited some high-end hospitals in Kampala after feeling persistent backpain. X-rays, MRI scans later, they told him they saw nothing.

Being a person of means, he flew to a hospital in Nairobi where he was diagnosed with cancer. A year later he was dead. What did the doctors in Nairobi see that the Kampala ones couldn’t?

Well, Nairobi has a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan or a few. Kampala and the whole of Uganda don’t. A PET scan costs about $3m (Shs 11.7bn) or approximately 17 Land Cruisers.

If there was a meeting of government officials, you would run out of space to park them. That is how many we have in Uganda but a PET Scan is not something we have been able to buy and install yet.

https://t.co/kZ4PB2kkpO

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

Shout-outs to @kanyindo & @rudende - & others like them - for the radio content that goes beyond the petty talk, relationship, & sex. Not easy to steer clear for years, when it is easier to just talk about why you can't date broke men. God bless you guys! ✌️🏾

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Remember you cannot say you want freedom for this kid.

That would be antisemitism and you might hurt the feelings of a billionaire Jews in the USA.

[Kwizera @faithkwizera4]

Everyone watched you publicly mourn a man you presented as your close friend, only for you to turn around days later and speak about that same man and his alleged child in such a degrading manner all because the succession story you rushed to tell the public didn’t unfold the way you announced it.

[PK Snr @wa_Kabwohe]

We really should leave the Kingdom of Tooro to self-determine. The temptation to comment, ridicule, or contribute without invitation should be avoided.

[MPORA Ⓜ️🅾️SES🎾🇺🇬🇵🇸 @MosesMpora1]

Read this statement and go read Andrew Mwenda's venomous tweet, you can tell who has class and who's crass!

[Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki @toorokingdompm]

AN APPEAL FOR PEACE AND UNITY IN TOORO

People of Tooro, our leaders, friends of Tooro and fellow Ugandans,

We are living through one of the most painful and delicate moments in the history of our Kingdom.

His Majesty Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has passed away, and even before we have laid our King to rest, sharply differing positions have emerged regarding succession to the Crown of Tooro.

On one hand, a group has announced a new King. On the other, there is a Will left by the late Omukama containing his expressed wishes regarding succession.

These are serious matters that must ultimately be addressed. But as Batooro, we must ask whether this is the right moment, and whether the manner in which this is unfolding honours the King whose body we have not yet laid to rest.

Whatever our positions or interpretations of Tooro’s customs and institutions, there must remain a minimum standard of moral decency.

Let us first bury our King.

The Crown of Tooro has existed for generations and will endure long after all of us. Nothing is so urgent that we must sacrifice the dignity of His Majesty’s final journey, the grief of the Royal Family, the unity of our people or the peace of our Kingdom to settle it now.

There will be time to examine the Will, to hear those advancing a different position, and to consider our customs, the applicable law and the proper institutions through which succession should be determined. That process should take place calmly and credibly, not through competing announcements, confrontation, or attempts to establish facts on the ground while our King still awaits burial.

I therefore appeal to everyone involved, regardless of the position they support, to exercise restraint. Tooro is bigger than any one of us, and the Crown is too important to become the prize in a contest conducted in the middle of our mourning.

I also respectfully appeal to the Government of Uganda to provide appropriate guidance and support to ensure that peace, order and sanity prevail during this sensitive period.

This is not a request for Government to choose a King for Tooro. It is an appeal to help protect the conditions within which the relevant cultural, legal and institutional processes can take place peacefully, fairly and without intimidation or disorder. Where necessary, respected elders, cultural leaders and other credible persons should also help guide an orderly way forward.

My appeal is simple: lower the temperature.

We can disagree without destroying one another. We can defend our positions without insensitive language. We can seek the truth without abandoning our culture, dignity and humanity.

History will remember not only how the succession question was resolved, but also how we behaved when our King died.

Let it record that, in a moment of grief and disagreement, the people of Tooro chose restraint, our leaders chose wisdom over confrontation, and we gave His Majesty the dignity of resting in peace before turning to the future of his Crown.

For now, let us mourn together. Let us bury our King with honour. Then, with dignity, fairness and respect, let the truth and the proper process guide what comes next.

In whatever we do, Tooro must come first.

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

In Uganda, a bus accident killed 30 children, pretty little souls on a school trip & the govt acted like it was just another thing to forget and move on from. To this day, over two months later the State House/President/Presidency haven't even said a word of it.

May the little Ugandans who perished in Kapchorwa rest in peace. 🕊️🇺🇬💔

[Dr. Aine @ Emotors @DokitaSharon]

No i am not crying 😪😪😪
What a great tribute 👏
Thank you @Ssenyonyiderick
@KagutaMuseveni
Rest in peace King Oyo

[Netflix France @NetflixFR]

HAPPY QUEEN B DAY

[Mwami Kiyimba @Count_Melvin]

Since we are pretending to fix the country, why don’t we try to get a grip on Boda guys? Or you’re scared of them?

[Buganda Kingdom @BugandaKingdom_]

Embeera nga bw'efaanana mu Lubiri e Mmengo, bbendera zewuubira mu makkati!

Obuganda buyimiridde wamu n'abantu ba Tooro oluvannyuma lw'okuviibwako Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV

Gutusinze nnyo Ayi Ssaabasajja

[Uganda Media Centre @UgandaMediaCent]

Born a Prince, crowned as a child, and remembered as a King | #RIPKingOyo

[Charles Peter Mayiga @cpmayiga]

The news of the passing of His Majesty, Omukama Oyo Nyimba Rukidi IV, has been received with shock and extreme sadness.

I received the news from Omuhikirwa of Tooro, Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire last evening, and I immediately informed His Majesty Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, who was saddened by the demise of the young monarch (34 years).

The Kabaka urges the people of Tooro to stand together during this period of grief. The Kingdom of Buganda stands with the people of Tooro, and all Ugandans, during this sad moment.

May the Lord receive King Oyo's soul. CPM

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I'm sorry, but Dolly Parton never spoke to my particular esoteric cause--the endangerment of the North American Belly-Winged Dung Beetle--and thus, I must conclude she was not a caring person. Behold my superior contrarianism and weep in awe, you feckless sheep.

[Kakande Alex @KakandeAlex]

If you are not the official spokesperson. Please Respect the culture and the people. Whether your sources are true or not.

There are news you should never break nor even share any semblance of rumors around.

[Andrew Kaggwa Mayiga @mayigandre]

Breaking news shouldn’t be a competition. Waiting and confirming doesn’t hurt, especially if it’s a very sensitive issue.

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

On one side, they are forgiving AAA for Corruption. on the other side, Balaam and Nameere are mbu "fighting Corruption"

The entire country is on vibes and inshallah

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

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