Kasese District LC V Chairperson, Geoffrey Sibendire Bigogo, said it is unfortunate that close to three years after the arrest of the suspects, they have remained in detention without trial. Biigogo told URN that government had committed itself to screen all the suspects such that those who are innocent can be set free in vain.
Kibanzanga is the immediate brother to Rwenzururu King Charles Wesley
Mumbere Iremangoma. He has been serving as the kingdom’s chief prince until a letter suspending him and scrapping the title off the kingdom structures was released on Monday.
Justice Eva Luswata of the International Crimes Division of the High Court gave Mumbere fourteen days to travel to Kasese, Bundibugyo, Ntoroko and Kabarole to mourn his mother and perform any rituals expected of him as a cultural leader.
A call had been made by the District Deputy Resident District Commissioner Joshua Masereka for the district to be declared Ebola-free on grounds that disease had been contained with no new infections recorded since the first group which was confirmed on June 11, 2019.
During the funeral held on Sunday at Izahura Primary School in Bundibugyo, Museveni, in his speech delivered by Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi, said the queen mother had played a key role in the transformation of not only Rwenzori region but also the entire country.
Kasese District Chairperson, Geoffrey Sibendire Bigogo, said there was no way he could attend a burial where the king has been humiliated by defying his orders.
Mumbere and the Prime Ministerial Commission of the Kingdom want the late Mukirania to be buried at her Nyamirangara Estate in Muhokya Sub County in Kasese while Kibanzanga wants her mum buried at her ancestral home in Kirindi in Harugale Sub County in Bundibugyo district.
