Bugwere to review law before picking new leader
Sunday April 25 2021
Mr Joshua Musimami, one of the contestant for the Bagwere Cultural Institution, addresses residents in Kasodo Sub-county, Pallisa District last week. PHOTO | MUDANGHA KOLYANGHA
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The Elders’ Council of the Bugwere Cultural Institution have set up a constitutional review committee ahead of the forthcoming election of a new cultural leader.
The 14-member committee will, among others, scrutinise and propose amendments to some articles in the constitution that are deemed obsolete and unfavourable.
The resolution was reached at during a meeting attended by clan leaders, political leaders, security officials, and officials from Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social development and chaired by the Kibuku Resident District Commissioner, Ms Mwanamoiza Kikomeko in Kibuku on Wednesday.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 13 2021
The late Bagwere cultural leader John Chrisostom Weyabire John Weyabire shakes hands with Budaka Woman MP Pamela Kamugo at a function in Budaka District last year. PHOTO BY MUDANGHA KOLYANGHA
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On Monday, the Bagwere community from the four districts of Pallisa, Butebo, Budaka and Kibuku, woke up to the news of the passing of their cultural leader (Ikumbania), his highness John Chrisostom Weyabire. Mudangha Kolyangha explores the life and times of the deceased leader.
Fallen Ikumbania Bishop John C Weyabire was born in 1957 in an aristocratic family in Kenkebu Sub-county, Budaka District to Lawrence Mwoyo, son of Daniel Kawu of the Abakatikok Abanamwera Katikati clan. His mother was Christine Naguti Mwoya. They were both peasants.