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Eight years on, Mayiga’s focus on people paying off
May 17, 2021 Charles Peter Mayiga
Soon after his appointment as Katikkiro on this date in 2013, Charles Peter Mayiga traversed the vast kingdom to see firsthand how the majority of Kabaka’s subjects were faring.
Many of the people of Buganda had given up on life, folding their arms and having no qualms about their state of affairs. This was not going to turn around their fortunes. In private conversations and public speeches, Mayiga talks about poverty as a challenge that needs to be solved. Nothing is as shameful as poverty, he usually says.
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April 21, 2021 Written by OUR REPORTER Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi (L) shares a light moment with Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga earlier
Over a 28-year reign on the throne, Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II had never missed presiding at a premier kingdom event; the opening of Buganda parliament (Lukiiko), his birthday fete, coronation anniversary, opening and closing of Masaza Cup and general community cleaning (Bulungi bwansi), among others.
But in March, he was conspicuously absent at the closure of the annual Masaza Cup at St Mary’s Stadium Kitende. Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga, who stepped in for the king, told the small crowd, diminished by Covid-19 restrictions, that the Kabaka couldn’t make it because he had an urgent