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.