Predecessors and Short History:
About the
turn of the 16th Century, an important event took place, which was to
give
the Basoga their peculiar cultural configuration. This was the advent
of
the Baisengobi clan, Prince Mukama Namutukula from the royal
family
of Bunyoro is said to have left Bunyoro and trekked Eastwards across
Lake
Kyoga, and
landed
at Iyingo, located at the northern point of Busoga in the present day
Kamuli
district. On his departure back to Bunyoro, he allocated his five
surviving sons, areas within his influence as overseers. The
first-born, Wakoli was given the area called Bukooli, Zibondo
was to administer Bulamogi, Ngobi was given Kigulu, Tabingwa was to
oversee
Luuka while the youngest son, Kitimbo was to settle in Bugabula. This
state of affairs in
Busoga's
political and cultural arrangement continued till the late 19th century
when the colonialists persuaded the rulers of Busoga into some form of
federation. This federation resulted into a regional Busoga council
called
Busoga Lukiiko (legislative
council) at Bukaleba in 1894. Prince Kisira, the Zibondo of Bulamogi
was elected chairman
of the first Busoga Council by the 11 hereditary chiefs. He presided
over
the council until his death in 1898. Thirteen small states joined
together to form the confederacy of Busoga
in July 1906. It was in abeyance from 1914 to 1919, when the hereditary
saza chiefs of Busoga resolved in the
Lukiiko
to elect Ezekeria Tenywa Wako, president of Busoga. In February 1920,
the British Colonial government
appointed
Ezekiel Tenywa Wako the first permanent resident chief at Bugembe. In
1939, Chief Ezekiel Tenywa Wako became the first
"Isebantu Kyabazinga of Busoga". In 1949, the
Busoga
Lukiiko resolved that the Kyabazinga Isebantu shall always be elected
from
the five Princes' lineages of Abaise Ngobi (Ababiito) hereditary
rulers;
the five sons of Omukama of Bunyoro who migrated to Busoga from
Bunyoro. The Kingdom was abolished on 8th September
1967, and restored in 1993, though a ruler was only crowned in 1995.
Rulers were...
- Semei Lulaklenzi Wakirenzi Kakungulu
1906/1914, born 1869
in Kooki,
Buganda, son
of Semuwemba of the Ganda, President of Busoga Lukiiko from July 1906
to
January
1914, King of the Bagesu (in present Mbale district), married (a)
(div.1905),
a daughter of Kabaka Mutesa I of Buganda,
married
(b), a daughter of Kabaka Kalema of Buganda, and had issue. He died
24th
November 1928 in Mbale.
- Yuda Makabee Kakungulu
- Nimulodi (Nimrod) Kakungulu
- Jonah Kakungulu
- Miriam Kakungulu
- Ibulaim (Abraham) Ndaula Kakungulu, born about 1922.
- Israel Kakungulu, born about 1927.
- Isebantu Kyabazinga Gideon OBODHA, President of
Busoga Lukiiko 1914/1919 and Ngobi of Kigulu 1915/1922.
- Isebantu Kyabazinga EZEKIERI TENYWA WAKO III
1919/1949, Zibondo
of Bulamogi, President of the Busoga Native Chiefs Council 1919/1939;
Member
of Uganda Kings Council 1925/-;
installed
as Isebantu Kyabazinga of Busoga on the 11th of February 1939, O.B.E.
[cr.1961];
he retired on account of his age in 1949; married Inhebantu Yunia
Nakibande, died after 1973, and had issue. He
died 1982.
- HRH Isebantu Kyabazinga Henry Musoke Wako Muloki (qv)
- Isebantu Kyabazinga Sir WILLIAM WILBERFORCE KADHUMBULA NADIOPE
III 1949/1955 (first time)
- Isebantu Kyabazinga HENRY
MUSOKE WAKO MULOKI 1955/1962 (first time)
- Isebantu Kyabazinga Sir WILLIAM WILBERFORCE KADHUMBULA NADIOPE
III, Isebantu Kyabazinga of Busoga [28.9.1962] - [8.9.1967] (second
time),
son of Omukama Yosiya Gabula Nadiope II, Gabula of Bugabula; he ended
the British policy on the fight against small pox (Kawumpuli)
which brought him in conflict with the British government. As a result
he was exiled in Bunyoro where he was called to lead the Basoga into
Second World War. He also played a big role in Uganda's independence
struggle and before the end of his career, he had served as the first
Vice President of the independent Uganda. He was also the Chairman of
Uganda People’s Congress political Party (UPC). During his tenure of
office doubling as the Vice President, Kyabazinga and UPC Chairman, he
managed to push for several development projects in Busoga that include
construction of schools like the Balangira High School which later
became Busoga College Mwiri. He mobilised for the construction of
infrastructures like roads, hospitals, government centres like county
and sub-county headquarters and most of all mobilising the Basoga to
productive farming of both food and crops.
INTERREGNUM [8.9.1967] - [24.7.1993], Kingdom abolished.
VACANT [24.7.1993] - [11.2.1995]
- HRH
Isebantu Kyabazinga HENRY MUSOKE WAKO
MULOKI
O.B.E., Isebantu Kyabazinga of Busoga [11.2.1995] - [1.9.2008] (second
time),
born 18th February 1921 in Bulamogi County,
Kamuli District,
Uganda,
O.B.E. [1961], installed as Kyabazinga on 11th February 1995;
married 21st January 1956, Inhebantu Alice Muloki
[née Alice Kintu], born 19th November 1929, educated at Buckley
High School
in Iganga, went to Gayaza for O’level and trained as a Grade 3 teacher
at Buloba Primary Teachers’ College near Kampala, briefly worked as a
teacher at Buckley before transferring to Kamuli, became a principal at
Bishop Willis Core Primary Teachers’
College, died 6th November 2005 at Nakabango in Kinja District, and had
issue, four sons and three daughters. He died 1st September 2008 at
Mulago Hospital Cancer Institute in Kampala, buried 7th September 2008
at Kaliro after a state funeral.
- Prince Frederick Mukuunya Muloki
- Prince Dennis Muloki
- Prince John Nyiro Muloki
- Princess Rebecca Muloki
- Prince Edward Columbus Wambuzi Muloki, born 4th June
1973,
Zibondo of Bulamogi, elected as the successor in Busoga on 31st October
2008 and was
installed 7th June 2009 in Bugembe by the Issabalangira, Chief
Yokosofati
Kawanguzi Kisiki of Busiki chiefdom. The installation was nullified in
December 2009 and to date, the throne remains vacant.
- Chief James Christopher Mutayaba Nkono II, Nkono of
Bukono and Regent of Busoga [1.9.2008] - [1.10.2008] (Acting), resigned
from the position in order to compete for the appointment of the
Isebantu Kyabazinga.
- Chief Daudi Kawunhe Muluya Wakhooli [1.10.2008] -
[xx.4.2010] (Acting)
- Chief Fred Menhya Kakaire [xx.4.2010] - (Acting)
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