While thousands of mourners, including Tanzanian leader Jakaya Kikwete, joined President Museveni on Monday to bid farewell to his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta, who passed away on Friday last week, the former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Kiiza Besigye and the current FDC president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu did not bother to go for the burial or to send their condolences.  Museveni’s political friends like president Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan at least sent him condolence messages.

Most of the mourners kept on watching all the corners to see whether Museveni’s former allies Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and Col. Kiiza Besigye would keep their political differences aside and join Museveni while he mourns his father. Late Kaguta was buried at President Museveni’s ancestral home in Rwakituura, Kiruhura District.

Besigye says that he did not attend the burial of Museveni’s father because no one informed him about his death. Statehouse sources when contacted confirmed that they forgot to inform the leaders of political parties about the death of Kaguta. Also, the news coming from Muntu’s camp indicates that he too was not officially informed about Kaguta’s death. However, another source in FDC told Walakira Nyanzi of the Ultimate Media Consult that he would have attended the burial but he feared to go there because people would have thought that Museveni and Muntu are the same. Muntu is a former friend of Museveni who turned foe.

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The party Secretary General Matthias Nsubuga said the six man committee will also include members of the Kiwanuka family.

He says that after establishing where his remains are, an official burial date will be communicated.

The party says they have information indicating that the body of the former Chief Justice and Prime Minister Ben Kiwanuka, was laid to rest in Nakasongola and not Luzira as earlier believed.

It is believed that Kiwanuka, died at the hands of Idi Amin government in September 22, 1972.

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The daughter to former Eagles Production ace, late Fred Maiso and Geoffrey Lutaaya’s wife Irene Namatovu no longer see themselves eye to eye. Why Late Maiso’s daughter is said to be in love with Namatovu’s hubby Geoffrey Lutaaya.

One of the singers in Eagles Production intimated to us that Lutaaya and Namatovu’s romance is still rocky because of Maiso’s daughter; we have learnt she is called Stella Maiso.

Fred Maiso and Lutaaya were not some close friends but it is surprising to see that immediately after his death his daughter Stella and Lutaaya are an item. In fact Lutaaya did not attend Maiso’s burial.

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When Denis Okema returned home with his family, his house was wide open with no trace of his property, save for rolls of toilet pepper.

Like he was possessed Okema rushed to neighbours and shouted ‘my house has been swept clean and all the property stolen.’

The neighbours also came and checked his house and found it empty. Okema has now reported the matter to the area police post and as usual the force is hunting for the thugs. The police are yet to nab the people who stole Okema’s property.

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when Denis Okema returned home with his family, his house was widely open with no trace of his property, save for rolls of toilet peppers.

Like he was possessed Okema rushed to neighbours and shouted ‘my house has been swept clean and all the property stolen.’ The neighbours also came and checked his house and found it empty.

Okema has now reported the matter to the area police post and as usual the force is hunting for the thugs. The police are yet to nab the people who stole Okema’s property.

By James Okello

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