Bugwe Cultural Leader’s Body returned home

The body of the Bugwe cultural leader, Omwene’ngo, Philip Wanyama Hasibante Nahama II has been returned home on Tuesday 21st March at the Entebbe International Airport.

Philip Wanyama Nahama the second died last week in India where he was being treated for cancer.

While receiving his body at the airport, Arafat Egessa Barasa the kingdom’s deputy prime minister said, Omwene’ngo shall be missed because he was a man who had brought all people together through emphasizing unity and co-existance.

“The Omwene’ngo has never had big health challenges in his life, he has been a healthy and hardworking man; a model farmer who has been leading by example,” Barasa added.

About the burial arrangements, he noted that details shall be revealed after the council meeting that will be held on Wednesday 22nd March.

In January 2017, he was installed as the Omwene’ngo of the Samia-Bugwe cultural institution, and in 2019, the government gazetted the cultural institution later in 2020, the Omwene’ngo was coronated by the Sabaruli in a small function due to observance of the COVID-19 standard operation procedures (SOPs).

Before his death, the Omwene’ngo had directed Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, the vice chancellor of Makerere University who is the kingdom’s minister of education and his deputy Michael Wanyama, the executive director of higher education students financing board to start the Obwene’ngo education students’ sponsorship scheme.

The scheme has already embarked on mobilizing sh1.2 billion to support 500 vulnerable learners in five years.

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