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Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, has expressed his admiration for the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi.
."I have never said this because I respect him so much. Kabaka Mutebi is someone I admire a lot," he posted on X on Sunday, 29 December.
Kabaka Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II, born on 13 April 1955, is the 36th Kabaka of Buganda.
He was born at Mulago Hospital to Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Muteesa II, the Kabaka of Buganda who reigned from 1939 to 1969 and served as Uganda’s first President from 1962 to 1966.
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His mother was Omuzaana Kabejja Sarah Nalule of the Nkima clan.Kabaka Mutebi was educated at Budo Junior School, King’s Mead School in Sussex, and Bradfield College, a public school in West Berkshire.
He later attended Magdalene College, Cambridge. On 6 August 1966, at the age of 11, he was appointed Heir Apparent by his father. While in exile, he worked as an Associate Editor of African Concord magazine and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in London.
Upon his father’s death on 21 November 1969, he became the Head of the Royal House of Buganda.He returned to Uganda in 1988 following the removal of the Milton Obote regime and the subsequent military junta.
He was proclaimed Kabaka at Buddo in a coronation ceremony held at Naggalabi on 31 July 1993, following the constitutional restoration of kingdoms in Uganda, which had been abolished by Milton Obote. Since then, he has reigned from the royal seat at Bulange in Mengo, Kampala.