Museveni decries too many marriage functions at granddaughter’s Kuhingira 

• President Museveni attended the Kuhingira ceremony for his granddaughter, Nsasiirwe Keinembabazi Karugire.

• He criticized the modern trend of hosting multiple, costly marriage functions, calling it inefficient.

• The President advocated for returning to traditional Ankole customs that combine giveaway and wedding events.

President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday afternoon attended the traditional Kuhingira (giveaway) ceremony of his granddaughter, Nsasiirwe Keinembabazi Karugire, better known as Sasii.

Saasi is the daughter of Edwin Karugire and Natasha Museveni, President Yoweri Museveni's second-born daughter.

Photos of the spacious ceremony were shared online this morning.

President Museveni in his remarks, however, criticized the modern culture in Uganda of having too many expensive marriage functions.

He noted that the correct way as was in the past in Ankole and other communities, would be combining some of these functions, such as the Kuhingira and wedding into one.

“Like now, we would have performed all ceremonies and the woman would have been taken to night. She should have gone away this night,” he said.

“But now they do it halfway, they come here and she goes back home and then you have another function."

Saasi got engaged to the son of Lieutenant General Sam Kavuma, a prominent figure as the Commander of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), in July of last year