Queen Sylvia Nagginda Luswata is on the spot after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s Senior Presidential Advisor on media Joseph Tamale Mirundi questioned her relationship with Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda.
Mirundi accuses Nagginda of abandoning Kabaka Mutebi at the time he needs her most.
“Every married man knows that when he gets sick, he wants his wife to be close to him. But since Kabaka Mutebi got sick, I have never seen a photo of him with his wife comforting him. I’m sure her distance from the king is sending a message to Baganda,” Mirundi said.
He added that if Nagginda as the official wife was performing her duty to take care of her husband as she vowed when they were officially getting married in church, Baganda would not be raising questions over his whereabouts because they would know that she is in the right hands.
Mirundi explained that Baganda would have believed any message communicated from Nagginda than any other person including Buganda premier Charles Peter Mayiga.
“Baganda are not stupid people. They know that their king is a human being who can get sick but they got annoyed when Mayiga told them that their king was suffering from Allergy.
But what I can assure Mayiga and Nagginda is that if anything bad happens to Kabaka, they will be blamed first because his life is in their hands. I know what Kabaka means to Baganda,” Mirundi warned.
He wondered how Nagginda organized a colourful ceremony to launch her book without the blessings of her husband, and even though most members of the Royal family shunned he launch, she remained unapologetic.
She did not stop at that, she is on a fundraising drive to get money to help the mentally sick get proper medical treatment without the blessing of the King.
However, Buganda Kingdom historian, Mubiru Njuuki rubbished Mirundi’s allegations explaining that in Kiganda culture, Nagginda as the official wife to the king is not responsible for comforting the King when get sick.
He explains that people like Omuttaka Kasujju the clan head of Engeye, omuttaka Mugema the clan head of Ekima, Kasujju Lubinga and Nadduli Kibale are the ones answerable.
He added that it is not the first time Baganda are putting the King’s wife on spot when he is troubled. He gave the example of Damalie Kisosonkole the official widow to Sir Edward Walugembe Mutesa, father to King Mutebi who was blasted for putting on sunglasses when she was accompanying the body of her husband from United Kingdom where he died from.
“You know our people love their king so much, they wanted her to start crying on top of her voice as soon as she came out of the plane. You know because Damalie was a modern wife, and when she put on sunglass, people accused her that she was not hurt by the King’s death that is why she was only enjoying her fashion style,” Njuuki said.
He added that when Drussila Namaganda the widow to Sir Daudi Chwa remarried after the death of her husband because she was still younger, and her son King Muteesa allowed her to get marriage to another person, Baganda turned guns on her and her new husband and they were badly hated in Buganda.
Njuki accused Premier Mayiga of mismanaging Kabaka’s sickness thinking that it will make him more powerful.
He says that little did Mayiga know that he was creating troubles for himself because if anything bad happens to Kabaka, he will be on spot and the most hated man in Buganda.
However recently, photos of Kabaka leaked on social media with his brother Joseph Ndawula and the Kingdom minister Kitooke revealed that he is in Namibia resting after being released by doctors in Europe.
But highly placed sources in the palace insist that Kabaka Mutebi returned back into the country a few weeks back and the said photos were taken in Uganda.
Sources insist that prince Ndawula who is a brother to King Mutebi has been in the country enjoying life with his longtime friend Godfrey Kirumira the Namibian consular in Uganda.
Since 2019, Kabaka Mutebi has been receiving medication.
