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Kabarole, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has started a verification exercise of Tooro Kingdom properties. This comes after President Museveni last year signed a Memorandum of Understanding with King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV to return the kingdom’s properties. Tooro kingdom is demanding its properties from the …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is unease in Fort Portal Municipality as a result of a planned removal of a lion effigy that stands at the roundabout in the centre of the town. The effigy was erected in 2016 after consultations between Tooro Kingdom and Fort Portal …

Kabarole, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tooro Kingdom has donated relief items worth 127 million shillings towards the fight against coronavirus. The items were handed over on Monday to the Kabarole Resident District Commissioner and chairperson Kabarole district COVID 19 task force Stephen Asiimwe. They included bananas, firewood, 21 tonnes …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Musa Ssekaana has awarded the Tooro Kingdom Queen Mother, Best Kemigisa Shillings 83 million in damages arising from a defamation suit she filed against The Redpepper Publications Limited. The suit stemmed from an article published by the Red pepper titled “Tooro Queen Mother …

Tooro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tooro Kingdom has clarified on the acquisition of kingdom property by King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba. This follows a legal notice issued by Akampurira and Partners Advocates indicating that the premises hosting Sarah Medical Clinic on Block 73 in Fort portal town was transferred from the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has asked Tooro Kingdom not to evict institutions occupying land and structures belonging to the kingdom when the assets are returned. Since 2013, the kingdom has been demanding for the return of its assets that were reverted to the government after the abolition …

Kabarole, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Patrick Muganzi has been maintained as the third Deputy Prime Minister and Security Minister in Tooro Kingdom, despite reports implicating him as a defiant wetland encroacher.  Muganzi was recently implicated for constructing houses and planting eucalyptus trees in Mugunu Wetland in Kabarole District. The report …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tooro Kingdom is up in arms against the inclusion of Kabarole and Ntoroko districts as part of Rwenzururu Kingdom in an affidavit by King Charles Wesley Mumbere to high court. On June 12, Mumbere through his lawyers, Caleb Alaka, Evans Ochieng, Eron Kiiza …