The international crimes division of the High Court has granted Charles Wesley Mumbere 14 days to mourn and attend mother’s funeral.
He is however barred from addressing unrelated gatherings which could lead to inciting violence. Mumbere has expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the state for granting him the temporary bail, to send off his dear mother;
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Mumbere was arrested together with royal guards in November 2016 after a joint operation by the army and police led to storming of his Buhikira Palace in Kasese Town in which 136 people were killed.
Mumbere was later airlifted and detained at Nalufenya police station in Jinja district but was granted bail by the High Court in Jinja
The Omusinga and his royal guards face several charges of treason, terrorism, murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery and malicious damage to property.
MEANWHILE, Rwenzururu King Charles Wesley Mumbere and his young brother Christopher Kibanzanga have disagreed over dates and site to bury their mother Christine Biira Mukirania.
Mukirania who has been the Queen Mother of the Obusinga Bwa Rwenzururu (OBR) Kingdom died at Kilembe Mines Hospital on Tuesday. The 85-year-old had been battling hypertension and diabetes for some time.
A programme released by the Rwenzururu Kingdom Spokesperson Yonah Maathe Tumusiime on Wednesday had indicated that the queen mother would be buried on the Sunday on one of her estates in Kirembo village of Kisinga sub-county –Kasese district.
However, Kibanzanga the Kingdom’s Chief Prince who also doubles the Minister of State for Agriculture yesterday declared that he had taken over the burial arrangements of his mother.
He said he was going to bury her at Kirindi village in Bundibugyo Sub County, their ancestral home.
Rwenzururu Kingdom’s chairperson of the Prime Ministerial Committee Gad Mbayahi, however, disagreed with Kibanzanga, saying she ought to be buried in Kasese, the headquarters Rwenzururu Kingdom.
Isaya Mukirania Kibanzanga I, who is the father to both Mumbere and Kibanzanga was born and raised at Kirindi.
In 1962 after he had waged rebellion against Tooro Kingdom , he shifted to Kasese as a tactical base. He eventually died there in 1966 and was buried at Bulemba in Ihandiro Sub County.
