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V.P Bukenya Prays At
The Witchdoctor's Shrine
At Mukungwe, Masaka, UG.
For 2-term Presidential
Limits In Uganda To Be Lifted
As Proposed In The 'White Paper'.
EXTRACT from N.V article
By Eddie Ssejjoba:
The Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, on Monday
visited a traditional shrine and asked his ancestors for
peace and to grant President Yoweri Museveni a third term
in office.
The shrine at Kassewalaga in Masaka district is owned by
Hajji Bruhan Katale, chairman of Utoda Put Safe (UPS).
Bukenya, who was on a district tour, went to Katale’s home
to inspect a rice project run under the Ambulu
Demonstration Farm in Mukungwe sub-county in Bukoto East.
The rice is grown by UPS members.
Katale asked Bukenya to enter the grass-thatched shrine
after planting a tree, which Bukenya did, saying he wanted
to test Katale’s spirits.
He was received by pipe-smoking diviners, who asked him to
remove his shoes. His escorts remained outside as he
entered the shrine. He was accompanied by chanting people,
some clad in bark cloth and singing Luganda traditional
songs, especially those sang at rituals to welcome newborn
twins.
The floor was covered with grass and mats and barkcloth
hang on some parts of the wall. A bright fire burnt in the
centre of the room.
The VP knelt near the hearth, where he prayed with arms
raised. He was given coffee beans, some of which he ate,
while he put others in baskets to appease ancestors and
gods. Amid clapping and singing, the diviners gave him some
other items and blessed him as he joined the choruses and
clapping.
Bukenya was led to several corners decorated with spears,
knives, animal skins, gourds and other traditional items.
He sat down as they sang. He later knelt together with them
and prayed.
Bukenya’s entourage included the West Buganda Bishop, Dr.
Keefa Kamya Ssemakula, who refused to enter the shrine.
“That is satanic. Hajji Katale has done wrong to involve
our guest in such issues when on national duty,” Ssemakula
told the press. Bukenya had also visited the bishop’s rice
garden at Kako.
Masaka LC5 chairman Vincent Ssempijja said he also refused
to enter the shrine. “I do not know why this is being
done,” he said.
- Dec. 8, 2004
- N.V -
EXTRACT FROM MONITOR
VP prays in Masaka Witchdoctor’s shrine
By Alex B. Atuhaire & Micheal J. Ssali
Dec 8, 2004
KAMPALA — The Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, on
Monday prayed at a shrine in Masaka where he was subjected
to a rigorous regime of rituals.
Bukenya, a professor of medicine, visited Hajji Bull
Katare’s shrine, near Sunga on Bukakata Road shortly after
he had toured the Hajji’s rice farm. He apparently was
invited in the shrine for a drink.
In a subsequent exercise, the VP was led through a number
of rituals - removing his shoes at the entrance, made to
sit near a fire place and prayed with hands raised as
several men witchdoctors inside sang and smoked
multithreaded pipes.
The VP who looked excited joined in the singing the Kiganda
ritual song - Bweza bwa Mukasa.
He was treated to roast coffee beans, made to add more wood
to the fire and made offertory - putting money in the
baskets, a traditional method of making offerings to the
gods. Bukenya was later taken around the shrine.
Religious leaders in Masaka yesterday expressed surprise at
the VPs unexpected visit to the shrine.
Asked to comment on the VP’s visit to the shrine, Bukenya’s
Press Secretary, Simon Kaheru said detractors were
circulating it.
“People who are claiming that the VP went to a shrine maybe
have a motive of derailing the good objective of the VP’s
visit to the district,” he said.
“Even if His Excellency, Prof. Bukenya entered a shrine, he
is a vice president for all Ugandans,” Kaheru told The
Monitor by telephone last evening.
The Holy Communion
Ugandan Vice President
Prof. Bukenya In The Shrine
Of A Masaka Witchdoctor.
- Dec. 8, 2004
- Monitor -
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Quotable Quote.
Ugandan V.P Says He Did Not
Smoke From The Threaded Pipes
In The Witchdoctor's Shrine.
- N.V -
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