Hajji Sulaiman Kabega, one of the leaders of the Kiwatule mosque that was recently raided by police acting on false information, has died this afternoon at his Kiwatule home.

The deceased was discharged from Kitante Hospital the previous day, where he had been admitted after he developed high blood pressure.

The deceased is the father of Sheikh Dr. Ismail Kalule, an outspoken Muslim cleric who was arrested in connection with the 2010 Kampala bombings, and recently acquitted, only to be rearrested moments later.

Hajji Kabega’s other son, Sheikh Yunus Mukasa, is the Deputy Imam of Kiwatule mosque, who was recently arrested together with some faithful including preachers from India, based on wrong intelligence. The group was later released and the police boss General Kale Kayihura apologised for the arrests.

The deceased will be buried tomorrow at Kkungu after Buwate off Najjera-Kira Road, Kira town council, Wakiso district.

Recently, Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo acquitted Dr. Kalule and seven co-accused, part of the 13 men accused of killing 76 people in twin bombings in Kampala in 2010. However, security operatives rearrested the acquitted including Dr. Kalule, Yahya Suleiman Mbuthia, Mohamed Hamid Suleiman, Omar Awadh Omar and Abubakeri Batemyetto.

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The Working Committee of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is to meet tomorrow to among other issues discuss the sharing out of Shs6 billion among public officers.

Addressing the press today at party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, the FDC Deputy spokesperson Harold Kaija said the money, now dubbed ‘cash bonanza or presidential handshake’ from the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) coffers should have been used to help needy Ugandans like those faced with hunger. He also lamented that the 42 public officers were fully-facilitated to perform their duties when they defended Uganda in a US$434 million Capital Gains Tax case involving, at different times, two oil companies, Heritage Oil and Gas and Tullow.

“If they were to get a bonus, then it would have been in the form of a ‘Thirteenth Month’,” Mr Kaija noted. According to Kaija, the resolutions of tomorrow’s meeting will be tabled on the floor of Parliament.

Asked about the FDC intentions since the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has already summoned the individuals involved, Kaija said: “The speaker of Parliament in her capacity does not present her issues in Parliament and let us all be patient and wait for what FDC will prepare after tomorrow’s meeting.”

Meanwhile, Mr Kaija has said that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) was reaching out to his party, asking for dialogue.

“Dr Besigye did not ask for dialogue with Mr. Museveni but rather it is them {NRM] who usually send different people asking us [FDC ] to dialogue with them but when we give them our conditions they never return and instead send a new person,” Kaija said.

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About three months after he died, the body of King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa arrives at Kanombe International Airport later today.

King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who ascended the throne in 1959 and was ousted in 1961, died of hypertension on October 16, last year, aged 80, giving rise to a court battle waged by relatives; the decision to bury the monarch in Rwanda was made by court in Virginia, US, after the King’s relative disagreed on whether to lay the remains in the US or return them to Rwanda.

Subsequently, after two days of hearing from witnesses both sides, on January 4 the court ruled that King Kigeli’s body be returned to Rwanda and laid to rest at his Nyanza Palace.

At the time of his death he had lived in exile in the US for about 24 years.

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