FORGIVE ME, YOUR MAJESTY: CJ Owiny-Dollo Apologizes to Kabaka, Baganda

Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has apologized to Buganda Kingdom monarch Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi and members of the Baganda ethnic group for comments he made against them during a vigil at the home of late speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah in Muyenga, Kampala. 

CJ Owiny-Dollo made the claims during a vigil at the home of late speaker Jacob Oulanyah in Muyenga. (Read Story Here).

NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, a Muganda by tribe, told Owiny-Dollo to stop diverting Ugandans from asking the real cause of Oulanyah’s death. (Read Story Here).

Later, Buganda Kingdom prime minister Charles Peter Mayiga responded to CJ Owiny-Dollo’s comments. (Read Story Here).

Now, Owiny-Dollo has apologized to the Kabaka and Baganda.

“I hereby unequivocally, unreservedly and of my free volition, wholly retract that reference and also hereby tender my apology to His Majesty the Kabaka,” the chief justice was quoted by Daily Monitor as saying.

“I will communicate to the Katikkiro of Buganda in writing.”

Pearl Times Reporter

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