Ruth Komutale and Christopher Thomas

Princess Ruth Komutale’s wedding  is imminent .Preparations for Toro Kingdom’s princess (sister to Toro King Oyo) wedding are are on going with just a few days remaining .

Toro Kingdom Princess  Komuntale will wed her African American fiancé Thomas Christopher in a royal wedding on 17th November 2012 .

Komuntale will  first introduce her fiancee Christopher Thomas at a ceremony known as  ‘okwanjura’ at the Omusuuga’s residence in Gweri, on Kamwenge Road, 4 miles from Fort Portal town before the the wedding ceremony.

The  wedding ceremony  will be held at St. John’s Cathedral in Fort Portal and the mass will be held by Bishop of Rwenzori diocese, Reuben Kisembo. It will be followed by a reception at the Karuziika.

The wedding had bee scheduled for July 14 but  was postponed.Brian Muganzi one of the officials who are on the committee announced that that they had received information from king Oyo about the postponement.

Muganzi said  that King Oyo told the organizing committee that he postponed the wedding to November 17th 2012 to enable him have enough time for preparation.

Princess Ruth Komuntale Nsemere, the elder sister to Tooro King, Oyo Nyimba and Christopher Thomas’s  met in the US where she had gone for her studies

Meanwhile a section of Batooro has threatened to boycott the royal  wedding  ceremony over land wrangles in Tooro kingdom between the Queen mother Best Kemigisa and the Batooro .

This  comes after one Andrew Irumba accused Kemigisa of selling 100 acres on Block 44 in Kibito, Bunyangabo in Fort Portal to Uganda Land Commission (ULC) at Shs 5b, which he claims was sold to his father Augustine Irumba (RIP), by the late Toro King Olimi Kaboyo. This resulted into the forceful eviction of sitting tenants from this land recently.

By Ahura Mujuni Mark