Katikkiro
Noun
Meaning
Katikkiro (plural Katikkiros)
A prime minister of the kingdom of Buganda.
Examples
At the Thanksgiving prayer service for Apollo Nelson Makubuya’s appointment as 3rd Deputy Katikkiro of Buganda, Mr. Mbabazi was in attendance and, yes, in some sort of a kanzu.
In a related story, in June 2015 Mr. Gaster Lule Ntake, cashier for Katikkiro Mayiga’s Buganda Twezimbe and Ettofaali fundraising campaign, opened a separate TV station named Delta TV.
Repeating his claim to the status of Kabaka’s eldest son, the Katikkiro told his audience that our Kabaka is not “Kabaka of Baganda” but “Kabaka of Buganda.”
Today is exactly five years since Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi appointed Mr Charles Peter Mayiga as Katikkiro of Buganda.
There are no examples in Buganda’s recorded history where a Katikkiro has attempted such significant change to Baganda cultural norms without wide consultation with Abataka Abakulu b’Obusolya (clan leaders) and other Baganda cultural leaders.
They were walking to Bulange Building, past Masengere Plaza, to hear the Katikkiro of.