Joyce Namugambe
The Buganda Prime minster Owek Charles Peter Mayiga has visited the kasubi masiro Tombs to see the progress of the reconstruction of the Tombs to the expected standards from the contractors.
This comes at a time when the Japanese goverment through its Deputy head of mission Tomotaka Yoshimura visited the same Tombs to see how the operation of the fire systems are managed by the fire team, to comfirm that they are able to control any fire outbreak that may occur into the Tombs.
It is now few days remaining for the 21 member states of the world’s heritage committee meeting to be held in Saudi Arabia from 10th of this month and among the issues to be discussed during this meeting is UNESCO seeking for the Tombs to be removed from the list of endangered cultural heritage sites.
During his visit at the Tombs, Owek Charles Peter Mayiga commended the team that is taking on the reconstruction and noted that the biggest part of the work of the main house of Muzibuazalampanga is at the finishing level and they are yet to work on the compound of the house and working towards taking it back to the ancient state, as it was during the Kabaka Muteesa I regime.
He stated that the work of reconstructing all the houses inside the masiro such as Njagala Kasaayi house is progressing well and added that the remaining part of the work is to paint that final picture of the Kasubi Masiro Tombs to get to the standard that everyone is waiting for.
The Kasubi Masiro Tombs caught fire in 2010, and ever since then, the reconstruction work started under the support from the Japanese government, UNESCO, the central government, people in Buganda and Uganda at large, among others.
