You think succession is a funeral? No. Succession is war in silence. The King is still warm, and the drums of the next King are already beating.
The Kifuuta Oracle is asking you to listen. The issue of Kingship and Kingdom succession is not like burying an ordinary man, where you cry, you eat, you go home.
No.
In Kingdoms, grief is entertainment for the peasants. For the palace, grief is a luxury they cannot afford. Succession is fighting EVEN BEFORE the King is buried.
Why? Because a Kingdom cannot be without a head for one second. A body can stay without burial, but a Kingdom cannot stay without a King. When the King's heart stops, the Kingdom's heart must continue beating.
Our elders in Kifuuta Katooke, Kyotera, Buddu, said: You shape steel when it's still hot. If you wait for it to cool, it will break.
That is why Andrew Mwenda's fight is right and on top of the game. He is not being disrespectful. He is being historical. He knows what every Kingdom knows.
Let me show you the world - so you understand Buganda, you understand Busoga, you understand Bunyoro.
BUGANDA ITSELF - OUR OWN BLOOD
When Kabaka Mutesa I died, did Buganda wait for 7 days to mourn before choosing? No!
Before the body was cold in London, the chiefs were already in Lubiri at night, whispering. "Who is next?" Because if you wait, another clan will bring its own Prince with spears.
When Kabaka Mwanga was chased, the Muslims put Kiweewa, the Christians put Mutebi's grandfather - fighting while the throne was still warm!
Buganda's custom: The King never dies; he just disappears - "Omukama Atase." And before you announce that he has disappeared, you must have known who will replace him. The burial customs themselves CANNOT be performed without a King sitting on the throne. Who will hand over the spear? Who will authorize the burial? A Kingdom buries its King WITH a King present.
You cannot bury a King when there is no King. That is an abomination.
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE - THE LAW OF FRATRICIDE
In Turkey, the Ottoman Turks had a law. A terrible law, but a wise law for survival.
When Sultan Mehmed II took over, he wrote: "For the welfare of the state, the one of my sons to whom God grants the Sultanate may lawfully put his brothers to death."
Why? Because if you have 10 princes fighting for 10 years after the Sultan dies, the whole empire will collapse. The Christians of Europe will invade.
So, the moment the Sultan died, messengers rode on fast horses to all provinces. The first son to hear and reach Istanbul became Sultan. And the first thing he did? He ordered his brothers strangled with a silk cord - before his father's body was even washed!
Cruel? Yes. But their empire lasted 600 YEARS because the throne was never left empty.
ROME - THE DAY CAESAR FELL, ANOTHER CAESAR ROSE
When Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times on the Senate floor, his blood was still on the floor, and already Mark Antony picked up his will and said, "I am the heir!"
Octavian was only 18 years old, in Albania. He heard Caesar was dead. He didn't wait for the funeral. He marched to Rome immediately. Because he knew - if he waited to cry, someone else would take the legions.
And indeed, Rome had 1 year of civil war because succession was delayed. That 1 year of vacuum killed thousands. That is why Romans said: "The King is dead; long live the King!" in one breath. No gap.
SAUDI ARABIA TODAY - THE KINGDOM THAT NEVER SLEEPS
Look at Saudi Arabia today - the richest Kingdom.
When King Abdullah died in 2015, at 1:00 AM, the royal court announced his death. At 1:10 AM - 10 minutes later! - they announced Salman was the new King.
They didn't wait for burial. They didn't wait for 40 days of mourning. Why? Because oil prices, the army, and Mecca - the world cannot wait.
The burial happened later that same day, and it was led by the NEW King. The new King buries the old King. That is the custom.
How can the dead bury the dead?
BRITAIN - THE CROWN NEVER DIES
When Queen Elizabeth II died in Scotland, what did the BBC say at 6:30 PM on 8th September 2022?
"The Queen is dead. Long live the King."
Prince Charles became King Charles III at that exact second. Not after burial. Not after coronation after 8 months. At that second.
His first job as King the next morning? To plan his mother's burial. Because only a King can bury a Queen in that tradition.
THE WISDOM OF KIFUUTA
So, you who are saying, "Why is Mwenda rushing? Let us first bury, then we talk about succession."
You are thinking like a villager who lost a grandfather.
A Kingdom is not a village. A Kingdom is a spirit. The spirit must jump immediately from one body to another, or the Kingdom dies.
The customs, the norms, the last funeral rites, the cleansing, the bringing of the barkcloth - all those rituals require a living King to preside over them. You cannot perform the norms for the gone King if there is no sitting King to authorize them.
That is why elders say: Shape steel when it's still hot.
When the King goes to meet Katonda and the ancestors in Kifuuta, the drums must not go silent. One drum stops; another drum starts immediately.
That is not disrespect to the dead King. That is the highest respect to the Kingship.
Andrew Mwenda understands this. His fight is not against grief. His fight is for the Kingdom to survive grief.
Because if you entertain grief for too long, by the time you finish entertaining, you will find the Kingdom has been sold while you were crying.
The Throne is never empty. The fire must never go out.
Whoever is fighting Mwenda is the enemy of the Batooro, and the Kingdoms should support Mwenda. Look at the AG and Mao, lost in textbooks, as the history they read at school escaped in the thighs of her. Naye abasoma muswaleko.
