Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iteso Cultural Union-ICU Council has named its embattled chairperson, Paul Sande Emolot as an interim Emorimor. The council also passed a resolution to disband the cabinet led by the Prime Minister Augustine Omare Okurut, for alleged insubordination to the council. The decision was reached …
Read More »Iteso Council to meet suspended chairman over Emorimor succession
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iteso Cultural Union- ICU Cabinet has resolved to meet the embattled chairperson of the council, Paul Sande Emolot to resolve the impasse over interim administration of the union. There has been a standoff between the ICU Cabinet led by Augustine Omare-Okurut and ICU …
Read More »Iteso Cultural Union petitions gender ministry over Emorimor’s office
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The speaker of the Iteso Cultural Union John Francis Okuma has written to the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) to allow the embattled council chairperson, Paul Sande Emolot to oversee the office of Emorimor. Emolot and more than 100 members of ICU …
Read More »What next for Iteso after Osuban?
Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iteso on social media are already discussing succession in the Iteso Cultural Union- ICU after the burial of the first Paramount Chief, Augustine Osuban Lemukol on Saturday. Some are proposing names of candidates for the position of Emorimor while others are offering guidance …
Read More »Iteso cultural leader laid to rest
Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iteso Paramount Chief, Emorimor Augustine Osuban Lemukol was on Saturday laid to rest at his ancestral home in Abilayep, Serere district. Osuban who died on February 5, at Mulago National Referral Hospital has been at the helm of Iteso cultural leadership since April 2000, …
Read More »Iteso in mourning, reflect on their role in Emorimor reign
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is more than a week since the Iteso lost their cultural leader, Augustine Lemukol Osuban, Adugala Emorimor. He died in Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was admitted for close to two weeks after spending nine days in the Soroti COVID-19 treatment unit. …
Read More »Gov’t committed to giving sh60 million support to all cultural institutions
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja has told Parliament that government is considering paying all cultural institutions sh60 million monthly to support their activities. Nabbanja made the revelation during a special sitting of Parliament in which legislators convened to pay tribute to the Iteso Cultural …
Read More »Contention in Teso over burial site of cultural leader
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Iteso Cultural Institution is yet to agree where the Paramount Chief in Teso, Augustine Osuban Lemukol will be buried. On Monday, William Alloch Akol, the Chairperson of the Iteso Cultural Union-ICU Founders said that Emorimor should be buried on the land that was last …
Read More »Ugandans mourn Iteso cultural leader
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Iteso from all walks of life have expressed sadness over the demise of their cultural leader, Augustine Osuban Lemukol Adugala Emorimor. President Yoweri Museveni has also sent out a condolence message. “I join the people of Teso, and the entire country to mourn the …
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