Word: lukiko
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...pretty young Nabagereka (Queen) retired with her ladies in waiting and sent out a message that she was "bewildered and grief-stricken." Buganda nationalists, who have previously attacked the Kabaka as a playboy and British puppet, quickly reversed themselves and cried for "our beloved King." In the Great Lukiko (native council), Prime Minister Paulo Kavuma announced that he had radioed London, beseeching the British government to please send Mutesa home...
Many of them were of the opinion that the Kabaka had been meddling in politics to divert public attention from the previous frivolity of his personal life. Explaining the government's decision to the Lukiko, Governor Cohen, a close friend of Mutesa II and one of Britain's best colonial administrators, accused the exiled Kabaka of "persistently refusing to accept British decisions...