Every 13th April is marked on everybody’s calendar, mostly those of central Uganda, which is a celebration of His Majesty, King of Buganda, one of the biggest tribes in Uganda, Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi III birthday.
As all the past years, a week before the celebrations are conducted, a marathon called the “Kabaka birthday Run” which is dedicated to and always has a theme, this time round it was “Men for good health to save the Girl Child” mostly dedicated towards ensuring the end of AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
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This event is highly participated in by the people in the central Uganda, bringing people of different age the old, the young, the youth, different schools, politicians, musicians, different sponsors from different companies e.g. Airtel Uganda, MTN, Beverage industries and so many others together towards achieving the set goals and theme of the run. This creates togetherness, peace unity and harmony among people in the Buganda Kingdom who are the Kabaka’s subjects.
This year’s Birthday run was opened by the king himself who of recently recovered his health to honor the event, the Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga other Buganda Ministers and Politicians like Robert Kyabgulanyi Ssetamu, different musicians e.g. Nina Roz, Pallaso, full Figure to mention a few but many.