Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja described him arsenic a "symbol of unity" and praised his enactment raising consciousness astir HIV and Aids among young people.
Opposition MPs besides paid tribute, with acting absorption person Patrick Nsamba Oshabe saying: "Heritage and improvement were ne'er rivals successful his hands."
President Museveni has ordered an authoritative burial for the monarch and nationalist flags volition alert astatine half-mast for 3 days astir the funeral.
On Wednesday, the Tooro kingdom's Prime Minister, Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki, said the king had asked officials not to disclose the seriousness of his unwellness due to the fact that helium believed helium would retrieve and instrumentality to his people.
He said the monarch had hoped to instrumentality location for this year's Empango - the yearly solemnisation of his coronation - connected 12 September.
"He was assured successful his recovery," Akiiki said.
His decease has triggered uncertainty implicit the aboriginal of the monarchy arsenic Oyo was not officially married.
But Akiiki has said the king had a young son, whose individuality would beryllium revealed aboriginal successful accordance with Tooro customs.
President Museveni besides said the king's mother, Queen Best Kemigisa, had told him that her lad had near an heir.
But Charles Kamurasi, who is caput of the Babiito royal clan from which Tooro's kings are chosen, said helium knew thing astir the reported child, prompting an antithetic nationalist disagreement among elder figures successful the kingdom.
Others wrong the royal clan person questioned wherefore they were seemingly unaware of the child.
"The premier curate is not expected to speech astir the king's heir. It is simply a taste process," 1 royal clan subordinate was quoted arsenic saying by Uganda's state-owned New Vision newspaper.
"How tin we, humor relatives, not cognize of the child, and the premier curate says helium knows? That is wholly retired of order," the clan subordinate added.
Akiiki has since appealed for the quality to beryllium dealt with privately, saying helium wanted to conscionable different elders to resoluteness their differences.
"Words spoken successful moments of grief tin deepen divisions that whitethorn instrumentality years to repair," helium warned.
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