The beingness of Oyo's lad was archetypal publically revealed successful the days aft the king's decease by President Museveni, who said helium had been told astir the young lad by the queen mother.
No different details person officially been disclosed, and helium had not antecedently been presented arsenic Oyo's heir.
The disagreement has exposed the analyzable mode successful which succession works successful Tooro.
Unlike Britain's monarchy, wherever the crown passes according to an established enactment of succession, Tooro's monarch is chosen from the Babiito, the royal dynastic clan.
At a property league successful the kingdom's superior of Fort Portal, the royal clan's succession committee announced Kijanangoma, Oyo's relative and a quality presenter at the state-run broadcaster UBC, arsenic monarch.
The clan elders said they had the customary authorization to take a suitable prince to go "the Omukama" - the section rubric for the king of Tooro.
The succession sheet said it had carried retired "due diligence, consultation and capable consideration" earlier selecting Kijanangoma, with 19 members signing the resolution.
Kijanangoma is the lad of Prince Christopher Paul Kijanangoma and a grandson of erstwhile Tooro king George David Rukidi III.
Another royal, UK-based Prince George Desmond Kamurasi, was initially considered for the throne but declined, citing different responsibilities, according to the succession committee.
It is not yet wide erstwhile the enthronement volition instrumentality place, but the committee said it would beryllium conducted successful accordance with the traditions and customs of the Tooro kingdom.
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