The Namibian authorities has refused a request to increase the visa for a Ugandan king who has been getting medical remedy within the nation since April.
King Mutebi II of the Buganda has been receiving remedy for an undisclosed situation. The centre the place he has been staying requested his visa extension earlier this month.
However in response, the worldwide relations ministry stated Namibian immigration legislation supplied for a most keep of solely 90 days in a yr to overseas residents.
This comes weeks after authorities reportedly expressed displeasure over protests by Ugandan activists at Namibian diplomatic missions.
“Having checked the data, I want to inform you that the request for an extension is declined,” the state broadcaster NBC quoted a ministry official as saying.
The Ugandan envoy in South Africa stated lately that Namibian authorities had been sad over the harassment of their diplomatic officers concerning the king’s keep.
In Could there have been protests on the Namibian Excessive Fee within the UK, with Ugandan demonstrators demanding transparency over the king’s prolonged keep.
They needed Namibia to reveal details about the king’s whereabouts to place to relaxation suspicions that he had been kidnapped.
The Namibian authorities then referred the matter to the Buganda conventional authorities.
Two weeks in the past, Buganda conventional chiefs travelled to Namibia to hunt the reality concerning the king’s well being, sparking diplomatic issues and a rebuke from Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.
“I request all of the Ugandans to cease embarrassing Uganda by opportunistically making an attempt to point out how a lot they’re for the Kabaka [king],” Mr Museveni stated.
The delegation, which was stated to have travelled with out the information of both the Buganda kingdom or the Ugandan authorities, was briefly detained and questioned by Namibian officers, who reportedly requested if they’d authorisation to see the monarch.
That they had gone regardless that the Buganda king had addressed his topics by way of a pre-recorded video, the place he spoke about his enhancing well being, and expressing hope that he would return quickly.
On Wednesday, the Namibian newspaper quoted a state official saying that it was “regular observe” for a overseas nationwide who had stayed for 90 days to return to their nation.
“There’s nothing controversial about that,” overseas relations officer Erastus Hailwa stated.
Uganda has stated it’s going to respect Namibia’s choice.
“Namibia has determined that they aren’t desirous about this sort of dangerous publicity, and we should always respect [their] place,” Uganda’s Monitor newspaper quoted the nation’s International Minister Henry Oryem Okello as saying.
“We’ve got to respect their guidelines and methods of life. Since Kabaka went to Namibia, many individuals have turned the nation into… a market the place they enter as they want,” he stated.
Buganda is the most important of Uganda’s 4 historical kingdoms, none of which have any political energy however stay influential.
