Rukirabasaija Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV (Tooro pronunciation: [ɾuciɾaβasáíd͡ʒa omukáma óːjo ɲíːmba kaβáːmba igúɾu ɾucídi]), commonly known as King Oyo, is the reigning Omukama of Tooro, in Uganda. He was born on 16 April 1992 to King Patrick David Mathew Kaboyo Olimi III and Queen Best Kemigisa Kaboyo.^[1] Three and half years later in 1995, Oyo ascended the throne and succeeded his father ^[2] to become the 12th ruler of the 200-year-old Kingdom of Tooro.

Tooro, with its capital at Mucwa in Fort Portal City, lies in the mid-western part of present-day Uganda. The people of Tooro, known as the Batooro, comprise at least 3.5 percent of the 47.5 million people of Uganda (2022 estimate). The Kingdom is ruled by the Babiito dynasty, whose history dates as far back as the 14th century. According to oral history, Prince Olimi Kaboyo Kasunsunkwanzi, son of Rukirabasaija King of Bunyoro, annexed the southern part of his father’s Kingdom in 1822 and founded what is known as Tooro today

The death of his father King Kaboyo in 1995 meant the crown prince had to assume the role of king during his toddler years. At 2 a.m. on 12 September 1995, a week after the late king’s burial, the rituals to hand over the reins of power to Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru began. He became the youngest modern monarch at just 3 years old.^[3] They included a mock battle at the palace entrance fought between enemy forces of a “rebel” prince and the royal army, and a test of Oyo’s divine right to the throne, in which the Omusuuga, (head of the royal clan), called on the gods to strike Oyo dead if he was not of royal blood. On passing the test, Oyo was permitted to sound the Nyalebe, a sacred Chwezi drum, as his forefathers had done. He was then blessed with the blood of a slaughtered bull and a white hen.

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