ST. MATHIAS KALEMBA MULUMBA
He was a Musoga, born at Bunya in about 1836. Along with his mother the Baganda raiders brought Mathias into Buganda and sold him to Magatto who treated him as his own and gave him a name from his own clan “Kalemba.” Because of being loyal and trustworthy Kalemba rose up to the post of an assistant county chief of Bulemeezi and Ssingo consecutively.
Because it was the traditional duty of his master, the chief of Ssingo, to erect and repair building of the royal enclosure, Mulumba come to contact with the missionaries while heading the team that built their first dwellings.
He was then baptized on the 28th of May 1885 by Fr. Girault. Likewise, the execution got him repairing the Mengo palace that had been burnt down, here he was arrested and his hands and legs cut off on the 27th of May 1886 at Old Kampala (where Old Kampala Parish currently stands) on his way to Namugogngo. Mulumba then died after 3 days on the 30th of May 1886 at the age of about fifty years.
HE IS THE PATRON OF CHIEFS AND FAMILIES.