Kagoro stages a Coup against the bacwezi
History has it that it was Kagoro who staged a coup that lead to the fall of the bacwezi, Kagoro was among the several sons of Kyomya who was bore by a maid called kacubya, and was a military commander appointed by Omukama Wamara.
*Isimbwa,* the grandfather of Kagoro, when he heard that his Son Ndahura had taken over Kitara, he returned and was appointed chief, he had bore a Son called *Kyomya,* who he had left in Bukidi were they had sought refugee during the reign of Bukuku.
In Bukidi, Kyomya had fathered *Nyarwa, Rukidi Mpuuga, Kato Kimera and Kiiza,* and once he returned to Kitara, he fathered more kids, *Kagoro,* born of a maid Kacubya; *Mugarura* from *Kogere* of the Bacwezi clan, *Ibona* from a Cwezi called Waraga, *Mugenyi* by Nyangoma of Basingo clan and *Byangarubwa* begot by Rugomya of the Basambu clan
Kitara faced lot of famine, followed by cattle diseases that lead to a great deal of dissatisfaction among the people of Kitara of the bacwezi.
Kagoro, Wamara’s military commander, seized the opportunity to *stage a coup* against the Bacwezi, who were mercilessly massacred and their bodies thrown into water. The Bachwezi aristocracy, which in any case could not have been a large one, was thus *annihilated or, as tradition put it, ‘disappeared’.*
*The coup marked the end of the Bacwezi empire.* It was replaced by two conglomerations of states: the *Luo-Babito* states of *Bunyoro-Kitara, Kitagwenda and Kiziba;* and the Bahinda (Bahima) states further south in *Karagwe, Nkore, Kyamutwara, Ihangiro* and possibly Gisaka.
The collapse of the Bachwezi empire led to a fierce *struggle between the Luo and the Bahima* (the Babito and the Bahinda) for the political control of the interlacustrine region.