Edward Suleiman Kahaya II became Omugabe of Nkore in 1895, when he was around eighteen years old.
The British treated him as a little child, and in less than a few decades he was relegated from a divine ruler to an administrative clerk.
This was probably due to his massive physical appearance: he was two metres tall and he weighed 136 kilograms.
[2] In 1918 he was made an honorary member of the Order of the British Empire for services in raising and organising native levies and local Defence Corps in the Uganda Protectorate.
[3] He had one son Suleiman Mirindi but he was succeeded by his cousin Omugabe Gasyonga II with colonialists support