Rukirabasaija Patrick David Matthew Koboyo Olimi III was Omukama of the Kingdom of Toro, from 1965 until 1995.
Background
On 10 January 1987, he married Best Kemigisha, daughter of Prince Mujunju, of the Batuku clan, of Rwebisengo, Bundibugyo District. She was born in 1967, educated at Kahinju Primary School, Mpanga Senior Secondary School and Kyebambe Girls School, all in the Kingdom of Toro.
Career
He was the 12th Omukama of Toro. Omukama Kaboyo Olimi III fathered three (3) children. One (1) son and two (2) daughters:
Rukirabasaija Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who is the current reigning Omukama of Toro.
Princess (Omubiitokati) Ruth Nsemere Komuntale.
She was born in 1989. She was educated at Aga Khan Primary School in Kampala and at the International School in Tripoli, Libya.
Princess (Omubiitokati) Celia Komukyeya. She was born in 1994.
She died from leukaemia, at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, in October 1997.
Omukama Kaboyo Olimi III was deposed on the abolition of the Kingdoms by the Obote government, on 8 September 1967. He entered the Ugandan Foreign Service in 1986. He served as a Minister-Counselor at the Ugandan Embassy in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, between 1987 and 1990.
He was Uganda"s Ambassador to Cuba, from 1990 until 1993.
On 24 July 1993 he was proclaimed, upon the restoration of the Uganda Kingdoms by the government of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. He died on 26 August 1995 in Kampala, aged 50.