Skip to main content

Just In :Electoral Commission boss succumbed to COVID-19

Rukungiri District FDC Electoral Commission boss is dead
The KACERI TV UG Jul 13, 2021
RUKUNGIRI – The Forum for Democratic Change FDC Electoral Commissioner for Rukungiri District is dead.
Godfrey Katunguuka according to sources inside the party corridors passed on last night at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital where he has been receiving treatment.

Unlike others who have died of COVID-19 related illness, Katunguka died a natural death that resulted from Cancer of the throat.

Caleb Musiimenta the Forum for Democratic Change Rukungiri District Administrator told this reporter that Katunguka took over the district Electoral Commission office in 2006.

“Members in the struggle we have lost our member in the struggle also the chairman electoral commission FDC Rukungiri Mr Godfrey Katunguka in Mbarara just few minutes ago, so we need prayers” Caleb told our reporter.

Aliban Rukundo the former Western Region youths Parliamentary Aspirant and Perez Rumanzi the former Ntungamo Municipality Parliamentary candidate all members of the FDC eulogised the deceased as a straight forward, jolly insightful leader.

“RIP Uncle God Katunguka, may the Angels receive you and judge you fairly. You lived a straight forward life, you were Jolly and insightful. Your brand shall live on. I wished for a longer life for you but God has chosen to take you during this bad time when you have not completed your mission to remove the dictator. RIP” Rumanzi posted on his social networks.

A tentative program from the party indicates that Katunguka will be laid to rest on Tuesday at his ancestral home in Rwakabengo ward, Southern Division in Rukungiri Municipality

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Parents block Kasokero P/S HM from accessing school premises over drunkenness

  Parents block Kasokero P/S HM from accessing school premises over drunkenness 10th Jan,2022 Kagadi As schools reopened today across the country, Parents of Kasokero government aided Primary school in Kyenzige town council Kagadi district blocked the school head teacher from accessing the school premises accusing him of incompetence. Parents accuse Peace Tumwine of being a drunkard thus neglecting school duties. The situation was brought to calm by the Kagadi District Education Officer who asked parents to put their concern into writing demanding for transfer of the head teacher. Meanwhile Abiibu Mugisa the mayor Kyenzige town council asked residents to remain calm and use rightful procedures to have their problems addressed.   Star source tv updates

RIFT VALLEY FEVER KILLS ONE IN KAGADI

RIFT VALLEY FEVER KILLS ONE IN KAGADI KAGADI:  One person has died of rift valley fever in Kagadi district. Lillian Ruteraho the resident district commissioner Kagadi has identified the deceased as Justus Mugisa 34, a resident of Kibuku village in Ntoroko district. Speaking at the emergency meeting held today {Thursday} at Kagadi district headquarters, Ruteraho disclosed that the deceased has been a cattle keeper in Mabaale Sub County in Kagadi district. She has asked residents to be vigilant and calls for maximum cooperation in order to curb the outbreak. ‘’We should be vigilant and cooperate to curb the outbreak,’’ Rutereho asked. Balisa Paul the Assistant District Health Officer says Mugisa died after being admitted with signs of Hymnologic fever, but samples from Uganda Virus Research Institute indicated that he died of Rift valley fever. ‘’The deceased was admitted with signs of hymnologic fever, but samples released from  Uganda Virus Research Institute tested posit...

REVEALED: Army Exposes Evil Plan by Uganda’s Enemies to Kill Congolese Nationals and Blame UPDF

President Museveni in army uniform The UPDF and the Congolese national army, FARDC, have claimed that there are “sinister plans to discredit Operation Shujaa,’ an offensive against Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the Central African branch of Islamic State (IS) blamed for last year’s bomb attacks in Uganda. In a joint statement by UPDF and Defence Ministry Spokesperson Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso and her counterpart Leon-Richard Cibangu Kasonga of FARDC on January 10, both Kampala and Kinshansa agree that there could be plans by some groups to harm the public and blame such acts on the Ugandan army. “The FADRC and the UPDF wish to alert the public that they have critical information about the existence, in the region in which they lead military operations, of an armed group harbouring sinister clandestine plans deliberately intended to sabotage the joint military action against the ADF active in the East of DRC and discredit operation SHUJAA,” said Byekwaso and Kasonga in a jo...