Former security minister Gen Elly Tumwine has today been laid to rest in his ancestral home of Kazo District in Western Uganda.
Hundreds of government dignitaries and thousands of locals attended the burial preceded by rain about 260kms from Uganda’s capital, Kampala.
Chief mourner and President Museveni’s representative at the funeral, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja told mourners she would remember Gen Tumwine as a “straightforward mentor of many government officials.
Mourners sobbed as Gen Tumwine’s casket, draped with a Ugandan flag, was lay to rest by nearly 10 top army officials at about 4:50pm- amidst a 17-gun salute in line with his military honors in a corner of his artistic compound.
President Museveni yesterday challenged Ugandans to emulate the “resilient bush war hero” who’s first shot actualized a guerilla war that brought him into power in 1986.
Aged 68, the ex-combatant and Uganda’s longest serving army representative in Parliament died from Lung cancer in neighboring Kenya on August 25, igniting public debate over his double-edged legacy. May his soul rest in eternal peace. END.