Daily Monitor
Monday December 21 2020
On the eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962, thieves broke into the embassies of the United States of America and several other foreign missions, but this was a strange kind of robbery. The only valuables they made off with were the flags of those nations.
The attacks were coordinated by Ally Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja, a member of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) youth wing, who at the time was also a secretary at the party’s research bureau.
“After getting the certainty that the Ugandan flag was to be hoisted… Some of our youth clandestinely moved to the American embassy and the embassies of all nations that we considered to be enemies of Uganda and stole their flags,” he said.
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Kivejinja the scientist who got immersed in politics dead
December 20, 2020
The second deputy prime minister, Kirunda Kivejinja is dead.
Kivejinja, 85, who was also the minister of East African Community Affairs, died on Saturday evening at around 5:20 pm at Mulago hospital where he has been under treatment for over a month. We have learnt with deep sadness the passing on of our elder, friend and comrade, 2nd Deputy PM Alhajji Ali Kirunda Kivejinja. His passing is [a] huge loss to the country, of a great Pan Africanist & repository of our history and journey of social, political and economic transformation, the Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda said on Twitter.
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Minister Kivejinja succumbed to Covid-19 - Museveni
Saturday December 19 2020
Summary
President Museveni, while addressing a rally in Hoima city- hinted that the veteran politician succumbed to Covid-19 related complications, Saturday, December 19, 2020.
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Uganda’s second deputy Prime Minister, Kirunda Kivejinja has died.
While addressing a political rally in Hoima, Saturday, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hinted that Kivejinja had died from Covid-19, affirming what the deceased s son had told the
Daily Monitor. It s true he is dead. He passed away at Mulago National referral Hospital, his son Faruk Kirunda said earlier.
He had tested positive for covid-19 although he had underlying diseases like diabetes.