Gone with 2020 Written by Yudaya Nangonzi
It is quite hard to think of something good to say about 2020. This year’s coronavirus health crisis has left our way of life in shambles. 2020 will be vividly remembered for having had one of the largest single-year death tolls brought on by the outbreak of Covid-19.
The highly infectious viral disease has killed millions worldwide. Locally as of December 25, 2020, official statistics from the ministry of Health show that at least 245 Ugandans have died from Covid-19 while the cumulative confirmed cases have shot to 33,563 since the disease emerged in the country in March.
YUDAYA NANGONZI brings you some of the notable deaths of 2020.
Fare thee well, Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata Batte
December 11, 2020 RIP: Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata
Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata Batte’s candle burnt out last week December 4, sending the whole country into mourning. There was an outpouring of grief both in the traditional media and on social media platforms.
Many described him as the most fearless cleric of our time. Anybody who crossed him, tasted his wrath, from the mightiest like President Museveni, the Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga to the smallest like Eddy Kenzo or MC Mariachi.
He spared nothing in his verbal arsenal to attack anybody who he perceived as working at cross-purpose to the well- being of Islam, Muslims and Ugandans. That is why when the beloved director for Da’wa [Muslim propagation] breathed his last on December 4 at International Hospital Kampala, the outpouring of grief cut across religious and political lines, writes