Daily Monitor
Sunday January 17 2021
One of the first messages I received on New Year 2021 was from a friend, Dr William Worodria, a senior consultant at Mulago hospital. He texted to inform me that, “Retired ambassador Paul Orono Etiang has passed on at IHK of Covid-19.”
I was shocked by the sad news and remembered my last encounter with Etiang on December 14, 2020, at Rubaga Cathedral where we had gone to attend a requiem mass for our colleague and good friend, William George Naggaga (RIP).
Paul Etiang was my boss, mentor and friend for many years. He was a distinguished career diplomat, gentleman, statesman, patriot, pan-Africanist and a devout Christian.
Tribute to William George Naggaga – (1946-2020)
Sunday December 20 2020
Ambassador William George Naggaga breathed his last on December 5 at a Nairobi hospital. I was shocked and devastated when I learnt of my dear and good friend’s passing on from Ms Mary Naggaga. He was laid to rest on December 15 at Bwotansimbi, Buloba, Wakiso District.
Naggaga was a distinguished career diplomat, a gentleman, a patriot, a scholar, a pan-Africanist and a global citizen.
I would like to convey heartfelt condolences to Ms Naggaga and the bereaved family on behalf of friends and colleagues of William. I thank God for William’s exemplary life, his family, friendship and witness as a devoted Christian. William Naggaga and Daudi Taliwaku (RIP) were my closest friends in Uganda’s diplomatic service.