Daily Monitor
Monday December 21 2020
A Covid-19 team from Ministry of Health conducts the burial of the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Ali Kirunda Kivejinja in Buwabe Village, Bugweri District yesterday. PHOTO/DENIS EDEMA
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Fare-thee-well
The NRM party has lost a committed and patriotic mobiliser, whose tireless efforts helped to deepen the roots of our historical mission to transform Uganda,” President Museveni.
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President Museveni yesterday paid tribute to the second deputy Prime Minister, Alhajji Ali Kirunda Kivejinja, as a committed patriot, who contributed to their liberation struggles.
Alhajji Kivejinja, 85, died at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Saturday after being admitted for several weeks with coronavirus.
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Uganda is mourning the death of its second deputy prime minister who died on Saturday, December 19.
Kirunda Kivejinja s death was confirmed by Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda who termed the demise a big loss to the country and Africa as a whole.
We have learnt with deep sadness the passing on of our elder,friend and comrade, second deputy PM Alhajji Ali Kirunda Kivejinja. His passing is huge loss to the country, of a great pan Africanist and repository of our history and journey of social, political and economic transformation, Rugunda mourned.
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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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