Tuesday 27th August 2019.
John Ssenseko Kulubya 84, passed away this morning at Case Hospital, according to the Hospital’s medical director, Dr Patrick Kaliika. .
Kulubya has been battling chronic kidney disease for a long time. He suffered a stroke in February this year and was rehabilitated. Recently, he developed breathing complications arising from pneumonia and was attended to by a team of specialists under intensive care.
Born in 1935, Kulubya is the son of the first African mayor of Kampala Sserwano Ssenseko Wofunira Kulubya, who served as mayor of Kampala from 1959 until 1961.
By the time of his death, Omwana W’omwami, owned several properties in Kampala and was reportedly is one of the biggest landlords in central Buganda.
Kulubya trained as an engineer in the United Kingdom, he served in the Uganda Transport Company (UTC) that was responsible for public transport as the assistant engineer in the company, possibly the first African at such a high level in the company.
In 2006, Kulubya campaigned for the Kampala mayoral seat as an independent candidate but told the Kikuubo traders that he believes in the Movement System, but for security purposes, he could not reveal the presidential candidate that he supports.
The elections ended in Alhaj Nasser Sebaggala’s way as he was declared a winner of the Kampala mayoral race, followed by Pastor Peter Ssematimba, by more than 39,000 votes, and late John Ssenseko Kulubya only emerged fourth of five man race with 1,975 (0.6%).
The son of a wealthy landowner, Kulubya had the distinction of opting to support the nascent Democratic Party headed by Benedicto Kiwanuka at the eve of Uganda’s independence in 1962. Kulubya’s father was a diehard Uganda People’s Congress Party headed by then to be Prime Minister Milton Obote.
Here is the tentative programme:
Wednesday the vigil will taken at his home in Ggaba
Thursday the Requiem service at Namirembe Cathedral
Friday Burial at his ancestral home in Mityana.
