Although Kawempe North constituency MP, Muhammad Ssegirinya’s brain has shut down, he has not been declared dead by medical personnel of Rubaga hospital, where he’s currently admitted.
Earlier, National Unity Platform (NUP) party, secretary general Lewis Rubongoya, said that Ssegirinya had breathed his last at Rubaga hospital today Thursday. However, NUP president, Robert Kyagulanyi has come out with a clarification saying it was his mother, Justine Nakajumba, who’d declared him ‘dead’ and informed close family members and associates after she’d been informed about his brain situation.
Ssegirinya, who was a member of NUP, has been in and out of hospital due to a medical condition that began shortly after his release from prison, where he spent over one and a half years on charges related to the Masaka machete killings.
He was jailed alongside Makindye West MP, Allan Ssewanyana, but his health deteriorated rapidly, leading to admissions to various hospitals locally in Uganda, Kenya, and the Netherlands. Known by the moniker ‘Mr Update’, Ssegirinya gained attention for his consistent phone calls to radio political shows and his participation in protests against the regime’s excesses.
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This earned him a position as a councillor at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) ticket. He later joined the People Power Movement, which eventually transformed into NUP, under the leadership of Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine.
