Money on my bank accounts will help my several concubines and their dependants. General Kasirye Gwanga a retired senior military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Forces passed on this morning at 9 am at Nakasero Hospital where he has been receiving treatment.
Gwanga has been in intensive care unit for close to 2 months under the care of military doctors at Mbuya Military Hospital, he was then transferred to Nakasero hospital at the beginning of May 2020 when his condition worsened.
Social media was awash with reports that he had passed on last week Many people sent condolence messages to his family.
Unconfirmed sources indicated he had received brain surgery and slid into a coma and passed on living a will that raised eyebrows.
A local tabloid detailed his ailing condition stemming from heavy smoking; 20 packets of Rex cigarettes and 10 litres of Uganda Waragi a popular liquor.
Kasirye Gwanga was born in 1952, in Mubende District, to a father who was a hunter and farmer. He learned both skills and is still good at both.
He attended Katakala Primary School, then he studied at Kibuli Secondary School for his O-Level education. After finishing Senior 4, he joined the Uganda Army in 1972.
Major General Kasirye Gwanga joined the National Resistance Army under the command of President Yoweri Museveni in 1985. NRA captured power in 1986.
Between 1986 and 2005, he served in several roles including as the LC5 chairman for Mubende District and as the director of stores in the UPDF.
On 31 January 2005, he was retired from the UPDF at the rank of brigadier. However, after three months on the outside, he came back to the military and asked to be re-instated.
The UPDF commander-in-chief allowed him to rejoin on a renewable contract of five years.
In March 2018, Kasirye Ggwanga was promoted from the rank of Brigadier to that of Major General, in a promotions exercise involving 1,384 men and women of the UPDF.
He was also officially forced to retire from the Uganda military due to recklessness in 2018 since then he has been living a life of solitude.
Gwanga once said he was allergic to noise, his reason for a living a solitary life. During the Christmas festivities of 2009, he dispursed a noisy Pentecostal Crusade at Makindye playgrounds by firing bullets in the air. Congregants scattered for safety.
Gen. Kasirye Gwanga lived a quiet life of wives and concubines, "We military men don't get married. We just make children...I got my first wife while still serving in Amin's army. She died.
The second one I got her during the 1979 war, she didn't survive it. I got another one after but unfortunately, she also died. The one I have now is in the USA." He told an NBS TV reporter in a one on one interview.
At Camp David, he enjoyed a quiet retirement life, full of hunting adventures, exercise, heavy drinking and smoking, making merry with his visitors male and female alike he felt young and energetic in setting and missed nothing in the army.
About the Writer.
Chris Tinka is a Producer and Editor at Fourth Television.
My decades-long career spans multiple disciplines in Mass Communication and Journalism, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Social Research and Education.
I have been fortunate enough over the years to work on projects about the great lakes region’s history, exposing milestones in the fields of science and innovation, children and women welfare, minorities and most at-risk populations, gender equity and equality, child and adult education, public health and governance.
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