Speaking at Kololo Independence Grounds at the national day of mourning, Museveni said that it is difficult to understand how Lwanga could die of a condition that was well-known for long by his doctors.
President Yoweri Museveni has said doctors who were treating the
Late Archbishop of Kampala Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, should give more details about
the disease that caused his death.
On Monday, the Interim Archdiocesan Administrator Msgr Charles
Kasibante and the archdiocesan health coordinator Dr Andrew Ssekitoleko said
that Lwanga succumbed to Ischemic heart disease.
Reading a jointly signed document, Dr Ssekitoleko explained that
the post-mortem was conducted by a team of senior pathologists in presence of
two family representatives and two physicians delegated by the church adding
that at the end of the exercise, it was established that the archbishop had a
heart attack due to a blood clot in the heart vessels.
However speaking at Kololo Independence Grounds on Tuesday at the
national day of mourning, Museveni said that it is difficult to understand how
Lwanga could die of a condition that was well-known for long by his doctors.
According to Museveni, Lwanga’s doctors at one point failed on
something they could have done.
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Museveni hailed Dr Lwanga and his predecessors for the support
they rendered during the liberation of Uganda.
President Museveni also remembered Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala for
allowing the NRA guerrillas to access his plantations for food. He said
the two were great sympathizers of the struggle and that even after the war,
they invited him to Kyankwanzi for more talks about the country.
Museveni said the state will give official burial ceremonies to
all religious leaders at the level of archbishop irrespective of who they are,
especially when they are from the mainstream or traditional religious
institutions.
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Museveni also hailed Lwanga for being a development minded person.
He cited the Twekembe Microfinance in Luweero, which is one of the largest and successful microfinance organizations in Uganda.
He hailed this as a move in the right direction by the religious
leaders who previously taught to rely on God’s mercy for survival, instead of
teaching them to multiply the little that they have.
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Bishop Joshua Lwere, a member of the Inter-Religious Council of
Uganda, who represented the Chairman, Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje, said they will
miss Dr Lwanga for his bold fight for justice and his advocacy for dialogue,
among others.
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The Chairman of the Episcopal Conference Joseph Anthony Zziwa
welcomed the decision by the president to accord the fallen cleric an official
burial.
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Lwanga was later honored with a 17 gun salute. He will be buried on Thursday inside Lubaga Cathedral.
