God, why us? Andrew Mwenda sister Margaret Muhanga worried as many family members die in few months
Margaret Muhanga, the Burahya MP and sister to journalist Andrew Mwenda, has expressed worry over many deaths in their family in a few months.
In just one month, the family lost two youthful members in two separate accidents.
SAD: Another Andrew Mwenda relative killed in road accident in just one month
Other relatives had previously succumbed to Covid19.
Covid19 kills Andrew Mwenda nephew
Now, Muhanga is concerned the deaths are too many in such a short time.
“Sometimes I even fear to post because clearly many people are dying in our family,” she wrote.
“We are either too many or God likes us too much that He is taking us one by one.”
Andrew Mwenda’s cousin killed in nasty road accident
https://dailyexpress.co.ug/2021/04/24/andrew-mwendas-cousin-killed-in-nasty-road-accident/
April 24, 2021
The family of renowned East Africa journalist Andrew Mwenda is engulfed in tears and grief after his cousin perished in a nasty road accident.
Mwenda, the founder of ‘The Independent’ magazine took to social media on Saturday morning to announce that his cousin, Sabastian Noah Rubani has died.
“Last night, my cousin, my son, my best friend, my ally, my confidant, my playmate, my advisor – Sabastia Noah Adyeri Kakiiza Rubani, died in a car accident! In one minute he was full of life and zest. In another, he was gone. The world is yet to produce someone who embodied the best human qualities as he did” Mwenda posted on his social media platforms.
According to Mwenda, Rubani was special, handsome like a Greek god, generous beyond limit, kind beyond description and nice beyond understanding.
“He was good natured beyond comprehension. He was smart beyond explanation. He was the coolest kid in Uganda. He was the best friend one could ever dream of having” he added.
Mwenda praised him for everyone who met him loved him adding that being around him was to be around happiness, relaxation, sophistication, greatness.
“He had class and yet acted simple. He was confident yet modest. Why leave us so early?” He eulogised him.
The death of Andrew Mwenda’s mother leaves us in debt
https://nilepost.co.ug/2019/06/25/the-death-of-andrew-mwendas-mother-leaves-us-in-debt/
Raymond Mujuni June 25, 2019
When, on Friday, Andrew Mwenda told me that his mother Muhangazima Constance had passed on, I was overcome by so much sadness. I felt, like Mwenda later tweeted, a deep sense of emptiness.
She was, first before anything, very kind – and very empathetic. She hosted hordes of people in her home and served them all with food and drink till they had their fill. She was a great conversation sport and knowledgeable on a broad range of issues.
The qualities she espoused, today, are a hard find and yet she owned them in whole heartedness and shared them with good cheer and spirit.
Muhangazima Constance is mother to three prominent personalities; Andrew Mwenda – the vocal journalist, Major General Kayanja Muhanga – the commander 2nd Division and Margaret Muhanga, a legislator in parliament. She has 8 other children though the prominence of the three occasionally eclipses the rest.
I have come to find great fraternity in these three; Major General Muhanga has, for example, sacrificed his own military tank to provide security for my crew and I when we landed into an ambush on the deadly South Sudan Nimule highway. Andrew has, on many occasions bore the laborious intellectual dearth of my inquisitiveness and Margaret, who we found great relations now takes calls from me for all manner of information on the running of the state. I’m always thrown into laughter when she hands her phones and cautions me to expect a call from Theresa May for advice on how to handle the messy Brexit.
But such is the humor of Constance’s birth.
The one memory of Muhangazima that I will keep with me however is this one;
On the morning of 16th March 2019, at about 5am, we set off for the hilly plains of Kanyandahi, her matrimonial home. Adyeeri, as her pet name goes, had requested the presence of ‘the clan’ for the weekend. We possibly were 15 or there about. The clan, for easy definition, is a think tank – in truth, we are debaters of everything. So we can be loud and noisy, we can also drag and irritate. Adyeeri, surely, at 84, wasn’t going to have all of this.
I was wrong. She had it. All of it.
The doors to her home were open by 9am when we got there. She was sitted on her balcony taking in the morning sun. Her joy at our sight was unfathomable. She was deeply engrossed in finding out how each of our lives were going. Guys, we were 15!
She served us an early morning ration of katogo and tea with bread to match. She kept a keen eye on everyone that walked through her door and cared for them the same.
Adyeeri, by the works of her hands, had raised a generation of people in Kanyandahi who never stopped trooping to her home to see her. Even in frail health, she kept a very strong presence there.
When we were done arranging the house and fixing, she dazzled us in humor on a medical trip she had recently taken to Germany.
Where many of the old people in my life tend to be corrective, I found Adyeeri to be very sympathetic and understanding, where many of her age group scolded me – mostly about the inability to trace my lineage – Adyeeri was willing to sit with me and help with the tracing.
I discovered, through the trace, a long connection of her clan to my own through marriage and friendship bonds.
That art of listening to understand rather than doubling down on a held set of beliefs is a very unique quality that she passed on to her children and one that, if anyone spent enough time around her, adopted almost with instantaneous ease.
Also, for all the power she wielded, founding mothers’ union groups, running an enterprising farm and taking occasional visits from the President, his brother and ministers and MP’s alike, for having such a powerful set of children in both intellectual, military, civil and political spaces, Adyeeri never closed her doors and ears to anyone that trooped to her Kanyandahi home.
I will particularly miss her for that warmth of embrace her and her home offered.
Rest well Adyeeri, rest easy.
Mwenda loses 3 Relatives to COVID in 3 Weeks
https://trumpetnews.co.ug/mwenda-loses-3-relatives-to-covid-in-3-weeks/
Ruth Cox Kugonza Amooti, 62, a prominent figure in Toro Kingdom has Tuesday passed away at Mulago Referral Hospital.
Cox, who was deeply entrenched in Toro Kingdom prompting the subjects to refer to her as princess, was evacuated from Fort Portal with breathing difficulties.
She was admitted to Mulago in Intensive Care (ICU) Unit but doctors couldn’t save her and she breathed her last on Tuesday morning.
Cox was related to Andrew Mwenda’s family and the veteran journalist together with his sister Hon Margret Muhanga took to social media to mourn her untimely passing.
The deceased last month shook internet when she introduced a 25 year old groom, Larry Richard Abaala.
“With deepest sorrow I announce the death of my childhood friend Princess Amooti Ruth Kugonza commonly known as aunt Cox. She passed on this morning in Mulago after we evacuated her from Fort Portal with breathing problems. We have been together in everything since time in memory,” Hon Muhanga announced.
Mr Mwenda taking to Twitter saying, Cox is his second relative to die of Coronavirus in two days.
“On Sunday, we lost a cousin, Margaret, to COVID-19. This morning we have just lost yet another cousin, Cox, to Covid. Covid is real and it is lethal. Avoid large social gatherings, socially distance and wear your mask at all times in public and sanitize all the time,” he said.
On November 3, Mwenda’s nephew Chris Ibaale, a popular lawyer in Kampala also succumbed to the disease at Mulago.
Uganda to date has registered 18165 COVID cases, 8675 recoveries and 181 deaths.
The government through Ministry of Health has appealed to the public to remain vigilant, observe social distance, wear a mask and wash hands.
A few Ugandans have fully complied with these SOPs.
