Abdallah Nassur, a retired lieutenant colonel who served as governor under former Ugandan President Idi Amin has passed away.
According to Zenar Nassur, the deceased’s daughter, her father passed away last night in Nakasero Hospital after a protracted illness.
According to Zenar, Nassur’s body is still at Nakasero Hospital, where it will be picked up and taken at 4:00 pm for burial at Nakatonya Village in Bombo Town Council, Luwero.
Lt Col Nassur has been battling pneumonia, according to his relatives.
Osman Kassim, the LCIII Chairperson of the Bombo Town Council, reports that a number of locals and leaders have begun to assemble in Nakatonya village to assist the grieving family in making preparations for the funeral.
But he added that Nasur’s contribution to the uplift of the Nubian community, to which he belonged, will be dearly regretted.
He was one of the few surviving Nubian elders that served Amin’s neighborhood. Indeed, Kassim added, “We have lost a cornerstone and loyal Muslim.
In the Luwero District’s Nakatonya village, Nasur was born in 1946. Lt. Col. Nassur, who oversaw the regions of Central and Karamoja from January 1975 to 1979, was a capable military leader under President Idi Amin.
His severe execution of the urban beautification effort in Kampala city earned him a bad reputation. He allegedly made people chew rubber sandals under duress.
He denied making people chew rubber shoes in 2021 and called it extortion.
Nassur claimed that after an investigation, international human rights organizations determined the accusations to be untrue.
Lt. Col. Nassur went to Kenya in 1979 when Amin was toppled, but he was later apprehended, extradited, and charged with killing Francis Walugembe, the mayor of Masaka, on September 21, 1972.
He was found guilty and given a death sentence by Kampala’s High Court.
President Yoweri Museveni released him from prison in 2001. Since that time, he has been living in poverty in Bombo town’s Nakatonya village, where, until his passing, he was regarded as a leader of the Nubian community.
