President Yoweri\nMuseveni and his wife Mrs. Janet Museveni today joined family members and\nfriends of former Premier, Professor Apollo Nsibambi, who passed on yesterday at\nhis home in Bulange-Mengo of Rubaga Division in Kampala District. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former Premier, aged 78 years, succumbed to a combination of cancer of bones and diabetes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He served as Prime Minister from April 1999 to 2011. He was an education icon and first non-Head of State Chancellor of Makerere University, a position he held\u00a0from October 2003 to October 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing mourners,\nPresident Museveni said that Uganda had been very peaceful for good period of\ntime because of having people with different backgrounds ranging from the\nacademia, like the late Professor Nsibambi, wananchi an the bush war veterans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He expressed profound\nsandiness that Professor Nsibambi had died at an early age. He also praised him\nfor his love for the Kingdom of Buganda adding that \u201chis death is too early for\nus as the country,” he observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Museveni thanked\nthe widow, Mrs. Esther Nsibambi for being a caring woman who looked after her\nlate husband till his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The First Lady, Janet\nMuseveni, who is also the Minister for Education and on her part noted that the\nlate Professor Nsibambi has left a legacy that should be emulated by all\nUgandans. She described his passing on as painful not only to the family but the\nentire country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
”I must say that the\ndeath of Nsibambi is very painful not only to the family but the entire\ncountry,\u201d she said.\n\nThe family Spokesman, Mr. Geoffrey Zziwa, thanked President Museveni and\nthe First Lady for sparing their time to join them in mourning the fallen\nleader. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Yoweri Museveni and his wife Mrs. Janet Museveni today joined family members and friends of former Premier, Professor Apollo Nsibambi, who passed on yesterday at his home in Bulange-Mengo of Rubaga Division in Kampala District. The former Premier, aged 78 years, succumbed to a combination of cancer of bones and diabetes.\u00a0 He served as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":9525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n