Kawempe North Member of Parliament, Hon Muhammad Ssegirinya aka ‘Mr. Update’ is dead, He was 37.
Ssegirinya, an outspoken legislator of the Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) breathed his last from Rubaga Hospital in Kampala where he had been admitted, the party Secretary General, Mr David Lewis Rubongoya said Thursday morning.
“We were called this morning by his mother that he passed on. He has been in ICU for days. It is very unfortunate that he has lost his life after such a long struggle. He has been a fighter. He has been one of those who speak the truth. We shall communicate to the country officially,” Rubongoya told NTV Uganda, a Ugandan local TV station.
The NUP President, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine also shared the news of his colleague’s passing in a social media post saying; “Very sad news this morning. Our brother, our friend, our fellow leader Hon. Muhammad Ssegirinya has passed on.”
“Such a dark morning, Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un!” he added.
Hon Mathias Mpuuga, the Member of Parliament for Nyendo-Mukungwe in Masaka also shared the shocking news in a post via X that read; “Devastating news of the passing of our colleague, Hon. Muhammad Ssegirinya, hitherto Member of Parliament for Kawempe North. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un”
The former Kawempe Lord Councillor has been in and out of the hospital both within and out of the country undergoing treatment ever since his health worsened upon release from Kigo prison.
Ssegirinya often said that the origin of his sickness started at the government prison facility where he and fellow MP Allan Ssewanyana (MaKindye West) were jailed for more than a year, over ‘trumped up’ murder charges in connection to deadly attacks that claimed over 20 lives in the Masaka Sub Region.
The two were released on bail in February 2023 but Ssegirinya has since been undergoing treatment in various facilities in Uganda, Kenya and the Netherlands.
