Former Attorney General Kiddu Makubuya has died, family sources have confirmed.
Makubuya, a professor of law and a former Dean of the School of Law at Makerere University, died after a lengthy illness.
He was 75.
In June, local media widely reported Prof Makubuya dead before the family clarified that he was battling ill-health but still alive.
“We understand that his health is a concern, but we are doing everything possible to ensure his recovery,” the family said at the time without going into the specifics.
But the former Education and sports, and general duties minister breathed his last in the early hours of Monday morning.
The late Makubuya was attorney general from 2005 to 2011, during one the most trying moment for Uganda’s politics in the emergence of multipartism and Dr Kizza Besigye.
As AG, Makubuya tried to enable the Electoral Commission to block Besigye’s 2005 nomination calling the then FDC president “less innocent” because he was on criminal court remand.
After being dropped from the legal advisory to the government position, President Museveni had him replace Janat Mukwaya from the general duties position on May 27, 2011.
Before joining the murky waters of politics that would immerse him corruption allegations following the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, Prof Makubuya had a distinguished career in academia, serving as a lecturer and dean at Makerere University’s Law School.
He had graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere before attaining further degrees in law from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US.
