NATIONAL NEWS NEW VISION, Monday, November 6, 2017 9 Beijukye taught MPs DP’s Kikungwe’s candle burns out By David Lumu about hepatitis B and Medi Musisi One of the most difficult By Cecilia Okoth then, I have advised people in political races that the late and Rwambuka Mugisha my constituency to test for it. I Democratic Party (DP) also got vaccinated,” Rukutana treasurer, Issa Kikungwe, On learning that he had said. ran was perhaps that of the contracted hepatitis B, William Allen Beijukye, the wife of Kampala Lord Mayor. In the Beijukye, the Ruhaama County the late Beijukye, said when race was his friend, Erias Member of Parliament, started her husband first got sick last Lukwago, who stood as an advising his fellow legislators year, doctors said he had ulcers, independent. It was clear, about the disease. He did not but it was later discovered that from the onset, that Kikungwe Issa Kikungwe want them to follow his path. he had hepatitis B and had had no chance. But, he was a This was part of the eulogy developed a tumour in his liver. man who loved DP that even been a key factor in uniting by David Bahati, the state Dr Barnabas Baguma, one of when the odds were against people of different religions. minister for finance, during his friends, said Beijukye was a him he could not chicken out. Kikungwe’s demise comes at the deceased’s funeral service people-person and always had Karoli Semogerere, a lawyer, a time when the party is still at St Stephen Kitara Church of the church and family at heart. social commentator and son mourning its former president, Uganda in Kampala yesterday. The Rev. Gregory of the former DP president John Ssebaana Kizito and the “He came to the floor of Byamukama, who delivered the general Paul Semogerere, party’s secretary general, Parliament and confessed to sermon, said Beijukye had been described Kikungwe as an Mathias Nsubuga. being infected with hepatitis B a strong member of the church optimist. Kikungwe died Kikungwe came into the and advised fellow MPS to test,” A family member helps Beijukye’s (inset) children to lay who will be missed. yesterday at Mengo Hospital. limelight in 2001, when he Bahati said. a wreath on the casket during the service at St Stephen Parliament will today He was 54 years. defeated the former deputy Bahati, who represented the Kitara Church in Kampala yesterday. Photo by Maria Wamala afternoon hold a special session Norbert Mao, the DP party Chief Justice, Steven Kavuma, Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca to honour Beijukye. president, said: “Our colleague in the Kyadondo South Kadaga, applauded Beijukye for Beijukye, 46, was born to did not regain consciousness parliamentary race. However, being a disciplined MP. He said John and Beatrice Zinkuratiire after a surgery he underwent when Kyadondo South was even in his illness, he attended Causes of Hepatitis B in 1971. Before he became MP, on October 27, to remove dissolved and replaced all Parliament sessions. Hepatitis B is a viral to person through he worked as the director of a brain tumour which had by Makindye-Ssabagabo Describing him as a infection that attacks blood; unprotected finance and administration at recurred after a successful Municipality, Kikungwe hardworking person and true the liver and can cause sex; contaminated skin Parambot Breweries, where he surgery a few years ago.” moved his political interests patriot, Mwesigwa Rukutana, both acute and chronic piercing instruments or served for 14 years. Mourners eulogised the to the Kampala Lord Mayor the Deputy Attorney General, diseases. The virus is an infected woman to her He is survived by a wife and former lawmaker as an position. said their worries of who would passed from person newborn baby at birth. four children. open-minded person, who Kikungwe attended Kako replace Mrs Janet Museveni in He will be buried at his struggled to unite DP. and Kibuli secondary schools her previous constituency were he also learnt about hepatitis B I knew about hepatitis B, I told ancestral home in Kakukuru- The area Imam, Sheikh Salim before joining Makerere put to rest when Beijukye rose through Beijukye. him I did not. He said it was Kitashekwa parish, Ruhaama, Ssebyala, said Kikungwe has University. to the challenge. Rukutana said “When Beijukye asked me if worse than HIV/AIDS. Since Ntungamo district.