FDC party mobiliser dies in Jinja
Dr Wycliffe Kakaire(C) looks on as former FDC presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye meets one of his supporters during his campaigns in Jinja last year. PHOTOS BY DENIS EDEMA
Jinja – Dr Wycliffe Kakaire, a die-hard Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) mobiliser has died.
His death, according to his mother, Ms Edith Tibenkana, is as a result of suspected foul play. She said days before her son’s death , she received series of messages threatening to “finish off” her son, a promise she believes has come to pass.
He will be buried today at Kibibi village in Budondo Sub- county, Jinja District.
The party chairman in Buikwe District, Mr Charles Kalazani, said the deceased complained of headache before breathing his last while being taken to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital on Tuesday evening.
Daily Monitor has leant that before that, the deceased who was a mobiliser in Buikwe District and the entire Busoga region, was bedridden for about a week at Jinja Hospital.
Mr Kalazani said the deceased possessed strong mobilisation and organisational qualities which was a "blessing to his party and the people of Busoga".
He said: “We have lost a mobiliser, a politician, an activist, and a strong pillar of FDC in Buikwe District.”
He said the deceased was politically ambitious, a daring mobiliser with a strong-willed character, determined to go full length to effect change.
Until his death, he was eyeing the mayoral seat in the newly-created Njeru Municipality in Buikwe District.
He was also among the three people who were injured last year as police used rubber bullets to disperse Dr Kizza Besigye supporters from converging at Kakindu in Jinja town last year.
Kakaire’s profile
He was born in May, 1985 to Mr Moses and Ms Edith Tibenkana in Kibibi village, Budondo sub-county in Jinja.
He studied at Kibibi Primary School in Budondo , Trinity College Buwajji and Nsuube SDA Secondary School.
He studied Laboratory and Medicine at Kyobe Laboratory Institute, Mukono. He has been running Africana Medical Centre in Njeru.
He is survived by a daughter and two wives. One of the wives is seven months pregnant
