Who was Arnold Mugisha?
A funeral service for the late Arnold Ainebyoona Mugisha who was shot dead by a security guard at Quality Supermarket, on-going at All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA
What you need to know:
- His peers at A-Level at King’s College, Budo, between 2010 and 2011, told this newspaper last evening that Mugisha Ayinebyona was approachable, down-to-earth, friendly, sociable and loved to have fun. A far cry from reports on social media that he had an altercation with a guard on duty, resulting in his tragic end
Kampala. On July 8, 2016, Arnold Ayinebyona Mugisha posted on his Facebook page a cry of grief by celebrated diva Beyoncé Knowles about the rampant killings in the US then.
“We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities. It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us’…” the poster attributed to the singer read.
Ironically, Mugisha Ayinebyona would die exactly three years later in a similar circumstance, not in America, but in a parking lot of a popular Ugandan supermarket on the outskirts of Kampala. Such is the unpredictability of life.
Yet friends say, Mugisha Ayinebyona, whose life was brought to an abrupt end yesterday in a shooting at Quality Shopping Village, Namugongo was an “easy guy.”
His peers at A-Level at King’s College, Budo, between 2010 and 2011, told this newspaper last evening that Mugisha Ayinebyona was approachable, down-to-earth, friendly, sociable and loved to have fun. A far cry from reports on social media that he had an altercation with a guard on duty, resulting in his tragic end.
Born to Mr and Ms Plan Mugisha in 1993, and after studying Economics, History, Geography and Christian Religious Education, Mugisha Ayinebyona then went to Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Management between 2012 and 2015, and would enrol for Master of Science (Real Estate Finance) from 2015 to 2016.
His parents yesterday maintained a heavy silence, but friends who had last hanged out with him on Saturday at his Hickory Bar and Restaurant in upscale Kololo, on Saturday, say he was full of life.
“I last saw him on Saturday. We were at his bar and restaurant in Kololo where we had late lunch. He waved to us from a distance, smiled and walked to his car in the parking lot. Probably that was our final moments with him,” one of his former classmates from Budo said yesterday.
He, like many of his classmates, did not want to be quoted because the family had chosen to have their moment to mourn.
Arnold Mugisha's parents, Mr and Mrs Plan Mugisha. Photo by Abubaker Lubowa
But Mugisha Ayinebyona’s friends went in droves for the vigil in Kiwatule, a Kampala city suburb, to condole with the family last evening.
Many of his friends, who attended the vigil, said Mugisha Ayinebyona worked hard and partied in equal measure.
There will be a funeral service at All Saints Church Nakasero today at 10am and a vigil at their home later.
