Water engineer's Shillingi Mugisha's body flown in

 

Mugisha the former director of Water resources Entebbe was Water’s longest serving engineer. He succumbed to cancer of the liver in India at St. Apollo Sagha Hospital New Delhi, India last week.

 

In an Interview with the New Vision, Obongo said the body will be taken at his home for vigil and a requiem mass will be held at St. Jude Naguru Catholic Church tomorrow at 9:00am.

 

According to his son Roger Mugisha there will be a vigil and mass at the family home in Naguru on plot 73 Kiwala road.  He said burial of his father will be on Sunday September 14, at the family’s ancestral home in Kituguru Rarambra.

 

Shillingi, in his 50s, served as chairman of the Regional Steering Committee- GWP Eastern Africa, Director at Directorate of Water Resources Management, Past Commissioner- Rural Water Supply and Sanitation at Directorate of Water Development- at the water ministry - Uganda.

 

He studied at the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute/Maastricht School of Management, Loughborough University and Makerere University.

 

He joined the ministry of water in 1981 after completing his civil engineering course at Makerere University.

The director urban water and Sewerage services Eng. Aaron Kabirizi, a long-time friend and associate, said Mugisha was diagnosed with cancer in May this year and has been battling the ailment since.

 

He was flown to India for his first treatment.  He said Mugisha was treated in India and returned, but his condition got worse and was taken back and has been there until he passed on last Wednesday.

 

“Shillingi has been more than a friend. He started working in the ministry when he left Makerere University in 1980, since then he has risen from post to post. I only replaced him in 2007 to become the commissioner and he became the director,” Kabirizi told the New Vision at his Luzira offices.

 

Mugisha is survived by a widow and seven children.