Besweri Kiwanuka Lusse Mulondo passes on

Former Buganda Ssabalangira Besweri Kiwanuka Lusse Mulondo has passed on.  

Born on March 12, 1926, the Mulondo qA a Senior Presidential Adviser on Land Matters.

Mulondo was made Ssabalangira of Buganda by the Kabaka when he was still a Sabattaka.

According to family members, their father passed on at International Hospital, Namuwongo, where he had been rushed Monday after his blood pressure shot up. 

Besweri Kiwanuka Lusse Mulondo (with walking stick) during prayers at a function in 2014. Photo by Juliet Lukwago

Mulondo started his public service career before Uganda got independence in 1962.

For most of his civil service career, he worked in the Ministry of Lands where he rose to the positions of Registrar of titles, Chairman of the Uganda Land Commission and minister of state for Lands and later Energy and Mineral Development, which at the time ws Ministry of Natural Resources.

In the early 1970s Mulondo officially resigned from his post as Registrar of Titles during Idi Amin's government when he fraudulently made transfers of deported Asians' properties to Ugandans favoured by the regime.

His resignation was seen as an act of defiance which landed him in Luzira prison by the then minister Juma Oris. It took the efforts of a colleague with connections in the regime to have him set free.