Brig Kasirye Gwanga recuperating

Jan 14, 2016

His son said he is 'out of danger,’

Brig. Kasirye Gwanga, admitted at International Hospital, Kampala, is 'out of danger,' his son Gavin Kasirye has said suggesting that the controversial army officer could be discharged sooner than expected.

Gavin Kasirye, who is contesting for the Busujju County MP seat, in Mityana district in next month's general polls, said his father was out of the intensive care unit.


He said he was getting better by the day. Earlier, army spokesperson Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda had said Brig. Kasirye had greatly improved; and was stable and could now speak.

The long serving army officer, also a presidential advisor on security in the Buganda region, was rushed to International Hospital, Kampala last Sunday, after Nakasero Hospital, where he was initially admitted last week Thursday, referred him.

Sources at the hospital said the army officer was admitted after his condition deteriorated following a collapsed lung. However, last week, the army spokesperson, who said the UPDF had 'taken over' medical treatment of the Brigadier because he was still a 'serving officer' in the army, said the hospital had assured them it was handling the matter.

Security is still tight at the entrance to the ward where the brigadier is admitted. Born in Mubende district in 1952, Kasirye Gwanga attended Namukoni Primary School (present day Mityana SS). He later joined Kibuli SS for his O" level.

In 1972 was recruited into the Uganda Army. He was posted to Arua as a map instructor until 1978, when he was promoted to an artillery officer and later staff sergeant.


With the fall of President Amin in 1979, the Brigadier was among those arrested and sent to Luzira Prison, where he spent over two years.


When he was released, he briefly quit the army, concentrating on maize milling. But when his brother was killed allegedly by President Milton Obote"s army men, Kasirye joined the Freedom and Democracy Movement based in Buganda.


When Obote"s regime fell in 1985, the Brigadier refused to join the Tito Okello government. Instead, he joined the National Resistance Movement. He retired from the army in May 2005 but later said he couldn"t handle "civilian" life. He was the Mubende district chairperson from 2006 to 2011.

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