Kampala-Uganda/Newsday: Mary Bwogi, a National Resistance Movement party (NRM) mobilizer in charge of the central region, wife to James Bwogi, late UTV director murdered by Idi Amin, has died.
She was aged 79.
She died as a destitute at Kiruddu hospital in Kampala on Monday morning.
Her friend, journalist Angel Lubowa told Newsday he spoke to the deceased on Saturday night.
“She called to tell me she was dying alone from a house in Kiteezi yet his son’s phone was off. I organised a special taxi to take her to a nearby clinic where she was transferred to Kiruddu,” Lubowa told Newsday.
Destitute
For years, Mrs Bwogi has been tussling it out with her own biological daughter over property.
Her daughter, Evelyne NAkimera is the wife of State minister for finance and economic planning Amos Lugoloobi.
“My own daughter Evelyn Nakimera and Lt Col Sam Mugenyi, both of whom we disagreed on Entebbe land are part of these games. They have always joined any force against me,” she said in August 2020.
During the last five years in her life, Mrs Bwogi has been in and out of police cells, sometimes in prison fighting with her own daughter.
The family inherited a vast estate with mailo land in Entebe, Nakulabye, Luweero, Mityana and Mpigi running way back from the prominent Buganda chief Balituntuma from whom Balintuma road connecting Nakulabye to Bulange was named. Balintuma was the great grandfather of Mary Bwogi’s late husband, Bwogi who inherited all this property which has split the family.
All Bwogi’s pleas to find a meeting with the president failed until her death.
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