The former member of both the Ugandan parliament and the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) was scheduled to take part in a media round table discussion organised by the UN children’s agency (Unicef) to commemorate World Children’s Day, today.
Kaggwa, a qualified lawyer has been serving as the chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission. He has also been a Commissioner and Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and a Commissioner of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission.
He studied from the National University of Ireland, where he obtained a Master of Laws degree, Makerere University and the Law Development Centre. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Constitution of Uganda and a commissioner of the Uganda Constitutional Commission. Additionally, he has been head of department of Law at the Law Development Centre and held a Political Office as Minister in Charge of Political Affairs in the Office of the President. Â
He is survived by a widow and five children. According to a statement from Case Clinic, Kaggwa was rushed to the hospital at about 7.55 am after he collapsed from inside his car near Mulago roundabout. His car reportedly stopped suddenly and knocked the car in front of it and bystanders had to break the windows to open the doors.
He was found to convulsing and non-responsive. The statement further says, Kaggwa was non-responsive to the advanced life support (CPR, intubation or defibrillation) after an hour and was declared dead at around 9.00 am.Â