The function attracted hundreds of mourners including Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja who represented President Museveni and Donald Kaberuka, Rwanda’s special envoy to Mobilise International Economic Support for Continental Fight Against COVID-19 who represented Rwandan President Paul Kagame, opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Patrick Amuriat Oboi, former presidential candidate and UPC president Olara Otunnu among others.
Chaos ensued during the course of the service at around 3:00 pm, when a man appearing to be in his late 30s, emerged from the congregation as former prime minister Ruhakana Rugunda was giving a speech. Â
The man who was donning a white shirt and trousers, beat security and attempted to grab the microphone from Rugunda. But security officers intervened and arrested him immediately.Â
He was first put behind the tent and interrogated and was later whisked away in a police patrol vehicle to Kabale central police station where he is being detained. Â With the mourners now gripped by tension, Rugunda called for calm and proceeded with the speech.
Tumusiime, 72, died last Sunday at Nairobi Hospital in Kenya where was admitted since December 31, 2021, after he collapsed due to complications related to diabetes. He had been in and out of the hospital in recent years mainly in Uganda and India, with sources at the bank pointing to diabetic-related sicknesses, which have led to failing kidneys recently, according to his personal doctor, Ben Mbonye.
Mutebile’s remains were lowered down into the grave at about 05:53 pm on Sunday at his home in Muruhita-Rwakatojo village, Kijuguta ward, Kabale municipality with a gun salute.
Museveni said in a speech read by Nabbanja that Mutebile will be remembered for controlling Uganda’s financial inflation through controlling government expenditure based on available resources and liberalization of the exchange market. Museveni also hailed Mutebile for the privatization of Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB), which he said, reduced corruption in banking and non-performing loans.Â
Rugunda hailed Mutebile for fighting politics based on religious and sectarian affiliation but instead advocating for unity. George Bagamuhunda, Bishop of Kigezi Diocese asked mourners to think twice and determine how their legacy will be remembered after death.Â
He says that it is wise for people to do the right things at the right time so that they are always remembered positively after death. Mutebile is survived by a wife Betty Kyakyo Mutebile, a son Duncan Tumusiime-Mutebile, three adopted daughters and four grandchildren.Â
Mutebile, a seasoned professional economist served as governor and chairman of board of directors of the Bank of Uganda since 2001. He had just started a new term of office for which he was reappointed in 2021.Â
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