Africa-Press – Uganda. TRIBUTE |The former secretary of the Uganda Human Rights Commission Gordon Mwesigye will be laid to rest today, at the family ancestral home in Kazo district, Western Uganda.He died at 72 years of age. The family says that he succumbed to cancer. He had been taken to hospitals to Kenya, India, Germany and later returned to Uganda. Recently, he was returned to Nakasero Hospital, where he breathed his last this week.Before joining the Commission, was at one time the Town Clerk for the then Kampala City Council, now Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).Mwesigye, after his university studies, joined KCC as an Assistant Town Clerk before running into exile in Kenya during President Iddi Amin time. In 1979, he returned and rejoined KCC where he rose to the Chief Executive Officer position; before resigning in 2003. After KCC, he joined the World Bank on a project in West Africa and Washington and he later returned to the country. It is at this point that he joined the Uganda Human Rights Commission as Secretary in 2006.His funeral service was held in the same church where he was wed decades ago by the Retired Bishop of Kigezi, Rev. George Katwesigye. He is survived by five biological children.His wife Lorna, during the funeral service held at All Saints Church on Thursday evening, eulogized him as having been a great man and husband.”He was my friend and a good father to our children. I celebrate his life. We have been married for over 40 years. This is a thanksgiving for his life. He was such a fine human being. He loved humanity. He loved work. He loved to serve. He made friends. He touched many hearts. He would go anywhere in the world and you find people coming to him. He knew so many people,” she said.”He touched all of you in different ways and I’m glad I was close to such a fine man and I know he is with the angels, because he accepted the Lord Jesus in his life,” his wife added.”He treated me like a daughter, even when I was his wife. He loved me and he was so protective of me. He loved our children,” she added.His children say, he was a man of integrity.
