{"id":19884,"date":"2021-10-20T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=19884"},"modified":"2021-10-20T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T10:04:13","slug":"media-icons-laud-hope-kivengere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/media-icons-laud-hope-kivengere","title":{"rendered":"Media icons laud Hope Kivengere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni\u2019s longest-serving spokesperson, Hope Kivengere, died yesterday at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala after a short illness, State House said.<\/p>\n

She was 72.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs Hope Kivengere has passed on\u2026She always checked in on the [Presidential Press Unit or PPU] whenever she was back home. We have lost a great civil servant. RIP Hope Kivengere,\u201d tweeted Ms Lindah Nabusayi, the current senior presidential press secretary, who described the deceased as an \u201cassertive woman\u201d.<\/p>\n

News of her death, just after a week in hospital following her admission last Tuesday, struck like a thunderbolt and was met with shock, disbelief and an outpouring of love, from across the political and media spectrum.<\/p>\n

In the early days of his government, President Museveni, who shot his way to power in 1986, required a suave spokesperson to polish his image and project a reciprocal love of, and by, Ugandans.<\/p>\n

Thus, in Hope, she found a high-calibre individual refined through class parenting by her widely admired father, Bishop Festo Kivengere of Kigezi Diocese, likened by some Christians as Uganda\u2019s equivalent of American tele-evangelist Billy Graham.<\/p>\n

Amiable, principled and genuine, Hope Kivengere not only founded the President Press Unit (PPU) as a pipeline to burnish his image, but also cut with peace and love into the steely hearts of usually dispassionate journalists and rallied the top editors in town for a round-table discussion with President Museveni every two months.<\/p>\n

It was such a record that Senior Presidential Adviser on Media, Ms Mary Karooro Okurut, yesterday said she found herself regularly consulting \u201cguardian angel\u201d Hope when she succeeded her in 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201cHope was a presidential spokesperson of substance, not just rhetoric. She was very principled, honest and a peace-maker,\u201d Ms Karooro said, adding: \u201cEven after I had stepped into her shoes, I kept on going back to her for guidance. She would say, \u2018Maria, take this path\u2019. She had a personal relationship with the media. She was not just for Uganda, but for Africa. We have lost a pillar.\u201d Likewise, Mr Phillip Wafula Oguttu, the co-founder and former managing director of Monitor Publications Ltd, publisher of the Daily Monitor, expressed shock at the news of the passing on of Kivengere whom he credited for cultivating a good relationship between the President and the media in the past.<\/p>\n

Hope, he said, used to organise regular media engagements with President Museveni during which journalists raised fundamental governance and development issues and shared confidential information for the President\u2019s direct attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very crucial in ensuring that President Museveni met the editors after every two months. We used this forum to tell the President everything off-the-record. We would switch off our cameras, leave behind our phones and have an informal chat. She handled that docket very well,\u201d Mr Oguttu, also a former Leader of Opposition in Parliament, said of Hope Kivengere yesterday.<\/p>\n

Journalists who were active practitioners in the 1980s and 1990s, when Hope was in-charge the president\u2019s communication, yesterday fondly remember her as a calm, respectful, objective and humble person.<\/p>\n

To Mr Joachim Buwembo, a former managing editor of this newspaper, Hope was distinctly \u201ca meticulous, confident woman\u201d who had high pedigree.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very confident and I believe her confidence had to do with her pedigree that [in turn] had to do with her strong father (Bishop Festo Kivengere), a human rights crusader. Hope was not made by [President Museveni\u2019s] National Resistance Movement [government], but by her father. She didn\u2019t fall in things, but she was born in things,\u201d Mr Buwembo said rather poetically.<\/p>\n

She served for 15 years.<\/p>\n

When she hanged the spokesperson\u2019s boots, Hope made a foray into international civil service, once serving as Uganda\u2019s Representative on the nine-member Committee of Elders of the Common Markets for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa).<\/p>\n

Between 2016 and 2017, she worked with the regional bloc, the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (Igad) and before that, with the African Union Mission in Sudan and the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (Amisom).<\/p>\n

In 2018, Hope was selected by Comesa to head its team to observe Egypt\u2019s presidential elections which President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi won to retain his seat.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. President Museveni\u2019s longest-serving spokesperson, Hope Kivengere, died yesterday at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala after a short illness, State House said. She was 72. \u201cMs Hope Kivengere has passed on\u2026She always checked in on the [Presidential Press Unit or PPU] whenever she was back home. We have lost a great civil servant. 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