{"id":24835,"date":"2022-01-18T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=24835"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:20:39","slug":"uganda-names-road-after-tutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/uganda-names-road-after-tutu","title":{"rendered":"Uganda names road after Tutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>A road has been named in honour of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a prominent South African clergyman who stood against the apartheid and racial segregation in his country from 1948 until the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as South Africa\u2019s moral campus, the late Archbishop was a strong advocate of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Solomon Sebola, the Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires at the South African High Commission, officiated at the assigning of the road in Katuuso-Buziga, a suburb in Kampala yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the (late) Archbishop, Ugandans should also advocate for the protection of human rights and freedom of people, stand for the truth and champion the cause of the poor because for Bishop Tutu, that was his hallmark,\u201d Mr Sebola told journalists on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer during the early 1990s, and is believed to have died of infections associated with its treatment on December 26 last year at the age of 90 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sebola also discouraged corruption like how the late Archbishop Tutu did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believed that if states are free from corruption, then services can easily be rendered to respective communities,\u201d Mr Sebola said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Emmanuel Katongole,the founder of Quality Chemical Industries Limited, also a resident of Katuuso-Buziga, hailed the late as a great man of admiration in Africa who played a big role in bringing peace in the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did not only stop in South Africa, but inspired the whole of Africa to be liberated although his role was as a church leader who sometimes acted as a politician to air out what he felt was oppressing people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The late Archbishop Tutu, according to Mr Katongole, hated dictatorship and oppression, which made many African countries heed to his messages hence creating the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>During the same event, Mr Herbert Wilson Kaweesa, a lay reader at St Paul\u2019s Church of Uganda, Katuuso-Buziga, urged the public to leave reputable legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should all aim at doing good things in this world like the late Archbishop so that we leave behind respectable legacies,\u201d Mr Kaweesa said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is also important to ask for God\u2019s direction while executing worldly deeds.<\/p>\n<p><b>[email protected]<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. 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