Activist Jim Spire Ssentongo Sends Message To Gov’t As Lubaga Hospital Confirms Ssegirinya Is Dead

Cartoonist, activist and University Jim Spire Ssentongo has sent a cryptic message to government and politicians in the Museveni government over inhuman treatment of opposition politicians.

His post came after news was shared that Kawempe North Legislator Muhammad Ssegirinya had died after a prolonged battle with illness. Minutes later, it was revealed that the legislator is critically ill at Lubaga hospital, he’s brain dead and all his body organs have shut.

The hospital has in a statement declared that Honorable Ssegirinya is now dead. The management says he died at 12:10pm.

Sending a veiled message to those who jailed Ssegirinya in Kitalya prisons, re-arrested him on the charges that him and his Makindye counterpart Allan Ssewanyana had taken part in the Bijambiya Masaka killings in 2021 which claimed over 30 people.

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The duo spent close to two years in Kitalya prisons, several pleas for them to be granted bail to access medical attention fell on deaf ears as the prosecutor Richard Birivumbuka and Joseph Kyomuhendo continued saying they were still collecting evidence.

Ssegirinya’s mother would attend court hoping her son would be freed but it was all in vein and what the prison authorities could says was that they had capacity to treat prisoners including Ssegirinya who continued requesting to be allowed to seek medication from his doctors.

The duo were later released on 12th February 2023 reportedly after back door negotiations with the state brokered by Minister of Justice and Constitutional affairs Norbert Mao.

Now, activist Spire has called out those who tormented Ssegirinya to keep mum and not even type RIP including at parliament where his mum continued pleading with speaker Anita Among to do something but all didn’t yield anything until the hand of ORDER FROM ABOVE finally came through.

Now it will rain RIP, even from those who incarcerated him for years without any clear crime and denied him quick access to treatment when he cried out; plus those that ridiculed him saying he was ‘acting’ as he fought for his life! His poor mother wept at Parliament, pleading… pic.twitter.com/KqAVVq0lIp

— Jim Spire Ssentongo (@SpireJim) January 9, 2025

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