Fallen journalist Mzee Magande to be laid to rest on Sunday-Reveals tentative program

Rukungiri: The media fraternity in Ankole and Kigezi sub-regions on Thursday 22^nd February 2024 grieved following the death of their senior comrade Eliot Kabangira Magande.

Kabangira aka Mzee wa Kazi who has been the manager at radio Ankole breathed his last at Block A level 4, Mulago Hospital where he has been admitted over yet to be known illness.

The station director, Mwesigwa Rukutana who is also the former Rushenyi County legislator and Former Deputy Attorney General of Uganda confirmed Magande’s death stressing that they have done all it takes to save his life but God chose to take him at this stage.

 “With deep sorrow, on behalf of Radio Ankole Management and the entire staff, I announce the death of our station manager Mzee Eliot Kabangira Magande who has just passed on. He has been sick for long, we tried all it takes to save his life but God has decided otherwise. May his soul rest in eternal peace” Rukutana said in a statement.

According to the tentative burial arrangement, Mzee Kabangira’s body will on Friday 23^rd 2024 be transported from Kampala to St Mathew Cathedral Kyamate in Ntungamo district where the requiem service will be held at 10:00 am. The body will later be moved to his home in Nyamayenje, Rukungiri district.

On Saturday February 24^th, 2024, the body will be transferred to his ancestral home in Rwakirungura parish, Buyanja, sub-county, for a vigil at 07:00pm

The funeral service will be held on February 25^th 2024 starting from 11:00am and then the body will be laid to rest.

Mzee Eliot Kabangira Magande is a father to the former Country Radio volunteer Shimon Kabangira Magande.

May his soul rest in eternal peace.