What you need to know about John Nagenda
By Drone Team
John Nagenda former Presidential Advisor on Media Issues and a weekly Columnist in the Saturday Vision is dead. Nagenda, a veteran journalist died on Saturday afternoon at Medipal International Hospital in Kampala where he had been admitted for weeks, according to the presidency. He was aged 84.
According to a communication from the Minister of Presidency Milly Babalanda, Nagenda passed on at Medipal International Hospital on Saturday afternoon.
Until his death, Nagenda was only the second surviving Ugandan to have represented East Africa at the 1975 cricket world cup in England.
Nagenda was reportedly born in Rwanda where his parents had gone to preach the gospel in 1938 but returned to Uganda when he was only aged 3. He went to Buddo and Busoga College Mwiri.
After he resigned from his cricket involvement, Nagenda started writing fiction novels and columns. He was appointed presidential advisor on media and public relations, but later in 2011, fell out with the first family for “unpleasantly describing” the First Lady Janet Museveni as a “very extreme woman”.
Nagenda made matters worse when in a media interview said Museveni had become a bad listener and that Janet Museveni was the only opposition in the cabinet. Nagenda has been indisposed and admitted to the hospital for weeks.
According to information available, John Nagenda was a Rwandan-Burundian born Ugandan cricketer who played One Day International in the 1975 World Cup for East Africa. He appeared in one first-class cricket match in England in 1975, and played cricket for Uganda.
His contempolary columnist Patrick Onyango Obbo referred to him as “One Man’s Weakness,” which he changed from his weekly column in the Staurday Vision, known as One Man’s Week.
His column in The New Vision was popular because of his language, but lost its popularity after he took sides only to realize it later when it was too late. He criticized his boss afterwards.
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