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In search for one’s true self, the great Mahatma Gandhi said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”. Diana Anguchia profiles to you a once agile, strong and active Ugandan born Australian cardiologist, Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi whose contribution to save human life is still significant.
Ugandan consultant cardiologist and so Azalia Ssebowa , a peasant in Busukuma,Namulonge in Wakiso district, Dr Yinigi passed on yesterday, September 30, according to his family.
The doctor’s father was shot dead in the mid 1980’s was a staunch supporter of the UPC.
Kiyingi as a member of Budo family, he went to Budo schools from primary and finished his A level at King’s College Budo, in the mid 60’s up to 1971. His former classmates recalls him as a boy who was sharp academically , serious character who would not joke,he was very religious person that he became a Mulokore and loved music and was a member of the elite choir group which used to perform nationally and internationally.
Kiyingi joined Makerere University where he pursued a bachelor’s of medicine and developed and intimate relationship with Robina who was in the faculty of law at the same institution and went on shortly to marry her after university.
The family left Uganda in 1980 and stayed briefly in Kenya at the house of Robina’s sister Dr. Eve Kasirye. While in Nairobi,Dr. Kiyingi worked part time at a village hospital in kitui, Machakos and later at kaloleni in Mombasa.In 1981, he moved to Australia and pursued specialized training in International institution and rose to become a respected heart specialist.
In 2001, kiyingi starter dishing out millions of money to churches and local NGOs in Kampala and at one point he gave 20m to Katuso Church of Uganda where he prays from whenever his in Kampala and the church is near his residence in Buziga where he had a special sit reserved for him inside the church ,thus made him hit the limelights as a philanthropist.
He promised to set up a Shs 10b funds to promote computer awareness in the country in May 2002. Together with his wife Robina, he founded Dehezi international , a Kampala based computer and internet service provider which sold computers to schools and other organizations.
It was the Dehezi international that designed CBS FM Radio website which was launched in 2002 and became an interactive medium through which listeners tune into the radio over internet.
The couple had four children. The marriage of Kiyingi, both Balokole hot record in 2003 when husband filed a divorce case in Mengo chief magistrate court accusing his wife of adultery. But, the people accused him of being responsible for the marriage wreck because he was seeing others.
In 2005, he was charged with murder of his wife, lawyer Robinah Erinah Kayaga Kiyingi, charges he was acquainted in 2006.
He founded Uganda Federal Democratic Organization (UFDO) under whose auspices he intended to mobilize against Museveni in the run up to 2016.
The cardiologist said then that; “no amount of intimidation” would make him drop his presidential bid, he however, didn’t turn up to mobilize for the presidency. The government later revealed that it had incriminatory evidence linking Kiyingi to the death of Muslim clerics in the country. However, speaking to KFM on phone, Kiyingi said he had never met any Muslim leaders as stated by the government and that he was not linked to any rebel group.
