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Former DP President Kawanga Ssemogerere Dies Aged 90

by Rogers Atukunda
November 18, 2022
Former DP President Kawanga Ssemogerere Dies Aged 90
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Former Democratic Party (DP) President Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere has died.

He was aged 90.

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A close family member told Uganda Radio Network (URN) that Dr Ssemogerere, who twice contested for Presidency, died early Friday at his home in Rubaga, Kampala.

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere (born 11 February 1932) in present-day Kalangala District, in the Buganda Region of Uganda, was the leader of the Democratic Party in Uganda for 25 years and one of the main players in Ugandan politics until his retirement in 2005.

Political career 

In 1961–62 Ssemogerere was elected as a member of the Uganda Legislative Council and afterwards of the National Assembly of Uganda as a Member of Parliament for North Mengo Constituency.

In 1972, he replaced Benedicto Kiwanuka as the leader of the Democratic Party, having previously served as his Parliamentary Secretary. Following the 1971 coup, Ssemogerere was in exile until 1979, when he returned as Minister of Labour.

In 1980, Paul Ssemogerere assumed leadership of the Democratic Party. In 1984, he was reelected as leader over the challenge of Okeny Atwoma. In response to Okeny Atwoma’s unsuccessful challenge, Atwoma established the Nationalist Liberal Party alongside former minister Anthony Ochaya, Cuthbert Joseph Obwangor, and Francis Bwenge.

The late Ssemogerere

Ssemogerere was a Presidential Candidate in the disputed 1980 General elections which were won by Milton Obote‘s Uganda People’s Congress. Ssemogerere then became the leader of the parliamentary opposition from 1981 to 1985. He was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs during the presidency of Tito Okello (1985–86).

After H.E Yoweri Museveni became president in January 1986 following a coup, Ssemogerere was consecutively Minister of Internal Affairs (1986–88), Foreign Affairs (1988–94) and Public Service (1994–95) and at the same time held the post of deputy prime minister in the National Resistance Movement government (from 1986).

He resigned from his government posts in June 1995 because he was the presidential candidate for the mainstream opposition, but he lost the 1996 presidential elections to Museveni.

Ssemogerere has also been a delegate to the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) and was chairman of the OAU Council of Ministers from 1993 to 1994.

After his retirement from politics in November 2005, he was succeeded as party president by John Ssebaana Kizito, the mayor of Kampala at that time.

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