{"id":434,"date":"2019-06-11T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/?p=434"},"modified":"2019-06-11T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:17:36","slug":"west-ankole-diocese-celebrates-life-of-former-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/11\/west-ankole-diocese-celebrates-life-of-former-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ankole Diocese celebrates life of former Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of mourners from different walks of life on Tuesday 11th June 2019, gathered at St. Peters Cathedral, the headquarters of West Ankole Diocese to celebrate the life of Mr Charlie Tumwesigye, one of the most trusted legal minds that Bushenyi Greater sub-region has had in a span of two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The late Tumwesigye of the famous\nTumwesigye and Co Advocates, who served as the Diocesan Chancellor\/legal\nadvisor of West Ankole Diocese for a period of Nine years passed on at his home\nin Bushenyi town on Monday at an age of 61 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He succumbed to motor neuron disease\nhaving spent long time with it, according to his wife, Mrs. Stella Tumwesigye,\nwith whom they have been married since 2007. This cleared air on the cause of\ndeath, following speculations that the lawyer was bewitched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI want to clear air on what caused\nthe death of my husband. He fell sick before we came together for marriage. He\nsuccumbed to motor neuron condition which later affected his speech and we\nbegan using sign language up to the time of his departure,\u201d said the widow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mourners, one after the other,\nduring the funeral service described the late Tumwesigye as a faithful and\ntrustworthy lawyer who had his Church and country at heart from the time he was\nenrolled as an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2992\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?fit=780%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"435\" data-link=\"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/?attachment_id=435\" class=\"wp-image-435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?w=2992&amp;ssl=1 2992w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?resize=1320%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?w=1560&amp;ssl=1 1560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westankolediocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_6054.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the mourners, who filled\nSt. Peter\u2019s Cathedral Bweranyangi to its capacity, the Bishop of West Ankole\nDiocese, Rt. Rev. Johnson Twinomujuni, described the late Tumwesigye as a\nlawyer, who subscribed to truth and upheld it in his service, most especially\nwhen he served West Ankole Diocese as a legal advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe subscribed to truth and upheld\nit during his service in the Church because the Church upholds truth.\u201d Said\nBishop Twinomujuni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bishop also eulogized the\ndeparted legal mind as a lawyer, who dispensed justice in truth at a time when\njustice is bought with money even when the dispensers know the truth, but\nchoose to put it aside. He lauded the widow for being a courageous woman and\nclearing air on her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The retired Bishop of West Ankole\nDiocese, Bishop Emeritus William Magambo, in whose tenure, the late Tumwesigye\nserved as legal advisor, said the late helped the diocese to settle many court\ncases outside court and protected the diocese from being drawn to court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI served with him for about nine\nyears, but during his time, we settled more than 15 cases and he preferred\nsettling them out of court. Having a Church background, he always encouraged us\nto use dialogue saying that seeing the Church in court was a same,\u201d Bishop\nMagambo eulogized<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also described Mr Tumwesigye as a\nchild of God because he did what he could to reconcile God\u2019s people whenever\nthere was a dispute despite many temptations directed to compromise his\nprofessionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Widow, Mrs Stella Tumwesigye\nsaid her husband was a good time manager and Christian, who kept attending\nChurch services even when his life on earth was ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Tumwesigye(RIP) is survived by\nsix children, who described him as a father, whose counsel was outstanding over\nthe years. They were represented by Mr. Danson Agaba, a niece to the departed\nTumwesigye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time of his departure,\nTumwesigye was a chartered member of the Rotary Club of Bushenyi. He will be\nlaid to rest at his ancestral home in Kanoni, Kazo, Kiruhura district on\nWednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of mourners from different walks of life on Tuesday 11th June 2019, gathered at St. Peters Cathedral, the headquarters of West Ankole Diocese to celebrate the life of Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westankolediocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}