{"id":7157,"date":"2022-11-04T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:59:23","slug":"lawyer-hussein-kashillingi-pays-tribute-to-his-fallen-father-bush-war-veteran-ahmed-kashillingi-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/lawyer-hussein-kashillingi-pays-tribute-to-his-fallen-father-bush-war-veteran-ahmed-kashillingi-73\/","title":{"rendered":"LAWYER HUSSEIN KASHILLINGI PAYS TRIBUTE TO HIS FALLEN FATHER BUSH WAR VETERAN AHMED KASHILLINGI (73)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear mourners and fellow celebrants , all protocol obsessed .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I welcome you to our home and thank you all for taking your time off your busy schedules to come and commiserate with us as we bid farewell to our father, whom we call Afande . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I traveled to the United States of America last week before my father was hospitalized . I\u2019m here to attend some official meetings but also to visit my son at university in Houston whom I haven\u2019t seen in almost 2 years . When I heard the news of my father\u2019s death, I contacted emirates Airlines to see the possibility of changing my ticket . I was told the earliest I could be in kampala was on Sunday . I therefore took the decision to allow my father to be laid to rest without me . Afande is a Moslem and it would be wrong and selfish of me to keep his body for almost 5 days waiting for my arrival . As you can imagine , this is the most difficult and painful decision I have ever made in my entire life . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commander Ahmed Kashillingi , RO 40 was born on 1st January , 1949 in this village . He has died at 73 with only 2 months to make 74 years . He is survived by many children , possibly 100 plus . Just a few of them are present and I would like all his children to stand up and come up here . He is also survived by an almost equal number of grandchildren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would like in a special way to thank H. E the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces for the support he has always given to Afande\u2026\u2026.I think a few of us will appreciate this . I know it and I commend him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would also like to thank Gen Saleh and his wife Jovia for always being there for Afande whatever the odds . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cannot forget Afande\u2019s first family , the NRA\/ UPDF . I particularly want to thank the army leadership for according Afande a full military burial . Afande was a soldier and nothing else . It is therefore gratifying to see his comrades in arms here to give him this befitting send off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also would like to single out Gen Henry Tumukunde for mobilizing his colleagues to come and bid their fellow Senior Officer a final goodbye . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please forgive me for not singling out every individual who has been helpful in many of Afande\u2019s life struggles . But as a family , I would like you to know that we appreciate you and we are eternally grateful for your love and comradeship . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afande Kashillingi one of the fearless bus war veterans commanded the 5th battalion in the battle to capture Kampala in 1986<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afande has lived a rather very difficult life . Difficult because of the choices he made but also due to some occupational hazards . Men do face difficulties in their life\u2019s journey \u2026.some come out of them and triumph while for some , they never seem to be recover. I think from the time he run into exile in 1990 and his subsequent kidnapping from Beni in DR Congo, his trial for treason which he never committed and his eventual acquittal, Afande never fully recovered . I think he failed to come to terms with his situation or his new status of being a senior commander to a subordinate of those he formally commanded . But as we say, that\u2019s life and that\u2019s all behind him now . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, Afande has rested and may God grant him eternal rest . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lawyer Hussein Kashillingi paid tribute to his father <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To my siblings , your father is gone . He is no longer with us . So we have a choice to make . We will remain together as a family and children of Afande , or we will tear down everything that makes us family and each to their own. It is upon us to choose what we want to be and how we want to be that. I urge you to remain disciplined and remember that the umbilical cord that unites us is much stronger than the artificial issues and challenges we face . Together we will remain a family . I will remind you that those who are disciplined will win or overcome life\u2019s challenges. I hate indiscipline in its every form. I will hold anyone\u2019s hand should he or she make a choice to be disciplined . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, I thank all the people gathered here for coming to be with us in this rather difficult time . May God reward you and bless your journeys back to your homes. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To my father , I looked after you the best way I could . I was building you a house you have not slept in while alive . At your father\u2019s funeral, you asked me to complete the house because you wanted to retire from government and come home for good in October . Little did I know this is how you\u2019d finally come home to rest this November . For everything that I didn\u2019t do well as a son, forgive me . I also would like you to know I have forgiven you for everything that you failed to do as a father. I always still looked after you as a son would a father . For that , God will be my witness . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fare thee well soldier . You\u2019ll forever be a hero in many people\u2019s hearts. You fought many battles . You won many , you\u2019ve lost this one because God needs you elsewhere . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orare gye Afande . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HUSSEIN KASHILLINGI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear mourners and fellow celebrants , all protocol obsessed . 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