Former Attorney General Kiddu Makubuya has died. Makubuya, a professor of law and a former Dean of the School of Law at Makerere University, died after a lengthy illness. He was 75.
In June, local media widely reported Prof Makubuya dead before the family clarified that he was battling ill-health but still alive.
The late Makubuya was attorney general from 2005 to 2011, during one the most trying moment for Uganda’s politics in the emergence of multipartism and Dr Kizza Besigye.
As AG, Makubuya tried to enable the Electoral Commission to block Besigye’s 2005 nomination calling the then FDC president “less innocent” because he was on criminal court remand.
He was later appointed Minister for general duties in 2011.
He served in the academia as a lecturer and dean at Makerere University’s Law School.
He had graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere before attaining further degrees in law from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US.
