Parliament Eulogies Fallen UPDF Brig.Gen. Stephen Kiggundu

Parliament of Uganda has eulogized the late Brig.Gen. Stephen Kiggundu who has been the Deputy Commander of UPDF Airforce who died in his birthroom on sunday at his official residence  in Entebbe.

Presiding over the prenary, the Deputy Speaker praised the Brig. Gen. Kiggundu as one the most highly trained officer in the Air Force. 

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) says Brig Gen Stephen Kiggundu, the Deputy Commander of the Air Force, was electrocuted.

 Brig Gen Kiggundu was last seen at a public event on Thursday, March 28, as Gen. Wilson Mbasu Mbadi handed over the office of Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) to first son Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba at the fourth division headquarters in Gulu.

Kiggundu breathed his last in the evening of Sunday, March 31. He died in a bathroom at his official residence in Entebbe. 

Initially, it had been thought that a bathroom fall had claimed his life

But UPDF spokesperson Brig Gen Felix Kulaigye has now said that Brig. Gen. Kiggundu was electrocuted. 

“What we got from his home was that he was electrocuted while he was having a bath.That’s what we have,” said Kulaigye.

“The death occurred [in the] evening. Most likely after he had exercised he was going to have a shower.”

This is the report the army got from Brig Gen Kiggundu’s family on his cause of death.

 The UPDF is now investigating circumstances under which the electrocution happened, costing the national army of an experienced pilot who became the first Ugandan to fly the Sukhoi, the fighter jet made in Russia.