Opposition Forum for Democratic Change’s four-time Presidential Candidate Col Dr Kizza Besigye has added his voice to those mourning the demise of the former Electoral Commission Chairman Al Hajj Aziz Kasujja who passed away yesterday afternoon.
Kasujja breathed his last on Sunday shortly after arriving at Platinum Hospital in Wandegeya, a Kampala Suburb. He was according to family members, rushed there after he collapsed in the middle of a school meeting in Kawempe.
Hajj Kasujja was in charge of the 2001 presidential elections in which Col Kizza Besigye contested for the first time with his former boss President Yoweri Museveni.
Besigye came second in the race with 29% while the incumbent polled a landslide 69%. Kasujja then retired from the office halfway through his term and gave way for the current EC Chairman Eng. Badru Kiggundu.
When the news came out yesterday evening of Kasujja’s demise, Col Besigye was amongst those who sent out their condolences to the bereaved family.
He said in the message that Kasujja gave his best to deliver fair results of the 2011 poll and described him as “a decent man.”
“Farewell Hajj Aziz Kasujja. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. Hajj Aziz was a decent man and did his best in 2001,” tweeted Besigye.
Kasujja is expected to be laid to rest later today in Masaka district.