Sombre mood as Tamale Mirundi is laid to rest

A sombre mood engulfed people who thronged Matala-Kalagala Village, the ancestral place of Joseph Tamale Mirundi Sunday afternoon to give him a befitting send-off.

Mirundi, 60, a veteran journalist and former deputy presidential press secretary succumbed to liver and lung complications at Kisubi Hospital on Tuesday.  

Unlike in Kampala where a special mass was conducted for the deceased at St Gyaviira Catholic Parish, Bunamwaya, there were no formal funeral prayers at Mirundi’s final sendoff place as catholic priests in the area shunned the burial. The ceremony was mostly…