The Australian based Ugandan Cardiologist Dr Aggrey Kiyingi has today died in exile. Dr. Kiyingi’s death has been announced by his wife, Mayimuna Nakayiira Kiyingi on Saturday September 30, 2023.
“It’s with immense sadness and a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the passing of my beloved husband, Dr Aggrey Kiyingi. He peacefully departed from our lives. Words cannot express the depth of grief and sorrow we feel as we come to terms with this profound loss,” Mrs Kiyingi wrote on her social media platform.
She adds: “Aggrey was more than a husband to me; he was a loving father, a wonderful friend and an integral part of our lives. His presence brought immeasurable joy, laughter and warmth to countless moments we shared together. His passing leaves an irreplaceable void that will forever be felt within our hearts and in the lives he touched.”
Nakayiira however did not reveal the details and actual cause of Dr Kiyingi’s death but said the details of the funeral and memorial services shall be communicated in due course.
Dr. Kiyingi’s Education Background
He graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. He started traveling and studying widely around the world and during that period, he completed his specialist cardiology training in Sydney, Australia at Westmead and Concord Hospitals.
He became a consultant cardiologist in 1989 and later a consultant physician with extensive experience in tropical medicine.
He later specialised in general adult cardiology and echocardiography and his clinical interests include preventative cardiology, echocardiography, hypertension and general medicine.
Kiyingi became popular around the early 2000s when he started dishing out cash to churches and NGOs around Kampala whenever he returned back home from Australia where he worked from.
Together with his wife, Robinah Kiyingi, he was the proprietor of Dehezi International, a computer firm and internet service provider based in Kampala that later became popular by selling computers to schools and other organisations at subsidized fees.
Dr Kiyingi was however accused of masterminding the murder of his wife, Robinah Kiyingi, a Kampala lawyer who was gunned down at her home in Buziga.
She was killed a few weeks to the ruling in a divorce case filed by Dr Kiyingi in Mengo Chief Magistrates Court. Kiyingi was arrested and charged over the murder but he was later released on bail. He was later acquitted of the latter’s murder case.
In 2015, Dr Kiyingi was accused of masterminding the murder of Muslim clerics in the country. He was also accused of funding ADF activities.
Nakawa Magistrates Court summoned Kiyingi to appear in court and answer the charges of terrorism and murder. He however did not respond to the summons forcing the magistrate to issue arrest warrant against him. Police threatened to have him extradited from Australia to face the charges but it did not come to pass.
The country is eagerly waiting to see whether Dr Kiyingi’s family will be allowed to have his body repatriated to be accorded the decent burial at his ancestral grounds.
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