KAMPALA, UGANDA: The burial and final send-off of NTV Uganda Journalist Edward Muhumuza who perished in a nasty accident on Saturday morning is set for today, Monday, March 27, at his ancestral home in Kyegegwa district.
Muhumuza, 34, died on the spot after a car he was travelling in along the Entebbe Expressway hit a road signpost and overturned several times a few meters away from the Mpala Expressway toll centre.
In a statement today morning, the Nation Media Group-owned station announced that Muhumuza will be given a final send-off today at 4 pm in Kyegegwa district, Western Uganda.
“We continue to mourn the loss of our reporter, Edward Muhumuza, who perished in a car accident on Saturday morning. Fellow journalists are preparing to attend his final send-off at his ancestral home in Kyegegwa,” NTV Uganda tweeted.
Edward Muhumuza Biography
Born in Kyegegwa District in July 1988, Edward Muhumuza grappled with early childhood upsets and vulnerabilities of life to power through Wekomiire and Mubende Army secondary schools onwards to career-building.
He developed a passion for journalism from an early age, leading him to pursue a diploma in Journalism at United Media Consultants and Trainers (UMCAT) School where he graduated in 2013.
Passionate about the profession, he worked his way through Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), Nile Broadcasting Services (NBS), and Vision Group’s Urban Television stations before finding NTV-Uganda, the home for his talent.
In December 2022, Muhumuza snapped up the coveted Land and Property Rights award at the Uganda National Journalism Awards held by African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME).
Interestingly, Muhumuza was born into a Muslim family, but converted to Christianity in his late teens. When asked why he chose the Adventist denomination he would say he looked around, studied the doctrines of the different Christian denominations and the Adventists were the closest to what he felt catered to his spiritual needs and their worldview mirrored his own.
Though not born into the Adventist Church, once accepted, Muhumuza took to it with a passion and zeal that many professed life-long Christians couldn’t match.
He was never shy about defending his beliefs even when they went contrary to what the generally accepted stance was on whatever topic.
He was unequivocal about not working on Sabbath. Sometimes because the media business, especially TV, is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operation in a dynamic and rapidly evolving news industry, staff can be summoned to work at any time.
At 34, Edward Muhumuza, a reporter at Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U), was just beginning to reap from a budding journalism career.
Like other mid-career professionals, he held lofty ideas, could be steely resolved and was ambitious about changing society, country and the world.
Rest in Peace Comrade!!
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