By Stephen Akabway Jr
DP founder Engineer Joseph Kasolo’s head was split into two by a land grabber and this once vast estate was wiped out to zero and his survivors lack burial ground and yet DP, whose president Mao is a big man in government, has completely forgotten about Kasolo who they heroically sing about in party anthem.
Out on a mission to uproot a land grabber, the late Engineer Joseph Kasolo, who founded the Democratic Party (DP) in 1954, ended up oddly by being ruthlessly attacked by the same panga wielding heartless criminal who mercilessly and expertly cut and split his head open into two parts, dangerously exposing his grey matter.
The late Engineer Joseph Kasolo started DP with his relative known as Martin Kakoona, a former renowned, unshakable and incorruptible DP member and leader who cut and carried logs used to build the pioneer Catholic church in his former Kasangati place of abode.
I can’t sincerely speaking confirm whether or not the late Kakoona was a Mayor of Kasangati or not but that was how he was famously, fondly and respectfully addressed by people of good morals and mannerism whose conversations I had chance of listening to.
The two men were relatively rich especially considering that they previously jointly owned a big diary at Kasangati which besides from selling milk from Engineer Kasolo’s dairy farm used to purchase almost all the milk from Kasangati, Gayaza, Nangabo, Kiti, Nalusugga, Bulamu, Manyangwa, Wampeewo, and almost all places in those places’ neighborhoods.
Kakoona died a few years back at a ripe age of approximately 100 years and all manner of people and politicians thronged and jammed Kasangati where he left a residence to pay their respects to the fallen Kasangati Mayor.
Going back to Engineer Kasolo, he had instinctively held up his hand to guard his head from being lynched as well as to confront the vicious attacker, but the merciless assassin did not give him any slightest chance at all, cutting his hand open, leaving it merely held by a very thinner thread of flesh.
After committing the murder most afoul, the assassin abandoned the killer panga behind at the scene of crime and dashed into the nearby swamp without trace.
That was the most horrible end of the man and key political player prior to Uganda securing and in the early days of independence and who puzzlingly lacks a burial ground, whose vast estate has since completely been wiped out on top of being absolutely heartlessly forgotten by leaders as well as supporters of the oldest country’s DP party that he ironically helped to establish from merely scrap.
Be that as it may, the leadership and members of the catholic laity to whom he generously donated four acres of land at Kijabijjo in Kira Municipality in Wakiso district, have, thankfully, since maintained his name Joseph as the name of the church whose construction he personally funded.
Prior to his tragic death, the late Engineer Joseph Kasolo would religiously attend the morning mass without fail before departing Kijabijjo village to attend to business of DP and his own private numerous businesses.
Gracefully, the leadership and members of laity of the same church are currently erecting another spacious as well as modern church and have since, most commendably, undertaken to name the new church after Engineer Joseph Kasolo following its successful completion.
For the sake of those who may wish to contribute to the construction of the church in honor of the gallant son of Uganda and Buganda, St Joseph Catholic Church is located at Kijabijjo approximately fifteen miles along Gayaza-Kalagi Road.
The House of Prayers stands opposite Alinnyikira primary School which is a storied school located immediately after the new tarmac road coming from Kira, through Bulindo, Kiwologoma and Kitukutwe before joining Gayaza-Kalagi Road. You very are most welcome.
Returning to the late Engineer Kasolo’s tragic murder, as fate would have it, he was meant to leave Kijabijjo very early for Kampala where he apparently had serious business to attend to, as narrated to me by the old people who were there then, but the Uganda Transport Corporation (UTC) bus, unfortunately, left him behind.
During those days, passengers had to strictly wait for public buses and never the other way round and therefore when one left you, you had to definitely wait for another the following day. That was how complicated matters of public transport were those days.
But, as a disclaimer, the late Engineer Kasolo was irrefutably a rich man who was even able to serve milk to people at Kijabijjo village who frequented his home for freebies and so, therefore, it is not honestly clear why he chose to use public transport on the day he met his death as opposed to using his private cars.
After missing the early bus, the late Engineer Kasolo decided to use the day profitably by going to land which was holding his farm and finally evict the land grabber.
As it stands, little did the deceased know that it was he who was going to be instead evicted out of this merciless planet Earth forever and all in the name of rescuing from his private farm an obstinate land grabber.
The few old folks at Kijabijjo comfortable to talk about these scary matters, told me that the land grabber only identified as Odwori who was a Mudama by tribe, had for many times told his fellow drunkards that either he or Engineer Kasolo one was going to die over the subject land.
So, therefore, when the late former Kijabijjo biggest landlord went to his farmland, Odwori was intently waiting for him while well-armed with a very sharp dagger in readiness for the fatal duel that was meant to brutally cut short one of the duo’s sweet life. Watch this space for what transpired next! (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
