Boniface Byanyima, father to Winnie Byanyima has just passed on at Nakasero Hospital. he was aged 98.
He is a former National Chairman of the Democratic party (DP) and leader of opposition in the Parliament during the 1980s.
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party broke the sad news this afternoon to its followers.
“It is with the greatest of sadness that we deliver to you today the heartbreaking news of the death of Mzee Boniface Byanyima,” reads a tweet by FDC.
Byanyima is also respected as a person who raised President Yoweri Museveni.
He met Museveni when he was a teacher of Mbarara High School. He took him up as his own son. At the time of his death, Byanyima had sworn never to forgive Museveni until when he restored the former’s ranches that he said were grabbed shortly after the latter captured power.
He claimed to have lost 1,200 heads of both Freisian and Ankole cattle and about two square miles of land that was given to squatters.
“I did not forgive Mr Museveni. Not until government restores my ranch. During our meeting he accepted that the manner used in restructuring the ranches in Nyabushozi was wrong. Government grabbed ranches in Kiruhura District, it was not government restructuring ranches as was reported, but it was government attacking the ranches,” he said in an interview with Daily Monitor.
His wife, Winnie’s mother Gertrude Byanyima succumbed to a stroke in 2008.
