A provisional programme for the burial of the late Governor of Bank of Uganda

According to the funeral programme released to newsmen by the information minister, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, the body of the late foremost banker will be flown back into the country tomorrow, January, 25.

Baryomunsi said after Mutebile’s remains arrives the country, there shall be a vigil at the deceased’s home in Kololo on Wednesday evening and thereafter there shall be a special session memorialising the deceased in Parliament on Thursday starting at 10:00 am.

After that, there will be an official funeral at Kololo Independence Grounds beginning at 10:00 am on Friday and then the body will be flown to Kabale on Sunday.

After which, there will then be a funeral service and burial in Kabale on Monday, 31st, 2022.

Tributes have been pouring in across the country as Ugandans mourn the fallen governor.

Principal among these tributes was Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja’s glowing tribute to the late Governor of Bank of Uganda.

Nabbanja hailed the late governor for stabilising and growing the Ugandan economy with an annual pre-pandemic Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of over the 6.8%.

“Prof. Mutebile was a great economist, true nationalist and patriotic Ugandan who dedicated many years of his life to serving the country,” Nabbanja said.

“As Governor of the Bank of Uganda and Secretary to the Treasury, he played a significant role in stabilising the economy. His advice was always sound, well informed and constructive,” she added.

Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile attended Kigezi College Butobere for his O-Level studies. He then attended Makerere College School in Kampala for his A-Level studies.

In 1970, he attended Makerere University, where he was elected guild president.

He was forced to flee Uganda in 1972 after he gave a speech publicly criticizing the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin.

Travelling to England through Tanzania, he completed his studies at Durham University, graduating with an upper-second in Economics and Politics.

In October 1974, he began his post-graduate studies at Balliol Collgee, Oxford. After completing that course, he enrolled at the University of Dar es Salaam to lecture and conduct research while pursuing his doctorate in economics.

In 2009, Nkumba University, a Ugandan university based in Entebbe, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in recognition of his "great contribution towards the development of Uganda's financial sector".

Between the years 1979 and 1984, Tumusiime-Mutebile was appointed to several government positions in Uganda ranging from deputy principal secretary to the president at State House in 1979, to undersecretary in the ministry of planning in 1981 where he rose to senior economist and then chief economist in 1984.

In 1992, he was appointed permanent secretary to the newly combined ministry of finance planning & economic development, a merger that he had advocated while working under Minister of Finance.

He is the longest serving chief executive in the Bank of Uganda's history. He is credited with many of the sound economic policies adopted by the Uganda government at the urging of the central bank during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s.