KACITA chairman Everest Kayondo is dead
Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) chairman, Everest Kayondo has succumbed to COVID-19.
According to the KACITA chief executive officer, Abel Mwewigye, Kayondo was admitted to Lifeline International Hospital in Zana on Saturday with Covid-19 symptoms and breathed his last on Wednesday.
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“Kayondo had tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. He died this afternoon,” Mwesigye said.
KACITA chairman Everest Kayondo dead
Besides his work in KACITA and fighting for city traders rights, Kayondo was also a tourism enthusiast who owned a tourism agency called Ever Based Tour and Travel.
In 2018, he was elected as the new board chairman of the Association of Uganda Tourism Operators.
He now joins a list of other well known Ugandans who have perished due to COVID-19 since the outbreak of the virus in Uganda in March 2020.
Uganda ia currently grappling with a devastating second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.
