KACITA chairman Everest Kayondo is dead

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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.

“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.

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