Lugonvu Vincent Byasi was brutally assassinated and died on the morning of Wednesday 27th July 2005 in Mulago Hospital Kampala.Lugonvu was a self styled young and ambitious leader who shall be missed by many people in Uganda. He will be missed by his dear friends, mother, father, sisters, brothers and extended family members.
Lugonvu joined the School of Education Makerere University and graduated in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in education. He served as President of the Opposition Uganda Young Democrats at Makerere University. He contensed for the Guild Presidency Makerere University and purportedly rigged by H.E Kiranda Yusuf. Lugonvu together with Luyiga Benard, Luzindana Adam Buyinza, Lugoloobi Hamidu and Kassim Waiswa Balabyeki founded the Advocacy for Federal Governance in Uganda (AFGU). He was a founding promoter of the Buyinza Foundation. He promoted and participated in the activities of Public Opinions during its early days in the Great Lumumba Hall, Makerere University.
While Lugonvu PERISHED, he remains one of the greatest contributors to the works of Luzindana Adam Buyinza-Rest in Peace thee Hon Comrade Vicent Lugonvu Byasi.

LUGONVI VICENT IS DEAD
A Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) office administrator yesterday died at Mulago Hospital after thugs beat him at his residence in Namasuba on Monday night.
The UYD chief, Michael Mabikke, said Vincent Lugonvu died on Tuesday night.
"He was operated upon but died later.
The thugs beat him a lot. Doctors said his skull was cracked," Mabikke, also Makindye East MP, said.
He said Lugonvu was taken to Mulago unconscious after the thugs, who reportedly took nothing from the house, had disappeared.
He said on the fateful night, Lugonvu was with his sister, Harriet Kisakye, a local music artiste.
Dear Lugonvu.....RIP I will always remember you. whenever i think of the moments we shared at Makerere, the laughters, the politics, the jokes, fun i shed a tear in my heart.i recall you saying lumumba oyeee...... we shall always miss u.Thugs took your life away form us when we still needed you.

Ultimate Media
The Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) is bitter with Uganda police after receiving worrying information that the suspects who killed DP secretary, Vincent Lugonvu last year were released.
The UYD spokesman and presidential assistant Democratic Party, Jude Mbabaali told a press conference in Kampala yesterday that the Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayikura miserably failed to prosecute the suspects of Lugonvus murder.
Mbabaali calls upon police to re-arrest the suspects and produce them before court as soon as possible. During the same press conference, Mbabaali alleged that UYD would like to inform the public that the former colleagues of Lugonvu who served with him in 2004 as UYD and DP executives at Makerere university are being haunted by suspected security personnel.
He gave a case of one Esther Obotha whose whereabouts arent known because unknown people visited her home in Kansanga and threatened her to abandon DP activities or else she risked being killed. Obotha was the deputy of late Lugonvu when the late was working as UYD chairman Makerere university branch.

Harriet and Maria Kisakye are both singers. Maria is a second year student of civil engineering at Kyambogo University. They told Patrick Mutebi about their passion for music and why they are inseparable

Harriet, 27
 I have a lot in common with Maria. First, we are both musicians. Then, we resemble a lot. Actually many people find it hard to tell us apart. They say we talk, walk and behave the same way. The only difference is that Maria is more outgoing.

She loves going out and partying very much. But that is common with people of her age. Our parents had three children. Our first born brother Vincent Lugonvu passed away in 2005. I am the second and Maria third.

I mention Lugonvu in my song Gyenvudde. He was our only brother and we loved him a lot. We expected to learn a lot from him.

Dad got a second wife with whom he had another child, Phionah; a lovely girl, who is going to do her senior six exams this year. We grew up in a very strict home.

Dad was very strict. We had to attend Church every Sunday. Missing would earn you a beating or cost you a meal. He was a no-nonsense man.

Most of the time Maria was in boarding school. That meant we could only meet during holidays. So come holiday time, we would become inseparable. We would move and play together.

Right now she stays at my place. If she is not staying with me, then she is at the hostel. I’m like her guardian; I pay her tuition and hostel fees. As her older sister, I often counsel and advise her.

Maria has joined the music field with enthusiasm. Actually it has been her passion since she was three, just like me. Music runs in our blood. I had wanted her to first finish her education before embarking on a singing career.

Her maiden album has six songs and it is receiving a lot of air play on the FM radios. That is a promising start. We wrote the songs together. Of all the songs on the album, Onchapa is my favourite.

Any one who listens to our music will immediately realise that we love singing about love. I sang Kandahah and she came up with Onchapa. Both songs are about the same subject; sex.

The Kandahah song almost got me into problems with dad. He thought I was too explicit so he wanted to disown me. I knew someone was misinforming him so I gave give him my side of the story.

I managed to convince him that there was nothing obscene about the song. In the end he praised me for packaging the message in the song so well.
Maria, 21

My name is Maria Kisakye and I'm proud of it. I’m emphasising that because some people call me Kapapaala, because I featured in David Lutalo’s Kapapaala video, and I don’t like it.

Although still a student, I want to establish myself as a respected artiste. Releasing an album has been my dream since I was a little girl. Onchapa has made my dream come true. For a long time I admired female artistes like my sister Harriet, Mariam Ndagire and Sophie Nantongo.

Had Harriet not insisted that I first finish my secondary school, before venturing into fulltime singing, I would be having several albums. When I got to university, I convinced her that I would be able to balance both studies and music.

I gave her examples of artistes like Henry Tigan and Trishilla who were then still in school. That was when she gave me a nod.

She has given me a lot of support. She went through all the songs I wrote. She wrote some of my songs like Nakusiima. In addition to paying my tuition fees and hostel rent, she also foots my studio and video shooting expenses.

Harriet has recruited me to be part of her Riders Production group. It's a group of 20 artistes. She has also tipped me to work as a back-up artiste to some members of the group.

I love her Kandahah song. It just blows me away. However, I hate Ki-mafia because it encourages women to fight their husbands. I love my sister so much because apart from looking alike, we have a lot in common.

When I turned 21, Harriet threw me a lavish party at home. She gave me a lot of gifts. Each time Harriet travels abroad, she brings me a pair of jeans. I’m still single; I hope to get married by the time I clock 27 years. When the right man comes along, Harriet will be the first to know.

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