Canon Zabron Rushambuza, a famous businessman and prominent church leader from Ntungamo village, in Bushenyi District is alive but admitted to Kampala Hospital in Kololo.
Canon Rushambuza was evacuated to Kampala on June 15 in a critical condition and has since been taken into Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in a private wing at the facility.
The hilarious businessman is aged 93.
A relative who asked not to be named said the ageing church leader has been ill for quite sometime and had been receiving treatment in Kampala earlier in May before he was taken back to his upcountry residence when rumors spread like wildfire that he had passed on.
“He was taken to the village to disprove those who said he was dead. But we brought him back to Kampala when his condition worsened,” said a family relative.
We have learnt he has been positively responding to medication and his health is slowly progressing.
Behind his humour and bragging, Mzee Rushambuza has a heart of gold.
For example, in 1957 together with his late wife, Jailes Ntoro, he decided to cut down their forest and construct a mud and wattle church at Nyakabirizi village, Ntungamo in Bushenyi district, the church later became St. Stephen Church of Uganda.
In 1985, he renovated the church; this time, roofing it with with iron sheets and giving it a face lift new paint. Later, his family brought the church down and built a permanent structure, which was completed in 2009.
In 1993, he offered 21 bicycles to all archdeacons of West Ankole Diocese. Later, in early 2002, he gave West Ankole diocese a Toyota Corona, which the then bishop, William Magambo, received on behalf of the diocese. In 2008, he gave the diocese another car, a Toyota Corona. Since 1950, Rushambuza has given 56 Friesians to the church.
At TrumpetNews, we wish the old man quick recovery.
