With Great Sadness Uganda has lost one of its talented and brilliant debater in Brig. Noble Mayombo who passed away on Tuesday afternoon from Actute Pancreatis. Mayombo is said to have complained of actute stomach pains late thursay evening, was rushed to kololo hospital, the IHK from where he was flown out on saturday to Aga Khan Hospital in kenya where he succumbed to death due to organ failure.
When he returned from the bush he went back to makerere where he finished a law degree he had abandoned to go to the bush. the 1992 guild presidential campaign he tussled out with Mao Gulu Lc V chair is said to remain the toughest so far in Mak history.He later joined the army and became the youngest army representative at 29 to the constituent assembly btn 94-95. He joined the six,seventh, eighth parliament representing the army where he resigned in 2005 to take up the post of Permanent secretary ministry of Defence. To his friends and colleagues he was a pan africanist,a brilliant lawyer and debater. We will miss his sense of humor and infectious laughter.
He was once an ADC to the president, later the president posted him to CMI as it deputy and later took over from Tumukunde as CMI boss. Its remembered while at CMI he was involved in the scuffle to arrest his younger brother Okwiri Rwabwoni an FDC youth official.Until his death he has been the chairman board of Directors of the New Vision and PS MOF. He was known in some circles as the presidents blue eyed boy which didnt augur well with other officers nor was his rapid promotion to the rank of Brigadier where he died. He has died at the age of 42 leaving behind a wife, six children and a grieving nation.
My condolences to the wife, children, his sibling and his Dad mzee Rwabwoni. May the good lord rest his soul in eternal peace.