{"id":38756,"date":"2019-01-13T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-byamungu-4-children-laid-to-rest-widow-s\/"},"modified":"2019-01-13T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:34:08","slug":"dr-byamungu-4-children-laid-to-rest-widow-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-byamungu-4-children-laid-to-rest-widow-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Byamungu, 4 children laid to rest, widow’s eulogy leaves mourners with wet faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Livingstone Byamungu and his four children, twin boys Calvin Ngabo and Caleb Nziza, who were 17 years old, Carl Manzi, 15 and Bless Chelsea Uwase who was four years old passed on following the car accident that occurred in the night of December 30, last year.<\/p>\n

Byamungu died on spot with his children after his car collided with a trailer in a crash that involved three cars.<\/p>\n

Dorcas Mukagatare, wife to Byamungu and mother to the deceased four children survived the accident with her brother Dan Rutaremara who was driving the car on the fateful night.<\/p>\n

The accident took place in Lwengo on Masaka-Mbarara road in Uganda where they had gone for festive holidays to visit Byamungu\u2019s mother who lives in Uganda where Byamungu was born in May 1968.<\/p>\n

In her sad testimony, Dorcus Mukagatare who was left alone in her 7-people family after losing her husband and her four children- with the oldest daughter who had died in March 2018- said she felt she had no reason to keep living and if it had not been God, she would have committed suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am alive only because I know God. Hadn\u2019t I known God, I would have taken pills to kill me. Knowing God lives helped me understand everything happens for a reason,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod left me to thank you in the name of Dr. Livingstone and live with you while Ngabo, Nziza, Manzi and Bless [Chelsea Uwase] are not around,\u201d she said crying adding: \u201cPlease bear with me, I would not have wished to be here without those people I have just mentioned but the Lord\u2019s plans differ much from human’s.\u201d <\/p>\n

She said: \u201cExcept the days we laid our brothers and sisters who died in the 1994 genocide against Tutsi to rest, I have never attended a funeral of three, four people who died together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Livingstone [Byamungu] was a very good and responsible husband. We had been together as wife and husband for almost 20 years. He loved me and our children very much. He helped me study and graduate. I have nothing to tell you or blame you. Only, rest in everlasting peace in Lord.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had very good children who loved God and people. They helped me and they have been at my side even after our first born passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mukagatare told a story that brought many to tears when she recounted how she gave birth to her last child, Bless Chelsea Uwera.<\/p>\n

She said Uwase was born 12 years after she had decided to stop giving birth and said she was born for a reason. \u201cI am very much sad she is not here today with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter our first child who was a girl passed on in March last year, my sons told me Bless had been born in her place as she came later being a girl. I was very shocked that God took Bless away from me but he knows why. For me, I would have wished to have gone with them all where I would be together with them but it didn\u2019t happen like that,\u201d she said with a slow sad voice crying leaving a minute of silence before she emphasized to say \u201cLord knows the reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mukagatare said what happened to her also happened to Lord\u2019s servant Job and he remained faithful to God.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Job, I want to let you know today that Almighty God will always be my God in the good and the bad and he reigns eternally,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mukagatare promised to the mother of his husband, Livingstone to be her daughter though she can\u2019t fit in his son\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n

In other testimonies told about Dr. Livingstone Byamungu, he was described as an ardent follower of God and had contributed to construction of St Peter Anglican Church house in Remera, reason why he was bid last farewells inside that church. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe always told me the \u2018best is yet to come\u2019 and it was the word on his WhatsApp profile picture,\u201d said his younger brother who now lives in Uganda. <\/p>\n

Dr. Livingstone Byamungu was the Chief Investment Officer at Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) after having served several other roles in Private Sector Federation (PSF), Health Poverty Action, World Vision and German Agro-Action. <\/p>\n

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It was all somber and excruciating aura of grief as Dr. Livingstone Byamungu and his four children who died in a car accident in Uganda were bid last farewells on Saturday at Remera Anglican Church before they were buried at Rusororo Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[180],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-samson-iradukunda"],"bylines":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":24}],"contributors":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":24}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38756"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38756"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}