The former President of Uganda, Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa has been a library to Ugandans. Binaisa, 90, died last week at his home in Kizungu Zone in Makindye.

Kibirige Mayanja

The President General of Justice Forum popularly known as Jeema, Asuman Basalirwa says the Europeans say the death of an old person is a loss of a library.

Addressing journalists today in Kampala, Basalirwa said late Binaisa could narrate Uganda’s political history with exact accuracy.

The President of Jeema says as an example that Binaisa would tell people that on Tuesday June 1966 at 2:30pm late Milton Obote or Iddi Amin addressed a political rally in Mityana, Kotido, Arua, Luweero …

Basalirwa also says Binaisa had a good and educative joking style. The President of Jeema says Binaisa in 1980 told the students of Makerere University who were demanding for toilet papers for their latrines that after World War II, Austria donated toilet papers to Hungary.

But the political leadership of Hungary at the time told Austria that toilet papers are useless when people have no food. Binaisa told the students that they needed food first before they get toilet papers.