Daily Monitor
Sunday March 07 2021
Summary
In a country where people accused of murder, robbery, treason, defilement and terrorism regularly get bail I found the treatment of Bob depressing but also illuminating.
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On Saturday night, my best friend and brother, Robert Aldridge Kasango, died in Murchison Bay Hospital in Luzira Prison. The cause of death was heart failure. He was only 46 years. Bob did not have to die at this early age and in the way he did – alone and lonely, away from the care of his family and friends or competent doctors, in a prison hospital not equipped to handle his condition.