Veteran sports journalist Andrew Patrick Luwandagga has died.
Luwandagga has been working at the state owned broadcaster UBC TV.
The news confirming his death was confirmed by the wife Sarah Luwandagga on Saturday morning having worked the previous day.
Close family members say there was a quarrel at Luwandagga’s home between two of his sons which annoyed him before he collapsed and died.
Luwandagga had become a TV icon, saying recently that he developed interest in the media while in Primary Seven at Nakivubo Primary School in 1970.
He went to Nabagereka Primary School in Kabaka’s palace from 1963 to 1966 when the palace was overrun and the school relocated. He finished Primary Seven at Nakivubo Primary School before joining Old Kampala S.S which was an Asian-dominated school.
At Old Kampala, he became popular in cricket and boxing and after the Asians were expelled in 1972 by then-president Idi Amin, he became the cricket school team captain.
After O-Level, Luwandagga was invited to join the East African Airways in Nairobi but when the East African Community (EAC) collapsed in 1977, he returned to Uganda and that is when he joined UTV (now UBC).
He has been the second Vice-President of the Federation of International Cinema and Television Sports based in Milan, Italy.
The veteran journalist has been married to Sarah since 1985, and once described his marriage as “the happiest moment in my life because it showed that I had matured”.
Burial arrangements will be confirmed by the family.
