“I want to be buried in white because I know heaven and the angels are white and that is where I am going. All people must be in white or else I will jump out of the coffin and attack them,” he told NBS TV host, Mable Twegumye.
All-white funeral for St. Lawrence’s Mukiibi
Contrary to the norm of wearing black at funerals, Prof. Lawrence Mukiibi’s dying wish was to have an all-white funeral.
The founder of St. Lawrence schools and university passed away on Sunday and mourners including First Lady and Education Minister Hon. Janet Kataha Museveni have respected his wish.
According to his daughter Maria Tulina who also wore a white suit, Mukiibi requested that people should wear white to his funeral.
She also added that he requested that people shouldn’t mourn but rather celebrate his life.
While eulogising their former school head, many of the St. Lawrence students recall how Mukiibi was obsessed with the colour white, saying it depicted cleanliness, all of them wear instructed to always have three white handkerchiefs on them, on top of wearing mandatory white stockings.
Mukiibi is to be laid to rest in Katende on Friday.
Why Prof Mukiibi demanded all-white funeral, burial
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Prof Mukiibi demanded white funeral, burial lest he jumps out of coffin & attacks mourners
He was laid to rest on Friday June 2, at his home in Katende, Mpigi District having died on Sunday May 28th after suffering cardiac arrest at Norvik Hospital in Kampala.
All white funeral and burial
Speaking before his death at NBS TV “People and Power” programme, Mukiibi maintained that his burial [after he died] has to be all white.
Mable: If you died today, would you die a happy man?
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Prof. Mukiibi: Yes. But when I die, I want a white funeral. I want to be buried in a white coffin, the funeral service agents should all be dressed in white. I do not want to be buried in black because it is associated with bad things only.Children
“It is a taboo to ask an African man how many children he has, especially a man of my age. But I have many children, I keep adopting,” he said, dodging the question most Ugandans are asking since the professor is said to have left behind countless children to his name.
Rising to own best schools
Prof. Mukiibi said while in school, he was not the fanciest boy.
“I was very humble and my father was an agriculturalist. While in school, my friends always went home and I stayed to work on school gardens and sites.”
Mukiibi used not to like it but he worked because he wanted to raise some money.
“I always said to myself I will own a school when I grow up.”
When he finished school, times were not good so he went to Kenya in exile.
He returned to Uganda in 1989 and worked at Kampala Parents School as a teacher.
“I saved up UGX. 300,000 and a friend lent me UGX. 200,000 and in 1993, I started Kabaka’s lake with UGX. 500,000.”
To start a school, one does not need a lot of money, he says, adding, “all you need is determination and support”.
“However, when you want to start up something, you have got to save up money for it.”