On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Abbey Semuwemba <abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com> wrote:
UK MUSLIMS MOURN DR.ASADU SEMWOGERERE DEATH IN BIG NUMBERS
Posted on March 4, 2014 by Uganda Muslim Brothers and Sisters
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late Asadu Ssemwogerere‘’The Asadu I know and would like to remember was a humble servant of Allah. He studied at Makerere during my Patronship of MUMSA. It was during this time that I noted a remarkable person in the making. He was humble, respectful of elders, and yet very honest with his opinion. Even when he disagreed with you, you felt rewarded for his disagreement. He was a medical student, but he always found time for MUMSA work at Campus. It meant regularly crossing over from Medical school to join the mainstream discussions and Dawah activity at Campus,’’ Professor Abasi Kiyimba of the Department of Literature Makerere University said in a statement issued on March 1, and obtained by the UMBS.
‘’I also remember him very vividly in MUMSA Dawa trips in the
countryside, the most memorable of which was the one of 1990 when we
travelled together to the districts of Mityana, Mubende and Fortportal.
He was the pioneer doctor on the Dawah countryside programmes sponsored
by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), treating both members of
the Caravan and the local people. He had the calling of a natural doctor
– always humble, never rushing or barking at patients, and very mindful
of the impact of his decision on the patient.’’
Speaking at the funeral, the UMBS Administrator, Abbey Kibirige
Semuwemba, said: ‘it’s unfortunate that I had not met Dr.Asadu before
his death but he was a member of UMBS. A lot of messages have been
posted since his death showing that he was a humble servant of Allah who
respected elders. So, his death should be a lesson to those of us that
are still alive. If you aren’t humble, find a way of making yourself
humble. If you don’t respect elders, please so do so.’
The video below shows Semuwemba speaking at the funeral of Dr.Asadu Ssemwogerere who lived in the midlands:
Among those in the audience was: Mr.Meddie Kakyama, Hajji Sulaiman
Kavulu, Musa Mukwaya, Ibrahim Lwanyaga Kabanda, Ali Muwanda, Twaha
Ddungu, Sheikh Kalantani, Mr.Saadi Kibirige Buwembo, Dr.Sadat Muhammad,
Muhammad Mayanja, e.t.c,
‘‘We have been celebrating our Idi every year at Asadu’s house. He
was also very active in Jamaat affairs of Muslims in the UK. His house
door was always open to almost all Muslims in Coventry. The community
has lost a dedicated Zaakir and will be remembered for a long time to
come. He was a unique Muslim figure inside and outside his house’’,
Mr.Twaha Ddungu, chairman of the Uganda Muslim Community in Coventry,
remarked in one of his conversations with Abbey Semuwemba
‘Dr.Asadu,Dr.Luwaga and Dr.Jingo Ahmed used to run a clinic near
Mbogo Mosque in Kawempe together before he left for UK. Whenever
Dr.Jingo visited UK from USA, he spent some nights at Asad’s house as
they had been friends for a long time’, said Saadi Buwembo from London.
A lot of Muslims expressed interest in joining the UMBS forum after Semuwemba’s speech. Some of them handed in their email addresses before he left Coventry on Sunday night.
‘’ The greatest wealth in being a member of UMBS is the chance to
know fellow Muslims wherever you are and sharing ideas that will develop you as a person
and the community’’, Semuwemba stressed.
Asadu has left a wife and four kids- the two eldest (boy and girl)
are at university. Asad was born in Uganda and moved to UK around 1990,
where he became a respected member of the Uganda community and a
successful medical doctor.
According to a family source that prefers to remain anonymous at this
point, Asad’s family in Uganda have allowed him to be buried in the UK.
Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Illaihi Raajiun. May Allah SWT Grant him Jannatul Firdaus and Give Sabr to the Family of brother Asadu.
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