Goodbye…
Enock broke the nation’s heart when he passed away. He was already ”famous’ when he first came to Hope Ward Cancer Clinic having been interviewed and discussed on many national TV and newspaper communications.
FROM: THE DAILY MONITOR UGANDA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
The major deaths of 2009
November 4: Enock Ssebanga, Uganda’s poster-child for torture, succumbs to leukaemia at 21 years. His parents; Mr Charles Kayongo and Ms Regina Nabakoza, who locked and starved him for days in an abandoned store, are out after serving their jail sentences. The Monitor’s August 7, 2000 cover picture of Ssebanga’s scraggy body is a rude reminder of sorts about ongoing parental wickedness in our society.
Enock had advanced disease and sadly died within a year of receiving 6 months of chemotherapy at Hope Ward Cancer Clinic. Dr Helena relates that towards the end, Enock knew he was fading and tried to make his peace with his past and forgive the things that had happened to him.
