📸 In 50 photographs: How imaginative and prescient group stunned outgoing Senior Editor Kakande

Speaker after speaker preferred Kakande (R) for mentoring and guiding them via his time with the editorial team. (All photographs by using Stuart Yiga)

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KAMPALA - After mentoring New imaginative and prescient's editorial personnel for 27 years, the crew surprised their outgoing editor, John Kakande, with 12 goats to support him kick birth his next event after retiring from the business. 

on the New vision, Kakande become made the Parliament editor first, then information editor, before fitting New vision editor. (All pictures by Stuart Yiga)

In what begun jokingly, a group of his mentees, shaped a WhatsApp community which came up with sh5.5m that became used to comfy the goats for the farm that he intends to delivery after September 30, 2021. 

Senior Producer Hellen Mukiibi, handing over a present to her outgoing boss Kakande.

The crew led through Senior Producer Hellen Mukiibi, assisted by means of Frank Kabusenga, the enterprise Administration supervisor and journalists hosted Kakande to a ship-off luncheon. 

In August, imaginative and prescient neighborhood Chief executive, Don Wanyama, introduced that Kakande turned into leaving the enterprise after 27 years of uninterrupted, dedicated carrier. 

Kakande expressed appreciation to the crew, saying that New imaginative and prescient has been his family unit and he'll be in contact with the editorial team when he is known as upon.

Speaker after speaker preferred Kakande for mentoring and guiding them via his time with the editorial crew. 

Kakande served imaginative and prescient neighborhood journalists a cake.

In his address, Kakande expressed appreciation to the crew, announcing that New imaginative and prescient has been his family and he will keep up a correspondence with the editorial crew when he is known as upon. 

He has been replaced through John Eremu who become up to now New imaginative and prescient points Editor and Head of particular tasks. 

When it got here to reporting for daily responsibility, Kakande became always the first within the newsroom

On announcing that Kakande became leaving the enterprise in August, New imaginative and prescient's Editor in Chief, Barbara Kaija, spoke of the latter was a perfect New imaginative and prescient Editor.

She talked about Kakande is a moving encyclopedia of Uganda’s political background, some of the revered panellists and fundamental in crafting the path of vision group.'

New imaginative and prescient’s Senior producer Hellen Mukiibi addresses vision neighborhood workforce all the way through Kakande sendoff birthday party as Frank Kabushenga, the business Administration manager appears on.

'he's a relaxed, humble, a professional and passionate journalist with outstanding story angles and concepts. he's a fine timekeeper, a very good reference. He has a deep realizing of societal considerations, their context and their penalties.  he is the no 1 mind in New vision flagship. His dedication to team constructing, shared management has enabled us to shine.” Kaija cited. 

Achievements in Media

along the way, Kakande has moved from energy to power, place to position. at the New imaginative and prescient, he became made the Parliament editor first, then news editor, earlier than fitting New imaginative and prescient editor.

Kakande says the entire positions he has held were not because he had a relative in the company, however as a result of administration believed in him.

“I actually have risen to the desirable - from a reporter to an editor. I have worked for a trigger to advertise good governance and human rights.  I have not had any scandal; you are going to not hear that i was involved in any economic scandal. and i have managed to try this by averting the temptation to make funds through fraud,” he says.

Kakande adds that any journalist who wants to campaign for explanations has to be aboveboard. otherwise, you can also be introduced down by means of the americans you are writing about.

“if you're to write about corruption, you have to be sure that you are clean. but if they provide you with money, they're going to not ever respect you... If any one told me that your journalist is stressful funds, I  would call the reporter and talk to them and warn the person to alternate. 

Senior Producer Francis Kagolo indications on a farewell plaque of John Kakande as fellow Senior producers, Apollo Mubiru (C) and Mukiibi (R) look on.

I even have helped some journalists now not to get into quandary as a result of individuals face lots of temptations during this job,”  Kakande says.

The cake

He says though he subscribed to a unique political ideology, he by no means combined religion and politics in his work. He recalled that James Tumusime, who was deputy editor-in-chief at the time he joined New vision, until now calls him a ‘DP man’. 

however he is aware of he is knowledgeable.

“When Els de Temmerman joined  New vision, some people warned her about me. They advised her to be careful with me as I had other political motives. She additionally got here with that belief, but after working with me, she confessed that i used to be an outstanding skilled. She told me she had not viewed what some individuals had told her about me,” Kakande says.

To are living lengthy in the newsroom, he has handled everybody pretty.

Kakande (correct) being passed over the goats which were donated to him by his workmates throughout his sendoff.

“I by no means favoured any individual. If it took place, it turned into no longer performed consciously. I have not victimised anyone as a supervisor,” Kakande says.

Kakande, the 'encyclopedia'

Born on January 1, 1959 to the late Charles Bwekwaso Kabaalu and Anna Maria Bakiboye, John Kakande grew up in Ntakafunvu village, in Kyabalogo parish, Nakisunga sub-county in Mukono district. 

Kakande, the new imaginative and prescient encyclopedia.

Nakisunga is about 35km east of Kampala, off the Kampalaâ€"Jinja dual carriageway. Ntakafunvu is set 3km from Nakisunga trading centre and is close to the national espresso analysis Institute, Kituza, which is presently a part of the country wide Agricultural research organization.

He changed into the firstborn of 12 toddlers. 

At an early age, Kakande’s mother, Bakiboye, took him to his paternal aunt, Maria Joseph Nnabunya, who become married to Christopher Mukasa and the family lived in Ntakafunvu village.

The local neighborhood become predominantly engaged in farming, growing to be especially espresso and bananas for brewing local beer â€" tonto.Some households reared cows and pigs. There become no electrical energy or tap water and most families used tadooba (in the community made kerosene lantern) for lighting fixtures.

The village has considering that been linked to vigour.

“What a resilient, amiable, mentor, incredible committed, mentor and frugal genius man Kakande is!” New vision’s Multimedia journalist, Miriam Namutebi (R) whispered to Tracy.

“My aunt was a staunch Catholic and under no circumstances neglected Holy Mass on  Sundays. however, her husband became a non-practising Anglican. I certainly not noticed him go to church, not even as soon as, however he had shut chums who had been staunch Anglicans.

i'm a Catholic, but at the tuition, I regarded myself a Marxist. This became due largely to the have an impact on of Prof.  Mahmood Mamdani,  who changed into extremely customary and taught us political economy,”  Kakande says.

Kakande’s aunt imparted in her children the advantage of hard work and backbone. She believed that there have been no shortcuts to success; one needed to work their means up.

“I learnt charcoal burning at a really younger age as a result of our domestic became next to a woodland. My aunt’s husband, amongst other issues, would burn charcoal and sell it to buyers from Namuwongo in  Kampala… i am an expert in charcoal burning,” Kakande says.