John Ssebaana Kizito, the former Democratic Party President and Kampala Mayor has died at Nakasero hospital.The news of the veteran politician's death was confirmed by Norbert Mao, Ssebaana's successor and current President of the Democratic Party.
Kizito was admitted to Nakasero hospital after suffering a stroke on June 19 and he had been in a coma since.
At the time of his death Ssebaana Kizito was one of only a handful of Ugandan politicians whose careers started in the pre-independence period .
During his long career, e served as a member of the East African Legislative Assembly, an arm of the East African Community from 1967 until 1977. In 1980, he was elected MP for Kampala-South Constituency. He was the Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1981 until 1985 and was acting Leader of the Opposition in Parliament in 1983.
Kizito served as Minister of Cooperatives and Marketing from 1985 until 1987, as Minister of Regional Cooperation from 1987 until 1988 and as Minister of Housing and Urban Development from 1989 until 1991.
He later went on to service in the Constituent Assembly that debated and came up with the 1995 constitution.
Between 1998 and 2006, he was twice elected as Mayor of Kampala, Uganda's capital city, replacing Nasser Sebaggala in 1999 and being replaced by Nasser Sebaggala in 2006.
John Ssebaana Kizito was the President of the Democratic Party (DP) in Uganda from 2005 to 2010 during which time he was the DP candidate in the February 2006 presidential election.
Ssebaana Kizito was also a successful businessman with a number of interests in property management and insurance.