Senior Presidential Adviser on Media, Joseph Tamale Mirundi has Monday been discharged from Kisubi hospital where he was admitted last week after suffering from a strange illness.
He is said to have been weakened by a condition that his family and doctors are yet to disclose to the public. Some media reports had falsely reported that the controversial presidential adviser had passed on.
But on Monday afternoon, Mirundi spoke on phone with Steven Dunstan Busuulwa who hosts him on Mondays on Top Radio. He said he has no intentions of being flown abroad for further medication.
“Those who say that I am dead will die before me. I am alive and I can’t even go abroad for treatment. In fact, I don’t need people to solicit money for me if I needed specialised treatment because our family has money.” Mirundi said.
However, we have since learnt that Tamale was bailed out this afternoon after city mogul Dr Sudhir Ruparelia, President Museveni, socialite Frank Gashumba, Ham Kiggundu among others collected bags of money which they sent to Tamale.
It’s reported that the moment Tamale saw the huge sacks of dime, he jumped up from his sickbed and declared that he had recovered and wanted to go home.
In an audio recorded at the Hospital, Tamale is heard saying that “My son Ham Kiggundu, tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia, President Museveni, Salim Uhuru, Frank Gashumba, Lawrence Mulindwa and others collected bags of money in their respective capacities, so we have money, we don’t need to beg for it. But my sickness does not require me to go out of the country
He added that “Now that I have got this money I have completely recovered. I cannot accept to die before finishing all of it.”
Tamale was hospitalized after he developed complications with his throat, which made him fail to talk.
Well, now that Tamale, who is also the Presidential Advisor on Media Affairs can talk, hundreds of fans are ready to listen to him both on radio and TV during his talk-shows, the most popular one being ‘One-on-One With Tamale Mirundi’, which airs on NBS TV every Tuesday from 10am.
