John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda

John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda (5 August 1940 – 8 August 2005) was a prominent Ugandan physician who served numerous roles in the Milton Obote governments, serving both as Minister of Internal Affairs of Uganda and Organizing Secretary of the Uganda People's Congress, serving in the latter role twice.

Early life John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda was born on 5 August 1940 in Busembatia, Iganga District, Busoga sub-region, Eastern Region of Uganda.

Education Luwuliza-Kirunda attended Busoga College at Mwiri Hill, in the Jinja District of Uganda from 1948 to 1959. He then attended Makerere University in Kampala from 1960 to 1967, and then he interned at the University Teaching Hospital of Birmingham and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1971. He began his career at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, as a specialist obstetrician and a gynecologist, where he worked in 1971.

Apollo Milton Obote became Head of State of Uganda again in 1980, where he appointed Luwuliza-Kirunda to be the powerful Minister of Internal Affairs of Uganda, where his portfolio included being Chief of the National Police of Uganda and the head of Special Force and Prisons.

In 1985, John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda left the role of Minister of Internal Affairs and became Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Uganda briefly, before fleeing Uganda following the 1985 Ugandan coup d'état and moving to Kenya.

Personal life John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda married Margaret Marjorie Kaluma in 1974. Together they had one son and two daughters. Luwuliza-Kirunda and his wife lived abroad following the 1985 Ugandan coup d'état, living in Nairobi, Kenya in the 1990s and in Zimbabwe in the 2000s.

Death On 8 August 2005, John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda died in a rural hospital in Zimbabwe.