13 years later, Mugisha recalls the last hours of Late DJ Ronnie

Ronnie Sempangi called himself “DJ Ronnie, the Hitman” made Late Date a show on Capital FM transcend the airwaves and go real and live as he played the love doctor role.

Listeners called him by setting up meetings with them to reconcile lovers. DJ Ronnie had a silky baritone voice that was as reassuring as dew in the morning and he was the man who knew how to shock as much as annoy. He once called a man live on air and asked him to identify his girlfriend and things did not go as planned, the man cut wires and ended the affair right there.

Obala Mugisha

To all the listeners, he was a cheat. And that is what he was, of course. He was angry that by being asked live on air to name his lover, he was being exposed. And that was Ronnie’s tact – to compel a lover to tell the other listening in after calling Ronnie that they were the only ones.

Like a man running away, there were equally many whose relationship was sealed on air. Like a girl from Makerere who cried on air after the boyfriend she suspected of cheating was roused from his sleep by Ronnie’s call and asked to name his girlfriend. He did and proceeded to profess his undying love for her. At the other end, the girl wept with joy.

He would console broken hearts with soothing ballads and dedicate special songs to many others.

DJ Ronnie died suddenly in September 2009 of multiple organ failure at Kadic Hospital where he had checked in after feeling uneasy.

One of his best friend that is still living named Obala Mugisha cant forget the real last hours of DJ Ronnie on earth. He took us back in time on what happened on that real day.

He reveals that he is the one rushed him to the hospital that night. Mugisha says that a nigh before, Ronnie was out having a good time with friends. He had taken some amounts of his favorite drink Uganda Waragi. When he left the bar and reached home, he started feeling unease.

Mugisha added that DJ Ronnie felt a lot of pain in the stomach as he was being rushed to the hospital.

At the time of his death, Dj Ronnie was gearing up for his marriage after a successful kwanjula. He had a great number of fans who would listen to him on his program on Capital FM known as “The Late Date”.