The owner of Teso Coaches Faustine Etilu has Tuesday passed on, The Tower Post has learnt.

Etilu who breathed his last at Mulago ICU ward died of Covid19, according to his brother Jovans Peter Odikor.

Etilu had been admitted at Soroti Referral Hospital after he tested positive for Covid19.

He was undergoing treatment at the facility but the situation worsened when the hospital ran out of Oxygen prompting them to transfer him to Mulago where he breathed his last.

Etilu was a strong businessman with a big fleet of buses moving around Uganda and others travelling to East Africa.

Details of his burial are still unknown.