[1][2] John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda was born on 5 August 1940 in Busembatia, Iganga District, Busoga sub-region, Eastern Region of Uganda.
[5][6] He began his career at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, as a specialist obstetrician and a gynecologist, where he worked in 1971.
[1] Despite his long career as a physician and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda was one of the most powerful political figures in Apollo Milton Obote's second government, and was noted as a "boisterous" and "cocky" political figure in both Busoga and Uganda.
[1] While working abroad as a senior lecturer in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology, Luwuliza-Kirunda became involved with the Uganda National Liberation Front.
[2] He also imprisoned hundreds of people, including his own cousin John Kirunda for disrespecting a portrait of Apollo Milton Obote.