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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Former Parliament Speaker Jacob L\u2019Okori Oulanyah was buried yesterday after two event-filled months that more than discredited the public profile he had carefully cultivated since first becoming a legislator in 2001. Oulanyah is now primed to be remembered more for the controversies surrounding his death than his contributions to the country.<\/p>\n

Oulanyah passed away on March 20 at the University of Washington Medical Center, US, where he had been taken to receive specialised medical care.<\/p>\n

The more than month-long spell of controversy started with the news that the departed Omoro County legislator\u2014who assumed the coveted office of the Speaker of the Parliament last year\u2014had been secretly airlifted to the United States on a chartered Uganda Airlines plane. The medevac was said to have cost the taxpayer more than $500,000 (Shs1.7billion).<\/p>\n

READ:<\/b><\/p>\n

Jacob Oulanyah: How the organ failures developed<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s lacklustre messaging approach did not help calm the mood of a population that was grappling with skyrocketing commodity prices. The expenditure passed off as insensitive.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, a group of Ugandans in the US protested, accusing Oulanyah of being part of a government that has failed to provide its citizens decent healthcare. The Democratic Party president, Mr Norbert Mao, and later the Chief Justice, Alfonse Owiny-Dollo and a section of leaders from Acholi, however, had a different interpretation.<\/p>\n

Mr Mao caused a Twitter storm, insisting the protestors who he described as \u201cpetty radicals\u201d belonged to the National Unity Platform (NUP) political party. His accusation also had tribal undertones.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same people who threw parties to celebrate the death of Gen Paul Lokech are the same ones wishing Speaker Jacob Oulanyah dead. Their likes refused Milton Obote\u2019s dead body passage through Luwero to Akokoro for burial! They betrayed Ben Kiwanuka. There is no truth in them,\u201d Mr Mao tweeted.<\/p>\n

Addressing mourners at Oulanyah\u2019s residence in Muyenga, Kampala, Mr Owiny-Dollo described as \u201csuper-evil\u201d people in the diaspora for protesting against Oulanyah\u2019s treatment in the US yet their \u201cethnic leader\u201d was also transported in a presidential jet to Germany using public funds.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cBut you, who were demonstrating\u2026your ethnic leader was transported in a presidential jet to Germany using public funds he was not entitled to. You did not demonstrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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EC declares Omoro County seat vacant<\/p>\n

The speech was immediately rebuked and a fact-check revealed that Kabaka Mutebi II\u2014Buganda\u2019s reigning monarch\u2014had actually used a commercial airliner when he sought treatment in Germany. CJ Owiny-Dollo has since apologised for the outburst.<\/p>\n

Controversial budgets<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the handling of the budgets for Oulanyah\u2019s send-off was such a profanation of his character. The whole process was laced with greed, opportunism and nativism. It is hard to imagine what will happen when the funds are subjected to an audit as has been promised. It is hard to sift through the truth and lies in the quest to understand the controversy surrounding the allocation of money to facilitate the send-off of the departed Speaker.<\/p>\n

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Govt cuts Oulanyah burial budget again<\/p>\n

In a brief eulogy during a parliamentary sitting to pay tribute to the fallen Speaker, Kira Municipality legislator, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda summed up the scandalising of Oulanyah\u2019s burial on what he said was a decision by President Museveni to appoint extremely ordinary people to key positions.<\/p>\n

Mr Ssemujju insisted\u2014in his trademark abrasive style\u2014that some appointees are overwhelmed by simple tasks like organising state funerals.<\/p>\n

In sickness and death, Oulanyah may have carried another burden that he may or may not have contributed to. Again Mr Ssemujju summed it up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are benefits of being NRM. You can be a Speaker or Prime Minister, but you must be ready to be judged for things you didn\u2019t do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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: Inside Shs2.5 billion budget for Oulanyah\u2019s state burial<\/p>\n

The key figure here is Milly Babalanda, the minister in-charge of the Presidency and the chairperson of the national organising committee for Oulanyah\u2019s burial. Her committee was responsible for a not well-thought out Shs2.5 billion budget that caused a public outcry. It is plausible that a bigger budget may not have even caused the outcry had the items on the same been easily justifiable.<\/p>\n

On March 29, the junior Finance minister (General Duties), Henry Musasizi told legislators that the budget had been revised and brought down to Shs1.8b, saying that other unnecessary expenditures had been scrapped.<\/p>\n

The budget was further whittled down to Shs1.2b to the consternation of a section of lawmakers from northern Uganda who were earlier primed to split Shs312.9m for \u201cunspecified operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can call people from northern Uganda to contribute [money] to bury the Speaker. We are here praising him, but down there [in Oulanyah\u2019s village] we are doing another thing all together. That is our concern. And who has the right to reduce the budget approved by Parliament? Who has a right?\u201d Mr Anthony Akol (Kilak North Country, FDC), the chairperson of Acholi Parliamentary Group, said.<\/p>\n

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There was also a quiet fight over control of the same budget, with opinion split over who of the Parliamentary Commission and the national organising committee should run point.<\/p>\n

Basics like Bwola dancers lacking food and transport or being accommodated poorly also played out, shadowing the main show of mourning the fallen Speaker.<\/p>\n

By the time Oulanyah\u2019s body was airlifted from Kololo Independence Grounds to Omoro, renovation works at his unfinished mansion were ongoing. Again budgetary issues reared an ugly head with the local committee citing a shortage of tents, toilet facilities, and hygiene materials, among others. With more than a week to prepare, one wonders why such logistical issues weren\u2019t dealt with. Even works on the road leading to the former Speaker\u2019s home from Palenga junction through Lalogi (Omoro) town were handicapped by limited resources.<\/p>\n

On March 24, parliamentarians from Oulanyah\u2019s home region\u2014where he also doubled as ruling NRM vice chairperson\u2014the Greater North Parliamentary Forum of Acholi, Lango and West Nile met President Museveni. MP Gilbert Olanya (Kilak South) revealed that President Museveni had refused their demand to ring-fence the position of Speaker for the region. The MPs would threaten to boycott the election of the new Speaker if the NRM failed to choose one of them as a candidate for the position of speaker.<\/p>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s state funeral at Kololo, President Museveni had no kind words for the legislators. He expressed his contempt, calling the legislators \u201copportunists\u201d looking for a pay day.<\/p>\n

Foul play<\/b><\/p>\n

The allegations that Oulanyah could have been poisoned\u2014while hardly novel (the narrative is commonplace when a prominent person dies suddenly in this part of the world)\u2014proved to be a spot of bother. The allegations gained prominence when Mr Nathan Okori claimed that his son did not die of natural causes and that in fact he was \u201cpoisoned\u201d. This shifted the focus from mourning Oulanyah to speculation of what exactly could have happened. The conflicting statements on the status of his health by those who visited him in the US hospital did not help matters.<\/p>\n

Information<\/p>\n

The delegation to Seattle led by Mr Owiny-Dollo and then Deputy Speaker Anita Among was so economical with information to the point that speculations \u2014including announcements of Oulanyah\u2019s death\u2014swirled on social media. On March 14, unknown persons, whom Parliament spokesperson Chris Obore later said were using Virtual Private Network (VPN) to conceal identity and location, updated Oulanyah\u2019s profile on Wikipedia to reflect that he had died.<\/p>\n

The Acholi Paramount Chief Rwot David Onen Acana II also demanded for answers about the rumours of the poisoning of Oulanyah and other Acholi people elevated to higher government positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot pretend that all is well with his death because we have more questions than answers about the death of Oulanyah and other sons of Acholi; why are our sons dying shortly after elevation in their position, is poisoning now an open method of elimination, who is behind, individuals or an organised entity?\u201d Rwot Acana II said.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE BUDGET<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can call people from northern Uganda to contribute [money] to bury the Speaker. We are here praising him, but down there [in Oulanyah\u2019s village] we are doing another thing all together. That is our concern. And who has the right to reduce the budget approved by Parliament? Who has a right?\u201d Mr Anthony Akol (Kilak North Country, FDC), the chairperson of Acholi Parliamentary Group<\/p>\n

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