{"id":30485,"date":"2022-05-03T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oulanyah-died-without-a-will-family-sources"},"modified":"2022-05-03T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:47:27","slug":"oulanyah-died-without-a-will-family-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oulanyah-died-without-a-will-family-sources","title":{"rendered":"Oulanyah died without a Will – family sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Despite a recent Will being attributed to the late Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, stating which property should be given to who, sources close to the family have refuted it claiming he died without writing one.<\/p>\n

According to the sources, the deceased intimated to his close friend, Dr Opiyo Oloya, on his death bed on how he wants his estate managed as he jotted down in a note book.<\/p>\n

\u201cOulanyah didn\u2019t leave a written Will though he was a lawyer. It is un-African to make a Will when one is very fine; the reason why he didn\u2019t have any at the time of his death,\u201d the sources said last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, when the doctors in Seattle notified him that he has barely a month to live, he confided in Dr Opiyo Oloya when he had come from Canada to check on him and he scribbled down in his note book what his wishes were in case he passed on,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

Said wishes<\/p>\n

Some of the information that Oulanyah allegedly told Dr Oloya included his Muyega house to be owned by children of his late wife, while the houses in Kololo and Naguru would be owned by his other children.<\/p>\n

Regarding Ms Patricia Lakidi, the woman whom he travelled with to Seattle, sources said Oulanyah informed Dr Oloya of how he had borrowed 10,000 pounds (about Shs45m), which he said should be paid back to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides wishing that the 10,000 pounds be paid back to Patricia by his family, he never gave her any property,\u201d the sources said.<\/p>\n

When contacted last week, Dr Oloya declined to divulge the details.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever Jacob told me is between me and him. That is what I can say,\u201d Dr Oloya said by a WhatsApp call.<\/p>\n

Efforts to reach Mr Andrew Ojok, the son of the deceased, and Mr Nathan Okori, the father, on whether Oulanyah left a Will or not, were futile as they didn\u2019t pick our repeated phone calls or return them by press time.<\/p>\n

However, last week, Mr Ojok when asked about the management of the estate of his father, said: \u201cThe family has sat and will continue sitting, but I can\u2019t divulge those details.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the burial of Oulanyah on April 8, his father, Mr Okori claimed some unscrupulous people were scheming to grab his late son\u2019s properties.<\/p>\n

Mr Okori tasked Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo and Democratic Party president Norbert Mao to ensure that the property is intact.<\/p>\n

A Will is a document which provides how property will be distributed after death and must meet some formal requirements as provided by the laws.<\/p>\n

When asked whether the alleged wishes of the late Speaker to Dr Oloya can hold water legally, the sources said they can only be treated as Oulanyah\u2019s dying declarations to guide the family on how to go about sharing the property.<\/p>\n

Mr Ronald Sekagya, a registrar with Judicial Service Commission, said a person making a Will must be in his\/her sound mind, not under duress while making it, must be dated and should be the most recent one with the word \u201clast Will\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Will must also indicate which property is for the deceased, how many children, if any. There must be no lies in a Will. And if you are not giving property to any child, you must explain to why,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Sekagya also added that when someone dies without a Will, then the wife or husband depending on the case, applies to get letters of administration to start administering the estate.<\/p>\n

About when the administrator general should come in, Mr Sekagya said that is when there is appointed administrator to oversee the estate of the deceased.<\/p>\n

What law states<\/b><\/p>\n

Distribution on the death of a male intestate (without leaving a Will) according to the Succession Act, is as follows;<\/p>\n

(a) Where the intestate is survived by a customary heir, a wife, a lineal descendant and a dependent relative\u2014<\/p>\n

(i) The customary heir shall receive 1 percent;<\/p>\n

(ii) The wives shall receive 15 percent;<\/p>\n

(iii) The dependent relative shall receive 9 percent;<\/p>\n

(iv) The lineal descendants shall receive 75 percent of the whole of the property of the intestate, but where the intestate leaves no person surviving him capable of taking a proportion of his property under paragraph (a) (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph, that proportion shall go to the lineal descendants.<\/p>\n

Explanation<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is un-African to make a Will when one is very fine; the reason why he didn\u2019t have any at the time of his death. However, when the doctors in Seattle notified him (Oulanyah) that he has barely a month to live, he confided in Dr Opiyo Oloya when he had come from Canada to check on him and he scribbled down in his note book what his wishes were in case he passed on,\u201d Sources<\/p>\n

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