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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>There is still uncertainty over the burial of Patrick Masette Kuuya, a former minister in the second Milton Obote government.<\/p>\n

Kuuya, who served as minister for Rehabilitation, succumbed to cancer at Kenyatta University Hospital in Kenya on November 22. He was 76 .<\/p>\n

By yesterday, some family members were embroiled in arguments over where the late Kuuya should be buried.<\/p>\n

One of his sisters, Ms Sarah Buyekha McCulloch, accused some clan leaders and the burial organising committee of changing the burial site and keeping them out of the burial programme. She said together with her brother Peter Makitwe, they were excluded from burial plans.<\/p>\n

Ms Buyekha, who stays in the United Kingdom (UK), also claimed that they were blocked from accessing the body at Entebbe airport. Kuuya\u2019s body arrived in the country on December 7, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expected the body to be brought here at his Sibanga home on December 10 but some family members have decided to block us. They have also threatened to arrest us,\u201d Ms Buyekha said.<\/p>\n

She said they were stuck because some family members planned to bury Kuuya\u2019s body in a banana plantation at his ancestral home in Lutaaso Village, Bunangabo Parish, Khabutola Sub-county in Manafwa District.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is crazy! How can you bury a very important person like my brother in the banana plantation?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

She said the burial site where all family members are laid to rest is in a gated secure area at their ancestral home in Lutaaso Village.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe burial site is behind the derelict building, in the banana plantation far right where my brother Kuuya\u2019s grave will be positioned all alone away from others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A teacher by profession and a holder of PhD in Economics, Kuuya was also the Mbale South lawmaker between 1980 and 1985. When Obote was toppled in 1985, Kuuya fled to neighbouring Kenya and stayed there until his death.<\/p>\n

Mr Nathan Wasolo, the deceased\u2019s son, dismissed the complaints over his final resting place.<\/p>\n

Remembered <\/b><\/p>\n

Kuuya was hailed for initiating the Wakhooli Memorial Centre at Nabumali Trading Centre and Wanale Quick Transporters, whose plans were thwarted by the regime changes.<\/p>\n

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