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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Dr Kizza Besigye, has scoffed at a group of people who allegedly took Sarah Eperu\u2019s body from Mulago mortuary to Mengo without the consent of the relatives.<\/b><\/p>\n

Addressing mourners, who gathered at the offices of the Katonga faction in Kampala to pay their last respects to Eperu, a fallen comrade, Dr Besigye said it is useless for people to scramble for a dead body yet they did not support her when she was still alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to help anybody you love, don\u2019t wait for the body because he, or she will no longer be there. Nurse, treat, massage, comfort the person who is living,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what happened to her in her last moments, maybe that is what weakened her most when she went to the party she loved most and could not get in….they arrested her driver, beat him up and locked him for a night in jail and she was left stranded there at the headquarters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye\u2019s comments came after the deceased\u2019s relative, Mr Ben Eperu, told mourners that he was dismayed by the way the body of the late Eperu was taken from Mulago Hospital Mortuary without their consent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were supposed to hand over the body to A-Plus on Wednesday, so we took the changing dresses from home and went to Mulago at around 2pm. When we reached the mortuary, we didn\u2019t find the body there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we asked, at first, they didn\u2019t give any good explanation, when we insisted, they told us that a group led by a Member of Parliament from Soroti picked it up at A-Plus funeral home in Mengo yet we had the authentic documents,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He wondered how the group cleared the bill of about Shs300,000 and the body was released to them. Mr Eperu said A-Plus later blocked the Najjanankumbi group from taking away the body from the funeral home.<\/p>\n

Eperu died on Sunday at Life Link Hospital in Kyaliwajjala.<\/p>\n

Mr John Kikonyogo, the spokesperson of FDC Najjanankumbi faction, said: \u201cThe FDC leadership had talked to the family before another group of our political friends came in and they had agreed, and that is why they even went and hired A-plus, the party paid to handle the body, even the family members went to choose the coffin now I don\u2019t know how the statement changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs FDC we have a way of sending off our leaders, so we consult with a family and agree to bring the body to headquarters, if it is their wish,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. The former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Dr Kizza Besigye, has scoffed at a group of people who allegedly took Sarah Eperu\u2019s body from Mulago mortuary to Mengo without the consent of the relatives. 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