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By Francis Otucu
The family of the dead former Lwengo District Woman Member of Parliament, Gertrude Lubega Nakabira has finally agreed on where to bury her.
This, after days of disagreements between the orphan and the widower.
Immediately after Nakabira died at Nsambya Hospital last weekend, a group of family members led by her elder son, Jordan Mawejje started making arrangements for her burial at her School Emmanuel Junior Academy Kinoni in Lwengo District, claiming the mother had indicated so in her will.
He had also indicated that burial was to take place on Tuesday.
This idea was protested by the widower, Emanuel Lubega and other family members.
The disagreement forced Mawejje to hold the body at A-Plus Funeral home in Kampala, affecting the burial arrangements. A requiem mass that had been planned at Kitovu Cathedral on Tuesday morning was conducted in absence of the deceased’s body.
Lubega insists his wife was legally married in Church and has to be buried at their matrimonial home in Kibengo Sembabule District.
Lubega said the children were being driven by selfish interests to grab part of the family estate.
But a crisis meeting by the organising committee of Nakabira’s burial attended by Minister for Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Vincent Ssempija, Veronica Nanyondo (Bukomansimbi Woman MP), Isaac Ssejoba (Former MP Bukoto Mid-West) and family members, on Tuesday night resolved that the deceased be buried at her matrimonial home.
Mawejje also agreed to the decision and contacted the management of A-Plus Funnel Service to release the body and transport it to Kibengo Village.
To this, arrangements for another requiem mass to be conducted at the burial venue by the former Masaka Diocese bishop John Baptist Kaggwa, are underway. The ex -MP is expected to be laid to rest today at 2pm.
Nakabira ,57, the first woman member of Parliament for Lwengo District died Sunday morning at Nsambya Hospital where she had spent over two months battling with cancer.
