Elders in Acholi Sub-region will meet again this week to establish the exact cause of the death of former Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah.
The controversies are stemming from claims, initially made by Oulanyah’s father Nathan Okori and later by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) central region chairman, Mr Godfrey Kiwanda, that Oulanyah was poisoned.
However, the government has challenged and threatened to arrest those peddling the claims of poisoning, saying Oulanyah died of natural causes.
Speaking in an interview with our reporter, Francis Mawa, the Prime Minister of Puranga chiefdom, said the post-mortem report he saw has the same information as that given by Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Health minister, that Oulanyah died of natural causes.
Mawa said even him whom Okori sent to receive the body of Oulanyah from Entebbe International Airport on his behalf two weeks ago tried to ask him about the claims of poisoning but he said that is the communication from late Jacob.
The Puranga prime minister said Okori has not told him whether Oulanyah revealed the person who poisoned him.
He added that in three days, they are going to convene a closed-door meeting and, in that meeting, they are going to invite elders and the venue will not be at Mzee Okori’s place.
