Nathan Okori, the father of the former Speaker of the Parliament, the late Jacob Oulanyah L’Okori has pleaded for support from the government to help fill the gaps his late son left in the family.
Oulanyah who breathed his last on March 20th from Seattle in the United States of America due to cancer left behind eight children and three grandchildren as well as over 200 dependents he was sponsoring in schools.
He was laid to rest at his ancestral home in Ayom – lony Village, Lalogi Sub–County in Omoro District on Friday evening.
Okori says the late Oulanyah was not a son to him alone but belonged to the entire country and that he had started a number of initiatives at home but left them unfinished following his untimely death.
According to Okori, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni through the government should help to complete the house that his late son was constructing such that it could begin generating income to help look after his orphans.
Okori also appealed to the government to help sponsor the late Oualanyah’s children as well as other dependents in school and the deceased sister identified as Harriet Adong Okori who holds a Masters’s in Law should be offered a job in the government since her late brother’s law firm she was running has been closed.
Okori who was speaking to thousands of mourners on Friday afternoon at Ajuri Primary School Playground in Lalogi Sub – County also disclosed that a certain lady whom his late son was in a purported affair with is meddling with the deceased’s assets, important documents as well as his ATM cards.
He appealed to Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-dollo not only as a friend of the late Oulanyah, but also as a custodian of all the laws in the country.
Meanwhile, Vice the President Jessica Alupo who was the Chief Mourner assured the late Oulanah’s father that all his request to the government through the President shall be delivered to him for a response.
Alupo also handed over cash of 50 million shillings –the President’s condolence to Nathan Okori and also 20 million shillings to the children of the late Jacob Oulanyah.
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