STOP DANCING ON JACOB OULANYAH’S GRAVE: Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo Warns

Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has vowed to keep calling out Ugandans who he accuses of tormenting Jacob Oulanyah while he was still alive, and are now ‘dancing on his grave.’

Oulanyah died in the US on March 20. (Read Story Here)

Last week, Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo dominated social media space after he made comments on the Kabaka’s travel abroad and the protests against Oulanyah’s treatment in the US. (Read Story Here).

NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, a Muganda by tribe, told Owiny-Dollo to stop diverting Ugandans from asking the real cause of Oulanyah’s death. (Read Story Here).

Later, Buganda Kingdom prime minister Charles Peter Mayiga responded to CJ Owiny-Dollo’s comments. (Read Story Here).

CJ Owiny-Dollo has since apologized to the Kabaka and Baganda. (Read Story Here).

But in the same apology, Owiny-Dollo said he would not stop criticizing Ugandans dancing on Oulanyah’s grave.

According to the CJ, people must desist from fighting the sick and the dead.

“I stand firm in my castigation of those who mercilessly tormented Jacob Oulanyah at the time he needed compassion most; and, who continue to inexplicably dance on his grave,” said Owiny-Dollo.

“I reiterate that this contravenes our much-cherished African culture, and it must be condemned by all people of good will.”

Meanwhile, government has since released Oulanyah’s burial program. (Read Story Here).

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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