KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: The Criminal Investigations has reportedly summoned a dozen Member’s of Parliament (MPs) after their insistence that the late Speaker Jacob Oulanya died after being poisoned.
A security source said that at least nine MPs will appear before officers at the CID headquarters in Kibuli to record statements about the talk that Oulanya was poisoned.
The summoned MPs mainly hail from Acholi sub-region where the deceased came from. They have repeatedly tasked government to explain the Oulanyah’s cause of death.
President Museveni on March 28 directed the police to clamp down on speculators allegedly perpetrating harmful propaganda that fallen speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah did not die of natural causes.
Oulanyah, 56, reportedly died of colon cancer on Sunday, March 20, 2022, in a hospital in Seattle, US where he was flown on Museveni’s orders on February 3.
But prior to his demise, several social media posts emerged that Oulanyah had died, and that government was concealing his death. Shortly, after the death, his father Nathan Okori told mourners that his son had been poisoned.
Okori explained his son confided in him in a phone conversation before being flown out for specialized treatment that he was poisoned. But addressing MPs at Kololo on Friday, Museveni said perpetrators of false rumours must be arrested and prosecuted.
“I would like to warn people who are in the habit of taking advantage of problems to make cheap politics and actually we shall go for them because I have heard some people saying; ‘that oh, Oulanyah was killed.’ The police are going to come and say; ok you tell us, you seem to have some information because Oulanyah did not die in a private home. He died in a highly reputable hospital, and before that, he was in another big hospital in Dubai and before that he was in our big hospitals here including the Cancer Institute.”
During the burial of Oulanya last Friday Mr. Okori speaking in Acholi with translations made by DP President Norbert Mao again said that Oulanya was poisoned.
“I am not mourning in vain. I want to say clearly Oulanya was poisoned. He told me he was poisoned. He poison affected his health so much that by the time he was flown out for treatment, it was too late. He could not recover. ” Mr Okori said amid ululations.
On Saturday, during a talk show at Capital Gang, Kiwanda also alleged that him and Information minister Dr. Chris Baryomunsi had been told by Oulanya himself that he had been poisoned.
“I visited together with Dr Baryomunsi Oulanyah at Muyenga home (his home). Oulanyah told Baryomunsi that toxins had been found in his body”Kiwanda said.
Official cause of death
On April 5, the Minister of Health, Hon. Jane Ruth Aceng said that the immediate cause of death of the former Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah, was multiple organ failure.
“The heart, lungs, liver and kidney all failed. The liver started failing while he was in Uganda and the lungs had started collecting fluids,” she said.
Aceng said that Oulanyah was diagnosed with cancer in 2019.
“He discovered a swelling on the neck, he took it upon himself to seek medical attention in Germany, where the swelling was removed and analyzed and he was told that it was cancer, she said adding that, ’he was started on treatment which he finished at the Uganda Cancer Institute’.
She added that he subsequently visited other hospitals over the same but due to the challenges during the lockdown and during elections, he was not able to be treated in hospital.
“On 23 January 2022, he was admitted to Mulago for two weeks and during that time, he was being prepared to travel to get gene therapy treatment known as the CAR T- Cell which did not require more chemotherapy which had already supressed the bone marrow,” she said.
Aceng added that tests were carried out, biopsy tissues recalled for further analysis and the bone marrow analysed.
The Minister in her report added that Oulanyah also developed multiple bacterial and viral infections.
“The treatment of the viral infections continued to suppress the bone marrow, which lead to its total suppression,” she said.
There were also contributory conditions which included a lymphatic system depletion.
Aceng also revealed that while in Makerere, Oulanyah lost his spleen following a student strike there. She said that these manufactures both the red and white blood cells.
“He started having gastritis bleeding into the abdomen because of the lack of platelets and we couldn’t stop the bleeding. He also had drug resistant bacteria, which is usually hospital acquired when you stay long in the Hospital,” she added.
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