KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: The family of the late Supreme court Justice Stella Arach Amoko have finally agreed to bury her at Arua Catholic Church Cemetery.
It comes after a bitter row that prevented the burial of Justice amoko today as two sides differed in agreement on a common place to bury her.
A statement by Counsel Francis Gimara released late on Friday indicated that the family had agreed to bury Amoko at Arua Catholic Church Cemetery after parties agreed to a proposal by the Justice’s husband, Ambassador Amoko.
“The families have adopted a win-win spirit to resolve this matter as it is the best interest of both parties,” a mediation meeting agreed.
The families were Rapheal Baku and Marshal Alenyo. The latest agreement now means that the Justice is likely to be buried this weekend.
The agreement followed an application in the family court which three of Arach’s children; Yossa Annette, Emmanuel Komakech, and Jackie Amony, and their uncle, Godfrey Picho and aunt, Christine Onyok who are the siblings of the deceased sued the government and Idule.
The suit filed Thursday afternoon came after the two families disagreed on where to bury the deceased. The deceased’s husband wants her buried in Adjumani district while the children prefer Nebbi district.
The burial had earlier been scheduled for Friday but was halted after the judiciary chief registrar Sarah Langa Siu issued a statement indicating that the date has been postponed until further notice.
In the application, the applicants through their lawyers led by Pius Katumba Busobozi and Stanley Okecho are seeking an order restraining the government and Amoko from receiving, transporting, and burying the body of the deceased in Adjumani district.
They also want the court to be authorized to receive, transport, and bury their mother at her family/ancestral home burial ground at Jukiga Hill Ward, Juba village, Nebbi district in accordance with the customary law of ker kwaro Kaal Jonam.
In the alternative, the children are saying if the government and Idule go ahead and bury their mother in Adjumani, they should be authorized to exhume and rebury the body of their late mother in a place of her choice in Nebbi.
Evidence before court shows that when Arach was in the hospital, she called her sister Onyok and brother Picho and expressed to them her wish to be buried in Nebbi district at her ancestral home.
“The judiciary had earlier been misguided to publicly announce Adjumani as the final resting place of our mother. We pray that we are allowed to grieve and heal in peace through this funeral of our mother,” reads the affidavit of one of Yossa.
The family asserts that the children have no connection to Adjumani, their paternal ancestral home, and have never been introduced to the place or shown any land or property there.
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