Former Presidential Press Secretary , Editor Onapito Succumbs To Cance
By A. Lubowa
KAMPALA
THE star journalist who led the first team from The Daily Monitor to found the defunct Crusader before joining parliament and later serving as a presidential press secretary, Mr Francis Onapito Ekomoloit is dead.
Family sources said the former legislator succumbed to stage 4 cancer . He was 56 years old.
He served as a journalist and editor in chief, parliamentarian , presidential press secretary and corporate affairs manager at Nile Breweries Ltd before scooping the post of board chairman at the same company upon retirement .
His death has been mourned by different people from walks of life including former journalist, politicians , opinion leaders from Teso led by Capt Mike Mukula , business community and scholars among others.
Onapito had joined the presidency service in 2001 working with the late Joseph Tamale Mirundi, who would replace him, and the like of Amelia Kyambadde who was the PPS.
He had worked with The Daily Monitor after leaving Makerere where he was among the pioneer journalism students before founding the defunct Crusader with a group of others.
He represented Amuria county as an MP after Gen Jeje Odongo’ s resignation in 1988 when he (Odongo)was named army commander and in 2001 he joined State House as a press secretary.
He left the president’s office only after five years joining Nile Breweries where he served for 17 years before retiring when he clocked 55 last year and was made board chairman.
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