By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
The Judiciary has issued a statement explaining that unforeseen circumstances have forced the postponement of the scheduled Friday burial of the late Supreme Court Justice Arach Amoko.
This has been announced by Ms. Sarah Langa Siu, the Judiciary Chief Registrar.
The decision comes a day after the family/cultural leaders of the Late Justice Amoko and the government clashed over her final resting place.
The late Supreme court judge Stella Arach Amoko husband, ambassador Idule Amoko submitted a letter to the judiciary requesting that she be buried in Adjumani district while her paternal family insists on Nebbi district, all in northern Uganda.
As a result, two parallel burial programs were issued, with one indicating Nebbi as the burial site and the other indicating Adjumani.
In a June 19 petition addressed to the judiciary permanent secretary, Dr Pius Bigirimana, the family members, including the biological sister, brother, and daughters of the deceased, expressed their desire for Amoko to be buried in Nebbi, specifically at Jukiya Hill Ward, Juba cell, where her father was laid to rest.
“This is the humble petition of the biological family of the deceased Hon. Lady Justice Stella Arach Amoko against the alleged decision to bury our deceased sister and mother in Adjumani, praying for your good office to overturn the alleged decision and to have our said mother and sister buried at her home in Nebbi where her father was buried as she wished,” reads part of the petition.
The family argues that the deceased had verbally expressed her wish to be buried in Nebbi near her father’s grave prior to her passing. They state that while still at Nakasero hospital, she invited her brother, from Nebbi and shared her desire to be buried there.
“…to this effect, the deceased while still at Nakasero hospital, invited her biological brother one Picho Godfrey to come from Nebbi and expressed her wish to be buried in Nebbi,” the family contends in the petition.
Additionally, 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.
