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Former Press Secretary to the President Onapito Ekomoloit,58, and Current Board Chairman, Nile Breweries is dead.
Former Minister Mike Mukula made the announcement in the past one hour on X, saying Ona, as he was fondly called, passed on early today, Friday, 27th September, 2024 after a short illness. He is said to have been struggling with cancer.
Ona is the current Board Chairman of Nile Breweries Ltd and on the council of elders of St Peter’s College Tororo. He had been a long serving Nile Breweries Corporate Director, and also as a Journalist and founder of the Crusader Newspaper that folded with the collapse of the Greenland Bank.
“On behalf of the Teso community and the country at large I hereby announce we deep sadness and Pain demise of our brother Hon ONAPITO OKOMOLOIT (RIP) a veteran journalist and former member of parliament AMURIA county …the rest of the details will be communicated later,” Mukula said of the former MP of Amuria.
Onapitio in the past year published his book “Tears & Triumph” and also wedded his wife Cathy in February this year. He had also in October last year, lost his first wife Margaret Aanyu, mother to his first son. She was Chief Magistrate in Soroti.
Don Wanyama, a former press secretary said “Ndugu Onapito Ekomoloit was a good man. Deeply knowledgeable, respectful and humble. It was always a learning experience the couple of times our paths crossed. We mourn with his family, the people of Teso and the media fraternity. May his ancestors receive him with favour.”
Parliament spokesman Chris Obore said, “An icon. A gentleman. Humble. Traditionally grounded. Intellectually exposed. Teso did not deserve to lose you. It sucks & hurts. Onapito Ekomoloit!”
