High Court Judge Lydia Mugambe Ssali fixed the date that will probably bring an end to the controversy. Kasango 's Burial Place
Kasango ‘s Burial Place
The Family Division has set March 26, 2021, as the date on to rule on where the deceased splashy city lawyer Bob Kasango will be buried.
Bob Kasango died a month ago at Luzira Prison where he was jailed for 16 years over theft of 15.4 Billion Shillings pension funds.
He succumbed to heart complications while being transferred from Murchison Bay prison to Mulago National Referral Hospital for further treatment.
Following his death, Kasango’s widow Nice Bitarabeho and his paternal relatives including his mother Rose Kabise failed to agree on where to rest his corpse.
The 2 sides have since been conflicting on whether to bury the deceased in Tororo at his step father’s home or at Gweri in Fort portal where the widow comes from .
This prompted the widow Bitarabeho to run to court seeking an order on where he should be buried.
High Court Judge Lydia Mugambe Ssali fixed the date that will probably bring an end to the controversy.
Kasango ‘s Burial Place
Bitarabeho had told the court that her late husband denounced his family after one of his relatives Fox Odoi, a former MP plotted to kill him years ago.
She claims the deceased never at once had a close relationship with his neighbors or his mother Kabise who she never met 7 years into their marriage.
Bitarabeho also told court that the mention of his mothers name to him always made him cry and he preferred to be buried on a piece of land allocated to them in Fort Portal .
However, Kasango’s mother Kabise told the court that Kasango deserved to be buried at his stepfather’s Bonaventure Okello, a Japadhola from Tororo.
She claims that despite Kasango being born to a deceased Musoga man called Livingston Richard Kasimo, he was raised in Japadhola.
Kabise says Kasango bought her land in Tororo, and this is where she wants her son to be buried.
However, during cross-examination by Bitarabeho’s lawyers Jamilu Mujurizi and Humphrey Tumwesigye it was revealed that there is no proof for the purchase of land in Tororo.
A third witness Esau Michael Opiiri who was testifying as a neutral person said that Kasango shouldn’t be buried at the in law’s place since it is against the traditional values and norms of the Japadhola.
Opiiri added that Kasango’s grandfather was a Musoga but chose to be buried in Tororo.
Kasango’s lifeless body is currently lying at A Plus Funeral home under police guard.
