Nathan Okori, the father of Late Jacob Oulanyah claims his son died a natural death in Seattle, America.It has emerged the Speaker of Parliament had been receiving treatment at the world’s top Cancer Hospital- Washington Medical Center an affiliation of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
Oulanyah was airlifted to Seattle early February on orders of President Yoweri Museveni.
Museveni announced his death on Sunday afternoon.
Oulanyah’s father told locals on Sunday that his son could have been poisoned.
He however, asked that his death is not politicised.
Okori was quoted telling a handful of mourners at their ancestral home in Omoro District saying Oulanyah’s death is not easy news to welcome insisting his son was poisoned.
“I don’t want somebody to bring their politics here,”Mr Okori said yesterday in Omoro
“I know very well that he was poisoned, and whatever somebody will say tomorrow should not distort the information we now have,” reports Daily Monitor.
“He did not say who may have planned his son’s death or why. Mr Okori said Oulanyah revealed the cause of his illness, which suddenly began manifesting publicly after he became a Speaker last May, before he travelled for specialised medical care in the United Kingdom.
“He (Oulanyah) called and promised me certain things and what he told me I know very well, “he added.
But Daily Monitor could not independently verify the claims and there has been months of information black-hole about the health of the short-lived Speaker of the 11th Parliament.
Oulanyah was first rumoured dead last year when he sought treatment abroad, but he returned an unhappy man and chided those that gloated over false reports of his alleged death, challenged them to bend to compassion.
The information minister Dr Chris Baryomunsi has since disregarded the ‘poison claims’ saying they should await for a post mortem report.
