Muzei Okori trashes medical report
The grieving father to the late Speaker of Parliament Rt .Hon .Jacob Oulanyah has dismissed the medical report given by the Minister of Health indicating that he died from multiple organ failure due to cancer.
Speaking at the funeral to finally send off his son, Muzei Nathan L’Okori told thousands of mourners that the deceased confined in him that he was poisoned and his health worsened as a result.
L’okori who spoke in the local dialect said his bitterness was with purpose because he is aware his son didn’t die of natural causes but was poisoned.
“I’m not mourning in vain. I want to say it clearly. Jacob was poisoned. He told me. The poison affected his health so much and by the time he was flown out for treatment, it was too late. He could not recover” Okori, said
Following his comments, the leader of the Acholi Parliamentary group Anthony Akol, has asked the government to investigate the allegations made by Oulanyah’s father. Akol says the matter has been risen before but people were silenced with threats of arrest.
“This is not the first time we have heard about this, I remember we raised this to the President, please inform the president to ensure that an investigation is done, The President talked about arresting people who talked about it but let him not and arrest anyone , otherwise you will miss the point,” he said
Government on cause of death
According to the Minister for Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng the fallen Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon Jacob Oulanyah succumbed to multiple organ failure from cancer he had been battling since 2019.
Aceng presented a medical report on the cause of death of the fallen Speaker at a special sitting in Parliament on Tuesday.
“The immediate cause of death was multi organ failure. The heart failed, the lungs failed, the liver failed and the kidney failed,” Dr.Aceng said
Muzei Okori trashes medical report
The health Minister says Oulanyah had been receiving treatment (chemotheraphy) at the Uganda Cancer Institute since 2019 under the guidance of the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), Director Jackson Oryem.
Aceng reveals that on January 23rd ,2022, the deceased was admitted at the Mulago National Referral Hospital for two weeks after suffering a bone marrow infection culminating from continuous chemotherapy.
Aceng says the deceased’s health condition can be attributed to a health condition he suffered while a guild speaker and student at the Makerere University. He reportedly underwent a lymphatic System Depletion that led to the removal of his spleen.
Meanwhile, (UCI), Dr Jackson Oryem also revealed that the fallen Speaker of Parliament Hon Jacob Oulanyah Emeritus was hit by several complications that catalyzed his demise.
Oryem while delivering a a medical report on the late Rt Hon Jacob Oulanyah at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds told mourners that the deceased was battling cancer called Lymphoma at stage 3, but failed to receive treatment because his bone marrow was not functional.
According to Oryem, he was first approached by in late February 2020, when he was stranded and in need of assistance in treating the cancer. Oulanyah reportedly confided in Oryem about his health status and a team of doctors from Mulago was instituted to start chemotherapy treatment on him.
However, after a series of successful treatment, the deceased suffered hernia and was subjected to an operation that later affected his condition. He adds that his bone marrow was infected and damaged .
“And that meant that we completely had a different situation, he was very ill and couldn’t eat, everything was coming through the vein,including his feeding.Now , the cancer issue takes a back seat because the emergency is saving him.And to cut the long story short,immediately an arrangement was made and he was airlifted to Dubai“ he explained
