Awori Dug Own Grave 10 years ago
The deceased former Information and Technology minister Aggrey Awori will not go to his forever home without leaving a little to wonder about.
be buried in a grave he built 10 years ago.
The late Aggrey Awori, also a former presidential candidate passed on Monday this week at a hospital in Naalya where he was admitted for 1 month battling an illness.
He will be laid to rest at his country home in Kibimba village, Buwuni town council in Bugiri district on Saturday this week.
However, Awori unlike many planned for his afterlife long before he was gone.
Sources from his family have said the deceased personally dug his own grave 10 years ago, in preparation for tomorrow.
Constance Taaka, the sister to the deceased claims Awori always talked of being buried in a quiet place of his choice without having to burden his family on where it should be.
“Our brother was a very open-minded person and he often told us, including some of his neighbors, how he had constructed his own grave, as a way of reducing on the financial burden that, would be incurred by mourners during the preparation of his last funeral rites.Taaka said
Awori Dug Own Grave 10 years ago Dug Own Grave 10 years ago
Several mourners have already visited the grave which is like a tourism site amidst heavy security deployment to pay their last respects.
“Although it sounded strange at first because most of us had never heard of someone constructing their own grave before death, we respected his decision over the years,” one of the neighbors stated.
Only 20 people will bury the deceased as one of the measures to control the spread of Covid-19.
Awori has been described as a very outspoken person who represented Samia-Bugwe North, Busia District in Parliament from 2001 until 2006 on Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) ticket.
In 2007, he abandoned the party and joined the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM.
In 2019, Awori was appointed Minister for Information & Communications Technology until 2011 when he was dropped in the cabinet reshuffle. He also contested in the 2011 Presidential elections.
