{UAH} Aronda was stopped from visiting hospital-again the president lied to the nation???
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Aronda was stopped from visiting hospital
The casket containing the remains of Gen Aronda Nyakairima being lowered into the grave at his ancestral home in Nyakiju village, Rukungiri District, yesterday. PHOTO BY COLLEB MUGUME
Posted Monday, September 21 2015 at 11:54
In Summary
Revelation. Fellow traveller says an official gave the minister tablets to swallow
Kampala.
A senior government official familiar with Internal Affairs minister Aronda Nyakairima's last days has revealed that a protocol officer stopped the minister from checking into a hospital when he became unwell in South Korea, and instead gave him privately-procured drugs.
Prof Peter Kasenene, the chairman of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) under Aronda's docket at the time of his demise, had accompanied the minister to Seoul and shared the same vehicle with the minister during the nearly one-week official trip.
In accounts to mourners at the general's burial in Rukungiri, his home district in western Uganda, Prof Kasenene, speaking in Runyankore, said when the minister felt unwell, a protocol officer he did not name suggested that Aronda, who had complained of dizziness, was unlikely to receive treatment in South Korea due to lack of travel (medical) insurance.
"I talked to the protocol officer and General (Aronda) and we agreed that we should go to hospital, but the protocol officer told us that 'if you don't have insurance here, you are not allowed to get treatment and, therefore, I can't take you to hospital," Prof Kasenene said.
He added: "The protocol officer instead brought medicine for Aronda in a sachet with instructions for him to swallow five tablets every six hours."
President Museveni, who had summoned the board chairman to the rostrum to explain events leading up to the minister's demise, cut him short and waved him off to make way.
A hostess found Aronda, booked on seat 22G, dead aboard Emirates plane on a September 12 Seoul-to-Dubai return flight.
At the State funeral at Kololo ceremonial grounds, in Kampala, last Friday, President Museveni attributed Aronda's death to a denial of treatment for him by South Koreans over lack of medical cover. The minister, a former Chief of Defence Forces, had had mild hypertension and two heart attacks before the fatal recurrence, the President said.
"Surely in South Korea they must have emergencies. How can someone come as an emergency and then you say insurance, insurance. You treat him and see if he will not pay," Mr Museveni said.
"What was the problem?" he asked, saying he had been "annoyed" by Aronda's death.
According to a postmortem that government pathologists conducted at Mulago National Referral Hospital, and whose report Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda read out in Parliament last Thursday, the Internal Affairs minister succumbed to acute cardiac arrest.
The next day, at the State funeral at Kololo, his widow Linda cast doubt on the findings, saying: "This heart problem they are talking about, okay, it might have been there but the 20 years I have lived with my husband I have never seen him sick; my children are witnesses. We have never seen him sick."
On the day of Aronda's demise, and before any autopsy, Uganda Media Centre executive director Ofwono Opondo declared that the general had died of cardiac arrest.
Purpose of the trip
The minister and senior officials of the newly-created Citizenship Registration Authority travelled to Seoul on September 8, at the request of a company which also invited representatives of 30 other countries to showcase its equipment and technology for registration. In his entourage were NIRA executive director Judith Obitre-Gama, and the authority's Information Technology director, Mr Clet Turiyo.
The officials had reportedly scheduled bilateral business with South Korean officials, to learn the best practices in citizens' registration, which the south Asian country has done since the early 1960s.
- Kahunde • 4 hours ago
" I can't take you to hospital," Prof Kasenene said.
He added: The protocol officer instead brought
medicine for Aronda in a sachet with instructions for him to swallow
five tablets every six hours.""President Museveni, who had summoned the board chairman to the rostrum to explain events leading up to the minister's demise, cut him short and waved him off to make way".
What other more evidence do we need for Aronda's death? The protocol officer was working on instructions to execute the mission. That is what happened.
RIP Gen. Aronda
- umar ssonko. • 4 hours ago
Five tablets for every six hours. ???????.
Yet even killer AIDS is asingle pill daily. - Angry Ugandan • 2 hours ago
What a load of ''bull-S''...excuse my french!....in Seoul, you can go to a Third Tier Hospital and Pay Cash, if you do not have insurance, consultation can not cost more than $1,000...so the Gov't is saying that all the people travelling with Aronda were too ignorant to google such a simple fact?
- Abdullah Fissi • 2 hours ago
We have alot of money to spend on corruption and building houses for our accountants and board memebers in various institutions, but not on health insuarence on civil servants abroad. Being a political appointee I hoped that he would have better conditions, But your excellency youmay have brought peace but the state is not functional since it is not following even the basic norms, people on government duty abroad should have:
1. Accident insuarence,
2. Health insuarence for the period that they are out of the country( I shall note that even a simple tourist going to majority of the countries is obliged to buy heatlth insuarence) and
3. Accompanied not only by a security operative.
I would bring to book the protocal office for not doing his homework, beacuse even where they ask you for money US they first give you a diagnosis once in hospital, so I wolud put him on the docket if it is true.
If I am not mistaken Amin´s and also Obotes´s adminstrations ( which everyone claims failed the citizens), Government Ministers on trips would have gone to the best medical center available and government paying later, just because they were following civil service norms. which today no one flows because of instructions from above.
I remember a story I was once told of a low ranking army officer who prevented the general from entering an army base just beacuse the General did not follow the norms that he himself established and recieved first a reprimand from his fellow mates and later a promotion from his General for being one of the most intelligent men at the base - Citizen Abroad • 2 hours ago
On what basis did the protocol officer base his procurement of the drugs he gave the General. Is the protocol office a medic as well? How can you just get medicine with such specific instructions without the person being examined first?
..........and this Uganda is really bizarre. You see in Europe, whenever one is travelling, they are advised to buy insurance. You ignore the advice at your own peril. Even if you do not fall sick, if your flight is cancelled, if you miss it, if your luggage is lost, etc., you are covered.
BEFORE EVERYONE SHOUTS ME DOWN BECAUSE UGANDA IS NOT EUROPE, which is true, I totally appreciate that not all travelers are capable of buying the insurance. So most people have to just pray that they never find themselves in situations when they need to have had insurance. BUT THIS IS A GOVERMENT MINISTER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. The President's outrage is soooooooooo misplaced! He should look at the government policies, the wasteful expenditures on IPads, petrol guzzlers and the rest unnecessary expenses!
- RONALD MIHANDA • 3 hours ago
ofowon Opondo needs to tells us how he knew this before the doctors themselves
- Noblescholar • 3 hours ago
I have read about some of the high ranking figures in this world, how they departed and the conspiracy theories are endless. Princess Diana, Jim Reeves, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and her Daughter, Our own Francis Ayume, Noble Mayombo, recently Hummerton Mayanja (AK 47) just to mention a few and for all of them have been conspiracy theories on what, who and why they had to die. All I can say is that The Lord gives and if he takes away Let His Holy name be praised! How difficult it is especially for the closest circle of family, friends, comrades in combat and the President! But really members stop this speculation thing, mudslinging.. if you can not add anything... preach to me, yourself and us to number our days and learn wisdom. Aronda has glowing tribute a legacy not a record... what about me and you? Let us pray that God will place another Aronda in the MIA and add to us many years to correct our wrongs and live a life worthy of the Lord's Praise, leave our children's children an inheritance.
May the good Lord comfort Linda and the children
May His soul Rest in eternal Peace -
- Langvard Oyesigye Kuteisa Sue • 3 hours ago
?????? And why did the president not allow the person who was with the deceased to complete saying what he saw?
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- sheroma • 2 hours ago
RIP our beloved General you shall remain in our hearts. nothing can u bring back to us God took you i know ur in good hands
- BISHANGA PAUL • 2 hours ago
Museveni owes Ugandans a duty to tell Ugandans what exactly killed Aronda.This is the usual game were several Ugandans working with Government died in a queer way and Museveni opted to shut down all inquiries.therein.
- Munaba Johnson • 3 hours ago
This is just total carelessness on part of the protocol officer and the rest of the group because they should have acted very first after seeing the minister sick but not to buy and do self medication on him as if they are medics.
- Karyaburo Munaba Johnson • 2 hours ago
Where did the officer buy the medicine? I guess, apart from simple painkillers etc, most medicine will require prescription certificate from a doctor. It's not true that South Korea refused to treat Aronda. He was never taken there. There are private clinics that treat visitors and tourists.
- The Nationalist Munaba Johnson • 2 hours ago
You can not classify this as carelessness my brother!
1. Was the Protocol Officer a Medical Expert?
2. If he was did he have equipment to test and diagnose the cause of the late minister's illness?
3. How did he procure drugs without prescription in a country which cannot offer a government officer of that rank treatment without medical insurance?
4. Does Uganda have no Embassy or liaison office in South Korea which could have paid for treatment?The conclusion is clear. Like many others who thought they were in the "thing", he was used and dumped
- Joseph Munaba Johnson • 2 hours ago
Carelessness.. What are you? An Idiot or a total fool?careless is when you spill milk on the floor. What about the tourists that visit south Korea and happen to get a medical emergency? Are they left to die?
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