{UAH} South Korea protests Aronda death blame
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South Korea protests Aronda death blame
South Korea Government Administration and Home Affairs Minister Chong Jong-sup and the late Gen Aronda Nyakairima shake hands after their meeting in Seoul. Courtesy Photo
Posted Tuesday, September 22 2015 at 12:15
Kampala.
South Korea has protested remarks made by President Museveni last week that former Internal Affairs minister Aronda Nyakairima was denied medical attention shortly before boarding a plane in Seoul, which could have contributed to his death.
The embassy has tendered a 'note verbale' (a diplomatic letter of protest) to the Foreign Affairs ministry, describing the report as inaccurate.
It emerged yesterday the South Korea Ambassador Park Jong-Dae met with the Foreign Affairs ministry Permanent Secretary Ambassador James Mugume over the matter.
Last Friday, President Museveni while addressing mourners during the requiem service for Gen Aronda at Kololo Independence Grounds criticised South Korea for reportedly denying the former Chief of Defence Forces first aid.
"Now when they went to hospital, apparently the South Koreans said they cannot allow somebody to go to hospital who doesn't have insurance in South Korea. That is nonsense. 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 whether he will not pay. What was the problem," Mr Museveni said.
Mr Park told Daily Monitor yesterday that at the moment, they are restrained from making any comment to the media, which he blamed for broadcasting the President's remarks before crosschecking with the country's embassy.
He said South Korea now awaits the Ugandan ministry of Foreign Affairs to clarify the matter.
"We expressed our concerns with [your] Foreign Affairs, so contact them," Mr Park said.
Gen Aronda died on September 11 aboard a flight from South Korea en route to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
An autopsy conducted by a team of government pathologists indicated he died from acute heart failure.
The board chairman of National Identification and Registration Authority, Prof Peter Kasenene, who travelled with the late Aronda to Korea told mourners in Rukungiri District on Sunday that when the minister felt unwell, a protocol officer suggested that Aronda was unlikely to receive treatment in South Korea due to lack of travel (medical) insurance.
Mr Mugume, admitted yesterday that the South Korean Embassy had written asking the matter to be clarified in order to avert a looming diplomatic rift between the two countries.
"But usually, even if you don't have insurance, at least they will ask you to pay a lot of money," Mr Mugume said.
The PS said there was miscommunication by the team that travelled along with the minister on what exactly happened.
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- East African • 2 hours ago
In all honest, South Koreans are very good hosts and simply cant do such a thing. I was in South Korea May this year for the World Education Forum, a visitor from Mozambique fell sick and with out the much blamed travel insurance (It only costs about $40), he was hospitalised till he got Ok and travelled home.
Surely blaming it on South Koreans is unfair in its very very least sense!
- Citizen Abroad • 3 hours ago
They are so incompetent they can not even co-ordinate in order to tell the same story for good or ill.
.........and they are the best. They run the country!- KATO Citizen Abroad • 2 hours ago
Absolute incompetents!
If you randomly got hold of several 10-year-olds and tasked them with responding to this crisis in our sceptical environment, they'd do a much better job!
There's a pattern. NRM is just bad at explaining things...Every time a crisis engulfs government, there is uncoordinated and confusing flow of information that usually results in aggressive and threatening tone and language when simple questions are asked.
It was not very wise to publicly blame the South Koreans nor was it clever for Ofwono Opondo to prematurely announce cause of death. For someone who loves listening to himself, it is strange he has kept a low profile.
- Sue • 2 hours ago
One of them is not telling the truth..the fact of the matter is diplomats or foreign government officials are treated automatically without asking for medical insurance and medical bills passed on to government, Aronda was on offical duty to south Korea
- ZisaBusolo • 3 hours ago
wolokoso all over......now this unverified statements from the president will most likely strain the cooperation between the two countries. We want to hear what those who travaled with Aronda have to say not LUGAMBO or hearsay
- King Ahmed Axam • 2 hours ago
Only Allah is responsible for anyone death therefore let's not pin anyone but just know we all have our time to meet with God. R. I. P
- Kasozi • 3 hours ago
S. Korea is right to protest. There is no country I know of where an emergency would be ignored due to Insurance.
- Honest Ugandan Kasozi • 2 hours ago
Of course South Korea officially denied its role in the killing of our late general.Has the thief ever admitted the crime he accused of?Poor general was not given medical assistance needed and on top of that there is no Uganda Embassy in Seul.Thee is only Uganda Honorary Consul who is Korean and his name is Yoon Yong Suk- his telephone is + 82 2 183 11411.We should all ask him why he did not take his minister to the hospital.??
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- KATO • 3 hours ago
The government have been surprisingly clumsy in handling and explaining what appears to be a straight forward matter.
It is inconceivable that a developed country like South Korea can deny a visiting senior government minister basic medical treatment just because the VIP did not have adequate travel insurance. Had Aronda been a private individual incapable of meeting the expected medical bill then that is another matter.
BUT.... strange things do happen with our developed friends. The Koreans could have effectively said: "Sorry mate, on your bike! No insurance, no treatment. Here's some paracetamol. Take 2 every..." Etcetera, etcetera. When someone who witnessed all attempts to reveal what actually happened (i.e how the Koreans behaved), he is summarily told to shut up.
We wait. Either M7 is telling the whole truth or the South Koreans are. What is not in doubt is, for one reason or another, one side is being rather economical with the truth. Very intriguing state of affairs.
- isaac • 3 hours ago
..it's time for all gov't officials upon travelling abroad be insured by international medical insurance.
- Joseph Akotch • 4 hours ago
You can understand why the President is quick with allotting blame for death. Under these suspicious situations, you need to wash your hands clean. Anything that allows you to do this should be done. Many Ugandans are now skeptical of such deaths. Look at the late Nebanda. Some people were even arrested. This time the leader of opposition was questioning how OO could have known the cause of death in advance. You hear Amama Mbabazi saying he is in a hit list. Things like that.
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