Summary:
- Kabale Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Godfrey Nyakahuma, confirmed to our reporter that he had engaged Kabale Municipality health inspector Andrew Beija, and they agreed to exhume some remains at Kirengyere Cemetery to make room for the burial of the unclaimed bodies.
KABALE: Authorities in Kabale District, southwestern Uganda, have resolved to exhume old remains from Kirengyere Cemetery in Kyanamira Sub-County to create space for burying five unclaimed bodies that have overstayed at the Kabale Regional Referral Hospital mortuary for over three months.
The oldest of the unclaimed bodies has been in the mortuary for eight months and three weeks, while the others have been there for four months and three weeks, three months, one month and two weeks, and one month and one week, respectively. According to Dr. John Philbert Nyeko, the Kabale Regional Referral Hospital Director, three of the bodies are from Kabale Municipality, while the remaining two are linked to Kabale District Local Government.
In 2018, Kabale municipality started burying unclaimed bodies at Kirengere Garbage dumping site in Kyanamira sub-county after the official cemetery along Kabale-Katuna roads in Mwanjari ward in Southern division was used to set up a business center. However, Information obtained by our reporter from reliable sources, shows that the space at Kirengyere garbage dumping site is filled up to accommodate more bodies.
Kabale Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Godfrey Nyakahuma, confirmed to our reporter that he had engaged Kabale Municipality health inspector Andrew Beija, and they agreed to exhume some remains at Kirengyere Cemetery to make room for the burial of the unclaimed bodies.
He however said that It is the responsibility of Kabale Municipal Council, through the urban authority, to ensure that unclaimed bodies are buried in cemeteries gazetted by the government.
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Kabale Municipal Health Inspector, Andrew Beija, revealed that a grave has already been prepared and the burial is expected to take place tomorrow (Friday). Beija attributed the delays to the lack of space in the cemetery.
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Earlier in April, Kabale Municipality Mayor, Emmanuel Sentaro Byamugisha, disclosed plans to secure UGX 500 million to purchase land for a cemetery and garbage collection site. This effort is part of the urban authority’s preparations for Kabale’s transition to city status.
