KAMPALA, UGANDA: Security and the family of the late deputy IGP Maj. Gen. Paul Lokech have released a tentative funeral program with the burial set for Thursday, August 26, 2021.
The program was released by spokesperson Fred Enanga during a briefing at the police headquarters in Kampala.
“The IGP Martin Ochola would wish to inform all family members, relatives, friends, in-laws, well-wishers, the UPF and UPDF fraternity and all members of the public, that the burial arrangements for the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Major General Paul Lokech, who passed away on the 21.08.2021 is as follows,” the statement reads in part.
WEDNESDAY 25.08.2021: The body will be transported to his home at Kitikifumba Mulawa in Kira Division, for prayers and viewing.
THURSDAY 26.08.2021: The body will leave Kampala for his home in Baibir village in Pader District.
FRIDAY 27.08.2021: Burial will take place at Baibir Village, Ludele parish, Pader Town Council, in Pader District.
Enanga asked mourners and well wishers who want to visit the family and attend the vigil at his family to wear masks, sanitise and keep social distance.
He said protocol teams have been deployed to manage the capacity limits during this entire funeral and burial arrangement in Pader district.
The police spokesman further says the entire exercise will be conducted by police and the army.
The police will avail sword bearers who will be Police Commissioners in ceremonial attire, while the pall bearers will be UPDF Major Generals.
“We continue with celebrating the life of the late DIGP and at this stage we wish to thank all the well wishers and mourners and the public for the incredible messages that are still pouring and encouragement,” Enanga said.
So far condolence messages have come in from people of different walks of life and countries like South Sudan and Somalia where the deceased served.
Enanga speaks out on the cause of Lokech’s death
“We want to use this opportunity that the post-mortem that was carried out by a team of four pathologists one of them Maj. Kasasira Steven the director health services of the UPDF, personal doctor of the late identified as Dr Ben Kinge and two family representatives selected by the family of the deceased.
“The team of pathologists established that the victim had a fracture of the right ankle joint around the end of July. It was a simple fracture which was being managed at Rubby medical centre by orthopaedic surgeons and continued to manage him as an out patient and he was going for regular treatment. They encouraged him to continue mild exercises while at home and it was about 2 to 3 days a go that the late started feeling pain in the right ankle and he notified his orthopaedic surgeon at Ruby medical centre who scheduled an appointment on 21st August, 2021 between 8am and 9am.
“It is unfortunate that on that very day, the victim called the surgeon at 7:54am and as he was organising himself, the victim started facing breathing problems and again called his personal doctor Dr. Kinge who rushed and found the victim breathing his last and actually died in his presence,”
“During the autopsy, the pathologists opened the injured leg and found a very big blood clot that had formed in one of the blood vessels. They proceeded with the autopsy and further opened the chest where they found part of the big clot that was carried into the lungs. It is this big blood clot that was carried into the lungs that managed to block the vessels in both lungs leading to shortage in breath and subsequent death. It was thus concluded that it was death arising from natural causes,” Enanga added.
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