Parliament has this afternoon eulogized to the former UPC party chairperson Edward Rurangaranga who passed away on Monday.
The body of the late Rurangaranga was received by the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah at mid-day accompanied by government chief whip Ruth Nankabirwa and UPC president Jimmy Akena.
The motion to pay tribute to Rurangaranga was brought by the prime minister Ruhakana Rugunda who said the late was a brave and patriotic Ugandan who played an integral role in the both the independence and post-independence period in this country.
Rugunda says that every Ugandan should emulate the late especially in infrastructure development as he gave away his land for the construction of Kitagata hospital citing that many people right now cannot way for government projects.
The representative of the leader of opposition who is the deputy chief opposition whip Roland Mugume said that even then when he was a member of parliament then he warned government about the land amendments that government is seeking to make and tasked parliament to take note of this.
Mugume also urged government to come up with a policy on honoring the most important people in the country while still alive.
The UPC party president Jimmy Akena says that late worked a lot in building the party and called for reconciliation and unity so that the party could realize what the founders hoped for.
last week eulogized to the former UPC party chairperson Edward Rurangaranga who passed away on Monday.
The body of the late Rurangaranga was received by the deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah at mid-day accompanied by government chief whip Ruth Nankabirwa and UPC president Jimmy Akena.
The motion to pay tribute to Rurangaranga was brought by the prime minister Ruhakana Rugunda who said the late was a brave and patriotic Ugandan who played an integral role in the both the independence and post-independence period in this country.
Rugunda says that every Ugandan should emulate the late especially in infrastructure development as he gave away his land for the construction of Kitagata hospital citing that many people right now cannot way for government projects.
The representative of the leader of opposition who is the deputy chief opposition whip Roland Mugume said that even then when he was a member of parliament then he warned government about the land amendments that government is seeking to make and tasked parliament to take note of this.
Mugume also urged government to come up with a policy on honoring the most important people in the country while still alive.
Akena says that late worked a lot in building the party and called for reconciliation and unity so that the party could realize what the founders hoped for.
