Daily Monitor
Friday March 05 2021
A casket bearing Bob Kasango’s body at the All Saints Church on March 2, 2021 during the funeral service. Photos | Rachel Mabala
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For two days running, late lawyer Robert Kasango’s wife and children and his mother’s family have failed to agree on his final resting place.
The standoff between Kasango’s wife Nice Bitarabeho and the side of the deceased’s mother, Ms Rose Kabise, erupted after the funeral service at All Saints Cathedral Nakasero on Tuesday.
Ms Kabise wants her son buried at his ancestral home in Tororo District while Ms Bitarabeho wants her late husband buried in Kabarole, her home district, where the couple reportedly have land.
Daily Monitor
Thursday March 04 2021
This photo taken on March 2, 2021 at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala show relatives of deceased lawyer Robert Aldridge Kasango, aka Bob, loading his body on a waiting truck to be taken to Tororo District for burial. PHOTOS/ RACHEL MABALA
Summary
At the time of his death, Robert Aldridge Kasango was serving a 16-year jail term after he was convicted in 2018 for conspiring to forge a court order, a certificate of taxation and a certificate of costs directing the Attorney General to pay his law firm Shs15.4b in connection with pension money.
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By press time last evening, the body of lawyer Robert Aldridge Kasango, alias Bob, was still being kept at A-Plus Funeral Management home at Mengo in Kampala.
March 2, 2021 Kasango s casket being loaded on a truck
There was drama at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala as two families fought for the body of lawyer Bob Kasango. The casket containing his remains was grabbed from the A-Plus pallbearers by a group of relatives from Tororo district in eastern Uganda who said he must be buried at his ancestral home and not at his in-laws place in Kabarole district in western Uganda.
The relatives encircled the process minutes after a funeral service and demanded to know where the body was being taken. In the church, it had been announced that the Kasango was to be buried at Gweri village in Kabarole district on Thursday. Mourners were advised to take the Kamwenge road, which is about 2 kilometres from Fort Portal City.
Despite Kasango s family that hails from Tororo in eastern Uganda snatching and taking off with the body, burial preparations were still underway on Tuesday at the home of late Dr Mark Wabunoha in Mugasani Cell, Gweri Ward in North Division in Fort Portal.
Kasango s wife is a descendant of the prominent Dr Wabunoha, whose family recently celebrated their centenary since their founding . The homestead is now headed by Kasango’s mother-in-law.
Family members at the Wabunoha homestead have declined to comment about the matter, saying it is still controversial. At All Saints Cathedral, it was announced that Kasango would be buried on Thursday in Fort Portal. However, his Tororo family protested, saying they cannot accept to lose their dignity and allow their son to be buried at his in-laws home. They snatched the body and took off with it as the dumbstruck A-Plus Funeral Services pallbearers and mourners looked on.