By Reuben Olita
in Nairobi

THE body of former Uganda rebel leader Alice Lakwena is still at the Garissa Provincial Hospital mortuary in north eastern Kenya as authorities wait for instructions from Kampala over burial arrangements.

It was brought there for preservation on Thursday afternoon following her death at Ifo refugee camp where she lived since 1996 after being granted asylum by the UN refugee agency.

Armed police from Daadab accompanied by the refugee agency’s officials escorted the body through the 200km journey and delivered it to the hospital’s mortuary authorities at 2:45pm on Thursday.

Hospital chief Dr. Khadijah Ahmed Abdalla said she did not know if an autopsy would be carried out on the corpse that was wheeled into the new morgue immediately.

“We do not have a pathologist here. If there is a need for an autopsy the parties will have to look for a pathologist.”