Fairway Hotel founder to be buried Tuesday

Jan 04, 2015

The founder of Fairway Hotel and former Member of Parliament in Obote I government Sherali Bandali Jaffer will be buried on Tuesday next week

By Steven  Candia                                        

The founder of Fairway Hotel and former Member of Parliament in Obote I government Sherali Bandali Jaffer will be buried on Tuesday next week.

It emerged Saturday that the family and the leadership of the Ismaili community in Uganda had finally agreed that burial takes place on Tuesday.

Contrary to earlier reports that the body would arrive in the country on Saturday, close family associates confirmed that the body will arrive on Monday night.

“The body arrives at 9:50pm and burial will be the next day,” Rose Birungi a close family friend said on Saturday.
          
The family of the deceased, which includes Mobina Sherali Bandali Jaffer QC, a senator in the Canadian parliament, was expected to jet into the country on Saturday night aboard a KLM flight, ahead of the burial.

The Bandali family has been living in Vancouver, Canada where they moved to following the 1972 expulsion of Asians by the then President Idd Amin. 

Bandali Jaffer, 90, died on December 27 in Vancouver after along illness. Bandali Jaffer had expressed desire to be buried in Uganda. He will be buried at the Kololo cemetery.
 

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