Miria Obote admitted to hospital with chest infection

Nov 11, 2018

Jimmy Akena, the party president and son of the former president and founder of UPC said his mother Mama Miria Obote was on November 4 admitted to the hospital with chest infection.

POLITICS

The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) party has postponed the annual Milton Obote memorial lecture that was scheduled for November 16 at Kampala Sheraton Hotel due to the sickness of Mama Miria Obote.

Jimmy Akena, the party president and son of the former president and founder of UPC said his mother Mama Miria Obote was on November 4 admitted to the hospital with  chest infection.

"By virtue of this situation, we will not be able to host the Milton Obote Memorial Lecture earlier scheduled for 16th November," Akena stated in a Facebook post on Saturday afternoon around midday.  

When contacted on phone, Akena declined to elaborate on the post saying, "I am not ready to add anything, you use what I have posted."

In the Facebook post, Akena states, "The medical team are now assessing the possibility of her suffering from viral pneumonia and such that last night, 9th November, she was moved to the High Dependency Unit for closer monitoring. The medical team is working competently towards restoring her good health."

Information on the internet indicates that viral pneumonia caused by the flu virus can be life-threatening as well if it triggers a particularly severe inflammation of the lungs or is complicated by a secondary bacterial infection.

The Milton Obote Memorial lecture is an annual event organised by Friends of Apollo Milton Obote association that takes place around the time he died.

Obote died in exile in a South African hospital in 2005. He was two time President of Uganda (1966-1971; 1980-1985) and twice deposed by the military. He also served as the first Prime Minister of Uganda in the post-independence period of 1962-1966.

During the annual lecture last year, controversial Kenyan political lawyer, the former director of the Kenya School of Law, Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba gave a keynote in which among others, he said, Age limit is midlife crisis which can be resolved by discussions and not fighting.

Akena recently said the annual Milton Obote memorial lecture for this year would take place  on November 16 at Apollo Hotel commonly known as Sheraton Hotel under the theme, ‘The role of the public sector in national development'

 

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