Confusion surrounds the burial arrangements of former Minister Frances Kuka, with government and media reports presenting starkly different accounts.
According to a post by Faruk Kirunda, a spokesperson for President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the late Hon. Frances Kuka was “granted an official burial” by the President. Kirunda stated that the National Organising Committee (NOC) was directed to handle the arrangements and that the deceased’s daughter was “facilitated with money” to lead the proceedings, asserting that “records to that effect are available.”
Contradicting this, a report from The Observer newspaper states that the former minister was “quietly laid to rest without a state funeral.” According to their coverage, after the 72-year-old’s death on September 23 and “days of waiting without an official response, the family opted for a private burial.”
The conflicting narratives leave the circumstances of the former minister’s funeral unclear, with one side claiming a state-sanctioned ceremony was organized and funded, and the other reporting that the family proceeded independently after failing to receive a government response.
