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By Kiyingi Godfrey/KMA Updates
Serere County Member of Parliament Bishop Patrick Okabe and his wife have perished in  in a motor accident. We also heard that on hearing about the MP’s bad news,her mother was hit by high blood pressure killing her immediately.
Serere County Member of Parliament Bishop Patrick Okabe who is now the late.
Bishop Okabe with his family were involved in a head-on collision with a Kenyan truck registration number KCX 071K at Naboa along Mbale-Tirinyi road on Monday morning while driving to Kampala in his vehicle registration number UBK 995F.
Buvuma Islands Members of Parliament Robert Miggadde Ndugwa has described the Late Bishop Okabe as a man who was truthful to the people of Serere, Parliament and the country will be greatly missed.
Tororo District Woman Representative Sarah Opendi and Chairperson of Uganda Women’s Parliamentary Association has called on gov’t to speedily work on the railway lines so that heavy trucks are reduced on roads which cause unnecessary accidents to innocent drivers.
She also asked gov’t to put in more efforts to expand the narrow roads which are also one of the causes of the Road carnage.
Kasanda North MP Oshabe Partick Nsamba and also Uganda’s representative in the Pan African Parliament said, Bishop Okabe would greatly be remembered for his determination to retire from shepherding the church and joining politics.
Mushabe praised the late for his rare character of working with all MPs regardless of their political affiliations.
Nakaseke South MP (Nakaseke District) Paulson Lutamaguzi Ssemakula says he is saddened by the death of their colleague decrying of the high rate of reckless driving among the gov’t officials who at times drive on the pavements in the city center to dodge Jam hence causing accidents.
Edited by Ronald Kabuubi/KMA Updates.