There was drama at All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero as two families fought for the body of lawyer Robert Aldridge Kasango.
Kasango died on Saturday night, in Murchison Bay Hospital inside Luzira Prison. The cause of death was reported to be heart failure. Earlier during the funeral service at the Cathedral, a group of Kasnago’s relatives from Tororo District in Eastern Uganda stormed the church and grabbed the casket containing his remains from the A-Plus pallbearers.
Relatives from the side of Kasango’s wife Nice Bitarabeho Kasango and eldest son Samora Paul Kasango tried to insist but they were overpowered by the team from Kasango’s family.
In tandem, police intervened, pursued the pickup, intercepted it, removed the body and handed it back to his wife’s family.
Kasango was jailed in 2018. He was serving 16 years sentence in jail over Shs15 billion pension funds by the Anti-Corruption Court. He was also involved in another high-profile case involving the Tooro Queen Mother Best Kemigisa at some point.
Kasango was sentenced alongside the former top Ministry of Public Service officials who include the former Permanent Secretary, Jimmy Lwamafa, Ministry Principal Accountant and the former Commissioner for the Compensation Department in the same ministry.
While in prison Kasango became a lecturer teaching law at prison, helped inmates to get international degrees from University of London. He continued to help inmates to convene and pray fellowship, get closer to God as he invited prison officials to communion with him and other inmates.
