Daily Monitor
Thursday May 27 2021
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On a brief visit to Uganda at the end of 1999, I met Jacob Oulanyah at a law office he shared with Norbert Mao at Equatoria Hotel.
Jacob whom I later met a few times with his late wife Dorothy Abner Nangwale at the Luzira home of Winnie Byanyima and her husband Kizza Besigye, was at a crossroads. Jacob was really unhappy with his friend/part mentor Norbert who had decamped to an outfit (whose name I cannot remember) led by Aggrey S. Awori and left him in the cold. Jacob had actually been a very good teacher of Legislative drafting at Law Development Centre. In his earlier years he had been a student leader, mature age entrant into Law School and if the past defines the future, he was quickly elected to Parliament in 2001.