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Daily Monitor
Monday July 05 2021
Inmates at Luzira Maximum Security Prison during a recent visit by military officers. PHOTO BY ALEX ESAGALA
Summary
This comes following rumours that the former Public Service principal accountant, Christopher Obey, who died in prison on Friday had died of Covid.
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The Prisons spokesperson, Mr Frank Baine, yesterday said congestion at the facilities was a recipe for disaster.
This comes following rumours that the former Public Service principal accountant, Christopher Obey, who died in prison on Friday had died of Covid.
However, Mr Baine said Obey,52, succumbed to complications related to pneumonia at Mulago Hospital.
MPs debate racial segregation against Ugandans at Luzira prison
Sunday May 09 2021
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Tooro representative in Legco said for persons of European origin or descent, there was Scale A. They had their food three times a day. At 6:30am, they had wheat made into porridge; they had sugar, salt and milk. At noon and 6:15pm, they had fresh meat free of bone, potatoes, vegetable, bread, butter and salt.
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This was not the first time that Parliament was discussing food and health conditions of prisoners.
It should be noted that in the 1950s, some prisoners at the Luzira Remand and Murchison Bay Prison, Luzira, had better meals than many free Ugandans.
Daily Monitor
Sunday March 07 2021
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In a country where people accused of murder, robbery, treason, defilement and terrorism regularly get bail I found the treatment of Bob depressing but also illuminating.
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On Saturday night, my best friend and brother, Robert Aldridge Kasango, died in Murchison Bay Hospital in Luzira Prison. The cause of death was heart failure. He was only 46 years. Bob did not have to die at this early age and in the way he did – alone and lonely, away from the care of his family and friends or competent doctors, in a prison hospital not equipped to handle his condition.
Widow blames Kasango's death on Judiciary, Prisons monitor.co.ug - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from monitor.co.ug Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.