A section members of Parliament are sadden by the death of their colleague who passed today morning in an accident together with his wife.
Serere County Member of Parliament Bishop Patrick Okabe and his wife have died in a motor accident.
Bishop Okabe was involved in a head-on collision with a Kenya truck registration number KCX 071K at Naboa along Mbale-Tirinyi road on Monday morning while driving with his wife to Kampala in his vehicle registration number UBK 995F.
Buvuma Islands Members of Parliament Robert Miggadde Ndugwa has described the Late Bishop Okabe a man who was truthful, the people of Serere, Parliament and the country will be greatly missed.
Tororo District Woman Representative Sarah Opendi 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 asks 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 says he will greatly be remembered for his determination to retire from shepherding the church and joining politics, he also says Late Okabe had a 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 the 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.
The Bukedi North police spokesperson said the legislator died on the spot whereas his wife, Christine Okabe was rushed to Mbale regional referral hospital in critical condition but later passed on.
The driver of the Land Cruiser only identified as Jacob remains in critical condition at Mbale regional referral hospital.
According to ASP Alaso the driver of the truck is currently on the run whereas investigations into the actual cause of the accident continue.
Meanwhile;
The accident barely a day after another accident along the Kampala-Masaka Highway on Sunday claimed the lives of four siblings.
The accident at Kayabwe saw a Toyota Fielder, registration number, UBL 270S in which the four siblings were traveling in hit a hump and later rammed into a Isuzu bus registration number UAW 561P belonging to Global Company Limited which was on its late moving to the direction of Masaka.
The four siblings died on the spot.
The festive season which combines both Christmas and new year’s day celebrations often sees a surge in accidents on Ugandan roads.
This often attributed to reckless driving, excitement, drunkardness and increase in the number of vehicles on the road.
Police say that during the festive season, many people who have for long not been driving hit the road and on many occasions cause accidents.
