No funds to return Ugandans executed in China
New Vision - 26 minutes ago
Publish Date: Jul 02, 2014


By Francis Kagolo
Uganda's ambassador to China, Charles Wagidoso had said efforts are
being made to return the remains of the two men
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The ministry of foreign affairs has said they do not have funds to
return the remains of two Ugandan men executed in China over drug
trafficking.
The ministry said today that Government does not offer funds for
returning bodies of Ugandans who die from abroad. Andrew Ham Ngobi,
39, and Omer Ddamulira were executed on June 25, in the city of
Guangzhou over possession of cocaine worth $2.6m (about sh6.6b). Their
bodies were later cremated.
Sources at the Uganda mission in Beijing said that at the time of
arrest, Ddamulira was carrying 28kg of cocaine while Ngobi had 15kg.
Addressing the press in his office, the ministry publicist Fred Opolot
said they do not have funds to return the remains of the two men
because "financially it would be an extremely heavy burden" to budget
for such incidents.
"That is why we are engaging the bereaved families very closely to
ensure that they get back the remains of their people," he said. There
is an ongoing process to have bilateral agreements allowing transfer
of prisoners between Uganda and China. Even then, Opolot also
expressed pessimism whether the agreements would also cater for
'extremely dangerous" offenders like drug traffickers.
He made the remarks after meeting Ngobi's wife, Marriam Nabbanja, who
spent hours at the ministry seeking for ways of returning the remains
of her husband.
Nabbanja said Ngobi was a production manager in one of the local soda
companies. He started travelling to China when his uncle (name
withheld) introduced him a more lucrative business of importing
clothes and supplying them in Kampala.
On his third trip, on the fateful Friday October 8, 2010, Ngobi did
not return with his uncle. When he communicated with the wife on
January 30, 2011, he said he had embarked on another job in China and
that he was okay.
Nabbanja recounted spending close to nine months in 2011 without
knowledge of Ngobi's whereabouts until she inquired from the
International Police (Interpol) in Kampala.
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