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Relatives of the late Francis Onapito Ekomoloit, say they cannot issue a burial programme until they have fulfilled his death wishes that include building a mausoleum and embalming him in a special way.

Addressing the burial organizing committee members at the weekend, Dr Joyce Ikwaput Nyeko, Onapito’s elder sister, said before he was sedated to be taken into the Intensive Care Unit at Kampala Hospital last Friday, he asked his family members to ensure engineers he contracted to design and build his grave, execute the assignment as he had instructed and also told the doctors to treat his body in a way that it will not decompose very fast and they should maintain his facial features.

“He wanted a mausoleum built for him and our burial grounds to be extended. He gave instructions to the engineer how to build it. I have not seen the design but I spoke to the engineer and he said he needs 21 days to have it the proper way the late wanted it. The engineer started work yesterday [Friday],” she said.

Asked when he was contracted and at what cost, Dr Nyeko said she did not have the details.

However, she said during previous family gatherings at home, Onapito always talked of modernising their family burial grounds but on Friday, before he was sedated, he reminded them about it and also told the family members to ensure his body is treated in the way he instructed them because he died like a person sleeping and he wished he could remain like that for people viewing him.

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