The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director, Dorothy Kisaka, has described the former Speaker of Parliament Rt Hon. Jacob Oulanyah, as a great leader who had great aspirations for the city.

Oulanyah 56, died on March 20, in Seattle US, where he had been taken for treatment.

 

On Wednesday Kisaka visited the NRM party headquarters where she signed the condolence book and paid tribute to the former Speaker.

She was received by the Secretary General Rt.Hon. Richard Awany Todwong before proceeding for a brief meeting attended by the Deputy SG Hon. Rose Namayanja Nsereko and the director for Communication, Hon. Emmanuel Lumala Dombo.

 

 

Kisaka said she has known Oulanyah for a very long time and first met him as a young lawyer, when he had opened his law firm.

“I've known his trajectory in the career as a lawyer, but in the political world it is in the administration of Parliament where we had occasions to meet and discuss the governance of the city. He had great aspirations for us in terms of passing the laws that enable us to do various things in the city,” Kisaka said.

 

Kisaka revealed that, even before Oulanyah became the Speaker of Parliament, he always offered to support the development of the city.

“All the discussions we had with him, he always promised to support the city. This was even before he actually became the Speaker, he was still the deputy but he kept saying we should support you to run the city,” Kisaka said.

 

Oulanyah’s body is expected back in the country on Friday April 1 and will be buried at his ancestral home in Omoro district on Friday April 8, 2022.

 

“We shall miss him because he was easy and reachable. He was a person you could easily interact with, a person who could tell you, what you're doing is right or what you're doing is wrong. He was very humorous, gathered people, and those aspects are very important in governance and we shall miss that about him,” Kisaka said.