The body of National Unity Platform-NUP attorney Anthony Wameli is anticipated to arrive in the country today.
Following his admission in September 2021, Wameli passed away from colon cancer at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, the United States, on February 8th, 2023.
Upon Wameli’s passing, word spread that his family was stranded and required 200 million Shillings to retrieve the remains.
It was reported that the family had only received 40 million shillings two weeks after his passing.
The body of the deceased is anticipated to arrive in the nation between 2 and 3 p.m. on Friday, March 3, according to Deacon Samuel Boloki, who spoke to reporters on Thursday morning at Ebenezer Faith Ministry in Kanyanya, a Church founded by Wameli.
He stated that Wameli’s body was brought back to the nation for funeral rites as a result of collaboration between the church, family, friends, and the NUP. He denied rumors that Wameli’s employer, the NUP, had deserted him.
Only a week prior, the NUP leadership declared that they were working to repatriate Wameli’s body despite the delay in the documentation required for the process. In Massachusetts, at a small church during a burial service, Party Secretary General Lewis Lubongoya revealed the information.
The remains will be carried to the NUP offices in Kamwokya for public viewing on Friday, according to Deacon Boloki, and then to Wameli’s home in Kyetume in the Mukono district for a night vigil.
The body will be carried to Ebenezer Faith Church in Kanyanya the next day, on Saturday, where a service will be held and the body will be viewed once more as relatives and friends honor Wameli’s life.
While Wameli was a lawyer, according to Pastor Moses Omony, he was first a pastor with a passion to help humanity. They are to carry out his vision for the church and humanity, he says.
Another church leader who has known Wameli for more than 18 years, Steven Kabalika, claims that Wameli’s legacy will continue as a preacher as well as a lawyer. He declares that the church will honor his life and give thanks to God for all he accomplished while serving.
He claims that Wameli left his position as a grade one magistrate in Nakasongola to come and save people because of such service. He claims that perhaps he found it difficult to reconcile his role as a churchman with his position as a magistrate who rendered decisions regarding individuals whom he afterwards discovered in prisons.
Wameli, who defended NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi in his Supreme Court case regarding the 2021 presidential election, has away at the age of 44. He was born on August 29, 1978. He attempted to get involved in politics by running for the Bubulo East parliamentary seat in the general elections of 2021, but he was unsuccessful.
In addition, he practiced human rights law through his firm, Wameli & Co, Advocates. In 2017, he gained notoriety for representing the accused in the slaying of former police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
Also, he represented Gen. Henry Tumukunde, a former presidential contender, incarcerated former accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister Geoffrey Kazinda, and Jamil Mukulu, the alleged head of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
The Uganda Law Society (ULS) Annual General Assembly selected Wameli as the criminal defense attorney of the year on September 10, 2021, and his business as the winning legal practice.
