MP Cerinah Nebanda's Burial halted.

Parliament yesterday evening stopped the on-going arrangements for the burial of deceased Butaleja Woman Member of Parliament Cerinah Nebanda until investigations into the cause of her death
are fully completed and a report ascertaining the cause of her death is produced.

The decision was reached by fellow Legislators after news that police had arrested the pathologist appointed by Nebanda's family and parliament Dr Sylvestre Onzivua, on his way to South Africa with the deceased's body organs set for further independent examination landed on to their ears.

Nebanda's body lays in State at Parliament yesterday.

Dr Onzivua was blocked by security operatives at Entebbe Airport and confiscated the samples. The MPs said police’s move compromised the investigations and want the process to be redone.

“We had agreed that in handling the death of our colleague, there should be a process which is not questionable so that the results which come are credible and the intention of having an independent analysis is also a tested principle,” said Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the lead Parliament representative in the investigations.

Although the Deputy Speaker, Mr Jacob Oulanyah had ruled that Nebanda’s body be taken to the Mulago School of Medicine, Cerinah’s mother, who was wailing calling out Gen. Kayihura’s name that he killed her daughter objected, saying she no longer trusted government.
The body was taken back to their home in Entebbe.

Contrary to the police explanation that the pathologist was smuggling Nebanda’s body parts illegally, Mr Baryomunsi told the House that the decision had been agreed on with the police bosses, government pathologists and the independent pathologist that obtained the samples during the post-mortem at Mulago hospital in the presence of the government chemists.