PHOTO: Vice president Rtd. Maj. Jessica Rose Alupo addressing the mourners in Katakwi district.
KATAKWI: The Uganda’s Vice President Maj. Rtd. Jessica Rose Alupo has urged teens to pay attention to their elderly and accord them respect to ensure a civilized society.
She highlighted this remarks during the funeral service of renowned civil servant, Ketula Mary Onyait in Aelenyang village, Aliakamer Parish, Katakwi Subcounty in Katakwi district where she currently serves as a woman member of parliament.
Late Onyait died at the age of 90-years after succumbing to hypertension and Kidney related complications which led to Cardiac arrest at Mulago national hospital on Thursday this week.
The Vice president voiced that youths must ‘look back’ and appreciate senior citizens for what they have achieved in service of their country and in return help and care for them.
PHOTO: Vice president laying wreath to the body of late Ketula Mary Onyait at Aelenyang Village in Katakwi.
In her brief, she explained the society can only get civilizes when the young people bow down to the elderly and show that we appreciate them by helping and being there for them.
She stressed back to the African traditional society where the elderly people were rich sources of experience and valuable assets of the national coexistence, therefore youths should seek guidance from them.
“We owe it to these individuals for their hard work. If not (for them), we wouldn’t be here today living a better life.” she quoted.
She implored schools, teachers and parents to enrich their children with the culture of paying tribute to senior citizens for their services to the country.
Alupo eulogized the deceased as a very close friend to their family and an educationist who educated all her 13 children until they finished the education cycle without discrimination. “Our parents were close as family and as children we used to play and shared a lot together when my father was the head teacher of Aputon Primary School,” she said.
She challenged mourners to educate both girl and boy children without any discrimination against age, sex, tribe or race saying if it’s not education they wouldn’t be who they are now.
PHOTO: Vice President Rtd. Mej. Jessica Rose Alupo with mourners paying last tributes to the late Ketula Mary Onyait at Aelenyang Village in Katakwi..
The vice president asked the locals to embrace government programs geared at fighting household poverty such as the parish development model, youth livelihood programs, Emyooga and Operation wealth creation among others. She reaffirmed government commitment towards the provision of social services including roads, hospitals, electricity, construction of schools and boreholes to provide clean and safe water among others.
Alupo tipped mourners on the release of the 2026 general elections road map by electoral commission as she asked them to vote wisely during the on coming polls.
While presiding over funeral service, the Anglican Bishop Emeritus Charles Bernard Obaikol asked youths to support their parents with a view that they would live longer.
“Let’s look after our parents and provide for them. Let them eat greens because this will make their lives better and live longer,” Obaikol noted.
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