Unique: Late Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia (Aged 109) Saved 4M Shs for His Funeral.

Story by Osuta Yusuf.
Maracha District.

📸: Clergy blesses the body of the deceased Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia.

In a unique twist of events at the funeral of Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia in Maracha District, residents were both shocked and amused after it was revealed that the deceased Mzee Nyomia, while he was still alive, saved 4M Shs cash in preparation for his funeral.

📸: Procession for the burial of the bereaved Mr Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia.

Born in 1916 in Batiku Ambidro clan, Kulu Hill village, Kakwa Parish, Kijomoro Sub-county, Maracha Constituency in Maracha District, Mr Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia died on Saturday 10-May-2025 after battling Hypertension and Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) for long, and he was buried on Tuesday 13-5-2025 in his ancestral home.

📸: Orphans of the late Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia. Photo by Our Reporter.

A family member who presented the shocking revelation to the mourners stated that, when their father was still alive though bedridden, he leaked to him that he had saved somewhere a cash money of 4M Shs for His Funeral but warned anyone not to search and touch the money when he is still alive.
"When I was with our father, he told me, he has saved some money for his funeral, and the money should only be searched in the house after he has died", the family representative stated as he stressed that, when their father died, he called his other brothers and when they to search the money in the house their father was staying in, they dug the walls of the building and found their father had tied in polythene bags 50,000 Shs cash notes totaling to 4M shs.

📸: Sheik Adam Kassim, County Khadi for Maracha Muslim County. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter.

The county Khadi for Maracha Muslim County, Sheik Adam Kassim, who described Alcohol as 7 urines of the devil, used this funeral to advise people to deter themselves from drinking alcohol if they are to live long like the deceased Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia.

📸: Hon Obitre Stephen, LC5 Chairperson for Maracha District. 

Maracha District LC5 Chairperson, Hon Obitre Stephen eulogized late Nyomia as an environmentalist who spent most of his life on earth to plant trees.
Tracing the Lugbara cultural norms of those years, where girls weren't allowed and encouraged to go to school but rather kept home to be married off, the LC5 Hon Obitre applauded the late for having closed his eyes and ears in those years and insisted on paying the school fees of his daughters.

📸: Deputy Medical Director at Ovujo Hospital, Dr Jacob Tevio addressing the mourners. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter.

Deputy Medical Director for St Joseph's Hospital Ovujo, Dr Jacob Tevio, who read the medical report about his death, was amazed by the age and lifestyle Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia might have lived, which prolonged his life on earth.
“I have realized, Most times patients who are above 70 years of age and brought to me for treatment, are people who didn't go to school and they might have been hard-working throughout their lives”, Dr Jacob insinuated while rallying the mourners and the public to change their lifestyles which are likely the causes of early deaths amongst the current generation.
Apparently, 63 years is the life expectancy in Uganda.

📸: Enzama Francis who represented Hon Driwaru Jennifer.

Mr Enzama Francis, who represented Woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer at the funeral, thanked the late Mzee Nyomia for having educated people without discrimination on disability, parenthood, or gender.

📸: PWD Mr. Drapari Dicky Nyomia, whom the late Mzee Nyaku Loronzio Nyomia paid in school.

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