Story by Osuta Yusuf.
Maracha District.
18-8-2025.
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During a memorial service attended by Thousands of people who gathered at Trinity Church of Uganda, Lamila, in Okokoro Town Council, Maracha Constituency, Maracha District on Saturday 16-8-2025, the late Rev. Can. Capt. Mannese Dramani has been remembered as a noble Citizen who used his position as a clergy to transform the communities in WestNile region through spreading the gospel of God, parenting and also sensitization to embrace education.
Born on 25-5-1933, to Mr Yosia Nyabgiri as the father and Mrs Lenura Tikiyo as the mother, Rev. Can. Capt. Mannese died on 11-August-2018 after months of suffering from Hypertension and Diabetes.
Click here on this link to watch the Live coverage on the Biography of the late Rev. Can. Capt. Mannese Dramani, during the memorial service on Saturday 16-8-2025.
He joined school at Otravu in 1942, and in the 1950s he worked as Untrained Teacher (UT) at Koyi primary school, later he enrolled for a certificate course as a Church teacher from which he graduated and worked for 2 years as a church teacher at St Phillips Church, before he went for Theology Studies in Kenya, upon which he graduated and returned back to work as a pastor at the same church.
Three years later, Rev Mannese went for further education and studied in various institutions in Zanzibar, Singapore among others.
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Mr Obeta Moses Drakua, MP Aspirant for Maracha Constituency, described the late Rev. Can. Capt. Mannese as a role model and mentor who spread Love, Care, Socialism and Parenting to everyone regardless of where they were from.
“Mannese was someone who would never keep silent and watch you go through challenges! He would ask you about the problem you are facing and he gives his solution about it”, Mr Obeta reiterated while tagging the late as a problem solver, a hardworking and generous man who didn’t watch others suffer in isolation.
Rev Ofutha Manwa, while reflecting on those years they worshiped Trees as gods until in the 1950s when he stopped worshipping it and elders were brought to curse him for such a blasphemy, noted that, it was Mannese Dramani who inspired him to abandon idle worshipping and resorted to worshipping the Almighty God.
Following the dedication of the late Mannese who academically empowered the girl-child and also advocated for education and parenting which resulted into many people in Maracha and WestNile embracing Education and becoming priests, the Maracha Constituency MP, Hon Oguzu Lee Denis who is also an Educationist, criticized some of the parents in this generation for focusing on sending girls into early marriages instead of sending them to school.
With some of the diseases like Hypertension and Diabetes that lately culminated into terminating the life of Rev. Can. Capt. Mannese, the area MP Hon Oguzu used this occasion to rally the public to participate in regular body checkups to have a healthy living.
Rev Asea Bosco who represented the bishop for Madi and WestNile Diocese as the main celebrant at the memorial service, explained that, in this World, people are remembered for two things; Bad or Good things.
“Even if you are a politician or a clergy or a Teacher or a VIP person but whatever you do every time doesn’t show righteousness, people will always remember you for the bad things you have done”, Rev Asea stated while pointing at the late Mannese as someone who acted and stood for the righteous things.
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