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Teso Leaders Pledge To Uphold Bishop Ilukor’s Legacies

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By Emmanuel Okwii

Teso parliamentarians and leaders have pledged to uphold and reinforce the late Bishop Gershom Ilukor’s education and economic legacy saying that what he had done needed to be strengthened and rebuilt.  While speaking at the funeral ceremony of the late bishop at the weekend, the leaders said that education and development had been key priorities in the late bishop’s agenda and they would do more to promote the two in respect of him.

Hon. Christine Amongin Aporu who is the woman MP for Kumi and Teso affairs minister said that the late bishop worked hard to establish many schools in the area but more schools would be started and named after him.

“Although we currently have a school named after bishop Ilukor, it is very vital that another school be opened and named after him. Through him, we received quality education and the best gifts we can offer him in this farewell ceremony are more schools in his name,” Ms Amongin Aporu said.

Bishop Ilukor is said to have been an inspiration in the establishment of several institutions in Teso like Kumi University, Soroti University of science and Technology and many secondary schools. As a leader in his prime days, he was also prized for his role in promoting feeding in schools in Teso.

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A mourner adorns a 99% Teso and 1% Uganda T-shirt as a tribute to Bishop Ilukor

According to the retired bishop of Bukedi, Rev. Okile Nicodemus Engwalas, there was need for the Teso parliamentarians and leaders to do something to promote education in the area as little progress was being realized in the quality of education offered by Teso schools.

“In the days of Ilukor, professors from Teso were many but today they are countable and fast ageing. We only pray that people like professor Omaswa don’t die otherwise something must be done,” Bishop Okile said. He also encouraged leaders in Teso to promote education by telling their people to sell both cows and goats in order to send children to school.

On the same note, the Kumi district local government has proposed to name a road and health centre after the late bishop. This motion was proposed and passed in the hands of the Kumi district speaker, Mr Victor Opeede at the weekend.

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Disunity And Poor Performance Amongst Political Leaders Linked To Slow Development in Teso

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Members of the Kumi Mothers’ Union Pay their last respects to the Late Rev. Bishop Gershom Ilukor at St. Stephen Church of Uganda in KumiImage Teso members of parliament expressing their solidarity before the casket of the late Bishop Gershom Ilukor at st. Stephen COU, Kumi. They pledged to strengthen his economic abnd education legacies

By Emmanuel Okwii

Politicians in the Teso sub region have been blamed for poor political performance and disunity, factors that are said to have been retarding progress and development in the sub region in the last six decades.   This blame was voiced out by the retired bishop emeritus for Bukedi Diocese, Rev. Bishop Nicodemus Engwalas Okile.

While speaking at the funeral ceremony of the late Bishop Gershom Ilukor on Friday, Okile said that most politicians had abandoned their roles and instead left what they ought to have done in the hands of the church leaders in the area to effect.

“When the likes of Ecweru and Omeda were fighting in the bush those days, the task to save the people was left in the hands of people like the late Bishop Ilukor and me. You should not say that you were there unless you were in a vacuum,” Bishop Okile said. He also added that the same disunity which was still amongst political leaders in Teso was a factor retarding development in the area.

“The late and I have been greatly involved in bringing politicians in Teso to around table but we can’t continue doing this every time. You should promote unity and work harder for a better Teso,” Bishop Okile said

He said that he himself participated in peace negotiations between the government and UPA rebels while most prominent leaders in the area had gone to sleep.

“You politicians simply want to talk a lot but you are not active. Bishop Ilukor was involved in the supply of food to the arrow boys while you able-bodied leaders in Teso simply watched. This is not god for development,” Okile went on.

However, the Minster of Teso Affairs, Hon. Christine Amongin Aporu said that although there were still pockets of disunity amongst the leaders in the area, they as Teso parliamentarians  would work to promote peace and unity that the late bishop had often preached.

“We will promote what he started because he was not only a great adviser but a very good counselor to Teso parliamentarians,” Ms. Amongin Aporu said.

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Hon. Musa Ecweru speaking at the burial of the Late Gershom Ilukor in Kumi