His son Robinson Kaunda and other family members had scheduled on Saturday to bury Okoya at his home in Latyeng village, Agonga Parish in Bungatira Sub-county, Gulu District according to his son.
Okoya died on July 13 at his home in Awere Cell in Pece-Laroo Division in Gulu City after months of battling prostate cancer. He was 99 years old. His body has since been lying at the Fourth Infantry Division military morgue in Gulu City pending burial.
A section of Ugandans who battled rebel leader Alice Lakwena have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament over delayed compensation for their role in stopping the rebel.
At Corner Kilak, 33 years ago on January 18th 1987, government forces, the then National Resistance Army soldiers [NRA] launched a retaliatory attack against fighters of Alice Auma Lakwena, the former leader of the Holy Spirit Movement.
