By Mulengera Reporters
Getu Adit, a 78-year-old widow based in Kole district’s Otangula village Aye Sub County, is up in arms against a group of her own children led by Michael Ambrose Opio who is a Pastor at Luzira-based Pentecostal Truth Evangelistic Fountain Church, besides being the Programmes Director at NGO Care International Uganda.
Mzee Adit was the mother of Florence Akilu Aloi, a URA staff for 30 years, who died mid-March last year. She had no children nor spouse yet she left a lot of property comprising of a posh residential house in Namugongo-Nsawo cell in Kyaliwajjala ward. Others included plot 67 in Busiro, plot 68 Kiwanga, land in Lira West Division, land in Kole district, another land in Lira City and vehicles. She also had savings with NSSF, shares in Stanbic bank and money with the URA SACCO.
Mzee Adit says that upon her daughter’s death, after hospitalization at IHK Hospital in Kampala where her sister Christine Aloi took good care of her, her own son Michael Ambrose Opio and other siblings confronted her and demanded that she hands over the Shs15m URA had given to cater for burial arrangements. One of the deceased’s cars, Fielder UBM 803A, was also demanded.
Christine Aloi, believed to have a lot of personal information and secrets, having been very close to the deceased, was also harangued and molested a lot by the Opio group even before Florence Akilu was buried. This conduct shocked the old woman who expected her surviving children to be pulling in the same direction during bereavement.
Within that bereavement period, two antagonistic camps emerged among Mzee Adit’s children. The Opio group had the likes of Jennifer Aloi, Patrick Boniface Okello, Evelyn Aloi, Susan Achola, Peter Omara and Beatrice Aloi. The other group, allied to their elderly mother, had Agnes Ayugi, Christine Aloi and Esther Kadito Aloi.
After Akilu’s burial on 16th March 2024, the deceased’s siblings convened a meeting on 17th the following day from which the old lady Adit was excluded. She was instead dehumanized by way of being locked up in the house.
Days later it emerged that the Namugongo-Nsawo house, which the deceased willed becomes her mum’s, had been broken into and subsequently SD/80/04/04/2024 was opened up at Kira Police.
Police subsequently inquired into the conduct and interest of Pastor Opio’s group members regarding the Namugongo property. Subsequently, the Opio group members began living in the Namugongo house claiming they had nowhere else to live.
Letters of administration were later on obtained through Court with the involvement of the Administrator General. The administrators of the estate were Beatrice Aloi, Christine Aloi and Mzee Adit herself.
The trio proceeded to (on 24th March 2025) file an inventory of the estate with the Family Division of the High Court. They proceeded to distribute the property as was willed by the deceased.
Even after all this distribution, the Opio group members stayed put in the Namugongo house while depriving Mzee Adit (their mother to whom it had been bequeathed without any dispute). This went on even after the impugned property had been transferred and registered in the old lady’s name!
Adit’s lawyers, Odoo & Company Advocates last month wrote to the lawyers of the Opio group members (Jjingo, Ssempijja & Co Advocates) protesting this unfair treatment. Reference was made to family meetings of 23rd June 2024 and the events of 17th October 2024.
The Opio group lawyers say there is no dispute the Namugongo property is Adit’s who has curiously stayed away from the same for some good time.
Currently, some of Adit’s grandchildren, loyal to the Pastor Opio group, are living in the house and thereby preventing Mzee Adit from having effective access and quiet possession. Pastor Opio says there is a clear record showing who got what under the memorandum of understanding all beneficiaries, including Adit, agreed upon and executed.
He also says their fallen sister’s benefits from URA came through the Absa bank account and were transparently distributed. He denies wrongdoing whatsoever. That 50% of the benefits from URA was given to their mother Adit and 30% to the nine siblings as the remaining 20% was dispensed on tithes and other relevant expenses as was desired by the deceased. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
