Police to summon Bobi Wine, Baryomunsi, Kiwanda over Oulanyah poison claims

Police have said they intend to summon National Unity Platform (NUP) principal, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, minister for ICT and national guidance, Chris Baryomunsi, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) vice chairman for central Uganda, Godfrey Kiwanda, among others for questioning over alleged claims that the deceased Speaker of the 11th Parliament Jacob Oulanyah was poisoned.
Others police intend to summon include, Dokolo South MP Felix Okot Ogong, Kilak South MP Gilbert Olanya, Northern Uganda based musician Bosmic Otim, bloggers and Oulanyah’s father Nathan Okori who reiterated during his son’s burial last Friday that he (Oulanyah) told him that he was poisoned.

Police summons Oulanyah’s father, Bobi Wine, Kiwanda over poison claims

Police have said they are preparing summons for a number of people including the deceased’s father Nathan Okori, NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine and NRM Vice chairman for Buganda region, Godfrey Kiwanda among other individuals over allegations that former speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah was poisoned.
Police have said they have prepared summons for a number of people including the deceased’s father Nathan Okori, NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine and NRM Vice chairman for Buganda region, Godfrey Kiwanda among other individuals over allegations that former speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah was poisoned.

“We are therefore summoning all those persons with other causes of death including poisoning for further interview and statement recording. These will include Hon. Godfrey Kiwanda Ssuubi who also mentioned Hon.Chris Baryomunsi, Hon. Gilbert Olanya, Hon. Santa Okot, Hon Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, mzee Nathan Okori and Bosmic Otim,”police spokesperson Fred Enanga told journalists on Monday.
The list, he said will also include selected Acholi cultural leaders and bloggers.
Deceased Oulanyah’s father told mourners on Friday that he is sure his son was poisoned.

“I am not mourning in vain. I want to state clearly that Jacob was poisoned. He told me and that he was operated as doctors attempted to deal with poison. It affected his health so badly and by time he as flown out he was not in position to recover,”Okori told mourners on Friday during the burial in Lalogi.

The NRM Vice chairperson for Buganda, Godfrey Kiwanda Ssuubi on Saturday said while appearing on the Capital Gang that Oulanyah had confided to him that he had been poisoned shortly after election as speaker last year.

“He invited me to his home and I found him in bed. He was very ill. He told me, Godfrey I was poisoned but dont tell anybody. He told me it was around that time when I had just won the speakership,”Kiwanda said adding that he later told the same to minister for ICT, Dr.Chris Baryomunsi.

However, on Monday, the police spokesperson explained that medical reports from Ugandan, Germany and US hospitals where Oulanyah was attended to never indicated that there was anything related to poison in his illness and subsequent death and insisted the former speaker died of multiple organ failure as indicated in the medical report read by the Health Minister, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng.

According to Enanga, the individuals targeted with summons will have to furnish police with evidence to prove their poison claims, contrary to official medical reports.

“In any allegation of death by poison, identification of poisonous samples in the body is crucial. According to the medical report, there was no trace of any poisonous samples in the body. Therefore, any other cause of death beyond the medical reports will be treated as a dangerous speculation that must be avoided.”

He insisted that that the group will furnish police with any form of evidence they have to prove their allegations.

President Museveni a few weeks ago warned that police would go after anyone who is making allegations of poisoning in Oulanyah’s death.

“The police will come and ask you to give them some information because Oulanyah did not die in a private home. Police are going to come and ask you to tell us because you seem to have information. We cannot go on with this indiscipline. It’s not constructive at all, especially from some people who are educated and claim to be leaders. We are going to go for them,”Museveni warned

Acholi after Jacob Oulanyah
What you need to know:

Just when the Acholi were starting to bask in the limelight of the former commander of Uganda’s peacekeeping contingent in Somalia, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, he died suddenly in 2021 of a relatively short and minor illness that puzzled many.
The later Speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, was laid to rest on Friday at his ancestral home in Omoro District.
It ended two months in which from the time he was flown to a hospital in the US city of Seattle in early February to the state funeral in early April, much was discussed, argued over, eulogised, asserted and contested in the public sphere.

Speaking at the state funeral at Kololo in Kampala on Thursday, President Museveni chided those who portrayed Oulanyah as an Acholi politician when he was a national leader
To respond to President Museveni, it’s true that Oulanyah was the Speaker of the national assembly. However, in public life interest and focus of discussion tend to move on quite fast to the next topic and personality.

Only within one’s immediate and extended family and sometimes among one’s clan, circle of close friends and tribe do the memories and the pain linger on much longer.

What next for Acholi

Long after Oulanyah has left the front pages of national newspapers, he will still be reflected upon and memorialised in his home area of Acholi.

There has been mourning both for the loss of Oulanyah as an individual and collectively for Acholi as a political and cultural entity
Most journalists and political analysts view most offices in the NRM government as largely symbolic without any real powers, but that’s not how the holders of these offices are viewed in Acholi.

Acholi culture places great emphasis on public service and the visibility of public office.

Just to be a former permanent secretary in a government ministry is enough to have a road named after one in Gulu.
Therefore, it can only be imagined what position Oulanyah will retain in the cultural and historical memory of Acholi for years to come.

The Acholi as a people right now are returning to a feeling of isolation from the national power centre.

The Acholi find themselves in a strikingly similar position as their Luo cousins in western Kenya.
Since independence in 1963, the Luo have felt increasingly short-changed in national politics. Kenya’s Luo feel that they are the victims of a bias against their ethnicity and a determination to see to it that Kenya never gets a Luo president.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a Luo from the Nyanza province, agreed to make way for Jomo Kenyatta to lead the country to independence, only for Kenyatta’s Kikuyu tribe to take advantage of this and dominate Kenyan public life for the next decade and a half.

At some point, Odinga was even jailed by the Kenyatta government.

The second most prominent Luo in Kenya and a rising star on the African stage, foreign minister Tom Mboya, was shot dead in 1969 under mysterious circumstances.

Nearly 21 years later in 1990, another prominent Luo and also foreign minister Robert Ouko also died under suspicious circumstances.

This left Jaramogi Odinga’s son, Raila Odinga, as the most prominent Luo figure for the next 30 years, but who each time he took a shot at the presidency, a new tribal coalition between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin denied Odinga victory.

Like Uganda’s Acholi, many roads in Kisumu, Kenya’s Luo-dominated city along the shores of Lake Victoria are named after Luo who held mid-ranking public offices.
Every Luo of some prominence is viewed as important, a historical figure.

This is what it has felt like to the Acholi since the late 1960s.

Then highest ranking Acholi military officer, Brig Perino Okoya, was gunned down at his home outside Gulu in 1970.

When Idi Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971, toppling then president Milton Obote, the Acholi bore the brunt of purges by Amin’s regime and a large number fled into exile.

In 1985, the two most prominent Acholi military leaders, army commander Lt Gen Tito Okello and Maj Gen Bazillio Okello came to power in a military coup that ousted Obote.
People & Power
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Acholi after Jacob Oulanyah
Sunday, April 10, 2022

By Timothy Kalyegira
What you need to know:
Just when the Acholi were starting to bask in the limelight of the former commander of Uganda’s peacekeeping contingent in Somalia, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, he died suddenly in 2021 of a relatively short and minor illness that puzzled many.
The later Speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, was laid to rest on Friday at his ancestral home in Omoro District.

It ended two months in which from the time he was flown to a hospital in the US city of Seattle in early February to the state funeral in early April, much was discussed, argued over, eulogised, asserted and contested in the public sphere.

Speaking at the state funeral at Kololo in Kampala on Thursday, President Museveni chided those who portrayed Oulanyah as an Acholi politician when he was a national leader.

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To respond to President Museveni, it’s true that Oulanyah was the Speaker of the national assembly. However, in public life interest and focus of discussion tend to move on quite fast to the next topic and personality.

Only within one’s immediate and extended family and sometimes among one’s clan, circle of close friends and tribe do the memories and the pain linger on much longer.

What next for Acholi

Long after Oulanyah has left the front pages of national newspapers, he will still be reflected upon and memorialised in his home area of Acholi.

There has been mourning both for the loss of Oulanyah as an individual and collectively for Acholi as a political and cultural entity.

Most journalists and political analysts view most offices in the NRM government as largely symbolic without any real powers, but that’s not how the holders of these offices are viewed in Acholi.

Acholi culture places great emphasis on public service and the visibility of public office.

Just to be a former permanent secretary in a government ministry is enough to have a road named after one in Gulu.

Therefore, it can only be imagined what position Oulanyah will retain in the cultural and historical memory of Acholi for years to come.

The Acholi as a people right now are returning to a feeling of isolation from the national power centre.

The Acholi find themselves in a strikingly similar position as their Luo cousins in western Kenya.

READ: The desecration of Jacob Oulanyah

Since independence in 1963, the Luo have felt increasingly short-changed in national politics. Kenya’s Luo feel that they are the victims of a bias against their ethnicity and a determination to see to it that Kenya never gets a Luo president.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a Luo from the Nyanza province, agreed to make way for Jomo Kenyatta to lead the country to independence, only for Kenyatta’s Kikuyu tribe to take advantage of this and dominate Kenyan public life for the next decade and a half.

At some point, Odinga was even jailed by the Kenyatta government.

The second most prominent Luo in Kenya and a rising star on the African stage, foreign minister Tom Mboya, was shot dead in 1969 under mysterious circumstances.

Nearly 21 years later in 1990, another prominent Luo and also foreign minister Robert Ouko also died under suspicious circumstances.

This left Jaramogi Odinga’s son, Raila Odinga, as the most prominent Luo figure for the next 30 years, but who each time he took a shot at the presidency, a new tribal coalition between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin denied Odinga victory.

Like Uganda’s Acholi, many roads in Kisumu, Kenya’s Luo-dominated city along the shores of Lake Victoria are named after Luo who held mid-ranking public offices.

Every Luo of some prominence is viewed as important, a historical figure.

This is what it has felt like to the Acholi since the late 1960s.

Then highest ranking Acholi military officer, Brig Perino Okoya, was gunned down at his home outside Gulu in 1970.

When Idi Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971, toppling then president Milton Obote, the Acholi bore the brunt of purges by Amin’s regime and a large number fled into exile.

In 1985, the two most prominent Acholi military leaders, army commander Lt Gen Tito Okello and Maj Gen Bazillio Okello came to power in a military coup that ousted Obote.

ALSO: Inside Oulanyah’s battle with cancer

Barely had the Acholi began to enjoy state power than the Okellos were toppled six months later by Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army.

For the next 20 years, Acholi was the scene of a bitter and traumatic civil war involving various remnants of the defunct national army, the UNLA.

From scorched earth operations by Museveni’s army to displacement in camps and brutal attacks on civilians by both Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army and the national army, Acholi endured two decades of an existential threat to its very being.

Just when the Acholi were starting to bask in the limelight of the former commander of Uganda’s peacekeeping contingent in Somalia, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, he died suddenly in 2021 of a relatively short and minor illness that puzzled many.

Like Gen Lokech in the prime of his life, just months into his role as Speaker of Uganda’s national assembly, Oulanyah also dies
At best, it feels like too much bad luck trailing them a bit too coincidentally for 36 years, hence all the conspiracy theories around the deaths of Lokech and Oulanyah.

As explained in Sunday Monitor of March 27, this is why every Acholi who rises to any public office of prominence is looked up to by the Acholi.

A stray lion was on Friday afternoon shot dead after mauling and injuring four people, including a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier, in Mpeefu Sub-county, Kagadi District.

The male lion, weighing about 30 Kilogrammes, was gunned down during a joint operation of Uganda police, UPDF and Uganda Wildlife Authority officials.

One of the injured victims, Mr Nabasa Tumusiime, was rushed to Kagadi Hospital in critical condition.

The victim’s wife, Ms Tushemerirwe Katusiime, said the lion found her husband on his way to the garden.

‘‘I was in the garden when I heard news that my husband had been attacked by an animal. It ripped of his arms and flesh from his thighs. He is in a critical condition,’’ Ms Katusiime said.

The Kagadi District Police Commander, ASP Moses Muziima Kiconco, said the lion was also killing animals.

Lt Col Samuel Lubega, the commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Battalion, said there was an intense pursuit of the lion, which characterised the use of live bullets.

Mpeefu Sub-county is near Muziizi forest and Lake Albert in Kagadi. Straying of lions is not common in the district, according to locals.

According to Uganda Wildlife Authority, globally, large carnivores are facing population declines as the ever growing human population reduces habitable landscapes.

THE POISONING OF RT.JACOB OULANYAH

Jacob Oulanya knew what he was battling.

The larger question was why there was a coordinated operation for a cover up.

We should be discussing poisoning as a tool of political elimination.

Where the State would be helpful is to assist in establishing the type of poison and whether such deadly poison is in the hands of simply and petty political criminal actors.

There was poison used by the Israeli State against the leader of HAMAS in Jordan.

Certainly such poisons are in the hands of the State.

Is it the type that nocked down Oulanya?

Germany is known to be thorough in battling such deadly poison.

Is it therefore the reason why most folks had hit here are rushed to Germany?

I know of many friends who survived poison and the poison was seized by the victims, the intended targets.
Certainly the State, if it was not the source of such poison had the opportunity to study the poison and the entire network that poison people.

Hon Jack Sabiiti, Mugisha Muntu and Ben Wacha survived the poison as the operator being a Langi decided to save Wacha.
The poison was handed over to the Speaker etc and had been served at the Parliamentary canteen.

Let the NRA update the country on the progress of the investigations.

David Pulkor survived poison executed same style.

I have not gotten clearance from Pulkor to discuss the detail.

We always discuss poison casually.

The good news is those who procured poison will swallow it themselves and see how they will thank God for the innovation of poison.

It’s the political elite that are indulged in the cover up of the #alnakba poison covert operations.

It’s good news for humanity that we bury them as victims of poison.

Peasants are for bullets, Panga Squads etc.

Political elites would exploits funeral assemblies for political mobilisation.

Now it’s time for Peasants to exploit funerals for these political elites for meat and other diet considerations.

OJesus Christ avers Repent and or perish.
Rwomushana [former Spy ]

Oulanyah told me too that he was poisoned, says NRM’s Kiwanda

The former minister for tourism and ruling NRM Vice Chairperson for the Central region, Kiwanda Godfrey Ssuubi, has also disclosed that the late Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, told him that he was poisoned.

While appearing on Capital FM’s #TheCapitalGang show this morning, Kiwanda said that though Oulanyah has other underlying illnesses, the fact that he was poisoned should not be ruled out.

“Yes, he told me that he was poisoned, and he asked me not to tell anyone. However, I disclosed it to Hon Chris Baryomunsi, “said Kiwanda.

He added, “His condition worsened in the last 4-5 months. We also cannot rule out the fact that he was poisoned just because he had other underlying illnesses.”

Kiwanda’s revelations come a day after Nathan L’Okori, the father of Oulanyah, insisted that his son did not die of natural causes but rather was poisoned.

“I’m not mourning in vain. I want to say it clearly. Jacob was poisoned. He told me. The poison affected his health so much that by the time he was flown out for treatment, it was too late. He could not recover,” said L’Okori during the son’s burial ceremony at Lalogi, Omoro District yesterday.

However, earlier this week, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng stated that Oulanyah died of multiple organ failure as he has been battling cancer for a number of years

HON ODONGA OTTO PAYS TRIBUTE TO FORMER SPEAKER OF 11TH PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA 🇺🇬 RT.HON Jacob Oulanyah.

RT.HON.JACOB OULANYAH A MAN OF CHARISMA HUMOUR IN TIMES OF DISTRESS.

I first met the Late Rt.Hon.Jacob Oulanyah in 1995 at that time I was in Advanced level and a volunteer in an NGO founded by father the late James Otto.(R.I.P)Human Rights Focus.
The NGO would organise human rights workshops and seminars at the height of the LRA insurgency.
This is the platform the made leaders like Hon.Nobert Mao, Hon.Reagan Okumu and the late Rt.Hon.Jacob OULANYAH. They were invited by my late father as resource persons.
In one of the sessions in Gulu District Council hall the crowd broke in tears as Hon.Oulanyah was presenting a paper. There was a standoff until calm was restored.
One elder the late Tiberio Okeny Atwoma shot up and said “oulanyah you are our real son our icon remove the “h” from your name that is not how it’s spelt”.

Later in1996 we had another similar workshop in Kitgum and I remember vividly one December when returning from kitgum in a lorry truck myself, Hon. Oulanyah and his late wife Dorothy who was then pregnant were all behind the truck ,me and Hon.Oulanyah standing and worriedly looking ahead for 115kms incase of the rebels attacked ,that would have been an ultimate sacrifice from Hon. Jacob and wife, all in the name of helping the people of acholi.

RT.HON.OULANYAH AND HUMOUR:
let me spend the rest of this piece espousing the most hilarious moments I had in company of the late, life can go but memories live forever.
1.When planning for the 2006 elections I was with the late in the committee of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs he was the committee chairman then .As we walk to the main parliamentary lobby there is a notorious signpost at the entrance of the lobby written: “ENTRY RESTRICTED TO STAFF AND MPS ONLY”
Hon.Oulanyah pointed at the metallic poster and said to me. “hon.otto we have to work hard and ensure that signpost does not apply to us in the future ..that signpost is very dangerous”
Indeed the sign was and is dangerous it applied to him in 2006 and later applied to me in 2021.But its all Gods timing.

2. During the Interparliamentary games in Arusha Tanzania about 2004 there was a near to fist fight between team Uganda and Tanzania. It started in a bar when an MP Hon.Alituma Nsambu jokingly told a Tanzanian MP that Tanzanians did not liberate Uganda in 1979 they only left children in Uganda.
   A fight nearly ensured as the Tanzania MP couldnt stand those words. Ugandan MPs in their noisy fashion of fighting while alulating sent Tanzanian MPs on their heals followed by the hotel club wielding massai guards out of the hotel.
   The mood was tense Tanzania police showed up ,diplomacy led by our ministers the late Hon. Kiberigye Sebunya failed .
   Hon Oulanyah who was not around but heard the noise came and requested to talk to team Uganda privately. We went to a nearby room in the then 777 roomed Saba Saba hotel. The room was stiltly queit Hon.Oulanyah stood in front and said “hon members I want all of you to clap your hands” the clap started one MP after another and the clap spread to the the entire room .
   “Just keep clapping” Hon.Oulanyah roared.
   There was one MP representing Persons With Disabilities Hon.Hood Katuramu who had one hand and was not clapping .
   Oulanyah said “Hood ” while looking at him. Hon.hood had to lift his one hand and thumped his chest. Everyone burst into the laughter.
   “You should be happy atleast you can still clap, there are those who can’t clap in this world “. The problem was solved we returned to the meeting and embarrassed Tanzanians and everything normalised.
   I am sad today he can’t clap again.
   3.In 2011,I was nominated by the Opposition caucus to run for Deputy Speaker of Parliament,before my candidature Hon. Oulanyah was unopposed.I bumped into him at the national theater entrance of parliament.He walked to me and said “Hon.otto was is this again this thing was mine you have come up again to run against me I have really been through alot I recently even lost my wife “
   I felt so guilty turned told him and said you will definitely win my chances of winning are not there. We laughed it off and he went ahead distrusting his posters. He later won with a landslide victory of over 360 votes. I was even surprised I got 61 votes against such a personality.
   4.After losing the elections 2006 Hon.Jacob met me and asked what strategy he should use to come back to parliament? I told him to join FDC and to talk well to Hon. Reagan Okumu who was then the “king maker” In the region.
   Hon.Oulanyah replied I can’t join FDC “even a mad man was elected in gulu under the FDC ticket to be LC1 chairman just because he was carrying the “key” symbol .After the election the mad man ran home and told his family members that “can you imagine this mad people of FDC elected me “
   We burst into laughter.

The mad man was surprised that the party members didn’t care about his madness but cared about who was carrying the key .
I asked him laughingly who the mad man was? He mattered and pondered and answered “he is called ojoko”
I left with laugging tears.
5.The last memory happened when he nominated me for an official Parliamentary trip to Togo he was then the Deputy Speaker .
One evening while in Togo I walked to his room and found him fixing a machine in his shoes. I asked him if he had problems with his shoes and if he needed my help or we go and buy another one.

He paused fixing the machine looked at me and said “this machine is for stretching shoes I want when I put on the shoes tommorow it would be properly streched and I will be smart”
I asked him if he had carried that stretching machine all the way from Uganda he said ” yes ,being smart is a full time proffesion”
I was amazed . He was always very smart and tidy.That was no coincidence but personal effort.
These are great memories.
In my own words If I am to describe the late Hon. Oulanyah in a sentence I would say “a charismatic personality ,self motivated that in times of distress brings rhythm to live,He leaves an aura wherever and whenever he passes and to whoever he meets”
It is a life well lived though short.
Death is the biggest mystery to humanity just like life.
Death is a journey one has to make alone, even when you die together in big numbers the departure is still alone.
A recent research from one of the leading universities in the world found that “one out of every one person dies”.
I will miss you Jacob.
Restis in pacem.
Hon.Odonga otto

PICTURE: H.E Yoweri Kaguta, the Museveni President of Uganda and his compatriot H.E Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda met shortly before both witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Accession by the Democratic Republic of Congo to the East African Community at State House, Nairobi.

WHO IS RT.HON.JACOB OULANYAH

Jacob Oulanyah was a Ugandan Politician who served as the Speaker of Parliament of Uganda the highest legislative body in the country from May 2021 up to his death in March 2022. He also served as the MP Omoro County MP and Speaker of Parliament.
Early Life and Education of Jacob Oulanyah
Born in then Gulu District 23 March 1965, Jacob Oulanyah is a son to L’okori and Karen Atwon.

His name Oulanyah means winner. He was born in a grass thatched mud house that had a floor that would be smeared with cow dung.
He joined Lalongi Primary School for his Primary Education, then St. Joseph College Layibi, Dr. Obote College Boroboro for his O Level education and Kololo Secondary School for his A Level.
He joined Makerere University in 1988 and graduated in 1991 with Bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics. He entered the law school in the same year at Makerere University graduating in 1994 with Bachelor of Laws.
In 1995 he was admitted at Law Development Centre (LDC) where he was awarded with Postgraduate diploma in legal practice.

Career
Teaching Career & Legal practice.
Upon his graduation at Law Development Centre, Jacob Oulanyah was retained at the institution as a lecturer.
At the same time he started his legal practice at the law firm known as Oulanyah, Onoria & Company Advocates.
Political Career of Jacob Oulanyah

Jacob Oulanyah served as the speaker of the guild council at his time at Makerere University.
He joined active politics in 2001 where he contested for the parliamentary seat of Omoro County in Gulu. A cardholder of UPC, Jacob Oulanyah managed to win the seat under the non party movement system of 2001 elections in Uganda.

He was appointed the Chairman Legal and parliamentary affairs committee in 2005 that handled the Constitutional Amendment Bill which proposed the removal of presidential term limits.
Upon the return of multiparty politics in Uganda in 2006 elections, Oulanyah contested again for Omoro Country Member of Parliament but lost.
Oulanyah was part of government representatives who participated in talks with Joseph Kony to bring peace to Northern Uganda which had been devastated by a 20 year Civil War of Lord’s Resistance Army.
Upon losing the re-election bid, Oulanyah dumped UPC for NRM.

He served as the Chairman of the commission of inquiry into the controversial sub-lease of Kisekka Market a popular market in the Kampala Central Business District.
Jacob Oulanyah presented himself once again before electorates in 2011 and was elected back to parliament representing Omoro County on the NRM Ticket.
He was elected as Deputy Speaker of Parliament on May 19, 2011 a position that he maintained up to May 2021 (after a re-election in May 2016).

In 2011, Oulanyah for the first time joined NRM Central Executive Committee CEC as Vice Chairperson Northern Uganda region.
Upon re-election for the Omoro Country MP seat in 2016, Jacob Oulanyah was also re-elected as a deputy speaker of parliament getting 300 votes against 115 votes of his opponent Muhammad Nsereko.
In 2021, Jacob Oulanyah was re-elected for the 4th term as the MP of Omoro County.

In the same year, he was elected the Speaker of Parliament (310 votes) defeating the Incumbent Rebbecca Kadaga (197) and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) candidate and Kira Municipality MP Ssemunju Nganda (15).
Personal Life
Jacob Oulanyah got married to Lady Winnie Amoo Okot and together they had children. The couple however legally divorced after the husband filed a petition for divorce citing denial of conjugal rights.

Jacob Oulanyah and Lady Winnie at their wedding.
Sickness and Death
In 2021 June, Jacob Oulanyah disappeared from public eye and was no longer chairing parliamentary sittings. This raised speculations in public with some saying that he was having COVID-19 while others speculated possible poisoning.

Hon. Oulanyah was taken to United Kingdom for treatment and he returned in the country in Late July the same year. Despite MPs tasking the deputy speaker of parliament to explain the whereabouts of the Speaker, there was no official information said about the health of Jacob Oulanyah then.
Oulanyah fell sick again in January 2022. He started receiving treatment in Uganda at the National Referral Hospital, Mulago.
The doctors however recommended that the speaker should seek specialized treatment abroad.

On February 4th, Oulanyah was flown out of the country on a chartered plane that costed $500,000 around UGX 1.7 Billion.

He was admitted in a hospital in Seattle, Washington in the United States.
On March 20, 2022, the bow tie man, speaker of parliament, Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah breathed his last. According to the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, he received the news of the Speaker’s death at around 10:30 AM EAT.