Nansikombi pointed out that although they have been inseparably together and sharing almost everything, she is not aggrieved by her death but thankful to the Lord for the gift of her life.
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A sombre mood hung over the burial ceremony of the 10-year-old Ronah Jerusha Kitiibwakyamukama Nassanga Kakembo at her ancestral home at Bukooza-Nakanyonyi village in Nakifuma-Naggalama Town Council, Mukono district on Tuesday.
Nassanga of Primary Seven, a daughter of Joshua Kakembo and Irene Nansikombi, is one of the two children that met their tragic demise in the Sunday morning fatal accident at Kagavu village, Zigoti Town Council in Mityana district as the bus carrying over 90 learners of Daystar Junior School in Kirombe Cell, Makindye Municipality, veered off the road, killing Nassanga and Pamela Nabasumba of Primary Five.
Over 20 pupils, teachers, their deputy headteacher, incidentally the mother to the late Nassanga and their school director, Jude Nyanzi sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to various hospitals in Mityana and Kampala.
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In a speech preceding burial, Irene Nansikombi, the headmistress and mother to the deceased, who was a passenger in the ill-fated bus registration number UAP 829U, dismissed statements that her daughter died prematurely, noting that her death was in consonance with God’s plan.
She praised her late daughter for being a committed lover of God with a calling to minister, and disclosed that she was buried with a bible to maintain her attachment to the Lord.
Nansikombi pointed out that although they have been inseparably together and sharing almost everything, she is not aggrieved by her death but thankful to the Lord for the gift of her life.
She recalled shocking moments from the accident and after saying that she was awake when the bus driver got off the road and at first, she was not bothered thinking that he was trying to dodge the potholes, only to see the bus somersaulting, thus ejecting the two deceased dear ones out to their death.
“I called the director and asked him to join me to see how we could save the people’s children but he told me he was unable to stand! Shortly, I realized a young man who came with a small phone, I asked him to give me light and observed what was the situation, I realized two pupils had died! But I did not first realise that Nassanga was among the deceased, but after some time, I noticed it,” she narrated, adding;
“I asked the man to help me get the bodies off the mad where they had been fixed but he was hesitant, he must have been fearing the dead body. But I single handedly pulled them from there. I got relief when police came and they started rushing the injured children to the nearby health facilities.”
In his homily at the farewell service, the Lay Reader for St. James Church Bukooza, Stanley Kiyanja appealed to mourners to desist from making blame games, and reminded them that nobody knows God’s plans about their life.
Kiyanja implored mourners to stop trusting in their wealth, beauty and other worldly endowments, and instead turn their trust to the Lord who alone knows how they came and how they will depart.
Death of loved ones notwithstanding he advised, mankind should never stop doing good all the time, trusting that through his generosity and providence, God will always continue to provide for their needs.
A representative of the school, Ezra Ruhurira praised the mother who, after seeing her daughter pass on, mustered the courage to strive to save other children who were being evacuated from the wreckage to be taken to hospitals, saying this was a feat of rare courage.
And another school administrator, Mayi Namumera thanked parents for standing with the school by swiftly responding after the nasty incident, and keeping close to them as soon as the news of the accident was broken.
A representative of the head of the ‘Njovu’ (elephant) clan, Samson Ssessanga Nsweemu expressed condolences to learners who witnessed their colleagues’ death on the bus and prayed God to erase the traumatizing picture from their memories.