Grief and sorrow has bestowed upon the people of Teso following the sudden death of Serere County member of parliament Hon. Okabe Patrick was on his way to Kampala for official duties.
According to information obtained by this website, Bishop Okabe was involved in a head-on collision with a Kenya truck registration number KCX 071K at Naboa along Mbale-Tirinyi road on Monday morning while driving with his wife to Kampala in his vehicle registration number UBK 995F.
Okabe died on the spot while his wife passed on on way to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in critical condition. Joel Namisi, a Junior Pastor in Faith Ministries, which was started by Okabe confirmed the death of his boss, saying his body is lying at Mbale Hospital mortuary.
He told our reporter that the truck lost control and crashed into Bishop Okabe’s vehicle. “We lost him in times we needed him,” Namisi said in a tweet. The late Bishop Okabe is also the founder of Faith FM in Mbale city and Rhema High school.
