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From grace to grass: Former councillor and wife living in abject poverty, have no house

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Former councillor Samuel Makabira, 86, during an interview with Standard at his home Emupongo village in Butere on October 31, 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

At the age of 26 years, he became the first councillor of Plateau ward in the then Sirikwa County Council, a position he held between 1963 and 1969.

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