A man claimed to have been the oldest person in Uganda has died, a Ugandan newspaper, New Vision reports.
The paper says John Ahuruma’s baptism card indicated he was born in 1885.
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“The missionaries estimated my age. When I went for baptism teaching, they looked at me and decided that I was about 10 years. That was in 1895,” the paper quoted Mr. Ahuruma as saying in 2017.
The paper tweeted a photo of Mr. Ahuruma and the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni:
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Yohana Ahuruma, a man believed to be the oldest in Uganda has passed on at 134 years. #VisionUpdates
President Yoweri Museveni built a house for Ahuruma, after meeting with him at State House, Entebbe in October 2016. May his soul rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/S5jnHzgTza
— New Vision UGANDA (@newvisionwire) August 28, 2019
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