In Omalera B Polling Station, where 42 voters had cast their votes, the agents and electoral officers discovered more than 200 ballot papers stuffed in the ballot box in favor of the NRM candidate Herbert Edmund Ariko.
Faith Apolot, an employee at Elisian Hotel, says that a joint security team comprising the police and army stormed the hotel around 11:30 pm, and everyone out.
During the candidate's briefing by the Electoral Commission and security agencies at Soroti University on Wednesday evening, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the FDC Secretary General tasked the commission and security heads to explain why the numberless vehicles are on the streets.
Besigye is campaigning for the FDC candidate, Moses Attan Okia in Opiyai, Opuyo, and Aloet wards while President Museveni is campaigning for the NRM candidate, Herbert Edmund Ariko in Madera and Moruapesur wards.
Paul Lokol, the Nabilatuk LC V Chairperson, says that the current situation cannot allow them to concentrate on sensitizing people about PDM when almost every household is starving. Lokol says that the current food crisis in Karamoja is not because of crop failure but due to the insecurity that rocked the region recently.
Oscar Ageca, the East Kyoga Police Spokesperson has confirmed that three people including Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF) man were killed in Soroti in separate incidents in a single day on Sunday 3rd June 2022.
Early this month, the UPDF announced the nationwide recruitment of 10,000 people nationwide to serve in the regular and specialized departments of the UPDF.
In Soroti City, the water crisis climaxed over the weekend following a power outage on Friday evening. Piped water was completely cut off leaving several businesses struggling.
Joseph Lobot, the Amudat District LC V Chairperson, says that Karamoja needs to be compensated because not all the people in the region are involved in cattle raids and killings.
One of the residents in Olobai Village who preferred anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, says that the food was reportedly poisoned in the kitchen when Ajibo had gone to fetch water from the borehole.
The suspects dumped Okalebo's lifeless body along the road to his home. On the same night, a 43- year- old mother from Kaberamaido district was beaten together with her side lover when her son found them having by the roadside.
Mike Longole, the Acting Mt. Moroto Regional Police Spokesman says the traders were taking cassava flour to Moroto when the headlamp lights went off, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle which overturned near the orange orchard in Iriiri.
Aketch was arrested from Kobwin village in Ngora District, seven hours after stealing the baby from her mother, Salume Asege, 19. The mother was a pupil in Tubur Primary School in Tubur Sub County, Soroti district who conceived during the Covid- 19 lockdown last year.
Stephen Ochola, the Serere LCV Chairperson and head of LCV Chairpersons for all Teso District Chairpersons says that the cattle raids, insurgency and insecurity affected all the households in the area.
Alobo’s planned visit comes just a week after the Minister of Local Government, Raphael Magyezi gave Soroti City authorities an ultimatum of three weeks to resolve the mess in the allocation of space to vendors.
The Soroti Resident City Commissioner, Peter Pex Paak says that the enforcement especially in Soroti City will be heightened to reduce the spread of the deadly virus.
The residents include Justine Odieny and John Ebwongu, both residents of Amoru Cell, Kokas Opolot of Onyakai Cell and Patrick Aporu of Omagoro Cell, in Soroti West Division. They were allegedly beaten on July 16, 2021, by soldiers who were acting on the orders of the RDC during an operation in Arapai shortly after 5 p.m.
