The consignment is part of the 100 bags of beans, 200 bags of maize flour, 500 pieces of blankets and 300 pieces of tarpaulins that was sent to the district recently by the office of the prime Minister.
Speaking to journalists at the Northern Uganda Media Club-NUMEC on Monday afternoon, Jimmy Patrick Okema, the Aswa River Region Police Public Relations Officer revealed that rescue efforts by the marine experts have waned.
Felix Okot, reportedly went out with the two female students from the school hostel to a nearby pub in the trading centre, bought them drinks, returning them in the night.
The road starts in Atiak at a junction of the Gulu-Atiak-Nimule highway and runs a north-westerly direction traversing through the trading centres of Dzaipi, Pakelle and ends up at the ferry landing site on the Albert Nile.
Kitgum district received 3,120 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines. But, statistical data obtained from the district health department indicates that by Sunday, April 25, only 537 people had been vaccinated. The data indicates that out of the registered 720 health workers, only 192 have received the jab, 144 teachers had received the jab against the targeted 1,189 and only 47 security personnel have been vaccinated.
Mwaka says the matter came to the limelight after residents reported to the authorities indicating that a team of officials from Aswa Ranch made an incursion into Tiima village where they are developing part of the land without providing locals and area leaders with adequate notification.
Basil Okello Onac, the Kwania District LC V Chairperson, says that the project hit a snag when the contractor ran short of funds and abandoned the site. He says the contract period has also elapsed, but they have granted the contractor’s request for an extension.
