The body of the deceased, Esther Aluko, was found around Golf Course playground, a few meters from the Soroti City headquarters and also Soroti City West Division Police headquarters.
Paul Opige, the Local Council Chairperson of Wire Cell has identified the deceased as Florence Ileng 25 from Orengecoria village in Napak district. Her lifeless body was found lying behind a pit latrine Wednesday.
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.
Trouble started when Mzee William Aloch, one of the founding members of the Iteso Cultural Union stormed the nomination venue at the union headquarters in Soroti city on Tuesday in the company of his lawyer to serve Emolot in line with his petition challenging his election as the caretaker Emorimor.
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.
“The Police of CPS Soroti mounted an operation on street gangs colloquially referred to as Cokoras where several persons including six male juveniles have been arrested. The juveniles have been handed over to the probation office as provided for under the law,” Ageca said.
In Soroti district, unknown assailants broke into Ojom HC II in Oculoi Sub County on May 2, 2022. The thugs made off with all the medical supplies in the facility. Police investigations indicate that the thieves took away 82 boxes of coartem for adults and children and other drugs, whose value hasn’t been established.
The East Kyoga Regional Police Spokesman, Oscar Gregg Ageca, says that the Police also impounded the Fuso Truck registration number UBH 426D that was being used to carry the pipes.
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.
The list was revealed by the Soroti District Communications Officer, Abraham Ekwaru during an exclusive interview with our reporter on Friday ahead of the launch of the compensation exercise today - Saturday. President Yoweri Museveni is expected in Soroti today to launch the compensation of war claimants in the Acholi, Lango and Teso sub-regions.
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.
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.
Preliminary information from the scene indicates that the officer was riding his bicycle when the assailants shot him, grabbed his gun, and vanished into thin air before security teams could arrive.
Information obtained by URN shows that most of the borrowers were expected to receive their motorcycles on Monday (October 4, 2021) but surprisingly, the offices at Pamba were closed over the weekend. The furious borrowers, who had travelled to Soroti to receive their motorcycles later stormed the office of the Resident City Commissioner, Peter Pex Paak, seeking his intervention into the matter.
Denis Echiku, a resident of Katine Sub County was arrested by the police after a tip-off from patients. Echiku has been camping at Ward 1 and extorting money from unsuspecting patients who need x-ray services.
Okiring is accused of stealing more than 58 million shillings meant for three groups in Gweri County under Emyooga program was withdrawn from the bank.
Oscar Gregg Ageca, the East Kyoga Region Police Spokesman, says that Police have opened a general inquiry file Number 15/2021 to investigate circumstances under, which the hoes valued at Shillings 11.7million went missing from the stores at the finance block at Soroti city council.
Now, the East Kyoga Regional Police Spokesman, Oscar Gregg Ageca says that the Police Standard Unit has started investigations into the matter adding that the officers could face police disciplinary court after the investigations.
