He identified one of the prominent grower as Walter Kali who was arrested and subsequently jailed to 18 months’ imprisonment for planting, selling and consuming marijuana by the magistrate court in Kwania district.
The gun registration number 56-340442, AK47 with five bullets and two magazines was recovered from the home of Sarah Ojudu, LCI chairperson of Boke village on Monday.
According to the Police, the group attacked Oming and beat him into a comma. He died moments later. Police add that the arrested persons, had spent time together in a drinking joint on Saturday night but It remains unclear, what sparked off the fight.
The committee chaired by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi were scheduled to meet the Police top management on Thursday. However the team didn’t show up and requested for a new date.
Kitgum Resident District Commissioner William Komakech says the suspects reportedly sold 16 bullets each at 5,000 shillings to a lady identified only as Irene, a resident of Lajang village in Pajimo parish in Labongo Akwang sub county on unknown day.
Owera is alleged to have kidnapped Okot, the child of Ronald Odongo, a local trader in Lira town and took him to a woman at Akalo trading center in Kole district before he demanded for a ransom of shillings 20 million from the parents.
The decision to block the operations of the group followed reports that members of the congregation had shunned the recently concluded Measles-Rubella and polio immunization exercise. It is alleged that the group mobilized their members to reject the exercise saying Jesus Christ was never immunized and registered by anyone.
Omara was on Wednesday addressing 168 officers who are undergoing a refresher training in crowd management at Masaka Police Primary School playground. He asked the trainees to always tame their temper regardless of the high level of provocations they are likely to face in the line of duty.
Paul Kangave, the greater Masaka regional police Spokesperson explains that the officers are being trained in handling smoke grenades, black bullets and other non-effective explosives as well as effective use of anti-riot gears.
Lt. Hassan Kato, the 5th Division Army spokesperson says that police requested assistance from the police to beef up security deployment by the police.
Paul Kangavve, the Greater Masaka Regional Police Commander, says the suspect raided his victim’s residence after he was sent to the neighboring shops.
Samuel Abedi, the Amolatar District Police Commander says the group had for long been engaged in a land wrangle with the deceased whom they accused of grabbing their family land.
Officials from NFA backed up by armed anti-riot police officers and Uganda People’s Defense Forces [UPDF] Soldiers on Thursday embarked on reopening boundary of the 8,548 hectares of land.
The recovered drugs include one big box filled with about 150 doses of injectable Artesunate, 12 boxes of coartem and 97 boxes of Rapid Diagnostics Test kits for malaria, with about 2,400 pieces of test kits.
Ocen 37 passed on from Lira University teaching Hospital in Lira district on Saturday. He was rushed to the facility on Friday night shortly after he got involved in a motor accident around Jinja Camp trading Centre along Juba road.
Lawrence Egole, the Dokolo Resident District Commissioner who jointly coordinated the operation with the police says the suspects had been holding various illegal roadblocks at night along the Dokolo-Amolatar district highway and extorting money from passengers.
Lawrence Egole, the Dokolo Resident District Commissioner who jointly coordinated the operation with the police says the suspects had been holding various illegal roadblocks at night along Dokolo to Amolatar district highway and extorting money from passengers.
Bosco Ejap, the Kidilani parish LC II chairperson, says they attempted to save the deceased from the wrath of the suspects in vain since they attacked him in a group. Ejap says they have teamed with police to hunt for the remaining suspect.
Police is yet to conduct postmortem on the deceased body to ascertain what could have caused his death.
