Former IGP Boniface Okoth Ogola Dies

Former Inspector General of Police -IGP Boniface Eron Okoth Ogola has died at Nakasero hospital in Kampala.

Ogola served as IGP between 1983-1985 during Obote II regime. He had earlier in his career served as an Assistant to first Ugandan IGP Erinayo Oryema, who was brutally murdered during the reign of President Idi Amin. 

Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner of Police -ACP Kituuma Rusoke is expected to issue an official statement of the force. 

Ogola fled the country barely two months before National Resistance Army (NRA) led by Yoweri Museveni captured power in January, 1986. 

He settled in Pennsylvania, United States until 2007 when then Vice President Prof Gilbert Bukenya met him and also guided then internal affairs minister Ruhakana Rugunda to oversee his return to the country.

Ogola eventually returned to Uganda in February, 2009 and he praised Yoweri Museveni government for organizing his return. He asked Museveni regime to redeploy him in other sectors but it hadn't yet materialized. 

Ogola retired at his home in Tororo.  A Senior police officer who preferred anonymity since his not the family Spokesperson said :"The people of Tororo are mourning the loss of Boniface Eron Okoth Ogola, a renowned figure who served as Inspector General of Police during the Obote II regime. Unfortunately, he passed away this morning at Nakasero Hospital."

Ogola was in 2018 nominated for elections as the overall chief of Morwa Sule clan, one of the predominant clans under the Tieng Adhola Cultural Institution.

In one of the media interviews, Ogola said Oryema's murder by Amin was eminent because of his principles. 

Ogola also said he once tried to persuade some of the people who had acquired guns for personal protection during Amin's regime to return them but in vain.   He said all this he did was intended to address the eminent bloodshed in country but his efforts weren't successful.