Daily Monitor
Saturday December 12 2020
Lance Corporal Okello being being marched into the holding cells at Fourth Divsion barracks in Gulu District on December 8, 2020. PHOTO/ MARTIN OKUDI
Summary
In 2018, Lance Cpl Geoffrey Odaga shot dead three people at a local bar in Kabedo-Opong Trading Centre in Bardege Division, Gulu Municipality.
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Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) solider has been sentenced to 51 years in jail after the Court Martial found him guilty of shooting three people to death on February 10, at Vanguard Sub-ward, Eastern Division in Gulu City, following a land dispute.
Lance Cpl Geoffrey Okello Onek of the UPDF 4th Division in Gulu decided to end the lives of Beatrice Ajok, 52, and her two sons; Dan Joachim Binyang, 18, and Owen Norman, 20, whom he accused of grazing goats on his land and causing destruction to his maize garden.