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Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 17 2021
Mr Ronny Johnson Engole who has a criminal record was arrested and new charged with a new case.PHOTO/NET.
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An inmate at Lira government Prison is nursing serious injuries after he was on Tuesday morning stabbed by his fellow convict.
Mr Denis Obaa, 33, was reportedly stabbed two times with a knife on Tuesday morning at a prison cell in Lira Government Prison in Lira City.
Mr Frank Baine, the Spokesperson for Uganda Prison Service (UPS) said on Tuesday that the two inmates were all convicts of murder. Mr Obaa was stabbed by Ronny Johnson Engole, 46 who has been serving as a prison prefect where he committed the offense.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday March 16 2021
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Mr Moses Okot Junior, the MP-elect for Kyoga Constituency in Amolatar District, said a fish project under Nusaf 3 where the government invested more than Shs10 million was sold at only Shs2 million.
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Several elected Members of Parliament from the Lango Sub-region have rejected a report indicating that thousands of people in northern Uganda are living above the poverty line.
The legislators were reacting to a report by the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (Nusaf) director, Dr Robert Lilim, on the implementation of Nusaf 3 which indicated that poverty levels had drastically reduced in the region.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 10 2021
Joel Opio, who suffers from nodding disease, with his family at their home in Telela dam, Aromo Sub-county, in Lira District on February 26. PHOTO/ ISAAC OTWII.
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Twenty-year-old Joel Opio lies helpless on a mat inside a dilapidated grass-thatched hut at Telela dam home Village, Barpii Parish, Aromo Sub-county in Lira District.
It is 2pm, and Opio has not moved out of his bed since sunrise. With the support of his mother, he comes out to take a sun bath and talks to visitors. Both his hands and legs have been paralysed as a result of prolonged illness.
Daily Monitor
More than 14 people were on Sunday killed in a corssfire between the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers and Karamojong warriors in Moroto and Nakapiripirit districts.
The South Karamoja police spokesperson, Mr Michael Longole, confirmed that 10 of those killed were part of the warriors that had attacked Naonatau grazing area in Loputuk Sub-County in Moroto District.
“We received a message from the local residents of Loputuk Sub-County that their cows were being attacked at 2pm on Sunday by an unknown number of Karamojong warriors. We informed our sister force, the UPDF who joined us and swung into action,” he said on the phone on Tuesday.