Daily Monitor
Thursday April 22 2021
Children go about their routine chores at a home in Apac District on February 5, 2020. The family is headed by a 14-year-old boy after their mother was jailed for killing their father in a case of domestic violence. PHOTO | BILL OKETCH
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12-year-old boy killed. In Dokolo, a 12-year-old boy was killed in February in what is suspected to be domestic violence. The deceased identified as Oscar Omara, was a resident of Agulu Division, Apac Municipality in Apac District.
Mr Fred Onyanga, the Aminteng Village vice chairperson, said the child had been living with his stepmother after their father separated with their mother two years ago.
Sacked SPCs withhold uniforms over salary
Tuesday April 13 2021
Police officers block former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, and team as they were heading for a campaign meeting in Bushenyi on December 16, 2020. In January, government recruited special police constables to provide security during the election period. PHOTO/DAVID LUBOWA
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50,000 Recruits: Government recruited about 50,000 SPCs across the country to provide security during the election period.
The law enforcers say their March salary was not cleared.
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They claim that they were discharged from the police force without getting their payment for March.
In January, the government recruited about 50,000 special police constables across the country to provide security during the election period.
RDC receives urine-filled bottles as ‘package from OPM’
Thursday April 08 2021
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Police in Lira City, northern Uganda are hunting for suspected criminals who sent the Resident City Commissioner (RCC) 23 urine-filled bottles packaged and labeled as consignment from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM).
The RCC, Mr Lawrence Egole said unidentified people sent the package in a card box on Tuesday at around 4pm.
“They claimed it was a consignment from OPM in Gulu City,” he said.
The package was, however, delivered to the RCC by Mr Santos Okwir Obote, the LCI chairman of Angwetangwet ‘A’ cell in Lira City East Division.
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.
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.
“It happened at around 8:20 am in the morning. There is a prisoner who was a prefect and he had a disagreement with another inmate who is a cleaner at the clinic. This prefect was able to move throughout the prison and he was able to have a knife which he used to stab his friend two times,” Mr Baine said on Tuesday.