Chalaire Omagor, the District Education Officer in Kalaki when contacted said that four boys missed the examination out of 1,965 registered candidates in the district. He notes while one candidate was bedridden and unable to write the examinations, three others were too busy engaged in some income generating activities in Soroti City.
David Ongom Mudong, the East Kyoga Regional Police Spokesman says Olupot was hacked to death with a panga and the suspect later handed himself to Otuboi Police Station.
According to Edmond Egweu, a nephew to the Lay Reader, his uncle’s wife, Betty Asayo had been on medication after being diagnosed with liver complications and was improving.