The allocation, facilitated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank (NAGRC & DB), and Uganda Land Commission, aims to support the former legislators' livelihoods through commercial agriculture.
Denis Ocaya, the Agonga Parish Councilor in Gulu City where the deceased hailed from told URN on Thursday that the matter was brought to their attention by two casual laborers who escaped from the farm.
David Ongom Mudong, the Aswa River Region Police Spokesperson said that the bus from Kampala heading to Agago via Pader Town veered off the road and overturned several times.
John Bosco Oola, the Oluk Village LC 1 Chairperson, says that the suspect beat up his wife Hellen (53) with clubs and used dry grass to set her private parts ablaze on Monday night.
During the site handover at Kalili Village, Gadison said that the land is part of the Aswa Ranch, which was leased to the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre (NAGRC) by the Uganda Livestock Industry in 2016. Orik said that Uganda Prison Services will use the land to ensure food security in the country through farming cereals, which she says would commence shortly.
Records show that there are at least 1,017 children who were born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan to Ugandan women and young girls who were abducted by LRA rebels during the war that lasted close to two decades in northern Uganda.
The suspects are Dr. Solomon Okello the Chief Executive Director of Countryside Harvester, an NGO, and the organization’s district coordinator Derick Oryema Jamil.
Te-Kworo Foundation has been operating in Pader, Kitgum, Nwoya and Omoro for the past 20 years offering support including scholarships to girls who cannot enrol in mainstream education, maternal and health care services, and social protection and livelihood services.
Teddy Atenyo, a resident of Papir village, says that the crisis has now forced residents to share water with animals for drinking and cooking from unsafe sources.
After having spent one month in prison detention, the suspects appeared before the Pader Grade I Magistrate, Edward Kabayo Akankwasa on Wednesday, Thursday, and finally on Friday as their defense lawyer negotiated their bail applications.
The Executive Director of NAGRC Dr. Peter Baine condemned the arrests, saying the surveyors were implementing a recommendation from parliament to protect public land from unnecessary encroachment.
Okello told URN that reports from parents of the children indicate that the immediate cause of death is mostly falling in fire, drowning and being hit by speeding vehicles.
According to District Secretary for Health Justine Ocen, out of the total 810 teachers in the district, 638 had by the end of last week been vaccinated against COVID-19, with 192 already having received both the first and second jab.
It is reported that on Wednesday night, the deceased identified as Carla Adul had a quarrel with her nephew's wife called Lakot over a water bucket belonging to the deceased. In the fight, the old woman sustained the fatal wound on her head.
Mwaka says the matter came to the limelight after residents reported to the authorities indicating that a team of officials from Aswa Ranch made an incursion into Tiima village where they are developing part of the land without providing locals and area leaders with adequate notification.
ccording to Mwaka, on Thursday, farmers from Tumalyec village saw its footprints along the banks of river Ajan as it is presumed to have headed towards the villages of Acamoling, Onin and Amilobo in Paibwor parish and Atanga Trading centre.
The UPDF 5th Division Commander Brigadier General William Bainomugisha says the exercise will majorly focus on areas presumed to have been escape corridors used by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels.
Francis Olugu, the Deputy Director of Criminal Investigations told URN in an interview that they subjected Odonga Otto to mental health examination to ascertain his mental stability, under police form number 24.
