Innocent Komakech, the Ceke Village Secretary says the elephant attacked the deceased at about 7:15 Am Thursday in his garden while weeding soya beans. He notes that the incident has raised alarms about the safety of locals amidst the rising incursion of stray elephants from Murchison Falls National Park.
Cyril Champigny, TotalEnergies E&P Uganda Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Director told Uganda Radio Network in an interview Tuesday that the milestone is a great achievement for the project and the oil and gas industry in the country.
Richard Anyama, the Nwoya District Police Commander told URN that the truck registration number UAT 113S/UBE 405P was found approximately 20 meters away from the accident scene.
Jonathan Otim, a resident of Acaba Sub-county in Oyam District reportedly met his death on Monday morning when he slipped and fell onto the fast-moving conveyor belt while loading firewood.
The beneficiaries are part of a group comprising 30 learners from the district of Nwoya, Pakwach, Buliisa and Masindi who have been awarded scholarships covering two years of advanced-level education. The intervention is aimed at addressing the high dropout rates in the Tilenga Oil Project area.
The Aswa River Region Police Spokesperson David Ongom Mudong in a statement issued on Wednesday noted preliminary findings indicate the deceased was trampled to death by elephants.
George Uribru, the School Head Teacher told Uganda Radio Network in an interview on Monday that the girls failed to show up at the school when the exams commenced.
Security personnel identified the suspects as Kenneth Bongomin, a renowned land broker, and Charles Ojara, a soldier guarding a farm belonging to the late Gen. Paul Lokech, the former Deputy Inspector of Police.
NAGRC says that the land is under the Got Apwoyo Ranch and was in August this year approved by Cabinet to breed and multiply highly productive livestock, produce animal feeds, and cereal crops, diagnose, and treat animals and act as a learning center in a move to avert famine in the country.
The 54-year-old prisons officer reportedly collapsed and died on Thursday evening at Continental Bar and lodge in Purongo Town Council, Nwoya District.
Anaka Sub-County LC III Chairperson, Morris Kakanyero Opiyo told URN in an interview Wednesday that initially, five men entered the park on a hunting trip. He however says that one of them escaped during an encounter with Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) rangers before alerting local leaders about his colleagues three days later.
UWA had planned to erect electric fences on the National Park’s border with the sub-counties of Purongo, Got Apwoyo, Anaka, Koch Goma, and Koch Lii all in Nwoya District.
Pauline Odong, the Coorom Parish councilor told URN that she also witnessed the strange color of the water and the death of the fish before receiving complaints from the residents.
Emmanuel Orach, the Nwoya District LC V Chairperson has identified the deceased as Barbara Ayeerwoth, three and half years and her two-year-old brother Jonathan Rwotomiya.
Apiyo remembers that one day in February 1993 she returned home only to find her son lying unconscious. She then rushed him to Koch Goma Health Centre III from where he died shortly after arrival.
Accoding to Matenga, the interim order of injunction issued restrains the respondents and their agents, relatives, workmen or any other person deriving any interests from them from further trespassing, evicting, intimidating, fencing, demarcating boundary, arresting, renting out, selling, erecting houses or temporary structures, cultivating, alienating and/or in any other way dealing with the suit land measuring approximately 3,700 acres (nearly 6 square miles).
Between 1st and 13th July, Police in Aswa River Region registered a total of 13 homicide cases. Gulu registered the highest with six cases followed by Omoro with three cases. Agago, Lamwo, Amuru and Nwoya districts registered one case respectively.
Last month, the Inspector General of Police IGP Martin Okoth Ochola approved the establishment of the station and construction was supposed to start immediately.
