Ronald Kedi Ongodia, the Acting Kapelebyong Resident District Commissioner-RDC says the cattle rustlers fell into an ambush laid by the LDUs with whom they exchanged fire before they were gunned down in Okungur Sub County on Thursday Morning.
At
least six suspected Karamojong warriors dressed in the Local Defense Unit-LDUs
uniforms have been shot dead by the Government Forces in Kapelebyong District.
Ronald
Kedi Ongodia, the Acting Kapelebyong Resident District Commissioner-RDC says
the cattle rustlers fell into an ambush laid by the LDUs with whom they
exchanged fire before they were gunned down in Okungur Sub County on Thursday
Morning.
According
to Ongodia, the LDUs managed to recover the gun from the warriors whose mission
was suspected to be stealing animals in the district as it has been their
tendency.
The
names of the deceased were not readily available in the office of the RDC
Kapelebyong by the time of compiling this report.
The
incident comes at a time when the suspected Karimojong warriors had intensified
stealing of cattle from the sub counties of Kapelebyong and Katakwi that border
Karamoja.
In December, 2020, the Katakwi RDC,
Michael Bwalatum reported that at least nine suspected rustlers had been put
out of action within three weeks.
The Kapelebyong RDC appealed to the people to
trust that the Government Forces will address these rampant cattle thefts soon.
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Stephen Emiaku, the LC-3
Okungur Sub County declined to explain more about the incident but noted that there
has been rampant theft of cattle by suspected cattle rustlers.
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Romeo
Ojara Onek, the Kapelebyong District Police Commander said he had not yet
received the information of the killing of the raiders.
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