Former Omoro parliamentary candidate Simon Toolit Akecha has allegedly been abducted, according to an unnamed son.
Mr Akecha was abducted at around 3 am this morning from his home by four men, two of them armed, according to the son.
” We are here at his[Toolit’s] home. He is not there. We are told he was abducted by armed men,” Moses Abonga, the Gulu Municipality Forum for Democratic Party Chairman(FDC) told Acholi Times.
Police has cordoned off the home of the former Omoro parliamentary candidate in Pece Division in Gulu town and is not allowing anyone in, an Acholi Times reporter at the scene, reports.
Toolit, a Forum for Democratic Party (FDC) member is challenging the election of deputy speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah.
On Monday, Gulu High Court Judge, Justice David Matovu ordered electoral commissioner lawyer Peter Mulongo to present before the court this morning the Electoral Commission’s(EC) Gulu’s Returning Officer, Benson Obete.
It is unclear what will happen in court this morning with reports that Toolit has been abducted.
Acholi Times will keep you posted on this developing story.
