Police has said 33 suspects have been arrested in Kitgum district in connection with the murder of atleast three resigned since August this year.
The arrests follows rampant rise in the number of gun related murders in Kitgum.
This year alone, six people have been murdered in Kitgum since the beginning of the year.
The latest victim of gun murder was Tony Olanya, 63, a former Customs Officer with Uganda National Revenue Authority. The late Olanya was killed last week in Ayul village in Pager Division.
Also shot dead this year is: Christine Omoya, 57, a wife to Rev Canon Lamton Omoya and Grace Ageno (33), the Councilor 3 for Pager Parish.
Jimmy Patrick Okema, the Aswa Region Police Spokesperson confirmed the arrests. Okema said the suspects are being questioned on their alleged role in the murder cases registered in the district.
Okema explained that the arrest of one of the suspects led police to the rest of the suspects arrested.
According to Okema, 17 suspects have been held in relation to the gruesome murder of Olanya, 10 in connection of the shooting dead of Ageno and additional 10 on the killings of the wife of Rev Omoya.
Okema said police has been helped by the public who are providing helpful information in connection with the murders.
On the order of Gen Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police (IGP)who was in Kitgum last week, police have deployed the Flying Squad in an attempt to track down on armed criminals as well as recovery of weapons that are suspected to have been used in the attacks against unarmed civilians.
So far, one gun has been recovered in Kitgum central division, from one Alfred Omara, a Local Council One official in Kitgum Municipality.
Police say his name has been mentioned by some of the suspects in connection with the murder cases in Kitgum.
Omara told police during interrogation that he was assigned the gun by government more than 15 years during the peak of LRA insurgency.
Police boss Gen Kayihura has meanwhile replaced the embattled Kitgum District Police Commander, Jackson Baryampika with Moses Oola.
Baryampika has been moved to the police headquarters in the Human Resource Department of the force.
