Police in Kitgum district are holding an American national on allegation that he illegally entered into Uganda through Ngomoromo border point into Uganda.
Charles Okeny Ben, 31, was arrested from Padibe Guest House in Lamwo district and is currently being detained at Kitgum Central Police Station.
Jimmy Patrick Okema, the Aswa River Region Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), confirmed the arrest on Monday and said Okeny was carrying an American passport No. P-USA 450087305 at the time of arrest.
Okema told the media in Gulu that Okeny who works as a lecturer at Juba Christian University has dual citizenship American and South Sudanese nationality.
Police say they are investigation the circumstance under which Okeny used a boda boda to enter the country without following ‘‘procedures’’ of entering Uganda.
The American- South Sudanese, police say, is suspected to have entered Uganda through Ngomoromo in Lamwo district on boda boda motor taxi on August 13, before he was arrested.
The suspect reportedly told police he entered Uganda to access the internet.
The boda-boda man who ferried him, Johnson Olweny, has also been arrested.
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Why should the boda boda man be arrested? Are boda boda men require to check and verify documents of passengers before taking them across the border? Come on!
Please release Charles Okeny Ben. He is an Acholi citizen and Acholiland overflows into South Sudan. The 1900 Buganda/Uganda agreement drew the border of Uganda purely within current day Buganda plus the stolen counties, Acholiland was part of Egyptian Sudan. What if he has cousins right on the artificial border between S. Sudan and Acholiland? How many Rwandese and Burundians flood through Kisoro, reach Kampala and even get jobs, get State House Scholarships etc and even participate in the murder of our Son AKENA? In the UK, several Baganda enter under the pretence of being Acholis escaping Kony. They are there in London calling themselves Okellos. how would you treat such a returnee? Grant him refugee status – there is war in Juba.