Gulu Deputy Town Clerk John Oola has been murdered by suspected thugs, police in Gulu has said in a statement released Tuesday morning on the social media platform Whatsapp.
The statement by the Aswa region police spokesman said the late John Oola was hit by unknown people at around midnight near Bright Valley Primary school located in Bardege Division, a Gulu town suburb.
The late Oola, said to be in his 40’s, was driving a Mitsubishi car with South Sudan registration numbers CE020K, the police statement added. Oola was reportedly forcefully removed from the car and hit. It is not clear whether he died immediately or later from his injuries. His body was picked by the police and taken to the Gulu Referral Hospital.
Alice Kipwola, the woman he had dropped in the night is in police custody to ”help with investigations,” police said.
A case Ref 04/23/05/2017 has been recorded at the Gulu Central Police.
Gulu has of recent witnessed a rise in crime in which thugs commonly known as ”iron- bar hit men” strike inspecting residents either late in the night or very early in the morning. Oola is the second senior government official to be hit. Recently a state attorney was hit on the head by the iron- bar hitmen as he returned from prayers at around midnight but survived his injuries.
Some reports say the late Oola was related to the late Thomas Opira, the estranged husband of Omoro Woman member of parliament, Catherine Lamwaka. Mr Opira died on Saturday due to a yet-to- be established cause. But relatives say he was diabetic.
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This is where powerless innocent Civil servants are killed .We are loosing future Government Young brains.The social structures of the Citizens protection is gone and freedom to Society is lost.
“I feel terrible,Sad.My sincere Condolence to the Victims,Families and Friends.We are in prayers to all Ugandan especially the Acholi People and the World Leaders supporting Gulu City Development
Programme.
Dear Mourners,did you read or hear on Radio South Sudan and TV what M7 in State House as President of Uganda for 30 years?”M7 said;”I thank President Salva Kiir for killing you” was he really meaning”I thank President Salva Kiir for calling me”??????(Sudan Tribune paper of 23.5.2017).