Acholi War Debt Claimants Association under investigation by the CID

The embattled Leadership of Acholi War debt claimant association is currently under investigation by CID Headquaters in Kampala. This was revealed by the Resident District commissioner of Gulu Catherine Lamwaka Opira while reiterating on the rather controversial issue to Journalist from Kaunda Grounds at the NRM Liberation day yesterday.

The RDC noted that the Leadership of the association which is currently headed by Engineer Noah Opwonya has mismanaged a lot of money meant for the compensation of Acholi claimants and a directive has been given for immediate over-haul of the association Leadership to speed up the immediate compensation of the Claimants.

She further said the Minister of Justice Hon. Kahinda Otafire has been tasked to follow up this issue adding that the Government is ready to compensate the people of Acholi as fast as possible.

She added that the association will be held liable for any misconduct during their times in office after the full Audit report because the public his high demand for the accountability of their money.

Acholi War debt claimant association which has more than 10,000 registered members in the seven districts of Acholi sub-region has recently been in the spot lights for controversial issue with the Leadership blaming local leaders in Acholi sub-region for interfering in their work arguing that the association is an independent body.

Suspect’s identification document fell at scene of crime leading to arrests

The chairman LC1 of Bwonagweno A, Odongkara Opiyo Martias has castigated some people who make their work difficult by failing to record statements at the police when called up to do so.

Odongkara urged his members to follow up cases that are forwarded to the police to help the police prosecute the accused and punished accordingly.

He made the remark on Monday after the arrest of 4 suspects in connection to housebreaking and stealing house-holds items worth millions of shillings.

Odongkara said the arrest was made after one suspect’s identification document accidently fell at the scene of crime which led to the arrest of the other 3 culprits.

He added that despite their efforts to take the accused to Gulu Central police stations, the complainant commonly known as Ray failed to turn up and record the statement.

The chairman said the act of the complainant will prompt the police to drop the case and increase more crime in the area.

He added that most times when an LC1 office forwards cases to the police, always the complainants refuse to follow up on the cases and at the end blame the LC1 office or the police when the suspect is released.

Odongkara also called upon the public to stop mob justice and follow the rightful procedures to have the culprits brought to justice.