By Denis Okello (denis.okello@vol.co.ug)
Apac.
Former Apac district Local Council V chairman Nicholas Opio Bunga is dead.
Opio Bunga 82,died this morning from Lira regional referral hospital.
His son Andrew Erach confirmed his father’s death which he attributed to old age.
Nicholas Opio Bunga served as Apac district LCV chairman from 2007 to 2011 after winning a by-election under Uganda People’s Congress party, garnering 20,442 votes, beating NRM’s Richard Ogwang Odyero who got 14,203 votes.
Other candidates who contested in that election were; Peter Ocen and Tom Okao Orech.
The seat had fallen vacant after the then Apac district chairman Charles Okello-Engola Macodwogo resigned from his position to run for the Oyam district LCV chairman seat.
Opio Bunga also served as the district service commission chariperson of Apac District and was also a lecturer at Kyambogo University
He was born on the 22nd July 1940.
The late Opio Bunga will be laid to rest at their ancestral home in Akoremor parish in Chawente Sub County, Kwania district.
