Lira City
By Voice of Lango editorial (editor@vol.co.ug)
The police of Lira City have arrested the acting secretary to the Lira District land board Francis Okello Olwa over allegations of smuggling huge pile of lands related documents belonging to the district.
Okello Olwa who is currently caretaking two other positions at the distrct including, acting district information officer and clerk to council was arrested Thursday evening from the vicinity of the district headquarters.
A close source who is privy to the operations but spoke on condition of anonymity told Voice of Lango that Okello who is also a senior pastor at Truth Fountain west was arrested around 9Pm while in his vehicle make Toyata Mark Two UAN 918T grandy nervy blue in colour and in possession of huge pile of documents parked both inside the boot and the behind seat.
He is currently being detained at the district headquarters with heavily armed security deployed to keep watch over him.
The car has also been detained and scene cordoned off by police awaiting for a search Friday morning.
Like unsual Okello spent the better part of the evening in his office and this caused suspicion amongst some staff that he was upto something else.
The members of staff who saw Okello’s unusual behaviour tipped off the security who immediately deployed plain cloth officers to watch his actions and movements.
Attempt to get comments from the regional police spokesperson Patrick Jimmy Okema was futile by press time as his known telephone number was unavailable.
The Resident City Commissioner of Lira Lawrence Emmy Egole confirmed the arrest of Olwa.
Lira district officials have been in the spot light for the last two years over allegations of dubious land transactions.
In August 2021,the lands Minister Judith Nabakoba wrote to the CAO of Lira district directing him not to engage in any land transactions untill all the complaints raised by Lira City are resolved.
