{"id":3619,"date":"2022-11-22T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vol.co.ug\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2022-12-10T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:28:24","slug":"lira-city-law-enforcement-officers-accused-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vol.co.ug\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/lira-city-law-enforcement-officers-accused-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Lira city Law enforcement officers accused of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Denish Ongora (denish.ongora@vol.co.ug)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lira<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor of Lira city East Division has accused Lira city law enforcement officers of receiving bribes from street vendors to prolong their stay on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geoge Okello Ayo said this is frustrating their efforts to remove street vendors from the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayo said they are considering other strategies to evict street vendors from the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the plans by Lira city East division for financial year 2022\/2023 financial year to develop Lira main market include; opening more entrances, rehabilitating drainage channels, installing the market leadership, and vendors to take up payment of utility bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lira city east division collects only 20 million shillings from the main market which cannot support payment of utility bills, a reason the division has shifted the burden to vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okello Ayo also said they plan to operationalize Ireda, Kamswhili and Kitgum stage markets to decongest the main market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lira city Principal Law Enforcement officer Simba Omule declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Denish Ongora (denish.ongora@vol.co.ug) Lira Mayor of Lira city East Division has accused Lira city&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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