Moroto

The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces, Police and Special Forces Command have heavily deployed in Moroto ahead of the visit of the minister of Education and Sports and first lady, Janet Museveni.

At least 2,000 people from about 500 households in Nasinyonoit, Kangole in Napak district are homeless following the floods that hit their area.

A police officer in Moroto Police is in trouble for raping a woman who had sought aid at Camp Swahili police post over the weekend. 

The Uganda Prisons case has registered a total of 1,150 COVID-19 cases since June 2020, the Prisons spokesperson Frank Baine says

The Officer in Charge of Moroto Prisons Norman Aruho has been suspended to avoid interfering with investigations into the prison break at the facility which left more than 200 prisoners on the loose and at least 14 guns in the hands of criminals.

Members of the community have been accused of aiding the escape of 219 inmates from Moroto Government Prison.

Officers from Uganda Peoples Defence forces UPDF, Police and Uganda prisons services are still in pursuit of more than 200 inmates whole pulled the largest prison break ever in the country.

Residents of Awach Sub County in Abim District are worried after Awach Health Centre II was closed down, following a Covid19 positive case confirmed within the facility.  

Residents travelling in vehicles for Moroto from Kotido on Sunday afternpoon had to make a u - turn as they couldn’t cross the swollen river. Also, several passenger service vehicles going either way had to cancel their journey until the water subsides. 

Authorities in  Moroto District have struck a teacher of the payroll for alleged defilement.

The head of state, President Yoweri Museveni has fulfilled his promised to donate an assortment of 40 vehicles to different beneficiaries.

Moroto district legislators have maintained silence on the Constitution (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, 2017, which among other seeks to scrap the presidential age limit from the constitution.