Gulu man trades kid for truck
By Chris Ochowun
THE Police in Gulu have arrested a couple for allegedly bartering a two-year-old child for a tipper lorry and sh20m.
Gulu CID chief Vincent Ouma on Thursday identified the suspects as Godfrey Komakech and Filder Atim, residents of Te-gwana parish in Gulu.
Ouma said Komakech received a numberless tipper lorry from a Danish lady, Keizer, in exchange for the baby.
�We will punish this man severely.
He was recently arrested for stealing two motorbikes but he was released on court bail. This time he stole a baby,� Ouma said.
The mother of the baby Janet Akello, 18, a former senior three student of Kyambogo College in Kampala, said she met Komakech last December in Apac district and he promised to help her take care of the baby.
She said Komkech was her lover for less than three months.
Akello said she had not seen her baby since December, adding that Komakech told her he had taken the child
to his relative in Entebbe.
She claims that a Danish woman deposited sh20m on Komakech�s account and that he had received a tipper lorry from the same woman in exchange for the child.
Ouma said the Police were trying to recover the baby before taking Komakech to court.
Published on: Monday, 3rd May, 2004
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Lango wants Obote back
The Uganda People�s Congress Apac branch secretary general Willy Chong recently appealed to President Yowerei Museveni to allow exiled former president Milton Obote return to the country for the 2006 elections, reports Patrick Opio.
He told journalists that Obote would make an alternative and reliable candidate when allowed to return.
Published on: Monday, 3rd May, 2004
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Adrisi to speak on third term
The former Vice-President in the late Idi Amin�s regime, General Mustafa Adrisi, has promised to give his views on the presidential third term soon, reports Ahmed Angulibo.
Speaking to journalists at his home in Anyafio in Arua Municipality after being discharged from Arua Referral Hospital recently, Adrisi said he would make his views on the third term issue public after he had recovered fully.
He thanked President Yoweri Museveni for improving the health services in the country, without which he would not have been able to get the excellent medical care he received.
�The medical staff were really helpful. I was powerless and my blood pressure and diabetes stood at 180. They put me on a drip and 24-hour surveillance,� he said.
Adrisi, who was admitted to a private wing in the hospital with hypertension, diabetes and malaria recently, said the Government had allocated him a monthly medical stipend which covered most of his hospital bi
lls. He said, however, the accomodation and feeding bill for his stay in hospital exceeded the amount.
Adrisi said he was still under medical supervision at home. �The medical superintendant still supervises me at home and has advised me not to talk too much. I have improved,� he said.
Published on: Tuesday, 4th May, 2004
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Mukula raps Gulu bishop
By Christopher Kiwawulo
THE state minister for health, Captain Mike Mukula, has reprimanded the Gulu Archdiocese Bishop, John Baptist Odama, over his assertion that the Government has refused to hold peace talks with Kony.
�It is not correct for Bishop Odama to say that the Government has refused to talk to Kony. We are willing to talk to Kony,�Mukula said.
�There is a peace team already initiated but it is Kony who is not willing to talk,� he added.
Mukula was addressing celebrants of the Joint Medical Stores silver jubilee at its headquarters in Nsambya on Friday, where he represented the Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya.
He said the Government would not relent in their fight against Kony if he continued to refuse to reach a peaceful resolution of the bloody war that has devastated much of northern and eastern Uganda over the last two decades.
He said President Yoweri Museveni is camped in the north to ensure that t
he 18-year-old war ends.
Mukula said the situation in Pader was now calm, and people were now leaving the camps and returning home.
Published on: Tuesday, 4th May, 2004
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