GUN FIRE AND TEAR GAS ROCKED LIRA TOWN AS RESIDENTS TARGETED INDIAN BUSINESSES

Gun fire and teargas rocked Lira town following degeneration in security after reports trickled in that police shot and injured amourner in Alito, Kole district.

There was heavy police and military deployment in nearly all the streets of Lira especially on Lira Main Street where a techno mobile shop owned by an Indian had been broken into and heavily looted.

“This shop on Lira Main Street had been broken into by a mob; they found two female attendants and a male one but robbed all the smart phones on display and one laptop” Qfm’s innocent Okello said on phone.

There was also heavy presence of both the military and the police on Lira Main Street which had also been cordoned off and movements restricted. The police were also aiding Asian nationals to leave their shops.

Most of them had locked themselves inside their shops for fear of attacks by the local people who were angered by the alleged killing of 11 year old Dickens Okello, a primary Three pupil of Alito Primary school who was buried some hours ago.

Meanwhile in Alito sub-county in Kole district was engulfed with gun smokes after mourners turned rowdy at Police and district leaders.

This follows a decision by the ‘family members’ of slain child, Okello Dickens, 11, who was allegedly murdered by two Indians denying top security chiefs to address them [mourners].

Immediately, after being denied chances to make statements or perhaps eulogies, North Kyoga Region RPC, Kole DPC, Mohamed Musahakana and
their officers started exiting the deceased child’s home.

Shortly, locals started throwing stones directly at them, some hitting their targets. Police, who were deployed there, started firing live bullets to quell the tense situation.

This is unfortunate, Ugandans are accustomed to taking law into their hands. Why would a stone wielding man attack a man with a gun? Why not let the law take its course.