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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The number 6 most read story on The Independent website in 2023 was State Minister Engola shot dead by bodyguard in Kampala. State Minister Engola shot dead by bodyguard in Kampala Share on: WhatsApp

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party candidate Eunice Otuko Apio has been declared the winner of the Oyam County North by-elections. Otuko Apio will replace Col (Rtd) Charles Okello Engola, who was in May shot dead by his body guard Wilson Sabiiti. Otuko Apio …

Oyam, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo has asked the government to introduce coffee to the farmers in Northern Uganda in memory of Col (Rtd) Charles P. Okello Engola, the former Minister of State for Labor, Employment, and Industrial Relations. Dollo was on Saturday speaking at the burial …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The body of the late former Minister of State for Labour, Col. (Rtd) Charles Okello Engola, has arrived in his home district of Oyam. The body left Kampala on a Uganda People’s Defense Air Forces-UPDAF chopper and landed at Lira airfield in Lira City …

Shame that the late Col Charles Engola house had no CCTV. Could this death have been averted? Yes. COMMENT | Samson Tinka | Col Charles Engola died a few days ago. Whereas death is a given and at one time all of us will die, the difference lies on how one …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on Tuesday eulogized the late the Minister of State for Labour, Employment, and Industrial Relations, Retired Colonel, Charles Patrick Okello Engola Macodwogo. Charles Patrick Okello Engola was allegedly shot dead by his bodyguard, Wilson Sabiti on 2 May 2023 at his …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Otikokin clan, to which the slain Minister of State for Employment and Industrial Relations Col (rtd) Charles Okello Engola belonged, is demanding blood compensation. Engola, who was also a deputy clan elder (Awitong), was shot dead at his home in Kyanja on Tuesday …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Lira has dismissed with costs an election petition filed against Jonathan Odur, the Erute South Member of Parliament. The petition was filed by Sam Engola, the former State Minister for Housing. In his petition, Engola accused Odur of using money …

  ✳ Chairperson Yoweri  Museveni – unopposed ✳ 1st Vice-Chairperson Moses Kigongo – unopposed ✳ 2nd Vice-Chairperson Rebecca Kadaga    6,776 votes Persis Namuganza   3,943 votes ✳  Vice Chairperson Northern Jacob Oulanyah- 7,474 Sam Engola -1,665 Odong Samuel- 277 Jokkene Timothy-895 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah trounced …

Mogadishu, Somalia | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan Members of Parliament have started a week-long working visit to Somalia to assess the welfare of the country’s troops serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). According to a statement by AMISOM, the legislators will visit the Forward Operating Bases and interact …