Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Pader district are holding a special police constable for alleged illegal enforcement of Covid-19 standard operating procedures. SPC 2818 Patrick Malimu attached to Pajule police station in Pader district was arrested on Saturday afternoon after he and another police deserter identified as Richard …
Read More »No hospital, no oxygen – Pader’s predicament
Twenty-one years and still counting, Pader district is without a district hospital and is struggling to manage the second wave of COVID-19 Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The absence of a hospital has denied Pader district the opportunity of receiving medical oxygen needed to support the management of Covid-19 critical …
Read More »Pader taskforce approves UGX 958M budget for Covid-19 fight
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pader district Covid-19 taskforce has approved the district COVID-19 Response Plan and budget worth Shillings 958M to support the fight against the pandemic. Both the plan and budget were approved in the weekly district COVID-19 taskforce meeting chaired by the Resident District Commissioner, Okee Ducman. …
Read More »Four year old boy succumbs to Covid-19 in Pader
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A four-year-old boy in Pader district has succumbed to coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The minor reportedly died on Thursday night from their home in Lubiri village in Atanga sub-county. Kizito Omoya, the Pader district surveillance officer says the boy’s test result conducted using the Rapid Diagnostic …
Read More »Youth in Northern Uganda go on rampage, destroy cars after Police disrupts night party
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are hunting for a gang of youth in connection with the destruction of several property worth millions of shillings in Pader Town Council in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The youth reportedly rampaged after police stopped their party at Hotel Perfect View …
Read More »Pader Covid-19 taskforce stuck with over 2,000 kgs of rotten posho
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 2,000 kilograms of posho that were supposed to be distributed to selected vulnerable people in Pader district are rotting away. The relief food was donated in April last year to support selected categories of people who were hit hard by the impact of the …
Read More »Pajule town council residents welcome Ongwen’s 25 year jail sentence
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Pajule town council and Bongtiko sub-county in Pader district have reacted to the 25 year jail sentence handed to former Lord’s Resistance Army rebel commander Dominic Ongwen by the International Criminal Court-ICC Judges. The joint sentence was delivered by the ICC presiding judge …
Read More »Stray lion triggers panic among residents in Pader district
The stray lion is believed to have escaped from the Kidepo Valley National Park Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Laguti and Atanga sub counties in Pader district are living in fear following an invasion by a stray lion in their area. The Laguti sub county LCIII chairperson Christopher Mwaka …
Read More »UPDF starts detonation of explosives in Pader district
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) has started a detonation exercise to destroy unexploded ordinances in Pader district. The Pader Resident District Commissioner, Dusman Okee says the exercise that started on Wednesday will run for two months. It follows a resolution reached during the district security …
Read More »10 remanded over theft of government drugs in Pader
Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ten suspects are on remand in Kinene Prison in Ogom sub-county in Pader for alleged theft of drugs from three health centers in the district. The suspects appeared on Thursday before Pader Grade One Magistrate Edward Akwankwasa. They are part of 12 suspects arrested by …
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