Lira:Former MP aspirant remanded again

20 April 2023, 9:56 am

Lira Chief Magistrate court on Wednesday sent on remand for the second time Lira district former councilor Anthony Ojuka who is facing charges of threatening violence and soliciting a bribe.

Ojuka also contested for the parliamentary seat of Lira city west in the last election but did not gunner enough votes to spring him to the August house.

It is alleged that on 7^th February 2022, Ojuka threatened to harm Mr. Christopher Jogole a business man and also the clan head of Oluban clan.

He was last week arrested, arraigned in court and sent on remand by the Samson Abiti Loum, the Lira chief magistrate after the state prosecutor Peter Amalu objected to his bail application because they couldn’t trust his sureties.

This was mid repeated pleas from his lawyer Moses Junior Okot B’tek who kept pressing the chief Magistrate that Ojuka has a right to bail as enshrined in the constitution.

While in court on Wednesday, Ojuka’s wife Ruth Awor and Victor Okwir, the chairperson laity of St Lawrence deacon Chapel in kakoge in Lira city west division stood sureties for the accused but Peter Amalu again objected to the bail request.

Ojuka was then sent back on remand pending another hearing of his bail application today. Last week the former councilor together with Ken Allan Owani, also a former councilor for allegedly soliciting bribe from Lira business man Franco Eryao to aid him to process a land title from Lira zonal land office.

They were nabbed from Hotel Good News as they went to pick shillings 75m shillings bribe they had negotiated with the business man.

By Ceaser Okello