The Agago district police commander (DPC), Samson Lubega has been arrest for allegedly defying the presidential ban on social gatherings.
President Yoweri Museveni announced a ban on social gatherings as one of the preventive measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country. Uganda has so far registered 79 cases of coronavirus disease, 46 recoveries and 0 deaths.
But according to Agago resident district commissioner (RDC), Linos Ngompek who also chairs the District Covid-19 Taskforce, Lubega granted permission to businessman Francis Oneka to throw a party in Patongo town council for over 30 revellers to celebrate his completion of the 14-day quarantine. Oneka returned from the UK through Dubai on March 17.
Ngompek notes that the businessman had earlier disappeared from the district when the district taskforce asked him to undergo self-quarantine. He reportedly only resurfaced, a month later on Sunday to hold a party.
"We have arrested our DPC for insubordination. He is on his way to Gulu then will be transferred to Kampala. The DPC went against our instruction and granted permission to a businessman Oneka to organize a party of 30 people and he was in attendance," said Ngompek.
Oneka is the proprietor of Onex fuel station in Patongo town. Aswa River Region police spokesperson, Jimmy Patrick Okema confirmed Lubega's arrest, adding that he is locked up at Gulu central police station pending investigations.
Okema says preliminary investigation indicate that Oneka threw a party on Sunday night to celebrate being free of Covid-19 after reportedly completing his mandatory quarantine period and invited Lubega as chief guest.
"It's unfortunate that our DPC who should be enforcing the directive to stop such social gathering ended up being one of the people caught attending it. We have him in our custody and he will be investigated accordingly by the regional detectives," he said.
"It's unfortunate that our DPC who should be enforcing the directive to stop such social gathering ended up being one of the people caught attending it. We have him in our custody and he will be investigated accordingly by the regional detectives," he said.
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