Grief and fear has engulfed residents of Kitgum Municipality\u00a0after unknown gunmen shot dead Mr Tony Olanya, the former head of\u00a0Customs and Immigration at Uganda Revenue Authority in Kitgum district
\non Tuesday evening.
\nMr\u00a0 Olanya\u00a0 was working with\u00a0 Uganda Revenue Authority before he\u00a0retired in 2014.\u00a0He was gunned down at his home in Ayul A, Pager Division at about 8:30\u00a0Pm over unclear circumstances according to police reports.
\nThe deceased owned a mobile money outlet and had just been appointed\u00a0as Chairperson Public Account committee in Kitgum Municipality.<\/p>\n
His death comes just a week after unknown gunmen shot dead Ms Grace\u00a0Ageno, the Kitgum town councillor for Greenland Parish in Pager\u00a0Division.<\/p>\n
Kitgum District Police Commander Jackson Baryampika, confirmed the\u00a0shooting of Mr Olanya in a telephone interview.\u00a0He said the deceased was shot five times in the stomach by two men
\narmed with a gun and machete.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deceased was with his wife taking tea when two gunmen stormed his\u00a0house; they demanded money before shooting him. He died instantly from\u00a0over bleeding,\u201d Mr Baryampika said.<\/p>\n
He said police has launched investigation into the motive of the\u00a0shooting\u00a0 the deceased\u00a0 Olanya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grief and fear has engulfed residents of Kitgum Municipality\u00a0after unknown gunmen shot dead Mr Tony Olanya, the former head of\u00a0Customs and Immigration at Uganda Revenue Authority in Kitgum district on Tuesday evening. Mr\u00a0 Olanya\u00a0 was working with\u00a0 Uganda Revenue Authority before he\u00a0retired in 2014.\u00a0He was gunned down at his home in Ayul A, Pager Division at about 8:30\u00a0Pm over unclear circumstances according to police reports. The deceased owned a mobile money outlet and had just been appointed\u00a0as Chairperson Public Account committee in Kitgum Municipality. His death comes just a week after unknown gunmen shot dead Ms Grace\u00a0Ageno, the Kitgum town councillor for Greenland Parish in Pager\u00a0Division. Kitgum District Police Commander Jackson Baryampika, confirmed the\u00a0shooting of Mr Olanya in a telephone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}