Troubles for Bonny Odongo, a Sub Editor with Rupiny News Paper, a Vision Group publication have doubled after the army picked interest in his illegal gun possession case.
Odongo, appeared on social media posing with a pistol on a table at one of the drinking joints in Lira Town. He was picked up by police last week for illegal gun possession. Initially, Odongo distanced himself from the photo, saying it was a Photoshop by his enemies.
He however, later told Police that the pistol belongs to a businessman Mike Okello Alias General Adan.
Adan, handed himself over to Lira Central Police Station on Friday with the help of a security operative attached to the office of Lira Resident District Commissioner. He was detained after recording a statement.
The North Kyoga Regional Police spokesperson, David Ongom Mudong says preliminary findings showed that the pistol was licensed in the names of Adan. Following Odongo's arrest Adan went into hiding. He however, contacted the office of the RDC to allow him to surrender.
It was upon this that Robert Abak, the Lira RDC advised him to handover himself and the wanted pistol to his office. Adan's arrest brings to three, the number of people held by Lira Police over the pistol. David Mudong, the North Kyoga Regional Police Spokesperson, says that during their investigations police found that Joan Amolo Emer, a 22 year- old- waitress at the same pub also took several pictures with the same gun.
Both suspects told police they took pictures with the gun out of excitement, without knowing the legal implications. Adan says the two took the pistol from his waist without his consent and started posing with it in photos. Police accuses the trio of abuse of a firearm.
A senior army officer attached to the 5th Army Division who spoke to the press on condition of anonymity, said they have picked interest.
He says the army wants the trio tried before a military court.
