Gulu Women’s Day celebrations postponed

Mar 08, 2011

CELEBRATIONS to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Women’s Day in Gulu district have been postponed due to the death of Col. Walter Ochora Odoch.

CELEBRATIONS to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Women’s Day in Gulu district have been postponed due to the death of Col. Walter Ochora Odoch.

Gulu resident district commissioner Chrissy Owor Odoi yesterday said other public functions in Gulu had been postponed to give the residents a chance to mourn Ochora.

The celebrations had been slated to take place at Ajulu primary school, Patiko sub-county in Aswa county.

Ochora died of lung complications at Kampala International Hospital on Thursday.

His body was taken to Gulu on Saturday and was received by thousands of mourners who jammed the Gulu-Kampala highway as the body was being taken to his ancestral home. He will be buried on Friday.

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