Teso scouts community mourn Ejou
Patrick Icumar, the leader of scouts in Soroti, said Uganda has lost a rising star.
The late Moses Ejou was reportedly attacked at his rented house in Nakatunya Soroti City West. (Photos by Godfrey Ojore)
By Godfrey Ojore
Journalists @New Vision
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The scouts community of Teso on Thursday (April 24) mourned Moses Ejou, the patron of the scouts club of Vocational Training Institute (VTI) in Soroti city, who was murdered on Monday night by unknown people.
He served as an Instructor in the Department of Automotive Mechanics at VTI.
Patrick Icumar, the leader of scouts in Soroti, said Uganda has lost a rising star.
“He recruited and nurtured scouts in the last five years of his reign that were able to compete and win at the regional level. His death is not a loss for Teso but for Uganda,” Ichumar said.
Ejou was reportedly attacked at his rented house in Nakatunya Soroti City West.
Students who were going to school on Tuesday morning discovered Ejou's lifeless body in a pool of blood outside his house and alerted the authorities.
Rev Fr Waziwazi Ongereny (right) with other scouts carrying the casket containing the body of Moses Ejou. 
He died of excessive bleeding and according to the CT scan, his skull was severely damaged.
His killers remain at large.
The killing of Ejou has come two years after John Ekiru, another Scouts boy was waylaid by unknown killers in Majengo, a suburb of Soroti city and hacked to death.
“Who is targeting the scouts in Soroti city? Like Ejou, the killers of Ekiru have not been found to date and yet we have police, what do they do really,” an angry Ichumar asked.
Incidentally, both killings have all occurred at Soroti west division.
During the public viewing, the assistant Resident City Commissioner Stephen Omoding appealed for calm and promised that security would bring the killers to book.
Since Monday, the DPC Soroti city west Rashid Byansi told New Vision on Thursday evening that no arrest has been made but the detectives were on the ground.
Reverend Eng. Julius Apedu, the principle of VTI described Ejou’s death as a forced one which should not go in vain.
“He was forced to die! As you lie in state, your memories and legacy will not depart from our minds,” Rev. Apedu said.
A diploma graduate in automotive mechanics which he obtained from Buganda Royal Business Institute, Ejou who hails from Kapelebyong district died aged 36.
He has left behind a wife and two children. He will be buried on Friday, April 25.