Former LRA captive remanded for killing wife over sh1500

When her husband of a few months asked her for sh1500 while at a market and she told him she had used it to buy books and pen for her children, little did she know he would end her life.

Eye witnesses said Denis Ojok, 31, a former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abductee asked his wife Caroline Akello for the money while at Mocwari Market in Acwa Parish, Aromo Sub County on March 1st and after her response, a quarrel ensured. 

The couple went home in Acwa B, Aromo Sub County and in the morning, the body of the woman was discovered lying in a pool of blood with several deep cuts on the head. Ojok was nowhere to be seen.

The matter was reported to police and a team of scene of crime officers from Lira Central Police Station visited the scene and took the body to Lira Regional Referral Hospital for a postmortem after which it was released to the family for burial. 

Ojok was arrested a month later in Oyam and he confessed to the killing. He was on April 12 arraigned in court charged with murder and remanded to Lira Central Prison until April 26 when he will reappear for mention of the case. 

Jackson Atwii, the Chairperson of Concerned Parents Association, a body formed after the abduction of girls from St Mary's College, Aboke said this is an extreme case of trauma.

He said there has been cases where former captives who returned and are not rehabilitated undergo such traumatic conditions.

The North Kyoga police spokesperson Manshur Suwed said they have not had many heinous crimes being committed by former captives.

He said there have been minor cases like domestic fights which he said is common even with other category of people.