Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2024-07-18 07:27:03
Dr Henry Stanley Okia was a teacher at Narambhai Road Primary School when Lakwena (Alice Auma) and the Holy Spirit Movement – a rebel group she led – attacked Magamaga ordnance depot in Jinja District in October 1987.
“We heard people saying, ‘Lakwena has been caught at Kakira Sugar Works! Lakwena and Prof. Isaac Newton Ojok are at Kakira!’” he exclaims, smiling at the memory.
But the school, which is 20 kilometres away from Magamaga, was not closed because Lakwena was defeated in a heated battle with the government forces, the National Resistance Army.
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