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Police and leaders in Tororo District are investigating the circumstances under which unknown people buried the remains of nearly 20 unknown people overnight in Mukuju Sub-county’s Akworot South Village.
Adding to the mystery was the news that Joseph Okumu Boma, a resident, who sold the land to a yet-to-be-named person at Shs18m, suddenly died last Friday hours after reporting about the fresh graves to his family.
Ms Teddy Anyokot, a sister of late Okumu, who was reportedly in bad health, said the police should fast-track investigations into the source of the bodies and ascertain the identities of those who conducted the secret burials.
Mayo Ojulu, the Akworoto South Village chairperson, who counter signed Okumu’s land sale agreement, said he did not know the buyer, raising questions about how he endorsed the deal.
Police have since summoned him to record a statement and help with the inquiries.
Ojulu said he was not aware of the multiple burial of remains of unknown people in his area until the neighbours to the fresh graves alerted him at about 10am last Saturday.
According to Joseph Orono, a resident of Akworoto Village, the dead bodies were trucked for burial in the area at night by strangers wielding machetes.
When contacted, Musa Mugwe, the police spokesperson for Bukedi south, said they had sent a team on the ground to establish the facts because the information they obtained was “scanty”.
