Arua LC5 chairperson asks for authority to name the road after a fallen political leader Col. Abiriga Ibrahim
The
Arua District Chairperson Mr Sam Wadri Nyakau, wants the Rhino Camp road
changed and named after slain Arua Municipality Legislator Ibrahim Abiriga.
Wadri
was speaking during the last funeral ceremony for Abiriga and his bodyguard
brother Saidi Butele Buga, at the deceased’s’ ancestral home in Rhino camp,
lower Madi county in Arua district.
Wadri
said that to honour Abiriga, all roads within the municipality need to be
tarmacked while the one in Rhino camp should be named after the former Arua
Resident District Commissioner (RDC) and legislator.
He
called upon government to build a befitting house for the family of Abiriga as
well as support his children he has left behind and the widow because the
deceased used all his resources to mobilize for the ruling NRM Party.
Born in 1956 in Arua,Abiriga joined the Uganda Army in 1971 up
to 1976 and went into exile in Congo .
Abiriga later returned and joined National Resistance Army where he rose to second division administration officer until he retired from army at the rank of colonel in 1990.
Abiriga later returned and joined National Resistance Army where he rose to second division administration officer until he retired from army at the rank of colonel in 1990.
The
slain soldier also served Resident District Commissioner for Arua and Yumbe
districts for 16 years until he resigned to join active politics.
He
was in 2016 elected as the Member of Parliament for Arua Municipality until his
death on Friday. He will be buried today at Rhino Camp.
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