Police in Gulu district has foiled a protest by two legislators on Monday morning and thrown them behind coolers for instigating a protest over the closure of Elegu border town.
The legislatures including the candid Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto, and the Kilak county MP, Gilbert Olanya were picked up by police and whisked off to CPS Gulu after gathering a mob of youth and Boda Boda riders to stage a protest.
The unruly crowd reportedly pitched camp at Pece division and started yelling that the government shuts down the Elegu entry point and the town for two weeks.
Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa river region police mouthpiece says that the duo started an illegal protest without getting clearance from the police first.
It should be remembered that the Elegu entry point in Amuru district has been at the epicenter of COVID-19 infections in the country with 90 percent of them coming from truck drivers who enter the country through the border post.
In a press briefing on Friday legislatures from Acholi asked the government to put the Elegu town council under quarantine for 21 days.
Led by the Leader of Opposition and Gulu Woman MP Betty Aol Ochan MPs asked the government put in place COVID-19 testing machines at Elegu border and also an ambulance to transport patients to treatment centers.
They claimed that there could already be community cases in the area with transmissions ongoing since the truck drivers have mingled with the community.
Gulu Regional Referral Hospital now has 67 COVID-19 positive cases that were intercepted from other border points.
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