Six army officers accused of beating up people during the on-going COVID-19 curfew have been convicted and each sentenced to serve six months imprisonment.
The officers were sentenced in a session held at 4th Division Headquarters in Gulu after pleading guilty to all five counts of assault causing actual body harm.
The jailed army officers are; CPL Constantine Amanya, John Max Ebongo, Muhammed Makanga, Robert Muteke, Rogers Amanya and Elias Ayebazibwe all at the ranks of private.
Prosecution states that the six officers on April 2nd 2020 at around 8pm at Lorikowo West zone in Elegu town council in Amuru district beat with sticks five people thereby causing bodily injuries on them.
Court heard that the injuries were inflicted on the victims’ thighs, arms, buttocks, back and other parts of the body.
The women were orounded up in a lodge owned by the chairperson of the Cross Border Traders Cooperative, Auma Margaret.
According to Auma, Police, and LDUs in Elegu allegedly pulled out women and some men from their homes, beat, and forced them to roll in the mud after asking them to put off their clothes. Some were allegedly asked to rub the mud in their private parts as the officers, laughed at them.
The group were accused of flouting the presidential directives on containing coronavirus.
