LIRA CITY: The Chief Magistrate Court in Lira has charged and remanded a police officer for alleged manslaughter.
There was a police officer named Raymond Esanyu, who is 41 years old and works for the Starch Factory Police Outpost. He was arrested last week on charges that he shot and killed Boniface Agem, 29, who was being held at a cell in the Lira City West Division.
In Lira, Chief Magistrate Samson Loum Abiti, Esanyu went to court on Wednesday and said he was not guilty of the crime.
On the grounds that investigations are still ongoing, Anthony Okello, the state attorney, asked the court to remand the suspect. Abiti remanded Esanyu to Lira Prison on May 5.
Reports indicate that on April 9, Esanyu and two other police constables were on a routine night patrol when they came across a group of people consuming drugs behind a house under construction at Cuk-Ibange in Starch Factory.
It is alleged that some of the suspects ran away, but Agem remained and engaged the officer in a scuffle. Agem is said to have wanted to get the officer’s gun, which would have caused a bullet to go off, killing him right away.
