Nakapiripirit Staff Strike Over Killings
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The Monitor (Kampala)
June 14, 2005
Posted to the web June 14, 2005
Sylvester Onyang
Nakapiripirit
CIVIL servants laid down their tools protesting the increasing rate of insecurity in the district.
All schools, health centres and Amudat Hospital were closed from Monday to Tuesday last week.
"We want the government to intervene. We cannot continue to be killed everyday," said Rev. Mark Aol, the chairperson of the sit-down strike steering committee.
The laying down of tools follows the death of three civil servants and an aid worker. The latest incident was the killing of the district accountant, Dennis Apuun.
He was shot dead by armed thugs on his way to Nabilatuk sub-county where he was going to attend the ordination ceremony of a Catholic priest, Fr. Justine Losike.
The strike follows a resolution civil servants passed in a meeting on June 1.
They agreed that they would not resume work until a tangible response to the insecurity was achieved.
They also resolved that the authorities should speed up the arrest and trial of the killers.
"There is no reason for us to continue working in fear yet it is our brothers whom we are serving who are threatening our lives," said Aol.
The civil servants said the strike would lead to the strengthening of the disarmament exercise.
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The Chief Administrative Officer, Mr Churchill Lokoroi, on June 6 asked the workers to consider the execution of basic services.
He said health centres should be kept open to emergency cases.
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