Simon Peter Aleper

NEWS– It’s a wailing Tuesday in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) following the untimely death of the party Vice Chairperson for Karamoja region, Simon Peter Aleper.

Aleper died this morning, 23rd July 2023 in a motor accident along Iganga-Tirinyi Road.

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Our reporter has been able to understand that the deceased was travelling for the ruling party’s Central Executive Committee meeting by the time he met his death.

Busoga East Region Police spokesperson Diana Nandawula, in a statement, said the accident occurred at about 1am at Bukoona along Iganga-Tirinyi highway.

The accident was a head-on collusion of a Toyota V8 registration number UAP 787Q and another whose specifics could not be readily established.

Aleper was driving the V8 and died on the spot, Police said.

The deceased was coming from Mbale side and collided with an unknown Motor vehicle which was coming from Iganga direction, lost control and veered off the road.

Mr Aleper lost to Francis Adome Lorika in Moroto Municipality in the last general elections.

By press time NRM Secretariat was yet to make an official statement on the demise of Aleper, who has been hailed as a staunch pillar of mobilization in the Karamoja sub-region.