By Jennifer Acheng
Local leaders in Kotido district have described the former Kotido resident district commissioner Ambrose Onoria as a fatherly figure who acted as a unifying factor in the district.
The leaders were speaking during the poorly attended official handover and takeover ceremony, held at the district headquarters on Monday.
Last month, president Yoweri Museveni announced a major reshuffle that saw Ambrose Onoria, transferred to Gulu as the new resident city commissioner and replaced by Charles Ichogor who was moved from Arua city to Kotido district as the new RDC.
Emmanuel Lodio, the Kotido district speaker, says Onoria served the district diligently and often looked for solutions to issues at hand, including insecurity, further calling for the spirit of unity and team work from the incoming RDC.
Peter Abrahams Irar, the Kotido municipal mayor says the outgoing RDC was a key figure in building the NRM agenda in the district, noting that he played an instrumental role in attaining the prevailing peace.
Paul Komol Lotee, the Kotido district LCV Chairperson urged the incoming RDC to focus on the issue of wage for the Kotido general hospital, something he says has to be done with outmost urgency.
Onoria, on his part hailed the district leadership for according him the respect and support during his three-year tenure in office, further imploring his incoming counterpart to look into the issues of street children and vandalism.
The incoming Kotido RDC Charles Ichogor in his acceptance remark noted that he will base his leadership on the four pillars of social economic transformation, peaceful co-existence with neighboring districts, democracy and service delivery.
