There was serious drama this morning in the premises of Soroti District local government offices when Councilors engaged themselves into a serious fight in the presence of the Resident District Commissioner, the District Police commander and the other top district leaders.
The scuffle emerged after councilors blocked the Chief administrative officer from entering his office to carry out his official duties.
This caused tension in the district as the entire activities came to a standstill for close to a half a day.
Early this morning, a section of hungry councilors went and locked the office to the Chief administrative officer Soroti Mr. Aggrey Muramira whom according to them is accused of abuse of office and conniving with technical staff to swindle the public funds.
According to the angry councilors, Mr, Aggrey Winston Muramira the Chief Administrative Officer is also blamed for office misconduct and failing to perform his duties as constituted by the law.
Earlier on this year, Soroti district received a total sum of Ushs 1 Billion shillings towards the construction of the new administrative Unit since the City absorbed their current premises, but because of the divided council, nothing has been done and its high risk to return to the consolidated funds is what has also caused friction amongst the councilors.
The council emergency meeting turned into serious drama when one of the councilors Samuel Eyangu also the secretary for finance assaulted his colleague Bob Owiny the councilor for Tubur Sub County.