Uganda: Tororo Man Gets Six Years for Roughing Up Judge

27 December 2012

Tororo — Court in Tororo has handed a six-year jail sentence to a man accused of manhandling a magistrate and Police officer.

Joseph Oburu, 46, the defence secretary of Kadanya zone in Mella sub-county, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment for threatening violence and another 36 months for assault at Lugero Prison in Gulu district.

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