The Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Eng Hillary Onek has dragged Aruu County MP, Odonga Otto, Kilak South County MP, Olanya Gilbert and Chwa West County MP, Okin Ojara to court for calling him a South Sudanese. He is demanding them to pay him Shs 400million as damages for allegedly defaming him.
In the suit filed before the Civil Division court in Kampala, Eng Onek Hillary stated that Odonga labelled him a non Ugandan masquerading as an Acholi.
Odonga Otto reportedly asked the minister to trace his roots in South Sudan. The statements were reportedly made during a talk show on which Odonga Otto was hosted on 17th June 2020.
This comes during the broadcast, Otto stated that he knows the Minister’s brother who serves as a Permanent Secretary in Juba and a sister who also serves as a Member of Parliament in South Sudan. He stressed that because of his roots, the Minister was adamant to the plight of the Acholi people who have continually lived under suppression, insecurity and land grabbing.
