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There are now six escapee inmates including Lochu who have been re-arrested since the prison break . Police said 6 out of the 14 guns raided from the Moroto prison armory in September, 2020 have also been recovered .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disarmament effort which was prompted by a surge in armed cattle rustling has been successful so far with a big number of guns recovered from warriors by the UPDF and police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Reporter in Kotido Lokolikau Lochu, a resident of Katap village in Meriria parish, Kotido North division was arrested with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG-20210720-WA0340.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6175,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ministry-of-energy-has-held-a-joint-security-meeting-to-ensure-safe-surveying-of-minerals-in-karamoja-region\/","url_meta":{"origin":3704,"position":0},"title":"MINISTRY OF ENERGY HAS HELD A JOINT SECURITY MEETING TO ENSURE SAFE SURVEYING OF MINERALS IN KARAMOJA REGION","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"July 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Ministry through the Directorate of Geological Surveys and Mines (DGSM) has conducted a high \u00a0level Joint Security framework in Moroto district. \u00a0 The meeting held at Hotel Africana Moroto was attended by\u00a0 Ministers, district leadership from 9 \u00a0districts,\u00a0 MEMD staff and the Contractor \u00a0Xcalibur. \u00a0 The districts represented at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Minerals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Minerals","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/minerals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/lokeris.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/lokeris.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/lokeris.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/lokeris.jpg 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2071,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/how-govts-own-officers-planned-moroto-prison-break\/","url_meta":{"origin":3704,"position":1},"title":"How Govts\u2019 Own Officers Planned Moroto Prison Break","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A\u00a0crack team of specialized investigative experts have cracked the mystery of Moroto Government Prison break of September 16th that helped over two hundred hard core criminals and suspects escape with a dozen machineguns and countless rounds of ammunition. 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