Bukwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Chelimo, the Bukwo District Chairperson who is on remand on prices of aggravated human trafficking and aggravated defilement, has expressed ardour in keeping his seat.
On Saturday, Chelimo’s brother, Kennedy Kwemoi, picked up the expression of ardour types on behalf of his brother.
Per Kwemoi, Chelimo’s attorney steered him that Chelimo is eligible to contest since he is serene a suspect unless proven guilty.
Chelimo has been in reformatory since his arrest in November 2022, accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old lady who became once a scholar in a single of the colleges within the Sebei position. The crime allegedly took station in loads of areas in Mbale, Bukwo, Kapchorwa, and Budaka districts.
Per court info, the victim, who became once living with her elder sister on the time of the incident, attended Chepkwesta Valuable College in Bukwo District, from the put Chelimo allegedly developed a sexual relationship with her and outmoded the victim’s uncle to entice her.
After loads of failed makes an strive, the uncle at closing persuaded the victim to meet Chelimo, promising her monetary benefits. The prosecution alleges that the victim became once taken to the house of one other co-accused, Felix Chelimo, the put she met the baby-kisser. Court info counsel that Chelimo engaged in sexual process with the victim a pair of times, the utilize of fallacious guarantees of marriage and a bigger lifestyles in Kampala.
Chelimo will seemingly be robust for the occasion flag against the appearing chairperson, Marisa Chepetegei, Tom Kwom Chesol, the pale Resident District Commissioner, Kapchorwa, Fred Fokop Soyekwo, Peter Kongei Mandos, Esther Soet Cherop, Siwa Tom Chekwel and Alex Bomet Chericha.
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