By Okidi Patrick/ Umoja Standard.
ABIM: The family members of the 1st Pilot engineer killed by president Idii Amin Dada ,want him recognized and declared a hero by H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda,General Yoweri Museveni Kaguta.
Talking about the First Pilot Engineer in Uganda who hails from Agago district in East Acholi district ,one of the family members had an interactive interview with our reporter on Tuesday from Abim District at Orwamuge town Council.
Esther Immaculate Ajwang confirmed to our reporter that they went through a number of pain as orphans who grow up without a father after their father bwas killed by Amin.
“Myself,Pamela Anying and Ambrose Ojok are the children of the first pilot Engineer but we were helpless after our father’s death”Narrated Esther Ajwang.
According to her,Engineer Ambrose Ojok was murdered by former dictator, Idi Amin Dada and the whereabout of his dead body remains unknown to them as members of family.
Engineer Ojok who was one of the 1st Pilot engineers in Uganda ,well known in the whole of Karamoja,greater East Acholi districts and the whole Uganda.
He was an Acholi from Corner Adek in Adilang town council. , Agago County, Agago district of Northern Uganda.
He was a son to Rwot Lamot a well Known Chief among many prominentĀ Acholi chiefs (Rwodi)commonly known to everyone in the present day ranging from,Adilang Town council, AdilangĀ sub-county, Lalal,Kulaka,Lacek-Otoo ,Abim district espicially Kanu ,Awach, Morulem,Kiru Orwamuge among other areas.
However ,in the present greater Agago areas of today like Agago North and AgagoĀ County covering now the popular areas stretching fromĀ Kalongo,Paimol,Parabongo,Wol Lapono among others.
Rwot Lamot was also well known in the area of greater Lira Palwo,Lukole,Pader, Kitgum,the greater Gulu and in all the 54 cultural Chiefdoms set up in the”Ker kwaro Acholi”chiefdom.
He was an aircraft engineer killed by the late president Idii AminĀ Dada in 1977 according to one of his daughters ,Esther Ajwang Immaculate.
His body has never been found and the family members are requesting President Yoweri Museveni Kaguta to help them trace the where about of the remain as government so that they conduct a fair burial for his remains (RIP Eng.Ambroae Ojok).
He left a widow called Akot Mary Grace the first police woman in Karamoja sub-region.
He left three children,two girls and a boy who are now grown up adults.
The relatives therefore are appealing to the government of Uganda to investigate the matter so that the late engineer Ambrose ojok is declared a hero and they are requesting the government to compensate the family since he was killed by a former President and up to now the poor widow request to see president Museveni on Camera for possible assistance.
The there children of the late pilot are ,Esther Immaculate Ajwang,Pamela Anying and Ambrose Ojok.
They are now saying they grow as orphans but through the possible intervention of H.E General Yoweri Yoweri Museveni Kaguta, they feel they can be secured and compensated as others.
For more information on this story ,you can contact Ajwang Immaculate Esther on her known telephone number
0772690553
Or email her on,
esther.ajwang@gmail.com