Daily Monitor
Saturday February 13 2021
Signed out. Apita retired late last year after years more than two decades of service. Photo | Ismail Kezaala
Summary
Service. Apita joined the Ministry of Education and Sports in 1994 as an assistant secretary and rose through the ranks, retiring at the level of Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports.
Advertisement
His retirement last November after clocking was similar to how he did his job – quiet and measured.
“I followed the government regulations by not staying an extra day,” Apita, who turned 60 on November 23, 2020, says. The official retirement age for public servants in Uganda is 60.
Apita joined the Ministry of Education and Sports in 1994 as an assistant secretary and rose through the ranks, retiring at the level of Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports.
Dozens battle for nine LC5 seats in Lango Sub-region
Wednesday January 20 2021
Dozens of LC5 candidates are eying nine slots in Lango Sub-region as the country elects district leaders today.
In Apac, Asante Odongo of Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), the current LC5 vice chairperson, is battling for the seat with three others after the incumbent, Bob Okae, was elected Member of Parliament for Kwania North constituency.
Others in the race are Walter Obang of Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC), Billy Okunyo of National Resistance Movement (NRM), and Mr Anthony Olobo Odur, who is standing as an Independent.
Mr Okunyo served as the Apac District Education Officer from 2007 until 2019 when he retired while Mr Obang is a farmer. Mr Olobo is the son of the Lango paramount chief, Mr Yosam Odur Ebii.