{UAH} Lira Woman MP cheats death after mourning colleague

Lira Woman MP hospitalised after road accident

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Lira Woman MP Atim Joy's car which overturned several times, leaving her injured and hospitalized. Inset is Ms Atim. Photo by URN/Bill Oketch  

By BILL OKETCH

Posted  Tuesday, December 15   2015 at  12:07

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Ms Atim was involved in the accident as she was travelling back from Parliament where she had gone to bid farewell to the fallen Bukomansimbi Woman MP, Susan Namaganda. Namaganda died at Nakasero Hospital following a road accident at Mpanga forest reserve, in Masaka last Friday morning.

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Lira Woman Member of Parliament Joy Atim Ongom has been admitted to Lira Regional Referral Hospital following a road accident at Apii on Lira -Kampala highway on Monday night.

The accident occurred at around 1am after a trailer, whose registration number was not established collided head-on with Ms Atim's vehicle, a Toyota Land Cruiser leaving the legislator with two others seriously injured. Also injured are the MP's driver only identified as Mr Paul and her political assistant Ms Santa Angela, who is also the Lira LC5 councillor for Ngetta and Adekokwok Sub-counties. 

Ms Atim was involved in the accident as she was travelling back from Parliament where she had gone to bid farewell to the fallen Bukomansimbi Woman MP, Susan Namaganda. Namaganda died at Nakasero Hospital following a road accident at Mpanga forest reserve, in Masaka last Friday morning.

On Tuesday morning, nobody was allowed in to see the Lira Woman MP at the health facility where she is receiving medication with the other two involved in the accident. Hospital administration, however, assured the general public that they were all out of danger.

"Honourable (Ms Atim) has requested that we should not allow people to see her, but I can assure the public that we are doing everything we can to save their lives. As I speak now they are out of danger," the acting hospital administrator, Mr Edward Munje, told journalists.

Lira District speaker Martin Ocen Odyen said he and some district councillors, friends and relatives who went to visit the patients were not allowed in.

"We thank God for the gift of a new day He has given them and we wish them a quick recovery," he said.

North Kyoga regional police spokesperson, Mr Manshur Suwed, however said he was not aware of the accident.

Lira Woman MP cheats death after mourning colleague
Publish Date: Dec 15, 2015

Lira Woman MP Joy Atim Ongom in the private room of Female Surgical Ward at Lira Regional Referral Hospital after her vehicle was rammed off the road Tuesday morning.Photo by Hudson Apunyo

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By Hudson Apunyo

LIRA - Just a day after Members of Parliament paid tribute to their fallen colleague Susan Namaganda who died following a road accident, Lira woman MP Joy Atim Ongom cheated death when her vehicle was hit by a trailer and bumped off the road Tuesday morning.

Atim and her political assistant also Ngetta/Adekokwok councilor to Lira district, Santa Angela, survived with injuries and are admitted at Lira Regional Referral Hospital. 

Their driver Paul Odongo was given first aid and discharged.

Reports indicate that Atim was traveling back to Lira after paying tribute to Namaganda when their vehicle, a Toyota Prado, registration number UAQ 734X, was hit on the sides by an oncoming trailer forcing it to roll over several times. The identity of the trailer has not been established.

Kole traffic boss Wamuyale Muhammed inspects the vehicle at Lira CPS. Photo by Hudson Apunyo

The Senior Hospital Administrator Edward Mwanje said the legislator was in a stable condition but would carry out x-ray examinations after Atim complained of lot of pain in the neck.

By the time of filing this report, the duo was being taken to a private clinic for x-ray as the hospital's x-ray equipment is down.

Woman Councilor for Adekokwok Sub County Santa Angela who is political assistant to MP Joy Atim Ongom at Lira Regional Referral Hospital after the accident. Photo by Hudson Apunyo

Mohammed Wamuyale, the OC traffic of Kole said the trailer driver seems to have been driving in the middle of the road and failed to give way causing the accident.

The other passenger of the ill fated car said she was traveling with a bus back to Lira when it broke down at Bwaise and she joined the legislator.

She said the trailer had poor lighting.

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