By Mulengera Reporters
Phillips Ogile Jakayo, a cyber-bully based in Lira town where he bases to use social media to terrorize the entire Lango Sub Region, has finally been apprehended. A TVO of sorts for Lira town, Jakayo initially popularized himself as a radio presenter with significant online following in the region.
He also serves as the NRM publicity secretary for Oyam district which is home to three senior Ministers in Museveni’s government namely Betty Amongi, Jane Ruth Aceng and Charles Enola Macodwogo. The ruling party cadre, whose social media activism has sometimes bordered on extortion, was harvested from Lira by ruthless detectives from CID headquarters in Kibuli. The bulky political activist was found in Lira town where the detectives effortlessly harvested him like a rain-soaked grasshopper.
Through former Otuke district Woman MP Annet Nyaketcho’s connection, Jakayo has since early this year been a vocal promoter of renegade army general and 2021 presidential aspirant Henry Tumukunde on whose back he has been riding to demonize several senior cadres of the NRM. At the height of his social media madness, Jakayo went as far bashing even Yosam Odur, the much revered Langi Paramount Chief.
Officially, the now caged Jakayo is being accused authoring and circulating literature that amounted to cyber harassment of key leaders from the sub region using his social media platforms like whatsapp and Facebook. Sources close to the CID investigations revealed that Jakayo has directly been attacking senior leaders from Lango including the defense state Minister Rtd Col Charles Okello Engola Macodwogo, Kampala Minister Betty Amongi, Lira Municipality MP Jimmy Akena Obote and former Northern Uganda Minister Rebecca Amuge Otengo. He is being investigated and will subsequently be charged under file number GEF 97/2020 of CID headquarters.
He has also lately been using his same Facebook platform to demonize the incumbent Lango Paramount Chief Wonyaci Yosam Odur in a manner that some have perceived as aimed at bolstering Eng Micheal Odongo Okune who is destined to become the next Paramount Chief replacing Odur. Another source reveals that the country’s intelligence apparatus became interested in Jakayo after he intensified his social media rants while increasingly targeting the person of the President for cyber bullying. This hostility to Museveni is understood to be calculated to benefit Jakayo’s new presidential candidate Gen Henry Tumukunde.
In fact early this year, Jakayo was among those supposed to have been picked along with the defiant General himself from Tumukunde’s Kololo home but he survived narrowly because he had just stepped out when the arresting officers arrived at the enclosed facility in Kololo. A close political ally to MP Nyaketcho (now of Tororo North), Jakayo has lately been vocal in bashing the NRM, a party he confesses to have left to protest inadequate care Gen Museveni accords to supporters in Lango. Jakayo, who was some years ago apprehended and jailed at Lira Central Government Prison for allegedly assaulting his spouse, says it’s time to protest the neglect and indifference with which Museveni treats NRM cadres from Luo-speaking communities.
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