Moroto municipality former MP Simon Peter Aleper
popularly known as Aspro has died in a road crash along Iganga-Tirinyi road as
he headed to Kampala.
Busoga east region police in a statement said the
accident occurred at about 1am at Bukoona, along Iganga-Tirinyi highway.
According to sources within the NRM party, Aspro who
was the NRM vice chairperson for Karamoja was traveling for the party’s central
executive committee meeting.
Reports indicate that the accident was a head-on
collision involving Aspro’s Toyota V8 with registration number UAP 787 and
another vehicle whose specifics could not be readily established.
Aspro represented Moroto municipality in the 9th
parliament between 2011 and 2015, only to be trounced by now former MP Fred
Angella in the 2016 polls.