By Matthew Okello
TORORO
A P.7 Candidate and health prefect of Industrial View primary school in Bison B village, Tororo municipality has been confirmed dead after he sunk in the family pit latrine.
The deceased has been identified as Emmanuel Ochieng 16, a resident of Bsion B.
According to Stephen Odur, the uncle to the boy, his nephew came back home at around 5pm from school greeted him and proceeded his way.
5 minutes after their interaction, Odur said that he heard an alarm from his children that Ochieng had sunk in the pit latrine.
It took over 2 hours to recover Ochieng from the pit latrine where he was removed in a coma.
Martin Okello Katandi, a resident in the area says the incident has generated fear amongst residents arguing that most of them will be forced to stop their children from going to the pit latrines.
Eridad Ochola, a maths teacher at Industrial view primary school told East News that Ocieng had left the school few minutes after he finished doing his last mock examination papers.
Ochola described Ochieng as one of the brightest candidates that they hoped could get for the school a first grade in the forthcoming primary leaving examination.
Western division chairperson, Jamal Al Manyadi called the incident unfortunate and pledged to have the division intensify operations on pit latrines.
The chairman also warned against using unqualified personnel from constructing both houses and pit latrines.
