The ruling National Resistance Movement Central Executive Committee (CEC) member for Karamoja Simon Peter Aleper has perished in a road crash this morning along Tirinyi Pallisa Highway.
Aleper, the former Moroto Municipality MP, was rushing for a Central Executive Committee brief meeting in Kampala by the time of the crash.
Busoga East Region Police, in a statement, said the accident occurred at about 1am at Bukoona along Iganga-Tirinyi highway.
The accident was a head-on collision of a Toyota V8 registration number UAP 787Q and another whose specifics could not be readily established.
Police said Aleper who was driving in a V8 car died on the spot.Mr Aleper lost to Francis Adome Lorika in Moroto Municipality in the last general elections.
