The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has constituted a team to coordinate the identification and return of CP Christine Alalo’s body, as the police finally confirm news of the officer’s death in the Ethiopian Airlines flight crash. The Force had yesterday refuted news of CP Alalo’s death, as information circulated on social media […]
The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has constituted a team to coordinate the identification and return of CP Christine Alalo’s body, as the police finally confirm news of the officer’s death in the Ethiopian Airlines flight crash.
The Force had yesterday refuted news of CP Alalo’s death, as information circulated on social media that she was the only Ugandan on the ill-fated flight in which all the 157 occupants perished.
However, the news was first confirmed this morning by Simon Mulongo, Uganda’s Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia. Mulongo said that Alalo was aboard the ill-fated flight , adding that the officer had earlier before the crash communicated to her driver, instructing him to go and pick her up at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi at 10 am. The ill-fated flight was scheduled to arrive at JKIA at 10:30 am yesterday.
The police further confirmed the death of their senior officer in a statement issued later this afternoon. Enanga says the IGP has shared the sad news with the family of the deceased.
Enanga explained that there will be a delay in the arrival of the body, described the deceased as a highly respecting member of the force, adding that her death is a big blow to the force;
Alalo joined the Police on August 8, 2001 as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and served in various positions, including Acting Police Commissioner, AMISOM, a position she held up to the time of her death. According to Police her tour of duty in the war-torn Somalia was scheduled to end in June this year. The officer is survived by two sons.
MEANWHILE, The flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday have been recovered by investigators.
The airline says the devices recovered from the crash site are the cockpit voice recorder and the digital flight data recorder.
The Boeing 737 Max-8 en route from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board.
Several airlines have grounded the model following the crash.
