The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Vice Chairperson for Karamoja region, Simon Peter Aleper, has died in a motor accident along Iganga-Tirinyi Road.

Sources within NRM have disclosed that the deceased was traveling for the ruling party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting.

According to the statement from Busoga East Region Police, the accident occurred at about 1 a.m. at Bukoona along the Iganga-Tirinyi highway.

The accident was a head-on collision between a Toyota V8 registration number UAP 787Q and another whose specifics could not be readily established.

Aleper was driving the V8 and died on the spot, according to the police.

The deceased was coming from Mbale side and collided with an unknown motor vehicle that was coming from Iganga direction, lost control, and veered off the road.

Aleper lost to Francis Adome Lorika in Moroto municipality in the 2021 general elections.