Veteran journalist, John Muto Ono Pa Lajur has been awarded a lifetime achievement award for his reporting on the bloody Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict in Northern Uganda.
The former Bureau Chief of the Daily Monitor newspaper in Gulu, was awarded by the Uganda Media Sector Working Group during the World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Kampala on the 3rd of this month.
The award which came with a 500,000 shillings cash prize was delivered to the 73- year old yesterday by Irene Abalo Otto, a Journalist and founder of Afrimedia, a media training organization in the presence of several journalists at his home in Laliya, Gulu City.
Muto says he is happy that his efforts in reporting on the war and the peace efforts are being recognized.
Through his reporting on the war, the world learnt about the plight of the people in Northern Uganda leading to food aid and other forms of support to the war affected persons.
Muto was recognized along with Sheila Mishambi who received a lifetime achievement award for bravely reporting on the Rwandan genocide where over a million people were killed in 100 days.
Muto is the author of a book titled “War in Northern Uganda, a Journalist’s account” which contains a compilation of his stories published in the Daily Monitor in 1997.
By Justine Muboka
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