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Uganda has been recording random shootings in the past one month, some have been fatal while others while others have left the victims severely injured. Police says there’s cause for alarm and insist the country is safe.
This month alone, Private Sabiiti shot and killed minister Charles Okello Engola, turned the gun and killed himself, days later blogger Tusubiira Isma alias Isma Olaxess was gunned down in the same area of Kyanja.
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Police Constable Ivan Wabwire shot Utam Bandhari a money lender at Raja Chambers, he has was arrested at the Busia boarder while escaping to Kenya, he has since been charged and remanded to prison.
Security guards in Makindye fought after a disagreement, this left one dead. A police officer shot a UPDF soldier in Mbarara after a disagreement reportedly after the victim took a selfie with a woman in the police barracks.
Few days later, a private security guard attached to Saracen Security company shot his colleague dead in Tororo when the two had a disagreement in the Tororo senior quarters where they were deployed. Another security guard shot himself dead at Mukwasi house along Lumumba avenue in Kampala.
Few days a go a police officer in Mukono shot at a female UCU student whom he mistook as a thief in Nabuti village, Mukono municipality. It’s now been reported that a police officer in Kasanda district has shot himself dead.
According to police, the deceased has been identified as No 1037 PC Kitiyo Alex who was attached to Makokota police post in Kasanda district.
“Preliminary facts indicate that today 24/05/2023 at about 500am at Makokota trading centre police constable Kitiyo woke up and shot several bullets into the room of his in charge police post Inspector of Police John Kakooza while not talking anything, then he later returned to his room, sat on his bed and shot himself dead.”-reads part of the police statement
It’s not yet clear what prompted the man in uniform to take his life but on several occasions most of these have been attributed to stressed and poor working conditions.
This comes at a time when several members of parliament have received death threats from people who have since identified as Tired Men in Uniform and police is investigating this.
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