It is alleged that at around 7:00 pm, a police patrol vehicle knocked a motorcycle rider at Mafubira along Jinja-Iganga road. Boda Boda cyclists confronted the police officers and demanded that they take their colleague to hospital for treatment.
However, when the police officers refused, the cyclists pelted the police personnel with stones. The police retaliated by firing live bullets directly at the crowd, killing Samanya instantly and injuring another.
CID Spokesperson, Charles Twine, said the impounding of the Pick Up is part of the measures investigators are taking to ensure all property that was purchased using money conned from Belesis is attached in order to recover the victim’s money.
According to Monica Muhumuza Nzeirwe, Kabale District Probation Officer, the suspect was arrested on Wednesday evening on a tip-off from Rugarama hospital authorities and Keeping Children Healthier and Safe, a community-based organization operating in Kabale district
Stanley Awuki the Officer in Charge-OC of Kitimbwa Police Station says they have pulled the truck frame to Kitimbwa police station and investigations into the whoe fracas have commenced
The deceased was strangled after being sexually violated, and the Albertine region police spokesperson Julius Hakiza told URN that so far one suspect, her former boy friend Gestephas Nkuuna, has been arrested to help police with investigations.
The suspect is Innocent Okot attached to Saracen Security Company Limited Hoima branch. He disappeared with the company gun registration number SAR 12116651/06277, with five rounds of ammunition.
Firefighting trucks often parked in the compound had been partly submerged by water and it was hardly possible for them to be moved away. Policemen and soldiers who camp around Nakivubo channel sought refuge in the fire trucks.
In his judgement, Justice Stephen Mubiru the former Gulu High Court Judge and the current Judge of the Commercial Court in Kampala said the maximum punishment for murder if death but it can be reduced if the accused is a first offender who shows possibility of reforming
Josephine Angucia, the West Nile Regional police spokesperson, says the minors picked up the explosive from a bush near the settlement around 2 pm and tried to cut it using a machete triggering it to explode.
