Kasanga Ofungi, the LC I Chairperson of Kyehoro landing site, says that the assailants took off when area residents sounded an alarm after several houses caught fire. He says that residents struggled to put off the fire in vain.
Manjia County MP John Baptist Nambeshe who also doubles as the Opposition Chief Whip said following the shooting of other prominent persons in the past years, the President should clean up the security in its entirety.
Oulanyah, who visited Katumba together with his Deputy Anita Among, says that the attackers approached the General’s vehicle from the back and front and were determined to eliminate him.
Epitu Gadi, the Kaabong District Deputy Resident District Commissioner revealed that the people killed were either investigating the rustlers or those who have reported to the authorities about the raids of their cattle.
The incident happened at around 8: 30 p.m. on Thursday when the attackers hacked the two relatives with machetes on the head, chest and face. They also left a seven-year-old, Enock Asaba critically injured.
The body of Jacob Tumusiime, a resident of Kyakasenene cell in Kagadi town was found dumped in the caves of Kibanga hills in Kagadi town council by residents who had gone to collect firewood.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police Spokesperson, says Asaba’s lifeless body was found lying in a pool of blood near her house. He says Kagadi police rushed to the crime scene and retrieved the body, which currently lying at Kagadi Hospital Mortuary pending postmortem.
Byaruhanga suspects that Tusiime was first raped before she was killed since they found her body naked. Tusiimes body was taken to Kabale Regional Referral hospital mortuary for postmortem
The police spokesperson for Kigezi Region, Elly Maate says that preliminary investigations show that the deceased was strangled to death. But his killers did not take any of his possessions which included, among others, a mobile phone and money.
