Nambi says that assailants fled through a feeder road connecting Magamaga town council to Musita-Lumino highway but residents were hesitant to pursue them since they were armed.
The attack comes just two weeks after the victim's colleague, Asuman Mutegula, a private guard working with the same security group was shot dead while guarding a produce store, in Kasokoso ward, in Central division, in Iganga municipality.
Mutegula is reported to have been shot dead on Sunday night, while guarding a produce warehouse in Kasokoso cell, in central division, in Iganga municipal council.
Security personnel have intensified both foot and motorized patrols in the different suburbs within Kiira region, to beef up the already existing efforts of village security committees.
Now speaking to URN, Kirabira has expressed disappointment over the way police handled the case and wondered why then police took the man to court that later remanded him instead of taking him to a mental health facility.
“The assailants who had covered their faces called out to grandfather who politely followed them, but I was shocked to find out that, he was killed,” his grandson Bosco Tirutya says.
31-year-old Ronald Mawa, a guard attached to Hash Security Services Limited was shot dead while his three colleagues Alfred Opio, Edrine Bwiire and Herban Muhanguzi sustained serious injuries and are admitted at Jinja regional referral hospital emergency unit
The guard only identified as Mawa and attached to Hash Security Company was shot in the head, chest and stomach and died instantly while two of his colleagues sustained injuries on the thigh.
Gunmen have shot and killed one person in Magamaga Trading Centre in Mayuge district. Henry Basoga was watching television inside his residence around 8:45pm on Wednesday night when the assailants broke in, gunned him down and fled the scene.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police spokesperson told Uganda Radio Network on Thursday that Oyirwoth was picked up by officers from Kyatiri Police post and was immediately transferred to Masindi Central Police Station.
Police has pressed charges of illegal possession of a firearm and suspected murder against the suspects who are locked up at Jinja Central police station.
It is alleged that, on Monday, the suspects intercepted Kenneth Wetaka’s car, Fuso registration number; UBD 415S which was carrying 10 tons of sugar valued at 131.6 million Shillings, undressed him and fled off with his property.
Alamanzani Gabulila, a former security guard with Blue Light Security Company was picked up on Tuesday morning from Kisaikya village in Namasagali Sub County where he was in hiding.
A joint security team comprising officers from various police and military specialized units took full control of the hotel building around 11pm pm on Tuesday evening, according to the Interior Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiangi.
Kenyas Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinet told journalists in a second media briefing that because of the swift response of the security agencies the situation has been contained.
The suspect, whose name has been withheld by police, was picked up from unnamed clinic in Kira Municipality where he had been rushed by his colleagues for treatment for a dog bite.
