The arrested security guard has been identified as Luke Nziku, attached to SGA security company limited while the injured victim has been identified as Simon Wadiya.
In an application filed before the High Court in Wakiso, Eremigio Mwesigwa Masagazi, a resident of Kalambi Village in Buloba, accuses Captain Frank Nyakairu and his guard, Private Simon Opolot, of unlawfully shooting his son, Ivan Ssentongo, on January 21, 2025.
The detained police officer has been identified as Detective Assistant Inspector of police Reuben Kwihangana while the deceased is identified as Mawala Mawejje, a boda boda rider and a resident of Rukoge cell in Hoima West division of Hoima city.
The incident occurred on Saturday morning at around 9:30 a.m. when the stranger, believed to be in his 40s, entered the army barracks under unclear circumstances.
According to Samson Kasasira, the Rwizi Region Police Spokesperson, it is alleged that on July 17th, while at Step in Bar along the Kakoba road in Mbarara City, Asiimwe using a pistol shot and injured Kasbert Tukahirwa 24, a resident Kakoba central Kakoba Division in the foot.
Ogwang was driving his official car registration number UG 0865Z which also caught fire in the shooting. He later this morning died at Bombo Military Hospital where he had been rushed for treatment.
The suspect is Solomon Baker Bakabe who was deployed to guard the camp site for China Railway Number 5 construction company in Mparo cell Hoima East division along the Hoima-Masindi road.
John Patrick Mayanja, the Chairperson of fishermen at Kishenyi Landing Site, says the soldiers arrived when the fishermen were checking on their nets and shot at them.
A police officer told URN that the suspect was carrying a sack full of tiles, which he is believed to have stolen from one of the factories in industrial park. The officer said they asked the deceased to stop as the 999 patrol vehicle approached him but he threw the sack and started running.
