Musa Asaba, the LC III Chairperson of Butiaba town council told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that passersby found Derick’s lifeless body in a nearby bush in Boma cell at around 12 pm Wednesday and immediately informed the area leaders.
“I woke up early in the morning to go and ease myself only to be welcomed by a dead body dumped in front of my clinic. I can’t tell who dumped the body what I did was to immediately alert the police who came and picked the body,” said Nyangoma.
The deceased's son, Nicholas Muhanguzi told Uganda Radio Network in an interview on Tuesday evening that, they heard his late father screaming for help and rushed to see what was happening only to find his lifeless body lying in a pool of blood in the compound.
The deceased minors have been identified as Ofoi Mungu,8, and Mercy 5, both children of Godfrey Utungi and Grace Anirwoth of the same area. The minor's mother was away in the trading center when the assailants torched the house.
Godwine Alinaitwe, a resident of the area, says that they heard Kadoma screaming for help and rushed to see what was happening only to find him lying in a pool of blood outside his house.
Jackson Musinguzi, a prison warder from Kyakasengura government prison told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that they heard Otimong screaming for help and rushed to see what was happening only to find him bleeding in his house.
Patrick Okumu, one of the residents says that they currently living in fear that the assailants could torch more houses. He wants the police to comprehensively investigate the incident and get those behind the attack.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson told Uganda Radio Network on Tuesday that after a case of abduction was reported at the Hoima city central police station, they dispatched a team of flying squad operatives that started tracking the suspects.
John Turyagenda, a resident of the same area, says that they heard the deceased’s family members screaming and rushed to check what was happening only to find him the assailants had fled the scene.
According to Constance Katwesige, an eye witness, the assailants driving a white Premio vehicle dumped Mukitale’s body a few meters from her garden and drove off at a terrible speed.
According to the deceased’s father Edward Mbabazi, his son disappeared from home on Saturday evening and did not return home, which prompted him to report a case of a missing person at Kyangwali Police Station.
The deceased has been identified as Jackson Tumusiime, a boda boda rider at Kikwaya trading center in Kikwaya sub county Kakumiro district. The incident happened on Saturday night.
