By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
MUKONO:
Police in Mukono District are holding their own for allegedly shooting dead a 15-year-old girl during curfew guidelines enforcement on Saturday night.
The suspect is Caleb Asiimwe, the Officer in Charge for Mbalala police station in Nama sub county Mbalala Mukono District, while the deceased has been identified as Shamim Nantambala.
According the Mukono Division Police commander, Annabel Nyinamahoro, the fateful incident happened when Asiimwe was dispersing the people who had gathered in the area to welcome a New Year on Saturday past midnight and a stray bullet shot Nantambala in her waists.
Nantambala was selling chips in the area to help raise her school fees a head of school’s reopening on January 10.
The shooting aroused anger among the residents who turned rowdy against the officiers at Mbalala police station. These were dispersed by security by firing bullets in the air and spraying teargas but the angry mob soon returned at the station condemning the acts of Asiimwe whom they accused of illegal arrests of their fellows and misconducts.
This prompted Nyinamahoro who had talked to the protesters to reintervene and the situation was quickly calmed down after she introduced to the angry mob Nabiffo Olivia, the newly appointed OC of the station.
Nyinamahoro told protesters that she had already ordered for the arrest of Afande Asiimwe and was in the hands of police pending court.
Nantamba’s body was taken to Mulago city mortuary for postmortem awaiting to be buried at her father’s (Siraje Bigulu) ancestral home in Busabaaga Buikwe District
