Security personnel in Lwemiyaga County, Ssembabule district have today fired live bullets that have left one person, a supporter of area Member of Parliament Theodore Ssekikubo dead.
Ssekikubo has identified the deceased as Alex Ssembuusi. He says the security personnel which include both Police and the army found them enjoying their peace and started confronting them and in the end, they started shooting aiming at the people.
Ssembabule Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Jane Frances Kagayi confirmed the death of one person by shooting.
Kagayi said she had sent the officer in charge of police to the scene of crime to ascertain the cause of the incident that triggered the shooting.
Ssekikubo is battling with the aged retired UPDF officer, Brig. Gen. Emmanuel Rwashande in the NRM primaries.
The incumbent accuses the security officials including police heads and UPDF of siding with Rwashande and torture him and his supporters, and in the end, they have just murdered an innocent person.
He said that he also survived by God’s grace because the deceased was with him.
“They must have intended to shoot me but God protected me!” he said.