Uganda Christian University (UCU) fraternity is shocked with the sad news of the passing of their senior lecturer in the Law School, Raphael Okiot who has been killed in an accident on Entebbe road.
Okiot who had stopped in his vehicle registration number UBQ 371P got crushed at Nkumba University traffic lights on Wednesday morning when a truck registration number UAN 836B, a cement mixer, lost control and fell over his car. The truck belongs to Seyani Brothers and Company Limited.
While the truck was not speeding according to the released CCTV footage, with loss of brakes, the yet-to-be identified driver attempted to avoid ramming into Okiot’s Galant Fortis, climbing onto the island on the right.
Unfortunately, this maneuver failed as the truck hit the roadside barrier before overturning and crushing the Mitsubishi vehicle.
It took over an hour for police and other security agents from Special Forces Command to marshal a tow truck to pull the ill-fated concrete mixer from the wreckage of the Mitsubishi that it had almost pulverized.
The late Okiot was a lawyer by profession and a teaching assistant at the UCU Law School.
The Kyenjojo Grade I Magistrate, Faith Irene Kwagala, said in a brief obituary that her husband Raphael Okiot had been killed in the accident that shook the Entebbe-Kampala highway.
Kwagala said funeral arrangements will be announced later.
There had been fears that the crushed vehicle had a family inside but Magistrate Kwagala’s announcement appears to allay this.