Mukono headmaster shot by police enforcing curfew dies
- Written by URN
Eric Mutasiga, the headteacher of Merry Time primary school in Mukono district has succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained as police tried arresting his neighbour last month.
Mutasiga was shot as he allegedly tried to plead with the police officers and LDUs not to shoot a chapatti vendor who was found selling chapatti during curfew time. The officers were enforcing COVID-19 control guidelines in Wantoni Village along Mukono-Katosi road on May 13, 2020.
Mutasiga’s wife, Viola Nabatanzi said that her husband, who sustained wounds in the thigh and chest breathed his last at Mulago national referral hospital on Tuesday night after undergoing surgery. Prior to his death, Mutasiga, pleaded with the government to cater for his medical bills such that he could undergo surgery in vain.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says preliminary information available shows that the deceased tried to fight off the officers. However, he says investigations are still ongoing to ascertain how Mutasiga was shot.
Mutasiga becomes the seventh person to be killed by law enforcement officers while implementing the COVID-19 preventive guidelines over the last 75 days.
The victims were shot by UPDF soldiers, police officers and LDUs while enforcing the orders intended to curb the spread of contagious disease.
Mutasiga was shot as he allegedly tried to plead with the police officers and LDUs not to shoot a chapatti vendor who was found selling chapatti during curfew time. The officers were enforcing COVID-19 control guidelines in Wantoni Village along Mukono-Katosi road on May 13, 2020.
Mutasiga’s wife, Viola Nabatanzi said that her husband, who sustained wounds in the thigh and chest breathed his last at Mulago national referral hospital on Tuesday night after undergoing surgery. Prior to his death, Mutasiga, pleaded with the government to cater for his medical bills such that he could undergo surgery in vain.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says preliminary information available shows that the deceased tried to fight off the officers. However, he says investigations are still ongoing to ascertain how Mutasiga was shot.
Mutasiga becomes the seventh person to be killed by law enforcement officers while implementing the COVID-19 preventive guidelines over the last 75 days.
The victims were shot by UPDF soldiers, police officers and LDUs while enforcing the orders intended to curb the spread of contagious disease.
We want justice: An audio recording of Viola Nabatanzi, wife to now late Eric Mutasiga who succumbed to bullet wounds y/day. This was recorded before her husband passed on. Mutasiga was shot in the chest and thigh by police last month while enforcing curfew guidelines pic.twitter.com/fZUw8Rs9ZP
— The Observer (@observerug) June 10, 2020
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m7 gov't has lost the right to claim better more professional security than the Obote gov'ts.
The president is tired of and angered by the Ugandan thieves
Amin and Obote governments didn't kill innocent civilians but only criminals and those who wanted to overthrow their governments.
But in Museveni's government anybody regardless of age, gender except his tribe is a legitimate target for brutality.
Count how many women, children and others who have been killed by the security forces during this corona period. Why law have the broken?
Another victim of presidential directive.
Did the police use escalation of force procedures if they even have any? Did the deceased present imminent threat of death or severe injury to the officers?
These thugs in uniform are too trigger happy on top of being under educated.