The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family and mourners of the late Ronald Ssebulime have petitioned President Yoweri Museveni to institute independent investigations team into the circumstances, under which the deceased was gunned down.
Ssebulime was gunned down in Nagojje village in Mukono district on Sunday over the weekend by police officers for allegedly trailing Idah Nantaba, the Information Communication and Technology State Minister.
It was somber mood when Ssebulime’s family received his body at his home in Nakabugo village in Wakiso Sub County, Wakiso District on Tuesday afternoon.
Mourners noted that they are doubtful about the ongoing police investigations into the circumstances surrounding the deceased’s shooting on grounds of bias.
Annet Nabukenya, one of the mourners noted that from several media reports they have been reading, it appears the deceased was killed in an extrajudicial manner.
Some eye witnesses claim that Ssebulime was arrested and handcuffed before he was shot to death at close range.
Irene Nakazibwe, sister to the deceased, insists that her brother was innocent and was on his was to visit his children at St Andrew Kabimbiri Secondary School in Kayunga District.
She says that as a family they will not sit back until the truth about their brother’s death is revealed.
Silvia Nakayita, also a sister to Ssebulime, says they expected the postmortem report to reveal some facts on how the deceased met his death, but their efforts to get it haven’t yielded results.
She says that even receiving the body of the deceased was a tag war as police officers kept tossing them around to first get some necessary paperwork from Nagalama Police Station and Wandegeya among other places.
Police searched the deceased’s residence on Monday in the presence of his family members but nothing was found.
Ssebulime has been a welder and renowned biker at Bulaga on Mityana Road. He is survived by three children. He will be buried at Kyabarenga in Mubende District District
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