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Daily Monitor
Friday January 08 2021
TWAHIR NDUGWA
He was a passion fruit seller outside St Balikuddembe market. He rented a small part of the pavement outside the market, on Kafumbe Mukasa Road, where he shared the space with his mother, an avocado seller.
His mother, Aisha Nantume, says he was 21-years- old and lived in Kakajjo Zone, Kisenyi Parish, with his wife.
On the first day of the riots, at about 10am, mother and son were sitting on their section of the pavement when they noticed a long line of Military Police and anti-riot police coming down Kafumbe Mukasa Road.
“I told him I was scared, but he laughed at me, saying I had grown old if soldiers walking in a line of soldiers could scare me. I insisted that we should park our merchandise and take it to the store. I had a bad feeling. At 10.30 am, I boarded a taxi to return to my home in Ggaba, while he crossed the road to enter Kiganda Zone in Kisenyi, on his way to Kakajjo.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 08 2021
AYUB KONGOLA
The 42-year-old father of 12 was a guard and caretaker of a produce store in Kiganda Zone, Kisenyi II Parish, Kampala City. His oldest child is 22 years old.
The owner of the store, Ms Mabel Nanyonga, says Kongola was also a jack of all trades.
“He used to sleep in the store. He had been working for me for eight years and he was a very trustworthy man. He was a man who never engaged in conversation, unless it was about football,” she says.
The second day of the rioting (Thursday) found Kongola in Kisenyi, outside the store. His boss and her sister decided to leave early and advised him to lock the store to keep out looters.