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Curiously, some of the shootings or killings have happened in the first week of June or the December festive season, with two of them coming only days before the State of the Nation Address.
Gen Katumba shooting: Unresolved high-profile murder cases
Wednesday June 02 2021
More than 15 people were arrested after Police released composite images of suspects following the assassination of former AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi on March 17, 2017. PHOTO/COURTESY
Summary
A witnesses in the June 1 case said the assassins, like in the previous killings, were riding on a motorcycles.
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The attempted assassination of Gen Edward Katumba Wamala on Kisota road in Kisaasi, a Kampala City suburb yesterday morning sent jaw-dropping shock waves across the country.
Gen Katumba, a former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and minister of Works and Transport, was reportedly going to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral on Entebbe road. He survived with injuries.
Fare thee well, Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata Batte
December 11, 2020 RIP: Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata
Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata Batte’s candle burnt out last week December 4, sending the whole country into mourning. There was an outpouring of grief both in the traditional media and on social media platforms.
Many described him as the most fearless cleric of our time. Anybody who crossed him, tasted his wrath, from the mightiest like President Museveni, the Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga to the smallest like Eddy Kenzo or MC Mariachi.
He spared nothing in his verbal arsenal to attack anybody who he perceived as working at cross-purpose to the well- being of Islam, Muslims and Ugandans. That is why when the beloved director for Da’wa [Muslim propagation] breathed his last on December 4 at International Hospital Kampala, the outpouring of grief cut across religious and political lines, writes