Daily Monitor
Friday January 08 2021
Summary
Lubega was shot in the leg. He lay on the road for a long time, although he was not yet dead.
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In the last instalment of this series, we chronicle how bullets prematurely shattered the blooming dreams of dozens during two days of madness last November. In interviews with our reporter, Gillian Nantume, grieving families and friends share the triumphs, travails and final moments of relatives in a way that offers insights into the lives of victims hitherto treated as statistics.
LAWRENCE LUBEGA, AKA BOY
He was a 22-year-old man who was allegedly a notorious criminal in Kyotera Town Council, in Kyotera District. Those who knew him say he was a pickpocket who targeted women to steal their handbags.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 08 2021
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LAWRENCE LUBEGA, AKA BOY
He was a 22-year-old man who was allegedly a notorious criminal in Kyotera Town Council, in Kyotera District. Those who knew him say he was a pickpocket who targeted women to steal their handbags.
“He always used the mbadiya (choke-hold) method to steal. He also broke into people’s homes at night,” says a friend, who prefers to speak in anonymity .
However, his aunt, Pauline Nakato, says Lubega worked at a maize-milling machine at Bethlehem Stage. “He was an obedient boy. He would visit me and spend the whole day chatting,” Nakato says.