A joint security team has shot dead army deserter Rogers Alibuuza (RA 22597) after a shootout in the suburbs of Iganga town in Iganga district. 

Alibuuza, who was shot dead yesterday, November 26, 2022, at about 6:00pm, is suspected to have participated in the murder of Sgt Simon Peter Eyamu, 45, who was at the time guarding at Ambercourt road close to Gadaffi Barracks Jinja Cantonment and theft of two guns about two weeks ago.

Army account

Army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye said the suspect was trailed, but upon reaching his village in Makuutu, Iganga district, the operatives approached the area LC1 chairperson before they went to the suspect’s rented bedsit.

Kulayigye added that when they reached the perpetrator’s doorway, security accompanied by the area LC1 chairperson, knocked on his door but he declined to open it.

It is further reported that the suspect, was later overheard warning the security not to force their way in as he was willing to open it for them in peace.

Shockingly, as soon as he opened the door, he allegedly shot at one of the operatives identified as Private Medard Omedi on the lower abdomen, before he jumped over the perimeter wall.

In the process, he (the suspect) allegedly opened fire at Pte. Isaac Tumusiime hence injuring him.

Security searching the house

Later, Tumusiime also reportedly fired back at the culprit, but he managed to escape.

Security later conducted a search inside his house and managed to recover an AK47 gun, a green army porch, three magazines loaded with 88 rounds of ammunition, an army camouflage uniform, an army badge and a certificate in the names of a suspect.

Other items recovered from the suspect’s house include 14 cartridges and an empty magazine.

The second rifle registration number UG-UPDF 4814241 with four rounds of ammunition was also recovered at another scene inside a sugarcane plantation, which is also where Alibuuza was shot dead from.

Meanwhile, Police rushed the injured to the nearby hospitals for treatment and later took the deceased’s body to Iganga Hospital Mortuary as the investigations into the matter vide case file CRB Jinja CPS 1132/2022 (murder and aggravated robbery of two guns) continue.