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MUKONO - Police in Mukono have arrested a security guard who allegedly shot and killed a student in his final year at Uganda Christian University (UCU). 

The student, Rodney Agaba, was attached to the School of Business, pursuing a Bachelors Degree in International Business Management according to Jimmy Siyasa, UCU’s public relations officer. 

According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, the suspected shooter has been identified as Kadili Tugume, 27.  

It is alleged that on Sunday, June 4, at around 1:00 pm at Meru fuel station in Kiwanga, Goma Division, Mukono Municipality, the security guard while on duty allegedly found Agaba trying to scale a wall fence. 

When the guard tried to intercept the student, a fight allegedly ensued in which Tugume shot Agaba.  

The student was rushed to Gwatiro Health Center where he was pronounced dead.  

The Police recovered two cartridge casings from the scene as well as an SMG rifle UG POS 56400780 -11666, while Tugume was arrested and detained at Seeta Police Station. 

Police at the crime scene after Agaba shooting. (Credit: Eric Yiga)

Fight 

According to residents, the deadly fight broke out when the deceased had reportedly gone to survey land that his mother left him.  

While carrying out the survey, a rope fell on the side of the fuel station which prompted the deceased to climb the fence so as to retrieve it. 

Police also took a vehicle number UAW 403S which was damaged by the bullets.  

Onyango urged people to be cautious of security guards, especially from private companies who said may have not received enough training. 

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Residents condemned the deadly use of firearms in public and called on the government to retrain all law enforcement officers on firearm use. 

Agaba becomes the second student to be shot in a fortnight after Natasha Nagayi, 21, a student at UCU who was on May 20 at Nabuti Cell in Mukono Central Division, shot in the chest by an Anti-Terrorism Police officer late at night when she mistakenly attempted to open the room his room.  

The officer, ASP Dismas Tebangole, shot Nagayi at about 4:15 am after she tried her key in several doors in search of her room when she reached Tebangole’s.