Gunmen Shoot At CMI Man
Jun 09, 2003
An informer attached to the chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and Col. Noble Mayombo’s nephew were yesterday morning shot at in separate incidents in the city. Mayombo is the CMI chief.
By Grace Matsiko
and Steven Candia
An informer attached to the chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and Col. Noble Mayombo’s nephew were yesterday morning shot at in separate incidents in the city. Mayombo is the CMI chief.
Faisal Kasaka, a CMI informer, was shot and severely injured in the back by unidentified gunmen on Musoke Road, near the Queensway Clock Tower, about midnight.
Kisaka is admitted to Mulago Hospital.
The Police and CMI said they were yet to establish the people behind the attacks. They said Tungwako emerged out of the bullet-riddled car with a slight wound on the thumb.
Gunmen on foot, who apparently trailed Kasaka, shot and injured him in the shoulder with a Sub-Machine gun. The assailants vanished into darkness, leaving Kasaka for dead.
He was saved by passers-by who alerted the Police.
“I have sent a detective to Mulago Hospital to talk to him,†the officer in-charge of CID at Katwe Police, Venis Tumuhimbise, said last evening. He said no arrests had been made.
Tungwako, a Makerere University student and son of Henry Tungwako, former late minister in the Obote II government, had his car hit by nine rounds of bullets by a lone gunman in Rubaga Division as he drove home from Buganda Road at about 12.20a.m.
“I am thanking God that I am safe,†Tungwako, a Bachelor of Business Administration student said as he recounted his ordeal.
“I don’t think they were after the car because it is old. They must have been after life,†he added as he pleaded with the reporter to allow him rest. His car, registration number UAD 274 was yesterday taken to Old Kampala Police.
He said, “I had just dropped my mother at Buganda Road. As I ascended towards the Rubaga church, immediately after Rubaga-Kabuusu Road roundabout, an armed man jumped on to the road and sprayed the vehicle with bullets, but I managed to drive through.†Mayombo could not be reached for comment. His aides said he was attending meetings.
The incidents dent the relative peace city residents have enjoyed following a heavy clamp down on armed gangsters by the recently disbanded Operation Wembley (now the Violent Crime Crack Unit), which was headed by Col Elly Kayanja who now heads ISO.
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and Steven Candia
An informer attached to the chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and Col. Noble Mayombo’s nephew were yesterday morning shot at in separate incidents in the city. Mayombo is the CMI chief.
Faisal Kasaka, a CMI informer, was shot and severely injured in the back by unidentified gunmen on Musoke Road, near the Queensway Clock Tower, about midnight.
Kisaka is admitted to Mulago Hospital.
The Police and CMI said they were yet to establish the people behind the attacks. They said Tungwako emerged out of the bullet-riddled car with a slight wound on the thumb.
Gunmen on foot, who apparently trailed Kasaka, shot and injured him in the shoulder with a Sub-Machine gun. The assailants vanished into darkness, leaving Kasaka for dead.
He was saved by passers-by who alerted the Police.
“I have sent a detective to Mulago Hospital to talk to him,†the officer in-charge of CID at Katwe Police, Venis Tumuhimbise, said last evening. He said no arrests had been made.
Tungwako, a Makerere University student and son of Henry Tungwako, former late minister in the Obote II government, had his car hit by nine rounds of bullets by a lone gunman in Rubaga Division as he drove home from Buganda Road at about 12.20a.m.
“I am thanking God that I am safe,†Tungwako, a Bachelor of Business Administration student said as he recounted his ordeal.
“I don’t think they were after the car because it is old. They must have been after life,†he added as he pleaded with the reporter to allow him rest. His car, registration number UAD 274 was yesterday taken to Old Kampala Police.
He said, “I had just dropped my mother at Buganda Road. As I ascended towards the Rubaga church, immediately after Rubaga-Kabuusu Road roundabout, an armed man jumped on to the road and sprayed the vehicle with bullets, but I managed to drive through.†Mayombo could not be reached for comment. His aides said he was attending meetings.
The incidents dent the relative peace city residents have enjoyed following a heavy clamp down on armed gangsters by the recently disbanded Operation Wembley (now the Violent Crime Crack Unit), which was headed by Col Elly Kayanja who now heads ISO.
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