Death toll from Ndeeba shooting rises to three

By Steven Candia

THE death toll in the last months Ndeeba shooting incident has risen to three following the death of Martin Busulwa, a former security operative who succumbed in hospital.

Busluwa lost the battle for life on Friday from his Mulago Hospital bed where he had been admitted since the shooting in the city suburb mid-October.

“Yes it is true that Busulwa is dead. He passed away on Friday morning,” Emmanuel Ayebare, the Katwe police station criminal investigations department (CID) boss said in an interview.

Busulwa had been rushed and admitted to the hospital with gunshot wounds sustained in the incident in which a city businessman Godfrey Muhairwe shot dead two security operatives – Deogratious Jaaya, an active police flying squad operative and Mohammed Kiwana, a former Operation Wembley operative. Busulwa survived for a while with gunshot wounds.

The incident is said to have occurred after the operatives had allegedly received sh 20m from the businessman who has since been charged with a raft of offences among them murder and remanded.

Two pistols, four spent cartridges and sh 20m were recovered from the scene of crime by the police. Police findings indicate that the pistol Muhairwe allegedly used was illegal given that its license had expired.

Police have since established that there was no robbery plot behind the incident which they described as a crime of passion, involving accusations of infidelity.