Kiyonga condemns deadly Kasese attacks

Mar 14, 2016

Kiyonga said people should not accept to be lost through criminal minds

Defence minister and Bukonzo west MP, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, has condemned last week's separate attacks on security personnel and destruction of people's property in Kasese district. 

Kiyonga also conveyed his condolences to the children who have been orphaned and women who have been "widowed as a result of the actions of the criminals that attacked soldiers and police men on lawful duty in Hima and Buhuhira." 

In a press statement issued by Kiyonga, he said, "people should not accept to be lost through the criminal minds and acts of certain criminal elements in our society."

 nspector enral of olice en ale ayihura speaks inside a chopper that was used to airlift a suspected militia man who was injured during attack on a olice and rmy detach in asenyi asese district hoto by ilson siimwe Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura speaks inside a chopper that was used to airlift a suspected militia man who was injured during attack on a Police and Army detach in Kasenyi, Kasese district. Photo by Wilson Asiimwe

 

While addressing a press conference on Sunday in Kasese town the Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura said six of the people who attacked the army and the police in separate incidents in Kasese were killed.

Four soldiers were injured, two of them critically and two police officers including commissioner of Police Jacob Opolot sustained injuries.

The clashes have left 15 civilians dead, four others injured and 139 houses torched.

According to Kayihura, 25 of the 80 suspects arrested have been identified and seven of them charged with murder in the High Court in Fort Portal.

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