Gulu leaders condemn Kaweesi murder

 Mourners at Kaweesi's home in Kulambiro, Nakawa, Kampala

Gulu district leaders have condemned the brutal killing of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Andrew Felix Kaweesi  

Kaweesi was shot dead near his home in Kulambiro, a Kampala suburb, together with his body guard and driver shortly after he left his home on Friday morning

Martin Ojara Mapenduzi, Gulu district LC5 chairman,while mourning Kaweesi, said the people of Gulu should join hands with the Police of Uganda and the bereaved family in mourning the late Kaweesi.

"This brutal, primitive and unacceptable act of killing must be condemned in the strongest term possible. We do not want this kind of brutal killing in Uganda to happen again", Ojara condemned

Margret Orik Obonyo, the Gulu district prisons Commander also condemned the act of killing; saying that whatever Kaweesi had done, he did not deserve to die.

"On behalf of mothers in Gulu, we mourn with the family of Kaweesi, the Police and the people of Uganda," she added.

Obonyo said: "We all have our day or date that you and I will die, but we must not take someone's life. We condemn in the strongest terms the act."

Gulu Resident District commissioner, Capt. Santo Okot Lapolo said most of the assailants who brutally kill people in Uganda use motorcycles.

He urged boda-boda riders to always report such people who kill people because their work is to transport people, but not to use their means to transport criminals.

Bosco Otim, regional police commander Aswa River region, said he was shocked by the brutal killing of Kaweesi because he knew him personally and the late also knew him.

He added that he is heart broken by the killing.