Two LC3 chairmen killed in accident
Jan 06, 2008
TWO sub-county chairpersons and a policeman died yesterday when a bus overturned on the Fort Portal-Kampala highway. The three were among several passengers aboard a Kaliita bus when tragedy struck between Kyenjojo and Mubende at 9:00am.
By Vision Reporters
TWO sub-county chairpersons and a policeman died yesterday when a bus overturned on the Fort Portal-Kampala highway. The three were among several passengers aboard a Kaliita bus when tragedy struck between Kyenjojo and Mubende at 9:00am.
The sub-county officials from the Rwenzori sub-region were heading to the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi, for an economic management course.
The group was part of the second batch of more than 300 officials from 25 districts countrywide that were to report to Kyankwanzi yesterday for the course.
Forty-one other passengers, including 19 sub-county chairpersons, were admitted to Mubende hospital with various injuries.
Western Police commander Martin Abilu said the accident occurred at Lubaale. “One of the tyres burst and the driver lost control, overturning the vehicle.â€
Abilu identified the dead chairpersons as Jacob Subira Oyo (Lake Katwe, Kasese) and Robert Tushabe (Katushandara, Kasese).
He said Police Constable Michael Galande, attached to Kasese police station, was the third fatality.
“The chairpersons were from the districts of Kasese, Kabarole and Kamwenge,†he said, adding that the driver of the bus, Ibrahim Kamya, survived but had gone missing.
Thugs took advantage of the situation to rob the victims. Bugoye LC3 chairperson Apurinali Bitamazire lost a mobile phone to the thieves. Kasese LC5 chairman Rev. Canon Julius Kithaghenda and Chief Administrative Officer Giles Kahika sent two pick-up vehicles to Mubende to assist the victims.
Though the accident occurred early in the morning, reports about the accident only filtered in several hours later due to the fact that the area has a telephone network problem, the Police said.
The accident comes as the country walks out of the festive season, during which scores of people died in road accidents.
In one of them, seven people from the same family perished in Busembatia after crushing into a train.
The accident occurred when a salon car rammed into a train at a railway crossing on the Iganga-Tirinyi highway at Butongole. The deceased were travelling from Mbale after attending a family function that involved paying respects to a dead relative. The car, which is meant to carry five people, had seven occupants.
In another accident, three passengers died and 21 others were injured when a Kigali-bound bus overturned in Ntungamo.
By Steven Candia, Geresom Musamali, John Thawite and Luke Kagiri
TWO sub-county chairpersons and a policeman died yesterday when a bus overturned on the Fort Portal-Kampala highway. The three were among several passengers aboard a Kaliita bus when tragedy struck between Kyenjojo and Mubende at 9:00am.
The sub-county officials from the Rwenzori sub-region were heading to the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi, for an economic management course.
The group was part of the second batch of more than 300 officials from 25 districts countrywide that were to report to Kyankwanzi yesterday for the course.
Forty-one other passengers, including 19 sub-county chairpersons, were admitted to Mubende hospital with various injuries.
Western Police commander Martin Abilu said the accident occurred at Lubaale. “One of the tyres burst and the driver lost control, overturning the vehicle.â€
Abilu identified the dead chairpersons as Jacob Subira Oyo (Lake Katwe, Kasese) and Robert Tushabe (Katushandara, Kasese).
He said Police Constable Michael Galande, attached to Kasese police station, was the third fatality.
“The chairpersons were from the districts of Kasese, Kabarole and Kamwenge,†he said, adding that the driver of the bus, Ibrahim Kamya, survived but had gone missing.
Thugs took advantage of the situation to rob the victims. Bugoye LC3 chairperson Apurinali Bitamazire lost a mobile phone to the thieves. Kasese LC5 chairman Rev. Canon Julius Kithaghenda and Chief Administrative Officer Giles Kahika sent two pick-up vehicles to Mubende to assist the victims.
Though the accident occurred early in the morning, reports about the accident only filtered in several hours later due to the fact that the area has a telephone network problem, the Police said.
The accident comes as the country walks out of the festive season, during which scores of people died in road accidents.
In one of them, seven people from the same family perished in Busembatia after crushing into a train.
The accident occurred when a salon car rammed into a train at a railway crossing on the Iganga-Tirinyi highway at Butongole. The deceased were travelling from Mbale after attending a family function that involved paying respects to a dead relative. The car, which is meant to carry five people, had seven occupants.
In another accident, three passengers died and 21 others were injured when a Kigali-bound bus overturned in Ntungamo.
By Steven Candia, Geresom Musamali, John Thawite and Luke Kagiri