Police officer, Kenyan driver isolated after Jinja Road accident

COVID-19 | ACCIDENT

KAMPALA - A police officer and Kenyan driver have been put into isolation following the accident that happened at Jinja Road in Kampala.

"Our police officer and a Kenyan truck driver have been put under isolation at Mulago referral hospital after the two came into contact Friday morning," noted the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango.

He stated that this followed an accident that happened at Jinja Road in Kampala involving two trucks one from Kenya registration number ZE 7462 and Ugandan truck registration number UAN 877D.

 
According to Onyanga, Police were informed and a team of traffic officers was dispatched to the scene to investigate the incident and to clear the road for other users.

"Without observing the Ministry of Health guidelines on COVID-19, one of our officers entered the Kenyan truck together with the driver and they drove to CPS Kampala," Onyango noted, adding that the officer raised suspicion among his supervisors.

Police noted that they interviewed the driver who revealed that he was tested for COVID-19 at the border while entering the country and he is awaiting the results.

"The supervisors, in order to protect their personnel resolved that the traffic officer Patrick Wasagami and the Kenyan truck driver, Ibrahim Wewa Bejja, be isolated.  They were taken in an ambulance to Mulago Hospital. We are patiently waiting for the driver's results from the border," Onyango stated.