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By Byamukama Libino
KISORO DISTRICT

Mbarara second division court martial held at Mugateete playground in Rukundo town council has today sentenced to life one of its own, private Walibwa Hamisi after pleading guilty of two counts of murder and attempted murder.
Private Walibwa who has been a UPDF soldier attached to the 35th battalion and deployed in Kibaaya was convicted of killing by shooting an 18 year old Nizeyimana Zeferin and injuring his comrade Achia William on 2nd June last year by Court chaired by Colonel Rodgers Kitwala.

The convict Walibwa Hamis is a resident of Mbale district aged 38 years and has been a serving UPDF solidier for the last 20 years while the late Nizeyimana Zeferin was an 18 year and a resident of Kibande village in Rukundo town council.

According to state prosecution, it was at 11:30pm on 22nd June 2022 when private Walibwa Hamis was at Friends pub in Rukundo town council playing pool and saw Nizeyimana passing by and ordered him to sit down before his colleague private Achia
He later shot him in the chest killing him instantly

By Innocent Atuganyira

MASINDI:
A 24-year-old man was Wednesday discovered by neighbors dangling on the rope near a toilet in Nyangahya Cell Central Division in Masindi Municipality.

The deceased identified as Mirimo Pius 24, a resident of Ntooma village in Bwijanga Sub county Masindi District was found with a note of paper in his pocket containing the information about his suicide.

According to the note addressed to the family members, the deceased alleged that the cause of his suicide was his wife.

Speaking to our reporter at the scene, the landlady who preferred anonymity explained that she didn’t know the deceased since his wife was the one renting.

”I didn’t know him because the wife identified as Kusiima Hadijja came looking for a room to rent, then they later started staying together,” she said.

Similarly to the landlady, the area chairperson, Kakoko Elizabeth, said she didn’t know the deceased who was staying in her village adding he didn’t report to her office.

She however asked the landlords and landladies to always register their tenants to her office.

The Albertine Regional Police Spokesperson Julius Allan Hakiza confirmed the incident and said the body was taken to Masindi hospital for postmortem.