Soldier shoots dead politician he was guarding
Contrary to the headline, the politician was in fact very much alive up until the shooting, which ended up being a murder-suicide. This is disappointing not just because murder-suicides are generally bad, but because I really wanted to know why the security guy hated the dude enough to make sure there wouldn’t be any of this resurrection shit.
A Ugandan national army soldier has shot and killed a government minister he was guarding.
Wilson Sabiiti shot dead retired Colonel Charles Okello Engola, deputy minister for gender and labour, at his home in the capital Kampala on Tuesday.
The soldier then turned the gun on himself and took his own life.
It is not yet clear whether there had been an argument between the two men. Sabiiti was assigned to the minister’s security detail a month ago.
Before he took his own life, some eyewitnesses said they saw Sabiiti walking around the neighbourhood and shooting in the air.