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Police Chief Ochola wants all private security guards re-trained following murder of Makerere University student
Jul 10, 2020
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola has asked the Commissioner–in-charge, Private Firearms and Security Organizations to ensure that all private security guards are re-trained and equipped with the required skills on rules of engagement and use of reasonable force in the course of their duties.
Ochola’s call follows the gruesome murder of Tegu Emmanuel,a 24-year-old male student of Makerere University a few days ago.
According to the prevailing facts on 27.06.2020, the victim left his sister Rachael Ariongeti’s home, at Namungoona where he also stayed with his brother Sam Okwalinga and proceeded to his church at Makerere. He did not return home.
At around 10 pm while moving with the University’s premises, deceased was hit by a metallic chair from the visitor’s tent, and it’s at this stage that he cried out for help, which attracted about 10-15 residents from Zone 1 and West road quarters around Lumumba hall. Among the responders were a few youths who joined the private security guards and violently assaulted the victim, whom they suspected to be a thief.
It is after the intervention of the Chaplain, St Augustine Church Makerere that the private guards and the few charged residents stopped torturing the victim and alerted the police about him. The police team responded and rushed the victim to Mulago National Referral Hospital. The following day of 28.06.2020, he was traced at the hospital by his brother and discharged on 29.06.2020. Unfortunately while at home his life begun to deteriorate and he was further referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kiruddu where he died on 3.07.2020.
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