Police on Monday morning picked up a 24-year-old man who stormed City Hall in Kampala with Petrol and a match, threatening to torch himself to ashes.
Mutwahilu Bogere Wasswa, the chairman of Bweyogerere, Bukasa stage in Old Taxi parkin was protesting a move by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA to curb passenger service Vehicles- PSV operating without route charts on Burton Street.
Bogere who is also a taxi driver reportedly stormed city hall with a white 5-liter jerry can of petrol and matchbox where he started yelling out the bizarre intention of setting himself ablaze.
Police swung into action and swiftly whisked Bogere to the Central Police Station-CPS in Kampala where he is currently detained on attempted suicide offense.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango has called on taxi operators to register their vans with the Ministry of Works and Transport free of charge in order to obtain route charts.
He has also urged members of the community not take exchange their lives for matters that can be handled amicably by the concerned authorities.
According to the Ugandan penal code, a person who attempts suicide is to be imprisoned.
In Chapter 20, under offenses connected with murder and suicide, “any person who attempts to kill himself or herself commits a crime.
If convicted, a culprit suffers a lighter punishment than one convicted of a felony or capital offense.
