A policeman in Kyenjojo District has been arrested for shooting at a Magistrate in a case of mistaken identity.
According to the Rwenzori West Police Spokesperson Vincent Twesige, it is alleged that on Friday Babu Waiswa, a magistrate at Kyenjojo Court was shot at by Policeman in charge of Mukunyu Police Post only identified as Turyanawe. Twesige explains Turyanawe was told to stop a car registration number UBG 770E, which had knocked a person in Rugombe trading center.
When Waiswa was approaching Mukunyu Police Post he heard gunshots and out of panic thinking he had been attacked by robbers, he lost control and knocked a pole in Mukunyu Trading Center. Twesige says that the magistrate survived the bullets but was injured as a result of the accident.
According to Twesige, Turyanawe later realized that he had stopped the wrong car registration number UAV 611W belonging to the magistrate.
Twesige adds that the policeman’s gun rifle with 19 rounds of ammunition was recovered from the officer and later detained.
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