Ugandan minister hurt in assassination attempt, daughter killed
Gunmen have opened fire on a car carrying Uganda's transport minister in what police described as a “targeted drive-by shooting,” wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver.
According to a police statement and local media, four gunmen on motorcycles shot at the four-wheel-drive vehicle carrying Gen Katumba Wamala, the minister for works and transport, on Tuesday in the capital city of Kampala.
In a tweet, President Yoweri Museveni decried the attack, attributing it to criminals, terrorists and “pigs who do not value life.”
He vowed that those responsible would be defeated as the government already had clues in the case.
Gen. Flavia Byekwaso, an army spokesperson, told Reuters that the minister “is hurt and he’s been taken to the hospital.”
Speaking from his hospital bed, Wamala referred to his daughter and said, “I have survived, we have lost Brenda … The bad guys have done it, but God has given me a second chance. I will pull through.”
Wamala was previously the head of Uganda's police. He was accused by human rights campaigners of leading arbitrary arrests and torture of opposition activists.
The Ugandan police have rejected the allegations.
In recent years, the East African country has seen multiple unsolved assassinations and mysterious deaths of high-profile figures.
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