Gunmen sprayed General Katumba Wamala’s car with bullets in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi, near his home, killing his daughter and driver.

Gunmen have attacked and wounded Uganda’s former army commander, killing his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt.

Four attackers on motorcycles opened fire at a vehicle carrying General Edward Katumba Wamala, the Minister of works and transport, in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi on Tuesday, local television station NBS reported.

“There was a shooting involving him … he is hurt and he’s been taken to the hospital, his driver was killed,” army spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso said.

Wamala’s daughter, who was in the vehicle with him, was also killed, NBS reported.

Images circulating on social media showed Katumba in apparent distress outside an SUV, his light-coloured trousers splattered with blood.

Social media images also showed bullet holes in a car window and casings on the ground.

There have been several assassinations and mysterious deaths of high profile officials in the east African country in recent years, fuelling speculation about perpetrators and their motivations.

Victims have involved a lawmaker, a senior police officer, the country’s top public prosecutor, senior Muslim leaders and others.

The attempt on Katumba was orchestrated in the same suburb in the capital where in 2017 gunmen on motorcycles sprayed bullets on a vehicle carrying a senior police officer.

That police officer, Felix Kaweesa, was killed along with his bodyguard and driver.

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Uganda's President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni reacts:

The pigs who do not value life shot at Gen. Katumba killed his daughter and driver and injured him. Condolences on the loss of the two Ugandans. I talked to Gen. Katumba twice on the phone. He is being well-managed.

We shall defeat the criminals as we did in the past. We already have clues to those killers. Besides, the new system of digital beacons on all vehicles and Boda Bodas will eliminate the misuse of vehicles and Boda Bodas to commit crimes.

I wish Gen. Katumba a quick recovery. The bodyguard should not have shot in the air. He should have shot to kill. We could be having a dead terrorist instead of scaring away the terrorists. His shooting saved Gen. Katumba by scaring the criminals away.

However, killing one or more of the terrorists would have done the same and more.
Signed:
Yoweri T K Museveni.
Gen(rtd).
President of Uganda

Yoweri Museveni

He was said to be shot in the upper parts of his body around the arms and shoulders.

Gen. Wamala speaks after undergoing surgery;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BANv7WetZnQ

So much senseless killings going on in Africa politicians and criminal gangs behaving as if they will live forever

PHOTO: This is Brenda Wamala, Gen Katumba Wamala’s daughter who died this morning after unknown assailants shot at the dad's vehicle.

Brenda just returned to the Country after completing her studies in the United States.

On 8th June 2018, MP, Ibrahim Abiriga was shot dead near his home in Matugga. Today, the 1st of June 2021, Works and Transport Min Gen Katumba Wamala has survived an attempted assassination as his car was shot at, in an incident that left his daughter and driver dead.

The Chief of Defense Forces Gen David Muhoozi is currently in Kisaasi, visiting the crime scene where Gen Katumba Wamala's car was shot at this morning. His daughter and driver died in the shooting.

Serious ish

Las las Herdsmen don spread tentacles enter Uganda

But jeez isn't that an 80Calibre ammunition on the floor did they intend to kill his body, spirit and soul together??

Soldiers guarding the Medpal Hospital where General Wamala is been treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Dem no wan hear say him survive am....buh las las baba too strong

Kandeed:
Las las Herdsmen don spread tentacles enter Uganda

But jeez isn't that an 80Calibre ammunition did they want to kill his spirit and soul to??

Deep......

Fine girl like that..

. After all the money he has spent to sent the girl to study at u.s ...chaiii ... It's only God that can save a person from drive-by ,

theres a curse in Africa.

if u think otherwise explain why Africa is the way it is

So how did it fail?
Nigeria is Babylon, a curse to Africa and other countries suffer as a result.

Eh ya see fresh fine woman.

See ehn if you people want to attack feel free but leave the children alone, they have done nothing to you please.

When will they blast bubu's empty skull so that the high nepotism, corruption and mediocrity oozing out of his head slamming brainless head can reduce?

Unknown Gun Men Uganda branch.

Alhaji has nothing to say.

UGM

My Africa

donnie:
So how did it fail?

The target wasn't killed.

Wetin Africans dey kill their selves for self

Those ungun known men fit be Okoro people o

fergie001:

The target wasn't killed.

Exactly.

AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesa was killed in his country-home on 17/03/2017.

Africans are becoming brutal by the day.

Africa

OlayemiAshraf:
. After all the money he has spent to sent the girl to study at u.s ...chaiii ... It's only God that can save a person from drive-by ,

It's difficult to survive a drive-by spraying...
He would have died too, maybe the spraying wasn't on his side of the car or he feigned dead.