By Kenneth Wamatoyi
JINJA
Unknown armed assailants have gunned down a businessman today, Thursday, 13th March, 2025 at around 7:30am at a valley separating Luzinga and Buwenge Town Council.
The deceased has been identified as Peter Muzira aged 34, resident of Luzinga Village, Wankole Sub County, Kamuli District.
The suspects travelling in a salon car trailed the victim and intercepted him at the valley shooting him instantly in the chest and the leg, killing him on the spot.
Kiira Regional Police Commander, SSP Charles Nsaba has ordered for speedy joint security efforts to apprehend culprits involved in the shooting of the businessman.
According to preliminary investigations, Muzira boarded a boda boda enroute to Buwenge Town Council in Jinja district. Prior to that, the boda boda rider had a female passenger who boarded from Bubaale trading centre – Wankole Sub County, Kamuli district. In the due course of the journey, Muzira boarded the very motorcycle enroute to Buwenge Town Council.
According to SP James Mubi, the Kiira Region Spokesperson, the boda boda rider and the other female passenger whose identities have been withheld in the interest of conducting thorough prosecution guided investigations are at CPS Buwenge assisting police with vital information.
Nsaba went ahead clarifying that robust Buwenge police station team led by the DPC SP Oyee Morris responded swiftly to the incident, recovering four cartridges and a hood from the scene.
The alleged killers took all phones belonging to the deceased, his trousers and boxer.
“Intensive tracking is ongoing to trace the whereabouts of the suspect and subsequently establish the motive of the shooting,” says Mubi.
Regional CID; SSP Dr. Monday Johnson Agaba has reassured the family of the deceased person, colleagues, friends and all loved ones of the late that expeditious efforts are ongoing to ensure justice triumphs over evil. He has appealed to whoever has credible information regarding the incident to volunteer the very information to police.
Dr. Monday has strongly warned the assailants to surrender because evading justice is temporal given the strong capacity of Kiira region in handling dangerous and demanding situations.
By the time of filing this story, the body of the deceased had been taken to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital mortuary for postmortem report.
