A cabinet Minister in Uganda was on Tuesday shot dead at his home in a Kampala suburb by one of his body guards.
Col Charles Okello Engola (rtd) is the Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations.
The minister’s aide-de-camp Ronald Otim also sustained severe injuries and was rushed to Mulago hospital for treatment, local media reports.
“He (Engola) was shot at his residence in Kyanja by one of his bodyguards who allegedly fired several shots at close range. He fled from the scene up to the trading centre at Kyanja, Ring Road where he entered a salon and also shot himself dead,” police spokesperson, Fred Enanga told journalists in Kampala.
The suspect was identified as private Wilson Sabiiti.
An eyewitness had claimed that the bodyguard complained that the slain Minister owed him several months of unpaid salaries as he shot in the air to warn civilians at Kyanja town, before turning the gun at himself.
The crime scene was cordoned off by security personnel as investigation into the incident commences.
The deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Geoffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi and the director of Criminal Investigation Department, Maj Tom Magambo were the first security chiefs to arrive at the minister’s home.
