One Shot Dead in Kamuli As Gang Attacks MP’s Home

One person has been shot dead in Kamuli District following an attack at the home of the Buzaya constituency MP, Martin Muzale. The deceased has been identified as Sowedi Egumbye, who allegedly led a group of machete-wielding youth. 
According to Muzale, a group of rowdy youth holding machetes, hammers and other sharp objects stormed his home in Kasambira village, in Nawanyago town council, Kamuli district.  Muzale says that he was briefing his agents at the time of the attack. 
He says that the attackers jumped over the gate, where they physically attacked his agents with machetes, severely injuring five of them.  He was prompted to alert security personnel after the gang kidnapped his polling agents, whom they fled with in their four commuter taxi vehicles commonly referred to as drones. 
Busoga North Police Spokesperson, Michael Kasadha, says that security personnel, comprising the police and army, responded and launched a hunt for the attackers. 
He says that police patrol vehicles fired live ammunition in the air with the hopes of scaring away suspects into surrender, but they declined. Kasadha says that security was forced to shoot at one of the vehicles, killing Egumbye.  Sharp objects like machetes, hammers, hoes, knives, among others, were recovered in the four vehicles. 
Egumbye’s wife, Sarah Auma, is also aspiring for the National Resistance Movement-NRM LCV flag for Kamuli District.