May 2. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Uganda’s Secretary of State for Labor and Industrial Relations, Charles Okello Engola, died on Tuesday after being shot by one of his bodyguards as he was about to get into his vehicle to go to a government meeting in the capital, Kampala.
The Ugandan Police spokesman, Fred Enanga, has indicated that Engola “has been shot by one of his bodyguards at his residence in Kyanja”, before specifying that the person responsible “has fired several shots at point blank range”, according to the newspaper. ‘Daily Monitor’.
Thus, he has indicated that the attacker fled the scene of the event and went to a convention hall, where he shot himself. The event has also resulted in a serious injury, identified as an assistant to the Secretary of State for Labor and Industrial Relations.
“The investigation is in its early stages for now,” said Enanga, who stressed that the Police “do not want to speculate on the motives for the shooting until they have been confirmed.” “We are also trying to determine if any other bodyguards were injured,” she has settled.
Engola, a retired Ugandan army colonel, was elected to parliament in the 2016 elections as part of President Yoweri Museveni’s government National Resistance Movement (NRM) list. In June of that year, he was appointed Secretary of State for Defense.
