The Ugandan State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Col Charles Okello Engola, had been shot dead on Tuesday morning by one of his bodyguards, Wilson Sabiiti at his home in Kampala, the country’s capital, the East African has reported.
“He 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,” the police said. Prior to turning the gun on himself, the bodyguard allegedly complained that the murdered minister owed him several months' worth of unpaid wages. This occurred as he fired warning shots into the air to alert residents of Kyanja town.
But, Gender and Labour minister Betty Amongi, who was among the first government officials who arrived at Engola’s home after the shooting, told journalists that Sabiiti “was a new bodyguard.”