Police in Mbarara are investigating circumstances under which a Prison Warder shot and killed a prison wardress at kakiika prison Kyamugorani.
It is alleged that Aloysious Chemutai 27years old attached to
Kakiika Prison shot and killed Prison Wardress Adong Magodalena 24years attached to Prison Academy and Training School
Luzira who had come to visit him.
According to Samson Kasasira the Rwizi Region Spokesperson, Chemutai after committing the heinous crime he turned the gun to himself and also committed suicide.
Kasasira says according to the preliminary investigations the two prison officers have been in a relationship and that on the 11th June 2022 Magodalena paid a visit to Chemutai at Kakiika prison.
Kasasira said the bodies of the deceased have been taken to Mbarara Regional referral hospital mortuary for postmortem as inquiries into the matter continue.
Frank Baine the Uganda Prisons spokesperson said that this was a relationship gone wrong.
He noted that they have been experiencing these incidents all resulting from relationship misunderstandings.
