Gunmen rob Ugandan MPs at S.Africa lodge
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One lawmaker was reportedly stripped during the robbery at KariBou-Inn Guest House located in a Johannesburg suburb, according to highly placed sources.
Kampala. Four MPs last night landed at Entebbe International airport empty-handed after armed men in South Africa waylaid them and three parliamentary staff on arrival for an official visit.
The attackers snatched their passports and personal effects.
One lawmaker was reportedly stripped during the robbery at KariBou-Inn Guest House located in a Johannesburg suburb, according to highly-placed sources.
South African authorities and Ugandan officials have started separate inquiries into the diplomatic incident.
Those placed at gunpoint on Wednesday included Parliament’s Agriculture committee vice chairman Mr Robert Ndugwa Migadde and other committee members; Ms Santa Sandra Alum, Mr Francis Barnabas Gonahasa and Kenneth Esiangu Eitunganane.
Other victims were parliamentary senior counsel Florence Aceng, Agriculture committee clerk Jacquiline Mutekanga, and Dr Moses Achong Ongom, the marketing officer for Kyankwanzi District.The committee chairperson Christine-Doreen Lowila Oketayot flew in a day after the robbery, and Uganda diplomats booked her at Emperors Palace Hotel in Alexander Township where her distressed colleagues had been forcibly relocated.
“The matter is sensitive and I have referred it to Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Ambassador James Mugume,” Uganda’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Julius Peter Moto, said. (AFP)
