Eyewitnesses said Richard Hafasha, a private security guard, fired one bullet which passed through Nyongesa’s chest and hit Amoga who was behind him. The bullet also hit a Ugandan student, Amon Mugezi, and got lodged in his neck. Mugezi is a third-year law student.
The bodies lay in a pool of blood for about an hour until other students in the hostel mobilised funds and hired a car that took them to Mulago Hospital. By press time, Mugezi was still in critical condition at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
How can this be? Did no one think to call the police? Emergency services?
That last one is a sad joke. After speaking to Ugandan friends this morning, I learned that there is no Emergency services in Kampala. If someone is hurt, you can call one of the private hospitals to send a ambulance but you have to pay the ambulance before they will take the patient.
How can a city exist without ambulances.
And according the the New Vision, the fire trucks that responded to the fire at were unable to access the fire. WHAT?
The Police Fire Brigade rushed to the scene but its efforts to put out the raging fire at the traditional burial grounds of Buganda kings were disrupted by a crowd.
This is an embarrassing state of affairs for a metropolis. Where is the anger here?
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