The Police are investigating circumstances under which Rtd Major Gen. Kasirye Ggwanga opened fire at a vehicle of the aides of local music artist, Catherine Kusasira. The incident occurred around 10:45pm on Tuesday night near Makindye Division offices where Gwanga’s children were buying snacks.
Preliminary police findings indicate that trouble started after Kasirye Ggwanga’s children asked the occupants of Kusasira’s Premio vehicle registration number UAY 083Y to turn down the loud music they were playing in vain. The children reportedly threatened to call their father, which didn’t move the occupants of Kusasira’s vehicle.
According to eye witnesses, Kasirye arrived amidst the confusion and asked the driver of Kusasira’s vehicle to turn down the music. The driver reportedly ignored him; saying he wasn’t above and there was nothing he could do.
Kasirye Ggwanga immediately ordered his bodyguard to bring his AK47 rifle from his vehicle and shot the tyres of Kusasira’s vehicle.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, says police was called to the scene. “Police was called. They visited the scene and the case was registered under SD reference 107/29/1/2019. Investigations are ongoing,” Onyango said. This is not the first time the retired officer is involved in such controversy.
In 2017 he set ablaze a tractor claiming it was illegally grading his daughter’s land at Naziba village, off Entebbe Road. He would later ignore police summons for a statement over the incident.
Then in 2013, Kasirye Gwanga threatened to shoot police officers when they stormed the farm of his junior brother Angelo Kasirye to allegedly exhume the remains of Livingston Lubega who was reportedly buried there.
Lubega reportedly disappeared in 1985. Kasirye Gwanga pitched camp in the farm with his AK47 and threatened to shoot the officers should they fail to find the remains. Some bones were recovered from the farm.
The same year, Kasirye Ggwanga was involved in a fierce verbal exchange with the late former Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander, Andrew Felix Kaweesi for attempting to evict him from his Makindye residence in Kizungu Zone. Kasirye Ggwanga pitched camp in his compound with an AK47 rifle and pistol threatening shoot whoever dares step in his compound.