KCCA vehicle kills two-year-old-baby at City Hall after mother’s arrest
KCCA law enforcement officers and police rounding up street vendors downtown Kampala recently. File photo
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The baby had been unattended to while the mother was presented in court.
Kampala. A two-year-old child was yesterday crashed at the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) court premises. The child, whose mother had been arrested by KCCA law enforcers for hawking merchandise within the city centre, was overrun by the official vehicle of the KCCA publicist Peter Kauju.
According to Patrick Onyango, the police spokesperson for Kampala metropolitan, the baby had hidden under the vehicle when the mother was being arraigned before court.
“I am aware of the accident. The mother is a resident of Masajja and she was arrested at Nabugabo because of this issue of hawking. The accident happened at the KCCA parking yard of the KCCA Court,” he said. He, however, asked this newspaper to get more details from KCCA. Sources said the child was crying after it was separated from the mother. Reported attempts by the people who were present around court to give the child what to eat and drink to stop crying failed.
The mother, a resident of Nabugabo, had reportedly pleaded with the KCCA law enforcers to allow her breast-feed her child in vain. The child, who needed the mother’s presence, later crawled beneath the parked car and remained unattended to. When the driver later ignited the car and reversed, it ran over the child killing it on the spot. Police traffic chief for Kampala, Lawrence Niwabiine said last evening that the driver had been arrested. Eye witnesses said the body was taken to Mulago hospital where it was by press time. Efforts to get more details from Mr Kauju were futile as he did not answer his calls by press time. Sources said KCCA was by yesterday evening making arrangements for the burial of the baby.
