Police trace car that killed Monitor agent

Police have identified a vehicle which knocked dead a Daily Monitor newspaper agent, Majid Musa, at Kitgum House on Jinja Road on Monday morning as an ambulance belonging to Case Clinic in Kampala.

In a telephone interview last evening, Mr Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, said after reviewing the video footage of an accident from the CCTV cameras on Jinja Road, they identified the ambulance and were able to trace it up to Case Clinic on Buganda Road where the driver had hidden it after the accident.

“A statement was taken from him. He claims that a doctor he had on board ordered him not to stop because they had a patient on oxygen and they did not want to waste more time on a pedestrian who was knocked but the CCTV cameras showed the ambulance moving on a flat tyre up to the clinic on Buganda Road,” Mr Onyango said.

He identified the driver as Richard Ssemanda, 50, who was detained at Kampala Central Police Station.
Mr Onyango said police would charge Ssemanda with reckless driving and causing death.

He said the CCTV footage showed that the ambulance came from the Nakawa direction to join Yusuf Lule road and found the deceased standing on the road island waiting for the traffic to clear.

Mr Onyango added that police found the ambulance parked on sixth floor of the Case Clinic building. The flat tyre had been replaced and there was no dent to show any sign of accident.
Mr Sam Ntesibe, a Daily Monitor sales supervisor for central region, said Musa, 36, started as a newspaper vendor in 2004 until 2016 when he was appointed an agent.

At the time he was knocked, he was preparing to start selling the day’s copies of the newspaper.
Musa was buried yesterday in Acholi Division in Aringa County, Yumbe District.

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