Police have explained the circumstances under which the Kamuli LC5 chairman, Charles Maxwell Mugude Kuwembula, died in an accident on Thursday morning.
Mugude, who was travelling to Kampala to pick nomination papers from the NRM electoral commission offices, died in an accident that happened at around 4 am in Nakifuma, along the Nakifuma-Kayunga road.
Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, said the accident involved a truck, Hacman make registration number UBR 835K and a Toyota Hilus Double Cabin registration number UG 699M
“The accident happened when Kuwembula’s vehicle, which was heading to Kamuli from Kampala, rammed into the parked UBR 835K near Nakifuma Trust Medical Centre,” Onyango said.
He said the Kamuli district LC5 chairperson died on the spot, “and his body was found trapped in the wreckage.”
Police said the driver of the stationary truck fled the scene, noting that investigations into the accident have kicked off.
In 2023, the government directed that all stationary vehicles and those that remain unattended along highways will be towed away.
This was part of the string of resolutions and measures reached at in response to an accident that claimed the life of businessman, Apollo Nyegamehe, in a car crash on July 6, 2023.
The accident occurred when the vehicle he was travelling in collided with a stationary truck along the Mbarara-Kabale highway, near Kanyankungu in Ntungamo district, near Itojo Hospital
Whereas these measures were suggested, they are not being enforced to the later.
The enforcement, if any, is being done in urban centres.
