{"id":11623,"date":"2021-06-04T16:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:07:50","slug":"we-shall-fight-back-says-army-as-katumba-buries-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/we-shall-fight-back-says-army-as-katumba-buries-daughter","title":{"rendered":"We shall fight back, says army\u00a0as Katumba buries daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Brenda Nantongo, a daughter of outgoing Works minister Gen Katumba Wamala, who died in a shooting on Tuesday, was yesterday laid to rest in an emotional send-off in Kikandwa Village, Mukono District.The 32-year-old public health consultant at Bombo Army Hospital died on the spot when the car she was travelling in with her father was attacked by assassins on Kisota-Kulambiro road.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:12pm, Natongo\u2019s body was lowered into the grave amid tears and sobs from her family and the public.The burial was attended by various government officials, security personnel, and other dignitaries, who sat distanced in the vast home compound, while others followed the proceedings via zoom in nearby gardens in observance of the standard operating procedures.<\/p>\n<p>A man carries Brenda Nantongo&#8217;s portrait during her burial ceremony on June 3, 2021. PHOTO\/MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrenda was our glue. She was quiet and calm. Ugandans stop killing each other. What did the gentleman (Gen Katumba) seated over there ever do to anyone of you? She wanted to have kids, she wanted to serve. She was just starting and that had been taken away. Where do you get the permission to take a life?\u201d Ms Diana Katumba, her elder sister, said. Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Stephen Kazimba, preaching from the biblical Cain and Abel passage, decried the heinous acts, saying they are bread by hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a peaceful and harmonious nation with no divisions. We can all co-exist,\u201d Archbishop Kazimba said. He urged government to scale up efforts to control gun misuse and account for all guns in the country. Mufti Ramathan Mubajje urged government to conduct the investigation expeditiously and prosecute the culprits. Gen Katumba said he decided to focus on giving her daughter a befitting send-off instead of concentrating on the \u201cterrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Assassination attempt on Gen Katumba marks return of Uganda&#8217;s killer \u2018pigs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>With unexpected bursts of laughter, Gen Katumba eulogised his daughter and narrated the shooting ordeal.\u201cI have realised two things. I realised how heartless people can be. But I also saw God\u2019s grace. How could I survive?\u201d Gen Katumba said, referring to her daughter as his guardian angel.He decried the act that snatched his daughter\u2019s life at a prime age.\u201cThey have touched a nerve, and we shall fight back,\u201d the former army commander said.Ms Margaret Kanyali, the elder sister of Gen Katumba, wondered what her brother had done to the person who wanted to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>The casket containing Brenda Nantongo\u2019s body is lowered into the grave at her parents home in Mukono District on June 3, 2021<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is normal for one to have people who don\u2019t like him, but why does one think a General should be killed because he hates him?\u201d Ms Kanyali said.She added: \u201cIf you want to kill him because of the ministerial post, then take it and spare his life.\u201dFlanked by her three sisters, Ms Kanyali, who described Gen Katumba as their only remaining candle in the family, asked the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen David Muhoozi, to accord their brother more security.\u201cPlease, CDF we ask you to increase General\u2019s security because I know that the people who wanted to kill him are here. They have come to prove whether he is still alive,\u201d Ms Kanyali said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the perpetrators don\u2019t appreciate others, and are full of intrigue and selfishness.Gen Muhoozi told mourners that the assailants would be prosecuted.\u201cWe shall go after the culprits with all the necessary efforts across security agencies, prosecuting agencies, Judiciary, the investigative agencies. All these should be used to bear results,\u201d Gen Muhoozi said.He added: \u201c It should not be a problem this time. It is doable to pursue justice and bring the culprits to book.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Brenda Nantongo, a daughter of outgoing Works minister Gen Katumba Wamala, who died in a shooting on Tuesday, was yesterday laid to rest in an emotional send-off in Kikandwa Village, Mukono District.The 32-year-old public health consultant at Bombo Army Hospital died on the spot when the car she was travelling in with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We shall fight back, says army\u00a0as Katumba buries daughter - 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