Herbert Ssempogo
25 September 2007
Kampala — IT passes for a Hollywood horror movie in which a man picks a gun, shoots his two children and turns the gun on himself. But the morning incident in which a guard shot dead his two children before ending his own life yesterday was far from a movie.
Robert Ojala, attached to Alert Guards, a private security firm based in kampala, grabbed his pump-action gun and shot his two children in Kakajjo II Zone Kisenyi, a city slum.
The children, only identified as Akello, 7 and Boy, 2, died shortly after, according to Kampala Extra Police spokesman Simeo Nsubuga.
Still boiling with rage, Ojala turned the gun on himself at 9:00am, leaving several residents in panic.
A recent disagreement with his wife identified as Esther Ikwalingat is said to have sparked off the bizarre incident.
One of the residents said Ikwalingat took all the household property on Monday night and left for an unknown destination.
Ojala could not contain his anger when he returned to an empty house.
"He picked the children from a neighbour's home, took them to their house and locked it. We later heard gunshots," Faizal Mubiru recounted.
Mubiru was among the many crestfallen residents, who gathered as the Police recovered the bodies from the house and took them to Mulago Hospital mortuary.
Old Kampala police CID chief Peruth Karungi said Ojala shot himself through the left side of the neck.
His son suffered the same fate, while the bullet that ended Akello's life went through her chest.
Recently, a man wielding a machete wiped out his entire family in western Uganda before hanging himself.
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