Protests broke out at the funeral of a top police officer who was shot and killed in Uganda on Saturday.
Afande Muhammad Kirumira, an outspoken officer was shot dead with a female occupant in a car outside his home in the town of Bulenga.
Reports confirm that police spokesperson Emilian Kayima was chased from the burial grounds by mourners.
Mourners pelted Minister Jeje Odongo while the police spokesman according to local news portals was physically assaulted. Funeral prayers were said for him at the Old Kampala mosque before he was transported to the place of burial. Angry mourners were seen chanting in his Bulenga home.
Officer Kirumira was attacked as he was returning to his home located on the outskirts of the capital, Kampala.
President Museveni visited the scene of the incident hours after it occurred and in a statement on Sunday morning promised to deal with the ‘cowardly pigs.’
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