An influential Ugandan pastor and outspoken supporter of President Yoweri Museveni was hospitalised after a capturing assault which killed his bodyguard, police mentioned Wednesday.
Aloysius Bugingo was shot on Tuesday night when “unidentified assailants opened fireplace on (his) automobile… earlier than swiftly escaping the scene on a motorbike”, mentioned Ugandan police.
They mentioned an investigation had been launched into “the tried homicide of Pastor Aloysius Bugingo… and the unlucky killing of his bodyguard, Muhumuza Richard.”
Bugingo is a controversial determine in Uganda, the place he’s head of the Home of Prayer Ministries — some of the influential Pentecostal church buildings within the spiritual East African nation.
He additionally has his personal tv and radio channels, which he makes use of to present unconditional assist for Museveni, who has dominated Uganda since 1986.
“Regardless of sustaining accidents throughout the assault, Pastor Aloysius Bugingo managed to move the automobile to Mulago Hospital,” police added.
“Regrettably, his bodyguard, Muhumuza Richard, succumbed to the assault and was confirmed lifeless upon arrival on the hospital.”
They mentioned Bugingo was “present process medical remedy and is beneath shut monitoring.”
Bugingo’s assist for the president — and extra lately his son, who’s seen because the potential successor — commonly attracts wrath from the opposition, who the pastor in flip brazenly criticises in sermons.
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