{"id":47984,"date":"2023-05-02T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bodyguard-reportedly-kills-ugandan-labour-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:25:48","slug":"bodyguard-reportedly-kills-ugandan-labour-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bodyguard-reportedly-kills-ugandan-labour-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodyguard reportedly kills Ugandan Labour Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim, Charles Engola, served in the government of President Yoweri Museveni as the junior minister in charge of labour.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker then turned the gun on himself, according to state broadcaster UBC and other sources.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred inside the home of the late Minister, General David Muhoozi Engola, in a Kampala suburb. Detectives from the police force are now investigating the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>While the motive for the attack has not been immediately confirmed, local media reports suggest that it may have arisen due to a private dispute between the Minister and his bodyguard over unpaid wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnesses claim that the soldier was yelling that he had not been paid for a long time despite working for a minister,\u201d the online newspaper NilePost reported.<\/p>\n<p>The incident highlights the dangers of gun violence in Uganda, where high-profile officials have been targeted in previous attacks. In 2021, a former army chief was wounded, and his daughter was killed when gunmen shot at their vehicle in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of Minister Engola is a tragedy for Uganda, and the country&#8217;s government has expressed condolences to the Minister&#8217;s family and friends. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47587 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bofy.jpg\" alt=\" Engola was shot dead on Tuesday morning. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A bodyguard shot and killed Uganda State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, early Tuesday in an apparent private dispute, according to local media.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47984"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47984"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}