Uganda prez vows to nab 'pigs' who attempted to assassinate minister

Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has reacted to the deadly attack on Transport Minister Katumba Wamala on Tuesday morning.

The army confirmed that the 4-star general had been shot at by assassins on motorbike, popularly referred to as 'boda bodas' in the East African country.

Despite escaping with gunshot wounds, his daughter and driver were killed by the assailants.

Reacting to the incident in a series of tweets, Museveni described the attackers as 'pigs' and promised that they would soon be accosted and brought to justice.

He said authorities already had a clue of who the attackers - who he referred to as terrorists - were, adding that the minister's bodyguard who reportedly shot in the air to scare the attackers should have fired at them.

Museveni's statement on failed assassination of his Minister

The pigs who do not value life shot at Gen. Katumba killed his daughter and driver and injured him. Condolences on the loss of the two Ugandans. I talked to Gen. Katumba twice on the phone. He is being well-managed.

We shall defeat the criminals as we did in the past. We already have clues to those killers. Besides, the new system of digital beacons on all vehicles and Boda Bodas will eliminate the misuse of vehicles and Boda Bodas to commit crimes.

I wish Gen. Katumba a quick recovery. The bodyguard should not have shot in the air. He should have shot to kill. We could be having a dead terrorist instead of scaring away the terrorists. His shooting saved Gen. Katumba by scaring the criminals away.

However, killing one or more of the terrorists would have done the same and more.

Signed:

Yoweri T K Museveni.

Gen (rtd).

President of Uganda