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Wed, Sep 28th, 2011
Wed, Sep 28th, 2011| Tanzania
George Patrick Bageya
Veteran Politician and former Iganga district chairman George Patrick Bageya died on the spot on after his Benz car collided head on with an Isuzu truck on Tuesday evening.
The 7.30pm accident took place at Nabitovu village along Iganga-Kaliro highway as Bageya drove back to his home village in Naibiri village, Nambale sub-county, Iganga district.
An eyewitness recounted that the Isuzu truck tried to overtake another saloon car before ramming into Bageya's car.
Good Samaritans had to cut open the wreckage to extract Bageya a witness said.
Bageya was travelling with his son who sustained serious injuries. The commuters on the truck were also injured and were ferried to Iganga hospital for treatment.
Canicus Mugisha, the Iganga district police traffic chief said Bageya was declared dead on arrival at Iganga hospital.
"The body was taken together with some of the injured to Mulago hospital in Kampala. Police have launched investigations into the cause of the accident," Mugisha said.
Bageya represented Kigulu south constituency in the constituency assembly (CA) in the early 1990s. He later became Iganga district chairman until 2001 when he was replaced by Asuman Kyafu.
In 2006, Bageya contested for MP in the Kigulu South Constituency but lost to Milton Muwuma by a margin of only 700 votes.
Bageya was a member of President Yoweri Museveni's Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) guerilla force that gave Idi Amin sleepless nights in the 1970s while operating from bases in Tanzania.
By George Bita, The New Vision
Wed, Sep 28th, 2011| Tanzania
George Patrick Bageya
Veteran Politician and former Iganga district chairman George Patrick Bageya died on the spot on after his Benz car collided head on with an Isuzu truck on Tuesday evening.
The 7.30pm accident took place at Nabitovu village along Iganga-Kaliro highway as Bageya drove back to his home village in Naibiri village, Nambale sub-county, Iganga district.
An eyewitness recounted that the Isuzu truck tried to overtake another saloon car before ramming into Bageya's car.
Good Samaritans had to cut open the wreckage to extract Bageya a witness said.
Bageya was travelling with his son who sustained serious injuries. The commuters on the truck were also injured and were ferried to Iganga hospital for treatment.
Canicus Mugisha, the Iganga district police traffic chief said Bageya was declared dead on arrival at Iganga hospital.
"The body was taken together with some of the injured to Mulago hospital in Kampala. Police have launched investigations into the cause of the accident," Mugisha said.
Bageya represented Kigulu south constituency in the constituency assembly (CA) in the early 1990s. He later became Iganga district chairman until 2001 when he was replaced by Asuman Kyafu.
In 2006, Bageya contested for MP in the Kigulu South Constituency but lost to Milton Muwuma by a margin of only 700 votes.
Bageya was a member of President Yoweri Museveni's Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) guerilla force that gave Idi Amin sleepless nights in the 1970s while operating from bases in Tanzania.
By George Bita, The New Vision