Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hajara Nakitto, a mother whose 15-year-old son was shot and killed during the November 2020 riots is seeking compensation for the loss that the family incurred after the tragedy. The son, Amos Ssegawa was shot dead on November 19, 2020, as the police and army quelled …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | From her teenage son being shot dead, to being forced to exhume his body and later having to re-burry him at the family’s own cost, the story of the mother who has only harvested tears from Uganda’s political contests that she is not part of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | “Gift used to pick my calls. As I told you, I am a councilor. He is the one who used to pick my phone calls or make phone calls,” Happy Namatovu Ssempaka says her son, Gift Samuel Nsubuga, 16-year-old, shot in November 18th riot in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 started as a normal day for 15-year-old Amos Ssegawa who had started working at his mother’s shop in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb a fortnight ago. Ssegawa’s mother, Hajara Nakitto had asked him to work with her at the shop because of …
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