Senior Reporter
A Police officer attached to Sheema central police station in Sheema District was on Saturday afternoon knocked dead by a speeding motor vehicle.
The accident occurred in Kabwohe town in Sheema municipality at around 12:30 PM when a speeding vehicle knocked AIP Micheal PK Rutemba 54 and died on the spot.
Marcial Tumusiime the more excellent Bushenyi police spokesperson said the speeding vehicle knocked the officer dead saying the deceased was the station head, who was in charge of organizing other police officers in their focus to perform their duties.
He said he was knocked by a vehicle registration number UBH775M Toyota Fielder silver in color driven by Kamugisha Benson 40 of Nangabo-Kasangati-Wakiso District heading to Bushenyi direction from Mbarara along Mbarara Kasese highway.
Tumusiime further said AIP Rutemba while riding a motorcycle registration number UEN 665T Bajaj boxer from the opposite direction and trying to join the road then had a head-on collision and dead on the spot
He said the body is still at Kabwohe health center IV mortuary pending postmortem and transportation postmortem saying the suspect is at Kabwohe central police station and he will be charged with reckless driving.
AIP Rutemba Micheal who hails from Kanungu District is one of the newly promoted police officers from sergeant to Assistant Inspector of Police after joining the force in 1991.
Caption: AIP Micheal PK Rutemba was knocked dead by a speeding motor vehicle in Kabwohe town in Sheema municipality.
