SEMBABULE: Police in Sembabule District are holding a man who is accused of entering the home of area Woman MP Mary Begumisa.
According to police, the suspect, Swaibu Kanyama, 37, scaled the perimeter wall of the legislator’s home in Kiggundu zone, Lwebitakuli sub-county at around 11pm on Monday, November 8, 2021.
Kanyama reportedly attempted to attack the home caretaker, Fahad Ssejjoba, but the latter ran and locked himself into one part of the house. The MP was not at home at the time of the attack.
Ssejjoba is reported to have made an alarm and called police from Lwebitakuli police station for help. They swiftly arrived and found the suspect hiding in one of the rooms.
Mr Muhammad Nsubuga, the Southern Region Police spokesperson, said they are yet to establish Kanyama’s motive but investigations have kicked off.
The MP was not available for a comment.
The incident comes nearly three weeks after unknown assailants invaded the home of Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze and held her hostage in the wee hours of the night.
“I still do not know how I survived, I woke up to a man in the bedroom, saying that he had been sent to kill me, he told me to say my last prayer, and I still can not know how I survived,” Nambooze narrated to journalists who had visited her home on Tuesday, October 19.
Nambooze added that her husband, a one Bakireke, has a morning routine of always leaving the bedroom earlier to pray in the sitting room before starting his day, and by the time the assailants attacked, the husband was in the sitting room for his prayers.
“I thought they had first killed my husband because I could not tell how they reached my bedroom, I called him in fear and I thank God that he had not been hurt, he came to rescue and fought with the attacker,” Nambooze added.