Kampala Metropolitan Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire has confirmed that the Hon. Ibrahim Abiriga is dead, and he was shot dead along with another person in his car.

Abiriga was shot dead by unknown assailants near his home in Kawanda.

Abiriga a former soldier in former Uganda President Idi Amin's Uganda Army, served as an RDC in Westnile for over a decade and was in his first term as a member of parliament.

He had also just completed his diploma at Nile Institute in Arua, and was one of the proponents of the Constitutional Amendment Act 2017.

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Abirigga's death is similar to that of former Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi, and Public Prosecutor Joan Kagezi.