Early this week the country was shocked upon learning of the death of 4 students and at least and 20 others injured after a truck rammed into a classroom block at Kasaka Secondary School in Kanoni Town Council, Gomba District. Those killed were Eve Namagembe (Senior Five), Hilda Asege (Senior Four), John Bosco (Senior Two).According to police, the fourth victim was crushed beyond recognition and the remains will be identified after DNA analysis.
The school head teacher Kefasi Katumba said that the driver of the ill-fated Sinotruk truck first hit the school gate before crashing into the computer lab and Senior Four West classroom. The students have since been taken for treatment and the dead laid to rest.
Presiding over parliament seating on the address of matters of national importance at Kololo independence grounds, his excellence president Museveni together with the members of parliament paid a moment of silencein respect to the slain souls of student and the injured.
The president used the same platform to direct the state house controller to eulogize the families of the fallen students with 5 million and one million to the injured students respectively. The president again directed the attorney general kiryowa Kiwanuka and the prime minister rt honarable nabaja to team up and pursue justice for the slain student and the injured.
