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Uganda police officer tests HIV positive, kills wife, self
Uganda policeman suicide
PHOTO:Residents of Nsambya police barracks gathered at the scene where a police officer shot his wife dead before killing himself. Courtesy photo/Daily Monitor
 

By:
ANDREW BAGALA

Posted:
Feb,10-2017 15:29:51
 
A police officer attached to VIP Protection Unit in Uganda has killed himself after shooting his wife dead.

Police say Godfrey Sabiti, a resident of Nsambya barracks killed his wife before turning the same gun at himself after he allegedly tested HIV positive.

According to the documents recovered by the police, Mr Sabiti's wife, Akol and their children had all their HIV results reading negative. However , Mr Sabiti, must have found himself positive therefore taking a wrong decision.

"He took all his family members for an HICV test on January 21,2017," said Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesman, Paul Kangave.

This is the second officer to kill himself in just two months period.

In December last year, Patrick Oloya, a Field Force Unit (FFU) personnel attached to Pader Central Police stationended his lifeafter locking himself inside his uni-port house at the Police barracks.

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