By Allan Richard Odoch
A mobile money shop operator was on Saturday night shot dead by unknown gunmen at Layibi central, Pece division in Gulu Municipality.
Louis Komagum, 19, was counting money at around 8 pm in his employers’ mobile money shop when two men disguised as customers entered, demanded for money which the deceased is said to have resisted, resulting into the gunmnen shooting him six times at close range before they fled with an unspecified amount of money.
The MTN mobile money business is owned by Lokoroma General Enterprise.
According to Brian Ocen, an eye witness, one of the gunmen demanded for all the money the deceased had but he refused, prompting the armed man to open fire. The second mobile money agent in the shop was left unhurt.
James Asubu, the officer in-charge of criminal investigation department at Gulu Central Police confirmed the incident saying the deceased was shot six times in the chest, dying shortly after being rushed to Gulu Referral Hospital.
Gulu municipality Mayor George Labeja who was partly re-elected on his promise to tackle insecurity told Acholi Times that the district security committee is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting this week to discuss the increasing wave of acts of criminality in Gulu municipality.
“We are sitting down this week to see what we can do to keep the people safe,” said Labeja.
On Wednesday last week, one Felix Oluba was killed by suspected hitmen who trailed him from his shop in Pece division and hit on him along Commercial road in Pece Division in Gulu Municipality.
