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Uganda minister's killing sparks talk on security agents’ welfare

Uganda’s Labour Minister Charles Okello Engola

Uganda’s State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations Charles Okello Engola who was on May 2, 2023 shot and killed by his own bodyguard. PHOTO | MONITOR

By  Nelson Naturinda

Bureau chief based in Kampala

Nation Media Group

Ugandans were this week in a debate of the welfare of VIP bodyguards in the wake of the shooting of a minister by a frustrated aide.

Col Charles Okello Engola, the State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations was on Tuesday morning felled by a man assigned to protect him.

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