By Spy Uganda
Kampala: Security agencies in Namugongo are currently hunting for iron bar thugs who waylaid George Ekochu the elder cousin to National Resistance Movement (NRM), Vice Chair for Eastern Region Mike Mukula on Monday night and killed him on spot.
According to Mukula, his brother Ekochu’s life was cut short by the iron bar thugs near Namugongo martyrs shrine and a slight distance away from his house as he had stepped out to buy bread
The gang is said to have waylaid Ekochu and killed him and later dragged his body to a nearby matooke plantation.
The late George Ekochu (RIP) was battered with a metal bar on the head dragged into the nearby matoke garden ….bleeding as the body was found upside down……everything he had was taken , Bread and milk he just bought from the shops…, pic.twitter.com/AjKsyPfr3e
— Mukula (@Mukulaa) September 13, 2022
It’s with deep sorrow and grief that I announce the demise of our beloved brother George Ekochu (RIP) whose life was cut short last night by the iron bar thugs near namugongo martyrs shrine & a slight distance away from his house as he had stepped out to buy bread .🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/DdTh1rarl4
— Mukula (@Mukulaa) September 13, 2022
When Ekochu delayed returning home, his wife Jocelyn Ekochu launched a search along the path Ekochu had taken before she later came across her husband’s abandoned hat and later found the body was a plantation and the staff he had bought taken away.
Besides his relationship with Mukula, Ekochu is an elder brother to Paul Ekochu, the Chairman of the Media Council.
He is also related to Betty Ekochu who worked for USAID as well as Prof Edward Ekochu who works in the UK as an agriculturalist.
An auditor by training, Ekochu’s father is the late Jonathan Ekochu, a former Principal Private Secretary to Apollo Milton Obote II and Idi Amin.
Jonathan Ekochu also worked at State House under Godfrey Binaisa’s Military Council before serving at the Civil Service Commission during Obote II as well as the Public Service Commission under Museveni’s NRM government.
Ekochu will be laid to rest at Omodoi in Asureti Sub County in Soroti and other details are yet to be communicated.
