Drake Mugabi Mwebesa, 37, was on the wee hours of Friday morning knocked dead in a hit and run case, at Hass Fuel Station by an unidentified driver in Najjera, a suburb of Kampala.
Drake had crossed the road to sit on awaiting boda boda which he had hailed.
“That man crossed the road after waving down a boda boda rider,” an eyewitness told a local online publication Chimpreports.
Adding that as the two negotiated, a car knocked Drake who died instantly before it sped off to unknown destination.
Whereas police has opened a case of hit and run under general inquiry file registration number Kiira Div Tar 73/2018 at Najjera police station to facilitate investigations, another eyewitness who talked to this website but asked to be protected ruled out Drake’s death as an accident.
This eyewitness says, the car was not over speeding until it rammed into Drake, “it appears the man was on mission to finish him off.”
Adding that immediately after the bloody incident ,unidentified people visited the crime scene at Hass Petrol Station.
“We don’t know if these were police officers or people who intended to jeopardize investigations,” said this eyewitness.
Drake was killed at 3am. We have established that he was rushing at Peace Gardens in Najjera.
“Drake called him earlier and asked to meet him,” a relative said.
Those known to Drake say he was down to earth, jolly and social.
Shockinly, the boda boda rider was not injured anywhere and he left the scene in disbelief.
By press time, we were yet to identify the details of the said boda rider.
Najjera Traffic police officers visited the scene later on and took his body to KCCA Mortuary for postmortem.
Drake owned a house in Seeta, Mukono but stayed in Buwate.
He hails from Sheema District, attended Nganwa High School in Sheema, Ntare School for O’Level, Namilyango College School and later University of Dar Es Salaam where he graduated as an expert in IT and computer science.
Drake stayed in Tanzania until 2016 when he returned to Uganda to form Web Studios.
Recently he developed the website for Electronic Single window to help in facilitating traders electronically submit all the required regulatory documents like permits, customs declarations and all regulatory documents using a single access point.
The deceased was a brother of Robert Munanura, a Commissioner of Prisons.
He is survived by two children.
Before his death he had political ambitions to contest for Sheema Municipality MP.
A church service will be held Friday at St Luke Church, Ntinda at 3:00pm after which the body will be taken to Sheema for burial on Sunday