A charged crowd in Buwanyanga village in Bulambuli district stormed an isolation center at Bulegeni Secondary School and attempted to lynch two people who had been quarantined by the Ministry of Health last Thursday.
The two suspects had been isolated at the facility following reports that they had symptoms related to COVID-19.
The Nigerian businessman was intercepted by authorities while on a boda boda going to the gold mines in Girigi as he connected to Moroto District.
The second suspect is a Ugandan from deep Elgon region in Bumasobo village which nearly borders with Kenya.
This website understands that as the two were brought to Bulegeni isolation center, the locals surrounded them demanding to kill them since they would infect the whole village with COVID-19.
Police manning the center used excessive force to disperse the charged residents who referred to the two suspects as a “curse.”
Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine told this website that the Bulambuli cases were just suspects who had been reported after they exhibited symptoms. She said they were tested and confirmed to be negative.
Several attempts to harm COVID-19 suspects and patients have been occurring in Uganda especially in deep villages.
In Northern Uganda, the residents wanted to lynch a Ugandan driver who had tested positive at Malaba border and was being tracked by authorities.
The angry residents denied him admission to Gulu Hospital.
Equally in Rubirizi Western Uganda, a suspected truck driver with COVID-19 was chased away by locals after finding him in a lodge with a woman. Police intervened to restore sanity.
But President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in his last address warned crooks (villagers) who try to frustrate authorities while managing COVID-19 cases.
Museveni said the villagers must allow the experts to do their work.
Uganda’s Coronavirus cases have risen to 79 and the recoveries remain at 46.
