Kampala Metropolitan Police has apprehended a city bar owner identified as Deus Bakankwatsa who allegedly killed his customer after a slight misunderstanding and altercation at his bar.
The bar is identified as Unique meeting Bar located in Ntinda a Kampala suburb.
Deus Bakankwatsa is also accused by his employees of always beating them.
Isaac Kintu, an eye witness narrated that the deceased was drunk and she started undressing herself and that is when one of the men who were in the bar hit her with a pool cue and she fell down.
“He hit the lady with a cue like four times because for me I was there when the boss came he found the guy fighting with the lady and that is when the boss started slapping and kicking the lady around the stomach until she fell down unconsciously, she never woke up again” Kintu explained.
Another eye witness explained that; “This is not the first time for the owner of the bar to beat people. There is one man who was beaten seriously and after he picked a hoe and bragged that even if he cuts his head nothing could happen to him. The bar owner is a violent man who is always beating up his employees.”
The Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson Patrick Onyango confirmed the incident saying the operator of the bar tried to block the deceased from accessing the place that is where the trouble started from.
“But instead she refused and started undressing. When she started undressing, so one of the bar attendants called Galabuzi got a pool table cue and started beating her,” he said.
Onyango also revealed that later on another operator also came and started kicking the lady several times until she unconsciously fell down.
He however said investigations are still ongoing into the matter.
