15 September 2010
Dickson Ssentongo
Beating
Unidentified assailants beat and killed news presenter Dickson Ssentongo at 5 a.m. as he was trying to catch a bus in Nantabulirirwa village, 43 miles (70 kilometers) from the Kireka-based Prime Radio station.
Assailants beat Ssentongo with metal bars and dragged him into a nearby cassava field. A local farmer found Ssentongo alive at 9 a.m. rushed him to Mulago Hospital, where he died several hours later. Ssentongo, 29, had worked as Lugandan news presenter for Prime Radio for two years and a part-time court assessor for the Mukono High Court.
