Recalling Aponye's Buddy Who Died On Duty


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At the point when Apollo Nyegamehe, (Aponye)kicked the bucket following a street mishap, little consideration was paid to the individual who had informed the industry icon's doomed process.

Aponye was on July 6 on the way to Muhanga — a town in the western region of Rukiga — to offer his final appreciation to Boss Jailer Peter Tumwijukye, likewise a survivor of a street crash.

Much to his dismay that he also would turn into one more measurement of the savagery on Uganda's streets that is of plague extents.

Tumwijukye, bearing the assignment No. 6483 and holding the regarded position of Boss Jailer Grade 1, filled in as an Uganda Penitentiaries Administration driver.

His life unfortunately finished on July 5 in Kanoni, Gomba, when the jails' semi-18 wheeler he was driving impacted head-on with a Kenyan trailer.

The driver of the last option let completely go in the wake of exploring a sharp corner and collided with the penitentiaries' truck.

While the turn man installed the penitentiaries' truck phenomenally made due with extreme wounds, Tumwijukye passed on the way to the clinic.

In the wake of finishing his Senior Four, he joined the detainment facilities administration, selecting straightforwardly into the Penitentiaries Foundation and Staff School for a Jails Fundamental Course.

His choice to enter the detainment facilities administration was educated, as his more youthful sibling and money manager Atukunda Bannet Kiru reviews, by monetary requirements.

Tumwijukye followed through with his essential tasks at the penitentiaries foundation in only a half year, making way for an almost three-decade venture in the jails administration.

He met his future spouse Jennifer. The adoration and friendship of marriage saw them bring up six youngsters together.

Jennifer's telephone contact is the one that he gave as specialists on call attempted to save his life at the mishap scene.

"He was a cherishing and liberal man," Atukunda said of his sibling who assisted him with discovering real confidence when he previously moved to Kampala in 2002.

Arrangement history

In the wake of finishing his preparation on January 10, 1995, Tumwijukye was presented on Luzira jail, where he served tirelessly until October 18, 2000.

He then, at that point, expected the job of a driver in the Workplace of the territorial penitentiaries commandant south eastern Jinja.

After a short stretch in the south eastern district, he was moved to jails base camp. Consequently, on January 2, 2001, he was presented as a driver on the territorial penitentiaries officer in Post Entrance.

Tumwijukye's obligation to obligation saw him serving at different areas, including Uganda Jail Post Entrance as a station truck driver and Uganda Government Jail Ranch Mubuku as a truck driver. At long last, on September 3, 2009, he was moved to the penitentiaries central command, transport pool, where he functioned as a truck driver at jails flour plant until t his end.

Tumwijukye was much of the time advanced in acknowledgment of his devotion and excellent assistance. He was first advanced from the position of a jailer to a corporal on December 30, 1999. Further progressions followed as he accomplished the positions of sergeant jailer on October 1, 2001; boss jailer grade III on January 1, 2008; and boss jailer grade II on February 1, 2016.

His devotion and obligation to his obligations were by and by recognized as he was elevated to the position of boss jailer grade I on December 1, 2021.

Profoundly reliable

Tumwijukye stood apart for his steady respectability and venturesome soul all through his 23-year residency as a driver. All through his vocation, he exhibited a degree of obligation and discipline that put him aside.

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