Christian Ahabwe, a former Kyambogo University’s first-class engineering graduate has reportedly succumbed to spinal code injuries sustained in the ongoing military training at Kaweweta military school in Nakaseke district. Ahabwe is among the 10,000 ordinary, and professionals recruited between June and July this year.
Being a brilliant engineering graduate, Ahabwe was recruited as one of the professionals who would immediately be deployed in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces -UPDF’s engineering brigade after training.
However, Ahabwe according to friends who have taken to Twitter to express their sorrowful moments said he sustained a spinal code injury during training. Maj Charles Kabona, the First Division spokesperson, said it was out of his area of responsibility while UPDF deputy spokesperson, Col Deo Akiiki, was yet to respond to the inquiry.
“I believe you had a conviction to serve your country in the military not just a job because in any case there are thousands of unemployed graduates out there who have never even dreamt of applying to be uniformed. Training is risking be it military, Police, medical, engineering, piloting,” one of the friends eulogized Ahabwe on Twitter.
Another person went ahead to give details of Ahabwe that he completed studies at Kyambogo University last year, adding that he was once an aspirant at the highest office among the students’ leadership at Kyambogo University but lost to NUP’s Tundu Tundulu and Mbazira John Senior respectively.
“After studies, he joined the UPDF to undertake a job in the military under his field of Engineering, so during the manual UPDF training, he sustained an injury where he got a problem on the spinal cord which connects with the brain, he was rushed to Lubaga Hospital on Sunday but after 5days in ICU he couldn’t make it and passed on after the unsuccessful surgery,” the deceased’s friend narrated.