By VOM News Team
A Journalist attached to Voice of Muhabura Radio in Kisoro district has been assaulted by the manager of Gateway Bus Company.
Gerald Niyirinda and Dickens Twinomujuni (Intern) had been tipped that angry passengers who had traveled with Gateway Bus from Kampala had been abandoned in Kabale district after being told the bus would travel and reach Kisoro.
The passengers led by Morris Hakizimana, Youth Secretary for Finance at district level traveled by taxi, incurring an extra cost to Kisoro where they arrived at Gateway Offices on Kivengeri Street in Kisoro Municipality to demand for a refund.
Voice of Muhabura Journalist Gerald Niyirinda and Dickens Twinomujuni, who were covering the demonstration were attacked by a Somali, who is believed to be the Manager.
A photograph taken by one of the witnesses indicates that Niyirinda’s t. shirt was torn and his voice recorder damaged.
Niyirinda says he was hit with two stones, and he was slapped.
Hakizimana was also slapped several times.
Eyewitnesses say the Manager of Gateway attacked them claiming they had illegally trespassed on private property.
The manager whose identity is still not known has also filed a Police case against the two Journalists and the Youth Councilor
Hakizimana, has in the past posted comments on twitter of bus companies to Kisoro that usually take passengers under false pretense of reaching the final destination only to dump them in Kabale district.
By Press time, Niyirinda and Hakizimana had reported the matter to Kisoro Police Station.
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