Brave Busitema University student died saving drowning friends

It’s really sad that one of the things that gives meaning to life is also one that actually takes it away. Death has been in our midst too much of recent.

In his final year at University, Mwesigye Jim Reeves who also doubles as the Guild Cabinet Speaker was one of three students that drowned at Sangalo Beach on Saturday where they had gone to attend a handover party of the Teso Students Association. Mwesigye died saving his friends.

He drowned along colleagues Emolu Nathan a first-year student also doing Engineering in Water Resources, and Demosha Asiimwe, also a first-year student doing Bachelor of Engineering in Mining.

According to eye witnesses, Mwesigye’s body was only seen minutes after he had drowned, “we saw Mwesigye’s body about 30 minutes after he had drowned,” Shadrack Khaukha, the guild minister for Education said.

He also said that Mwesigye, who knew how to swim, tried to rescue Emolu and Asiimwe but before he could pull Asiimwe out of the water, a wave swept him- separating them leading to their drowning and death.

Police arrested Peter Ochali, a bar attendant at the beach who had coordinated the party but his colleague Christine Shewunda claimed that the 34 Busitema students had arrived at the venue while drunk and carrying sachets of waragi and were swimming while intoxicated.