Makerere Governing Council Vice Chairman Dan Kidega, who is also the immediate former Speaker for EALA, has been dragged to court by a family that seeks to hold him vicariously liable for the actions of his driver Elvis Kinene.
While cruising in Kidega’s official car, the ex-Speaker’s employee Kinene in March 2019 lost control of the huge Landcruiser and knocked Francis Nakibinge, a Boda Boda rider, who died instantly. The Nakibinge family members, led by Gerald Tebandeke, say that today nearly a year later, Kidega has never reached out to them to show any empathy for their loss yet he is ideally supposed to be fully aware of the same.
Riding on his motorcycle UDY 268Z, Nakibinge was carrying a passenger on that fateful night a few minutes after 11pm. He was riding his passenger from Bweyogerere to Kireka and the bloody traumatic incident took place outside Namboole stadium where Kidega’s posh Landcruiser overturned several times fatally wounding Nakibinge’s passenger as well.
The deceased’s family now wants court to find Kidega vicariously liable and compel him to pay them compensation of merely Shs25m because, from his Boda Boda business, Nakibinge was the sole breadwinner for his family of nine (9) dependents including his five biological children the eldest of whom was aged 15 years. (For comments on this story, Whatsapp us on +254737390785 or email us at [email protected]).
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