Elite News Uganda

A graphic video footage of rugby player Sydney Gongodyo's final moments during a mob attack on a Kampala roadside, showing him on the ground as bystanders and boda-boda riders surround him, with some carrying knives. Gishu sensation , a 27-year-old forward for Uganda's Uganda Rugby Cranes and Stanbic Bank Uganda Black Pirates, was fatally beaten on June 5, 2026, in Bukoto after being falsely accused of snatching a woman's handbag; he was a Makerere University University student. Police have arrested at least eight suspects linked to the lynching, prompting public demands for full accountability as the video circulates widely and the victim's body was returned to his ancestral home in Sironko District.