A boda boda cyclist only known as Vincent was yesterday shot and injured by police in Kisimbiri trading centre, Wakiso district for defying curfew directives issued by President Yoweri Museveni on Monday.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango said the 30-year-old Vincent was shot in the buttocks on Tuesday night after he was waved down several times by security in vain and instead tried to knock down enforcement officers.

According to Onyango, when Vincent fell down, he tried to wrestle down a police officer identified as Isaac Kabos prompting his colleague Stephen Wafula to open fire.

In his statement, Onyango says they have opened assault charges against the suspect who was rushed to Mulago national referral hospital for treatment as they wait to interview him to ascertain his real motive.

Museveni imposed a 7pm-6.30 am countrywide curfew in addition to the lockdown among other measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in the country. Uganda currently has 44 confirmed cases, nearly all of them imported cases.