The Resident District Commissioner for Koboko Isaac Kawooya and five others yet to be named have perished in a road accident at Mpambire Masaka road.
His vehicle a Toyota Premio registration number UAZ 417D is said to have collided with a trailer registration number T513 DNK/T881 DNG, at around 6am.
Kawooya and his wife had travelled from Koboko to Mbarara to witness the installation of Mbarara District Khadi, Sheikh Abdulla Mukwaya who replaced the late Sheikh Ahammed Kwikiriza who died in a car accident on the eve of Iddi Day in 2017.