Harry George Galt

[1] Being posted to the British colony of Uganda, he was first appointed as the tax collector of the Ankole Sub-region.

On 19 May 1905, as a newly appointed officer, Galt allegedly forced the local people to carry him on their heads from Fort Portal to Ibanda, refusing to let them rest.

[2] The locals carried him up to Katooma, 3 km from Ibanda, before the Kagongo Catholic Church where he stopped and rested in a government house.

When the local people started talking about his cruelty, a native man named Rutaraka threw a spear at Galt, who was sitting in the government house compound.

They thought it was politically motivated and sentenced two Ankole chiefs to the death penalty which was later cancelled on appeal by the British East African Court.