CIP
Records P. IV: Shock as Self-confessed Kaweesi Killer Fails to Locate the Scene
of Crime
By
Stanley
Ndawula -
April
17, 2017
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KAMPALA, Uganda: In the media and
public fraternity sails a quotation by President Museveni’s Senior Advisor on
Media Affairs, Joseph Tamale Mirundi thus; “Kaweesi killers will be apprehended
in the next government.” To many, it was just a loose prediction, expressly
given the police boss Gen. Kale Kayihura’s ever reassuring statements of “we
have already arrested some. We shall get them wherever they are.”
During the burial of hitherto Uganda
Police Force chief mouthpiece, Late AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi, his tight friend
and colleague, AIGP John Ndugutse, speaking on behalf of friends, confidently
roared thus; “What we only want is the IGP’s permission for us to look for them
(Killers)… and we shall deliver in no time. We shall get them and align them
before justice.”
True to his word, Ndugutse had himself
earlier, arrested someone scooping blood-mucky soils from the scene of crime
and it was just a matter of connecting the dots. Also in line of this
investigative school of thought was hitherto Police Political Commissar, AIGP
Fred Yiga had who ordered for the same suspect’s apprehension and
interrogation. This was never to be. Kaweesi family members have since decried
the way the two senior Cops have been thrown out of the investigations with
even one’s job switched.
“Dr. Yiga insisted on what is right by
arresting those guys and insisting on their interrogation but instead he was
punished. Baroza who disrespected him on phone and attacked him for arresting
those guys is instead being pampered. Those guys and Baroza who protected them
haven’t been interrogated at all yet it’s important to tell us where they were
taking my brother’s blood? Are they cannibals? Leo Ruhinda, Kaweesi’s brother
lamented to media last week.
Last night, an indigenous news website,
Chimp Reports led with a story where, a one Geoffrey Byamukama was
tortured to near death by the usual chief tormentor, SSP Nickson Agasirwe.
“This is unacceptable… Our uncle was arrested by the Police Special Operators
led by SSP Nickson Agasirwe who beat him to near death. He sustained severe
injuries on the head, ribs and legs. Yet, Byamukama had nothing to do with
Kaweesi murder. Those who tortured him wanted a confession at all costs.” The
reporter quoted a relative.
The story
“Those who tortured him wanted a
confession at all costs” is the statement that gives credence to this article. Read
on… The people of Kisaasi (the neighboring town of Kulambiro where
Kaweesi was gunned down along with his driver and bodyguard on March 17th
2017), were about to dance to the tunes of bullets last Wednesday when,
detectives disagreed on who to lead the team which police’s ‘prime suspect’ in
the callous murders was to guide them to the scene.
Our impeccable sources narrate that
whereas Byamukama, the former mayor of Kamwenge stood by his innocence and
blasphemed to die protecting his conscience, another ‘suspect,’ one Tumusiime
succumbed and ‘confessed’ his guilt to Kaweesi murder. After this, Nixon and
group got contented they were done with the case. Excited, they organized for
the mandatory reconstruction of the crime scene.
On Wednesday, sources tell us, Nixon’s
team led by Special Police Constable Hajji Abdu Ssemuju aka Minaana planned to
pick Tumusiime from Nalufeenya detention facility for the scene reconstruction.
On the team were also, ASPs Kidandi Ayubu and Fred Tumuhiirwe as well as a one
Kasiba, another SPC. Why the team with ASPs on board could be led by an SPC is
a story of its own.
The other team of formal senior
detectives comprised of Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) CIID boss Benson Olal
and Flying Squad’s Herbert Muhangi. Both squads drove safely from Jinja-based
serious crimes detention facility until when they reached around Kisaasi
trading center where, Olal stopped and issued orders. He insisted that from
this point, the ‘suspect’ MUST lead them to the scene of crime.
Just like all fictional stories can’t
add up simply because of the missing links, the authors of Tumusiime’s
confession had missed a crucial necessity of having him ‘privately’ visit the
scene before he could officially lead the detectives to the same. At Kisaasi,
he got totally lost. He could not point in the direction leading to the murder
scene to which he had claimed to have visited four times before he finally,
‘committed’ the fatal felony.
Confused, he went silent. This is when
a fray ensued between the two sides, with Minaana insisting they were the ones
to lead the group to the scene. “They nearly exchanged fire. It was a blunder
which Nixon’ team couldn’t take lying down,” said our Nalufeenya source. In the
middle of the muddle, Minaana, whom we reported in these pages as a murder
suspect at large-cum-policeman (Read: CIP Records P.I: Facts Why Gen. Kale Cannot Clean
Police of the Trash he Himself Littered the Force with), raised
the IGP on phone, informing him of how the Olal team had ‘staged a coup.’
With no suppositions left, the
operation had aborted. A call was received by the formal Detective team,
ordering them to retreat and hand back the suspect to Nalufeenya base. Sources
reveal that Tumusiime is in coolers with tens of other suspects who have jammed
to kowtow to the torture detectives’ poohoo of, ‘confess and save self from
more torture.’
Details obtained by the Investigator
indicates that Kaweesi murder investigations might turn into an eye-opener to
the hitherto momentally suspects’ confessions that remain in loose words and/or
pencil-in-scripted notes that wipes out of Ugandans’ memories days after the
victims’ burial and/or the cases’ fading away from headlines.
Whereas the Police spokesperson, AIGP
Asan Kasingye on Sunday ‘named all’ the suspects in custody over Kaweesi
murder, many, including Tumusiime and others in other security facilities’
detention, were left out of the list. However, our sources inform us that those
left out are highly suspected to be the real suspects. Watch this space…
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