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Katumba Attack: Attorney General Confirms Four Not Two Suspects Were Shot Dead

by Our Reporter
July 12, 2021
Katumba Attack: Attorney General Confirms Four Not Two Suspects Were Shot Dead

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The Attorney General’s chambers has confirmed that four of the people who were arrested in relation to the shooting of General Katumba Wamala and murder of his daughter and driver were shot dead and therefore cannot be produced in any court for plea taking.

The four are; Idris Serwadda alias Swakibu alias Juma,  Mustafa Kawawa Ramadan alias Musa alias Amin whose bodies were given to the relatives and have since been buried in their respective ancestral homes,  and Juma Saidi together with  Hussein Wahab Lubwama alias Christopher Kinene alias Master whose bodies are  yet to be given to their respective families.

Kawawa was buried in Bombo in Luwero District while Serwadda was buried in Rwankoni in Kyotera district, according to information obtained from their lawyers led by Geoffrey Turyamusiima.

The  confirmation of those who died  has  been revealed before the head of High Court Civil Division Justice Musa Ssekaana by the State Attorney Johnson Natuhwera.

Natuhwera was responding to an application demanding for the production of eight people who were  arrested in relation to the death of Gen Katumba Wamala’s daughter Brendah Nantongo Katumba and his driver Haruna Kayondo.

The duo were shot dead on June 1st 2021 along  Kisota Road in Kisaasi, Nakawa Division by assailants who were moving on motorcycles. The former Chief of Defence Forces General Katumba Wamala survived death by gun shot  injuries which he is steadily recovering from.

Following the attack, joint  security agencies arrested a number of people between June 24th and July 2nd, 2021 but delayed to produce them before court.

As a result, the lawyers representing those who were arrested filed an application demanding for their production in court arguing that their rights to constitutional liberty and fair hearing were being infringed upon.

The lawyers in their application listed eight people and out of the eight who were listed, only three were brought to Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court and charged before being remanded over the matter.

These are:  Kamada Walusimbi alias Mudinka alias Ogema, Muhammed Kagugube alias Bafumoya and Siriman Kisambira alias Mukwasi.

The others were those earlier mentioned whom the Attorney General’s chambers has confirmed as dead with the exception of Taata Juma whom they have  told court that he is not any where in government custody.

State Attorney Natuhwera was relying on an  affidavit sworn by Dinah Kyasiimire the Acting Commissioner Civil  Affairs in Uganda Police Force who stated that the four were killed in action when the joint security was effecting their arrest.

“That I know that 4th , 5th, 6th, 7th applicants were killed in action”, reads the affidavit in part.

Kyasiimire however adds that the eighth applicant Taata Juma is not known to them and has never been in their custody.

The Attorney General contends that  whereas one of the applicant’s lawyers who swore a  supporting affidavit, Francis Nyakoojo said that they had tried to visit the suspects at the Special Investigations Department of Police in  Kireka and failed, the Attorney General refutes this saying it is not true.

According to the evidence submitted to court by the government chambers, the rest of the suspects have since been charged and  remanded on charges of terrorism, murder and attempted murder.

However, in response to the submissions, the applicants’ lawyer Turyamusiima told court that they needed evidence in form of death certificates to prove that indeed those who are missing have since died and to show under what circumstances did they die.

As such, Justice Musa Ssekaana has ordered the Attorney General to adduce the death certificates before court on Friday July 16th 2021.

Turyamusiima has told URN that they will be planning to see what next after the Attorney General provides evidence of death  of their clients since the Ugandan laws do not provide for unlawful killings.

Turyamusiima argues that although they got information from Police earlier that two suspects were killed, matters of the law have to be settled in courts since the death was never sanctioned by any lawful process as provided for in law.

Earlier, there was controversy on the number of people who were shot dead.

The  Deputy Inspector General of Police Major General Paul Lokech addressed the media and said that two of the suspects had been shot dead.

Days later, the Commander in Chief of the armed Forces President Yoweri Museveni, during the swearing of New Ministers, said three were shot dead and now the Attorney General’s chambers has upped the figure to four “killed in action”. URN

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