“Stop Threatening my Family” – Kirumira’s Wife tells Kayihura

Wife to embattled former Buyende district DPC, Muhammad Kirumira has asked the Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura to stop his police officers from threatening her and her family.

She said that in an event that any danger occurs to her or her family, Gen Kayihura and the Police will be responsible.

Mariam Kirumira revealed on Friday that unknown goons attacked her on Friday morning threatening her and family following the arrest of her husband.

She posted on her Facebook page how she survived attackers who confronted her on her way to visit Kirumira where he is being detained.

The pregnant mother says that the assailants attempted to beat her up and threatened to cause her an abortion.

“Today morning, as I was heading to Railway Police where my husband was remanded yesterday to check on him, some goons attacked me while on bodaboda and tried to beat me up,” Marian wrote.

According to her, the said goons said “this time we have your family under control”, and added that “we could even beat that pregnancy to an abortion so we can save ourselves from the stress of other Kirumiras”.

“I request Afande Kayihura to tell your boys to leave us alone. You [Police] made us sleep in a doorless house after breaking the door, fearing for our lives. As if that was not enough, you attack a heavily pregnant woman who is so helpless trying to make ends meet, after taking away my husband,” she said.

“Just let me be, in my pain. And if anything happens to me, you are responsible for everything”.

Mariam says she only survived at the mercy of the Boda Boda cyclist who was driving her and “managed to risk his life in order to save mine”.

Meanwhile, she said that Kirumira was on Thursday night transferred from Railway Police station where he had been initially detained to the notorious Nalufenya detention facility in Jinja.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Muhammad Kirumira was arrested by Police on Thursday a day after he announced that he had resigned from police service, which Police said was a violating the code of conduct.

He was arrested as he was set to appear before the Police tribunal where he is facing charges of; neglect of duty, discreditable or irregular conduct, torture, extortion, corruption, bribery, unlawful arrests and excessive use of authority, offences he allegedly commited when he was in-charge of Nansana Police Station in Wakiso District and Old Kampala as division police commander in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Kirumira denies these charges and instead says that they are trumped up by police administration with an intention to tarnish his reputation and disgrace him.