Aine’s disappearance not reported - police

Police arrest Amama Mbabazi’s top guard Christopher Aine in Jinja recently. File photo

Kampala- Police have not started investigations into the disappearance of Mr Christopher Aine, the head of security for Mr Amama Mbabazi, because no one has filed a case.

Mr Aine went missing on December 17 after Mbabazi’s private guards were involved in a scuffle with NRM supporters in Ntungamo district on December 13.

Mr Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said the force also learn’t of Aine’s disappearance in newspapers, adding that no person from Go Forward or Aine’s relatives has filed a missing person’s case.

“We cannot commence investigations on a case that has not been brought to our attention,” said Mr Enanga while addressing journalists at police headquarters at Naguru in Kampala yesterday.

However, Ms Josephine Nkangi, the communications officer of the Go Forward political camp, insisted that the police knows where Aine is. “The Police patrol cars that took him belong to the police. They should produce him whether dead or alive,” Ms Nkangi said.

Mr Fred Mwema, the head of Mbabazi’s legal team, told Daily Monitor that: “We have opted for an order from court which shall be given to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) who will pass it to the police to produce Mr Aine whether dead or alive.”

Mr Aine had earlier in September been arrested after engaging in a showdown with Busoga East Regional Police Commander Edgar Nyabongo during the forceful dispersing of Mr Mbabazi’s consultative meeting in Jinja Town. He was, however, released on police bond.

President Museveni during a media briefing in Mbale last week said that whoever participated in the beating of NRM supporters in Ntungamo and whoever sent them, “will regret.”

On Saturday, Aine’s mother Jennifer Namuleme tasked Mr Mbabazi to produce her son when he made a stopover at Semuto Trading Centre in Nakaseke District to open the Go Forward office. However, Mr Amama Mbabazi informed Ms Namuleme that he was equally searching for him.