Bar proprietor faces police query over death of waiter
Mr Kenneth Kirenzi, a bar attendant at Panamera Bar, shows off scratches he sustained from the beat ings yesterday . PHOTO BY STEPHEN OTAGE
Kampala businessman Desh Kananura could be questioned by police following the beating to death of a waiter at his upscale city bar yesterday morning.
Police yesterday confirmed they picked the body of Badru Katerega from Panamera Bar opposite Kampala Parents School in Naguru.
“It is true that we got a body there and other people beaten. But for more information, contact the officer in-charge of criminal investigations,” Mr Simon Egudu, a Criminal Investigative Department operative attached to Kira Road Police Station, said.
Katerega completed senior six last year but did not have money to continue with school and got a job as an attendant at the bar to raise school fees. Another bar attendant, Mr Kenneth Kirenzi, is in bad condition after he was also beaten with a gun butt and is admitted at Namirembe Hospital.
One of the workers at the bar, who preferred anonymity, told Daily Monitor that Katerega and five others were arrested after they were searched by a security guard who found him with money at 3am.
“Workers are searched before and after entering the premises. It so happened that one of the bar attendants was found with Shs30,000. They took him behind the bar in the internal cell and beat him using sticks and a gun butt,” he said.
Acting on a tip by Mr Kirenzi, who was dropped at Kira Road Police Station by unknown people, officers rushed to Panamera and picked the body of Katerega.
Postmortem
The body was taken to Mulago Hospital for postmortem. Efforts to reach Mr Kananura by this paper were futile as calls to his known telephone number went unanswered by press time.
Panamera was yesterday closed and cordoned off by police as investigations at the scene kick-started. Police sources yesterday said they are yet to summon other employees at the bar to help them establish what really happened.
