Buhweju DPC on spot over threatening journalist

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Last week on April 8th , Daily Monitor published a story in which residents of Katenga parish in Engaaju Sub County accused Mr Nuwamanya of evicting them from the plots where they had been mining.
They alleged that the DPC evicted them in February this year and detained their leaders, and thereafter took the plots which attracted his relatives to the area with one of the sisters taking over the management of them.

Mr Zadock Amanyisa, a Daily Monitor Correspondent in Greater Bushenyi region is facing threats from Mr Ben Niwamanya Kashumbusha, a police commander in Buhweju District over a story the former authored and was published in the Daily Monitor last week in which residents

DPC implicated in gold mine scam

Because of the feud, more than 36 small scale miners have been evicted from their areas of operation on the orders of Mr Kashumbusha

in Katenga area.
Daily Monitor has learnt that the police officer threatened to 'deal' with the journalist at Bushenyi Regional Police headquarters on Tuesday.

"How can you write such a stupid story about me?" Mr Niwamanya reportedly asked Amanyisa.
"I reached at the station to cover an event and said hello to the policemen around. Mr Niwamanya is said to have told fellow DPCs of Sheema, Rubirizi and Mitooma that I wrote a bad story about him. He warned me to go slow over him or otherwise, I will face it rough," Mr Amanyisa said.
The journalist proceeded to cover an event where the outgoing regional police bosses were to conduct a handover ceremony but later, he was blocked by Mr Martial Tumusiime, the region's police public relations officer.

However, when contacted for a comment over the matter in question on telephone on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Tumusiime said: "He [Zadock] has his own interests in things of Buhweju. All that he wrote in his article is false. Secondly, he was not supposed to cover our ceremony because it was an internal handover and no other journalist was allowed at our event." The PRO did not comment on the issue of the threats levied against the reporter but he stated that there is a disagreement between the journalist and their officer.
Last week on April 8th , Daily Monitor published a story in which residents of Katenga parish in Engaaju Sub County accused Mr Niwamanya of evicting them from the plots where they had been mining.
They alleged that the DPC evicted them in February this year and detained their leaders, and thereafter took the plots which attracted his relatives to the area with one of the sisters taking over the management of them.