No show for Byanyima at Police

Edith Byanyima. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA

What you need to know:

  • According to the Penal Code Act, a person who makes or utters any statement which is likely to promote, in any other way, “feelings of ill will or hostility among or against, any group or body of persons on account of religion, tribe or ethnic or regional origin commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years”.

The aunt to the Kanyamunyu brothers, who are facing charges of murder of Kenneth Akena, today failed to appear at police’s Special Investigations Division in Kireka.

Ms Byanyima, was summoned for questioning and later record a statement over allegations of promoting sectarianism and incitement of violence. However she could not make it due to "other commitments".
“She (Byanyima) gave a sound reason, she did not snub, and we shall wait for her tomorrow as she promised,” Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Emilian Kayima said.

Ms Edith Byanyima is alleged to have made sectarian statement in an interview with a local online media accusing people of a certain tribe of being behind the death of the father of Joseph and Matthew Kanyamunyu.

In a letter addressed to Ms Byanyima, the acting deputy director Special Investigations Division, Mr Henry Mugumya ordered Ms Byanyima to report in the morning for interrogation.