Details of the meeting before Kaweesi murder

Kampala. A day before former police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi was killed on March 17, President Museveni had directed the former Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mr Mike Chibita, to quicken court proceedings regarding the murder case of businessman Wilberforce Wamala in which Kaweesi was accused of obstructing investigations.
Wamala’s widow, Ms Elizabeth Wamala, had accused the late Kaweesi in 2015 of conspiring to conceal her husband’s killers.
Security sources say Mr Museveni’s directive was issued during a meeting at State House Entebbe, also attended by Mr William Okalanyi, the current commandant of the police Professional Standards Unit, a homicide officer, and another forensic detective who visited the crime scene where Hassan Ssali, the prime suspect in the Wamala murder case, was killed.

Ssali was strangled and his body found hanging in a police cell at Bukasa police post outside the city centre. Sources say Gen Kayihura and other police detectives were shocked at how President Museveni catalogued “dirty deals” in police and reportedly told the meeting that he wanted to meet the late Kaweesi.
The President gave the team one week to ensure the Wamala murder case file was speedily processed and the suspects put on trial.
When contacted on Thursday, Mr Chibita said he couldn’t talk about the said meeting because he was driving, while Mr Okalany referred Saturday Monitor to police spokesperson Emilian Kayima.
“I don’t have any news. Get to the [police] public relations officer,” Mr Okalany said.
Two other police officers also being accused alongside the late Kaweesi of frustrating the investigations were Mark Odong and Francis Chemusto.
On March 17, 2017, when Kaweesi was killed, the three detectives led by Mr Okalanyi, were set to meet with Mr Chibita over the matter, but they were later ordered by a top police officer (name withheld) to cancel the meeting.

The same top police officer, the security sources say, ordered them to go to the police headquarters in Naguru to meet him.
When the officers arrived at the top officer’s office, they found the officers accused of frustrating the Wamala murder investigations present.
As the meeting progressed, the sources say, the top police officer who had ordered them to cancel the meeting with the DPP, received a call that Kaweesi had been shot dead.
The meeting ended.
The sources also say there was fear within the police leadership that Kaweesi would reveal crimes being committed by top police officers to President Museveni, especially regarding espionage and abducting of refugees from neighbouring countries.

A source says Gen Kayihura stopped his convoy three to four times on Entebbe Road in order to talk to Mr Okalany as they headed back to Kampala after meeting the President.
Mr Okalany had been directed by President Museveni to speed up the investigations.
We could not establish the substance of discussions between Mr Kayihura and Mr Okalany during those stops.
After Kaweesi’s gruesome murder, 42 suspects were arrested, but only 22 were later charged in court.
Mr Godfrey Byamukama, the Kamwenge Town mayor, was among those accused of having been the mastermind of the heinous crime, but was never charged.
At the time Mr Byamukama was detained at the then high security Nalufenya detention centre on the banks of River Nile in Jinja, nine other suspects detained with him were later released without charges.
The suspects, who were picked up from Bweyogerere near Kampala, were arrested after an informant, a boda boda rider at Bweyogerere, reportedly called police claiming he had heard them laughing and making statements that ridiculed police a day after Kaweesi had been killed.
Police invaded several homes on the outskirts of Kampala in Kasangati, Ndeeba, Natete and Mutundwe, where several suspects were arrested.

Woman with Kaweesi recordings
But months later, new information circulated that Kaweesi knew his life was under threat. Sources say he had recorded himself and sent the audio to a one Christine Mbabazi Muhoza, the woman who later almost caused a fight between police and Internal Security Organisation (ISO) operatives last year.
Ms Mbabazi is still under tight guard of Special Forces Command (SFC) at her home at Lungujja, Rubaga Division, in Kampala.
According to security sources, Ms Mbabazi is guarded by more than 15 SFC personnel deployed at her home on the orders of President Museveni in October last year.
Sources say Ms Mbabazi has vital information on the death of Kaweesi, which she gave to President Museveni.
“She might be used to pin the killers in future. She was close to the late Kaweesi and we understand she has vital information on his death,” the source told Saturday Monitor. Even those guards are changed regularly to avoid laxity”, the source said.
The latest information obtained by Saturday Monitor, shows that there have been several attempts to kidnap Ms Mbabazi, who is said to be well connected to top security personnel.
The sources say Ms Mbabazi had to be shifted to different hotels between Nateete, Kalangala and Rubaga in Kampala by ISO operatives before SFC took over her security because of the attempts to kidnap her by people who are said to be linked to the death of Kaweesi.

The 38-year-old woman is said to have given President Museveni a flash disk with Kaweesi’s voice recording in October last year after she was taken to State House by Col Kaka Bagyenda, the ISO boss.
It’s not clear for how long the soldiers will remain guarding her place, but sources say there was no sign that they would be withdrawn soon.
Capt Jimmy Omara, the SFC spokesperson, denied deploying at Ms Mbabazi’s home, saying they were only there for two days during the time of contestations between police and ISO.
“That question was put to rest a long time ago. We were there for only two days and everything went back to normal,” Capt Omara said.
Capt Omara referred Saturday Monitor to ISO, saying the agency was the one was in charge of the matter concerning Ms Mbabazi.

Charged over Kaweesi murder

Asuman Mugoya
Ali Mugoya, Shafik Kasujja
Sinaan Hibwangi alias Ndikusooka
Abdullah Kaala alias Tiger
Swale Kimuli
Sauda Ayub
Kimuli Luutu
Ibrahim Ssemwanga
Abdu Rashid Mbaziira
Mohammed Buyondo
Aramazan Higenyi Noor Bin
Yusuf Mugerwa aka Wilson
Bruhan Balyajusa
Umar Maganda Aramathan
Ahamadan Senfuka Shaban
Hassan Tumusiime
Ibrahim Kiisa
Osman Mohammed Omarete
Hamidu Magambo
Abdu Majid Ojerere
Joshua Kyambadde
Musa Ntende

Hunters hunted

Police officers held. In a new twist, several senior police officers have been rounded up and detained in military facilities in the last two months on account of complicity in violent crimes following parallel investigations by ISO and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI). Police’s own investigations had hit a dead end as in several other recent high profile murder cases.
Gen Kayihura. The latest officers to be arrested include Gen Kale Kayihura who headed the Force at the time the murders happened. He was picked up from his farm in Kashagama, Lyantonde District, on Wednesday following a tense night of security activity in the area. He is now detained at Makindye Military Barracks in Kampala.

Other officers. Other officers detained this week with him include his former personal assistant Jonathan Baroza, former Flying Squad commander Herbert Muhangi, former cyber-crime boss Richard Ndaboine, former director of Crime Intelligence Ndahura Atwooki, and former Kampala South Regional Police Commander Siraje Bakaleke.
Charges. It is not yet clear what offences they will be charged with as the military is keeping a tight lid on the matter. But sources indicate that the Kaweesi murder may be one of the cases on the file.
Kayihura boys. Two months ago, three of Gen Kayihura’s key lieutenants – Joel Aguma who headed the Police Standards Unit, Nixon Agasiirwe, who headed the Special Operations Unit, and Abdallah Kitatta, who was the patron of a vigilante group Boda Boda 2010, were detained and charged in the court martial for kidnap and unlawfully repatriation of Rwandan refugees.