Top detectives join Akena murder probe

KAMPALA:

Top homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID) headquarters have joined the Kampala Metropolitan Police team in investigating the shooting of Kenneth Akena Watmon.

The team has also been instructed to reconstruct the scenes of crime of the Saturday night fatal shooting at Lugogo in Kampala.

The CID headquarters team led by Mr Venus Tumuhimbise, the detective commissioner, and Ms Prossy Namukasa accompanied by KMP investigators visited the crime scenes and three other areas where Mr Matthew Kanyamunyu and girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari, who are suspects in Akena’s murder case, are said to have been on the fateful day.

Mr Tumuhimbise is the head of homicide and Anti-Terrorism Department at CID and Ms Namukasa is also based at CID Kibuli.

This is the second time detectives are reconstructing the scenes. It is not clear why there was another reconstruction of the scene four days after the shooting.

A detective on the investigating team said the police are aiming at beating the deadline today and then send back the file to the Director of Public Prosecutions to sanction murder charges.

But by press time, the detectives were yet to receive any printouts of call logs from the suspects and deceased phone, which they want to rely on to place suspects at the scene of crime.

Mr Kanyamunyu alleges that Akena and another man attacked him while he was being driven by Ms Munwangari at Star Auto Paradise car bond on Jinja Road and that Akena was accidently shot by his accomplice, who later fled.

Mr Kanyamunyu’s statement contradicts Akena’s dying declaration in which he told Mr John Paul Nyeko, his relative, that he was shot by Kanyamunyu, who later bundled him into a car and drove him to the hospital.

Detectives also handed over the bullet from in the deceased’s body to government Analytical Laboratory at Wandegeya in Kampala.