The leader of the Tabliq sect in Uganda, Sheikh Yunus Kamoga and five others have been convicted of terrorism over murder threats issued to members of opposition Muslim faction.
According to a ruling delivered today at the High Court in Kampala by a panel of judges including; Ezekiel Muhanguzi, Percy Tuhaise and Jane Kiggundu, Kamoga and his co-accused were found guilty of threatening members from opposition Muslim faction through direct messages, preaching and meetings.
However, he together with 13 others were acquitted on murdered charges that had been brought against him.
Judges acquitted Kamoga and his colleagues on grounds that there was no incriminating evidence at all against any of the accused persons to show that any of them before court participated in the actual murder.
Together with his co-accused, Kamoga has been battling charges of terrorism and complicity in the murder of prominent Muslim clerics in the country.Majority of Kamoga’s coaccused were arrested in January 2015 and indicted for murder of a number of prominent sheikhs including Mustafa Bahiga and Hassan Kirya.
Bahiga was shot dead by unknown assailants riding on boda boda on December, 24, 2014 at Bwebajja along Entebbe road while Kirya was gunned down on June 30, 2016 in the city suburbs of Bweyogerere in similar way.
Kamoga’s co-accused included; Sheikh Siraje Kawooya, Murta Mudde Bukenya, Fahad Kalungi, Amir Kinene, Hakim Kinene, Muswaswa, Yusuf Kakande, Abdulsalam Sekayanja, Abdulhamid Mubiru Sematimba, Hamza Kasirye, Twaha Ssekitto, Rashid Jjingo, Musa Issa Mubiru, and George William Iga.
