The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has withdrawn affidavits objecting MPs Allan Ssewanyana and Muhammad Ssegirinya’s bail application.
The communication was made by the senior State Attorney Richard Birivumbuka. Jennifer Amumpaire (Asst DPP), Innocent Mubangizi (CID Officer) and Thomas Jatiko (Asst DPP) had filed affidavits.
Meanwhile the hearing of Ssewanyana, Ssegirinya’s bail applications has kicked off in Masaka. Last month, High Court Judge Lawrence Tweyanze set 13th, 14th and 15th February 2023 as the dates for hearing of the applications.
The two MPs and four other suspects including; were arrested in September 2021 over Masaka gruesome killings.
Ssewanyana and Ssegirinya were arrested in August 2021 together with other suspects; Mike Sserwadda, Wamala Bulo, Mugerwa John, Wilson Ssenyonga aka Tony Nyonga and Jackson Kanyika and they have spent more than a year in jail for several charges including murder, attempted murder and financing the killings in the Greater Masaka region that left 26 people dead.
Prosecution states that on August 2, 2021, they allegedly killed Joseph Bwanika, a resident of Kisekka Village in Kisekka Sub County in Lwengo District.
It is further alleged that on August 23, 2021 at Ssettaala Village in Masaka City, the MPs and their co-accused persons killed Francis Mugerwa Kiiza aka Nswa, Sulaiman Kakooza and Tadeo Kiyimba.
