Despite the claims by police that Edison Nasasira, the man killed during the chaos in Rukungiri was hit by a stone, a post-mortem carried out indicates he died of gunshot wounds.

The postmortem was conducted at Karoli Lwanga Hospital – Nyakibale and Nurses Training Centre by doctors Julius Mbiine, Ronald Luyimbazi and Stephen Jjinjo, indicates that Nasasira had ‘circular bullet entry wound on the left nasal bone about 0.5cm and a circular exit wound behind the head while other body parts remained normal’.

The deceased met his death when police was trying to disperse Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) supporters who had convened for a rally that was organised last Wednesday in Rukungiri by FDC’s presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat Obol, who was accompanied by former party flag bearer Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye and FDC Mobilisation Secretary Ingrid Turinawe among other leaders.

And, after Nasasira’s death, the Police spokesman for Kigezi region Elly Maate said the deceased was hit by a stone that instantly killed him, a claim that has now been disproved by the postmortem results.

Since then Dr. Kizza Besigye, Ingrid Turinawe, FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat Obol and Rukungiri councilor Innocent Tashobya, who were on Thursday detained at Naggalama police station in relation to death of Nasasira, have today been granted a non-cash bail of Shs. 5 million, while their sureties were given a Shs 50m non-cash reprieve.

The group has been charged with incitement to violence, malicious damage of property (police car), disobedience of statutory duty by magistrate’s court in Rukungiri.

In a strange twist of events, the Nakifuma magistrate Sylvia Nvannungi who had promised to deliver judgment in regard to a petition filed yesterday morning by Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago seeking the release of the four, has today been taken by surprise after the suspects were produced in a court in Rukungiri.

Yesterday, following Lukwago’s petition magistrate Nvannungi had put  Naggalama OC Labu Chapcule and DPC Jessica Naawe on notice, to give reasons as to why the suspects were not arraigned before court or released on police bond.

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Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence has summoned former Aide De Camp to the Inspector General of Police Jonathan Barooza in the ongoing grilling.

Sources told EagleOnline that Barooza who is in Algeria has been summoned to appear before CMI at Mbuya for questioning on a wide range of issues. The investigations into operations of senior police staff was ordered by President Yoweri Museveni.

EagleOnline has learnt that officers who turned last afternoon have spent a night in the CMI detention cells as the military operatives dig deeper.

However, the investigation has caused panic in force with several officers not certain about their fate. Sources say that the inquest that is like a commission of inquiry of sorts comes in place after failure by police leadership to clean its own house after President Museveni complained that the force is full of thugs.

On Monday, 12 police officers were arrested by military intelligence on orders of President Museveni. This website understand that the arrests  are in connection to the revelation by  a woman  known as Christine Mbabazi Muhoza who claims she was a close friend of Kaweesi and could have had information to the killing of Kaweesi.

This woman is at the centre of investigations as she made both police’s flying squad and army that were deployed by Director General of Internal Security Organisation clash at her home. Both the army and police were subsequently withdrawn and replaced by Special Forces Command guards.

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The Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) has summoned more senior police officers for questioning in relation to numerous crimes that have gone bad under their dockets.

Sources within security say the ongoing investigations into the activities of some senior police officers were ordered by President Yoweri Museveni upon receiving several damaging intelligence reports against the said individuals.

Yesterday, 12 arrested police officers, and this afternoon the sources say more officers were reportedly handed over to CMI procedurally by Deputy Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola.

Meanwhile, some of the areas that are of interest to the investigators are that two heads of departments who were picked yesterday were reportedly on ‘payrolls’ of two governments in the region.

One officer, who sources say used his dreaded unit for personal gains, is accused of kidnapping foreigners and incarcerating them in safe houses without the knowledge of the authorities.

According to the source, a case in point is that of a South Sudanese senior army personnel who had links with former Vice President Riek Machar, who was reportedly abducted in West Nile before being killed under unknown circumstances, allegedly on the orders of the dreaded unit boss.

Further, the sources said his luck run out when the matter was brought before a joint security meeting and subsequently before the President, who in turn ordered an investigation by CMI, whose findings reportedly pin the said police officer.

Another officer is linked to the kidnap and subsequent illegal repatriation of refugees, reportedly under the instructions of a certain government in the region.

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The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Uganda Police has listed 13 individuals and three Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) it alleges are involved in subversive activities aimed at causing an uprising in the country.

According to a letter seen by Eagle Online, the NGOs under investigation include Action Aid International Uganda, Great Lakes Institute of Strategic Studies (GLISS) and Smartis Ltd.

The individuals who are mentioned include Godber Tumushabe, the GLISS Executive Director, Daily Monitor Journalist Ivan Okuda, Job Kija, Sandra Ahanga, Edgar Tushabe and William Rugaama. Others under scrutiny by the CID are Daphine Natumanya (Programme Associate-GLISS), Jackie Batamuliza, Shawn Mubiru and Deborah Namara (all GLISS staff).

In the letter addressed to commercial banks, the CID wants to be availed with accounts details of the suspected NGOs and individuals.

“Bank of Uganda requires your institutions to provide information on all accounts operated in the names of the above listed NGOs and individuals,” reads part of the letter.

Early this month Bank of Uganda froze the accounts of Action Aid International Uganda under unclear circumstances, while activist

Tumushabe confirmed an order issued order to freeze the GLISS accounts.

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The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) court has today fined Arua Municipality legislator Col. Ibrahim Abiriga Shs40, 000 for easing himself in public.

Appearing before Grade One Magistrate Beatrice Kainza at KCCA court this morning, Abiriga pleaded guilty and was given two options, to either pay the fine or serve two weeks in prison.

Earlier his lawyer Usama Sebuufu had presented medical documents to court, indicating that Abiriga suffers from diabetes, a condition that cannot allow for his bladder’s resilience.

“My client is diabetic, considering his age, he can’t serve such long term in jail,” Sebuufu told court. The legislator was later set free after paying the fine.

On September 27 Abiriga was summoned by the KCCA court to answer to ‘public nuisance’ charges after admitting he eased himself on the Ministry of Finance fence on September 25. And on October 6 Grade One Magistrate Moses Nabenda extended to October 25 after Abiriga’s failure to appear before court.

Col. Abiriga came to the limelight for draping yellow attire, and is one of the MPs that are in support for removal of presidential age limit that is being pushed by the Igara West MP Raphael Magyezi.

Yellow is the ‘colour call’ of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), and those opposed to Magyezi’s bill say that it is aimed at ensuring that President Yoweri Museveni, who is the NRM chairman, can contest in the 2021 elections when aged over 75 years, the constitutional cap.

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