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We did not kill MP Nebanda, says Museveni
In Summary
President promises full investigation and warns the
government will arrest anyone accusing it of a hand in the sudden death of
youthful legislator.KAMPALA
President Museveni last night distanced his government from any involvement in the sudden death of Butaleja District Woman MP Cerinah Nebanda.
Mr Museveni told journalists at a press conference at State House Entebbe that he had only mentioned the MP on Thursday in his special address to Parliament on the oil Bill. He warned that the government would arrest anybody claiming it had a hand in Nebanda’s death. “When you malign the government and interfere with the work of the police and you spread lies, then, the laws can handle you because police investigations are protected by the law,” Mr Museveni said.
The President said the last words he spoke with Nebanda were about travelling with her to her constituency to assess the condition of the health centres in the district after she had complained about lack of drugs.
Sulaiman Karungi, the alleged boyfriend of late Nebanda
“Therefore, I could not believe my ears. I think it was about 9 o’clock at night on that Friday, when Mr Kasule Lumumba, our chief whip, said Nebanda had died. It was totally unexpected. I could not believe it,” Mr Museveni said. He added: “Our daughter Nebanda died when she was very young, which is very painful. I had seen her just on Thursday when I went to address Parliament. My daughter has been doing a lot of kyejo and we are always making fun with her.
“On Thursday, when I was making the speech, I talked about drugs in health centres and I said the situation in the health centres has improved…then Nebanda said, ‘No it has not improved.’ then I said, we shall arrange and we go to Butaleja together…”
President Museveni condoles with Nebanda’s mother, Ms Alice Namulema, in
Entebbe yesterday. The President criticised the media for irresponsible
reporting on the MP’s death. PHOTO BY ISAAC KASAMANI.
Asked whether he would take action against the media for irresponsible reporting on Nebanda’s death, Mr Museveni said: “We shall find out why they did this. But you should know that these newspapers have been doing this for a long time. And they do it mainly against the government.”
Responding to a question about failure by the government to make public reports into previous investigations into the deaths of prominent people, such as the late Ministry of Defence PS Noble Mayombo, he said some reports could not be concluded because there were not enough facts. “But the Mayombo one was concluded and we know the cause. So there was no problem. His family was informed,” Mr Museveni said, adding : “But this one is a simpler case because Nebanda was not sick.”
Sending his condolences to the family, the President said: “Nebanda will not be easy to replace but this was done by some power beyond everybody’s control here. But if it was done by an enemy, we shall get him or her.”
Addressing a press conference at Parliament on Sunday, Nebanda’s colleagues challenged an earlier claim by police that a drugs overdose was to blame for her death. Dr Chris Baryomunsi, a parliamentary commissioner and medical practitioner, who represented Parliament at the post-mortem, ruled out drug abuse and natural causes.
“During the post-mortem we were able to exclude conditions that kill you suddenly, things like heart attack, blood pressure, blood clot. We also excluded any form of injuries caused by way of using weapons, strangulation, physical strangle or rape,” he said.
Earlier in Kampala, police said the postmortem examination on Nebanda was not conclusive, prompting the pathologists to send the samples to a government laboratory for further tests. According to a police statement, the examination was conducted by a team of pathologists, led by Prof Henry Wabinga, of Makerere University, and the head of Police Medical Services, Dr Moses Byaruhanga, a day after the MP’s sudden death on Friday evening at a city suburb. “It is only after the team of pathologists receives the results of the forensic tests from the government analytical laboratory that determination of the cause of death can be made in a certified postmortem report,” the statement reads in part.
It adds: “Police are making significant progress in developing useful leads from witnesses from a joint team of forensic analysts of the police and the Government Analytical Laboratory, as well as other sources.”
However, in response to the revelations about the MP’s death, some people from her home district of Butaleja have expressed cynicism about the police investigations.
Mr Simon Haumba, an NRM youth mobiliser, said Nebanda’s death had come as a “shock” to the district.
“Whoever did this should definitely be brought to book because master-minding the death of this young and courageous woman was like hanging the people of Butaleja District for she was a legislator with an independent mind, who could not fear speaking out on controversial issues, ” Mr Haumba added.
The NRM chairperson for Butaleja Town Council, Mr Asuman Kawiso, urged the police to investigate and issue a clear report on MP Nebanda’s death. The mood in the district was sombre, as many residents were seen in small groups, discussing the death.
Meanwhile, the Butaleja District Council has organised a special meeting to honour the late Nebanda on Friday.
Ms Nebanda, dead at 24 years, was voted Woman MP for Butaleja District in 2011. Photo by Joseph Kiggundu.
MP Cerinah Nebanda: The story so far
Publish Date: Dec 16, 2012
By Vision Team
The Police Saturday morning launched a manhunt for Butaleja Woman Member of Parliament (MP) Cerinah Nebanda’s boyfriend and four other young men who dumped her at a clinic and vanished.
Police chief Kale Kayihura addressed a press conference and circulated photos of the boyfriend, identified as Sulaiman Karungi. The two-roomed rented unit in Buziga, Kampala, was often visited by various young men, some of whom spent nights there.
A boda boda rider in the neighbourhood said on an average day, they would ride up to five visitors to the house. The visitors, he said, were usually happy to pay a good price for the ride.
According to the Police, Nebanda drove herself from Munyonyo to the boyfriend’s house in Buziga. While in the boyfriend’s house, she phoned her mother saying she was having abdominal pains after a meal.
When her situation worsened, the
boyfriend rushed her to a nearby clinic, where health workers administered and
recommended her to be taken to a bigger health facility
She was then taken to Mukwaya General Clinic, located on Ggaba road near the
American Embassy, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.The young men then called the mother using her phone, telling her the daughter was unconscious. They then vanished, abandoning her car at the clinic.
Criminal Investigation Intelligence Directorate boss Grace Akullo told Sunday Vision that they had arrested two medical workers to help with investigations.
Those arrested are a medical officer at the Mukwaya General Clinic and a nurse who administered first aid at the first clinic.
The nurse accompanied the MP to Mukwaya General Clinic. “We arrested the nurse at the clinic to assist us with investigations,” Akullo confirmed.
A security source told New Vision that preliminary investigations indicate that the MP could have died of drug and alcohol intoxication. However, the Police could not confirm this.
A team of medical officials led by Kinkizi MP Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, a police pathologist, Mulago staff and the chief Government pathologist were due to conduct a post-mortem yesterday afternoon to determine the cause of death.
The Parliament spokesperson, Helen Kawesa, said they received the news of her death during the funeral service of Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s dad. The MP had been at Parliament on Friday.
“This was a shock to all of us. Personally, I saw her yesterday (Friday morning) at Parliament. She was even present on Thursday when the President addressed the house on oil,” Kawesa said.
Nebanda could have been poisoned
Sunday, 16 December 2012 22:50
The question on everyone’s lips has been: who
killed the Butaleja Woman MP, Cerinah Nebanda?
But this question, which has been met with many
conspiracy theories, can only be answered after ascertaining what killed her.
News of Nebanda’s death started circulating on Friday evening, as medical
personnel from Mukwaya General clinic, in Nsambya, confirmed the death of the
vibrant and courageous MP.
According to reported accounts from the police,
the cause of Nebanda’s death was probably drug abuse. This particular account
of the police appears corroborated by evidence found at the Buziga home of
Nebanda’s boyfriend, a one Kalungi, and the allegation that the deceased was in
company of suspected drug addicts.
However, preliminary post mortem results have
ruled out drug abuse as the cause of death. Addressing the media yesterday, the
Kinkiizi East MP, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, part of the medical team that conducted
the postmortem, said they found external toxic substances. These allegedly
caused acute pancreatic failure and lung consolidation.
“We found her pancreas
inflamed and the lungs were consolidation,” Baryomunsi said.
He said the examination revealed that the
pancreas and the lungs were in a normal state but their failure was caused by
the external substances.
“We examined the body
and found out that the deceased did not have any problems with the pancreas or
the lungs in the past. But, we established that problem was acute, something
that means that there was external influence of substance that caused the
system failure,” he told The Observer.
During the medical examination at the
Mulago-based medical school, Baryomunsi was in the company of other MPs like Dr
Medard Bitekyerezo (Mbarara
Municipality) and Dr Sam
Lyomoki, together with the deceased’s family pathologist. Although they found
alcoholic content in Nebanda’s body, Baryomunsi said it was not the cause of
death, since the liver was intact.
“If it was alcohol,
the liver should have been the first to be affected but the examination
revealed that the liver was normal,” he said.
Besides, preliminary findings also ruled out the
suspicion of strangulation and injuries. “We examined the naked eyes but it did
not lead us to that,” he said.
Although, Baryomunsi said that heart attacks and
high blood pressure always led to the symptom of naked eyes, the examinations
ruled the aforementioned causes. But now that the cause of the death is
believed to have been a chemical toxic substance, which many are interpreting to
mean poison, Baryomunsi said that toxicological analysis would start today, to
find out the name of the toxic substance.
“Some samples have been submitted to the
government chemist and some have been sent to South Africa for independent
analysis,” he said.
During today’s press briefing, Baryomunsi and MPs
Elijah Okupa (FDC-Kasilo), Emmanuel Dombo (NRM- Bunyole East) and others
cautioned the police and media to avoid giving contradictory accounts of the
death of the deceased.
“They should avoid giving uncoordinated accounts
since the results are not yet out may be they want to mislead the public,”
Okupa said.
By press time, reports said Nebanda body would
lie in state on tomorrow, with a special sitting of Parliament expected later
the same day. Burial was scheduled for Thursday in Butaleja district.
More mysterious murders that have been questioned by Ugandans
More mysterious murders that have been questioned by Ugandans
NRA killed Kayiira, Bwengye
book says
January 11, 2007
Former presidential candidate, FRANCIS WAZARWAHI BWENGYE, was a
confidante of Dr. Andrew Lutakome Kayiira, a former UFM rebel leader
and minister, who was murdered in March 1987.
Bwengye, who had been arrested together with Kayiira on treason
charges, later fled to exile and wrote a book about the murder in
which he blamed the government, but the book which was published in
Germany in 1988 was controversially never made available in Uganda. As
the Kayiira murder continues to take centre stage, The Weekly Observer
picks excerpts from the book. More excerpts will be published next
week.
The arrest and detention of Dr. Kayiira and others
At about 10.00 p.m. on the 3rd of October, 1986, the NRA ambushed Dr.
Kayiira on the road leading from Kabalagala to [Muyenga] Tank Hill on
the outskirts of Kampala. Dr. Kayiira was in his personal car. He had
his wife and some other members of his family and one body-guard in
the car. They were all put at gunpoint and taken to the Central Police
Station (CPS) in the centre of the capital. Dr. Kayiira was put in the
cells and his wife sat on the bench in the station until next morning
when she was released.
At about 2.00 a.m. on Saturday the 4th of October, about fifty NRA
soldiers also stormed into my house and arrested me and took me to the
CPS. At the same time, Commander Sajjad Sorrie, formerly of UFA and
then of the NRA Divisional Headquarters in Mengo under Commander Salim
Saleh, was arrested from a Kampala hotel and also taken to the CPS.
Earlier on in the day, several FEDEMO officials and others had been
arrested and kept in the President's Office. In the morning of
Saturday, several DP officials were also arrested and taken to the
CPS. By the evening, the number had come to sixteen people.
At about 8.00 p.m. on Saturday, Dr. Kayiira and his team were
transferred to Luzira Maximum Security Prison. On the next day, we
were joined by Mr. Evaristo Nyanzi, Minister of Commerce, and Israel
Mayengo who were arrested on that day. Next day, on Monday, we were
joined by Mr. Paulo Muwanga, the former Vice-President of Uganda.
On Tuesday the 6th of October, we were taken to court and charged with
treason. The substance of the charge was that the plotters had met
somewhere in Rubaga and laid down a plan to overthrow the government.
All the accused laughed it off as it was clear that the whole charge
was trumped up. The court remanded the accused in prison again. We
continued appearing in the same court every fortnight for the next
five months. Every time we appeared the prosecution told the court
that "investigations were still in full swing" or were still
incomplete.
When Kayiira and all of us first appeared in court, the atmosphere was
tense. We were escorted from and back to prison by a full company of
fully armed NRA troops. Commander Kaboyo of the Central Brigade
Headquarters and Commander Aronda [Nyakairima] of the CPS were in
charge of the escort. On the way back to Luzira, prisoners were
dispersed in several transport vehicles. One of the vehicles was being
driven by Commander Kaboyo himself.
Francis Bwengye
This is the vehicle that carried me. As we drove to Luzira prison
soldiers in the mini-bus were insisting that the government should not
waste time taking all the accused to court anymore but that we should
be executed by firing squads. One of them stated that while they were
"still in the bush, they had been given a list of stumbling blocks
(bipinga) and that the list included Dr. Kayiira. They argued that
they, therefore, saw no reason why they should waste time with
bipinga, especially Dr. Kayiira. All the time Commander Kaboyo talked
the same language with the soldiers. He agreed with them.
While in prison, Dr. Kayiira's relatives and friends who tried to come
and visit him were most of the times sent away. Visitors for other
prisoners under the same charge were always allowed to see them.
Inside the prison, Dr. Kayiira was not allowed to speak to ordinary
prisoners, especially "lodgers" most of who were ex-soldiers.
Whenever he and his group were being taken to court, one notorious and
hated ex-UNLA soldier and a terrorist in the Obote regime, Sergeant
Sokolo, a man who is charged with multiple murders of innocent people,
would be included in the group and handcuffed together with Dr.
Kayiira. Apparently this was intended to equate Dr. Kayiira with
sergeant Sokolo. The hitherto hated Paulo Muwanga was treated more
humanely and respectfully than Dr. Kayiira.
One day, while in prison, two soldiers, one of whom looked a
Munyarwanda, and another one, a Mukonjo, stealthily broke into the
courtyard of the East Wing Cells where Dr. Kayiira and all of us were
playing a scrabble game.
The two soldiers started identifying Dr. Kayiira, marking his
appearance and physical features properly. These soldiers had gone
into these cells without passing through the usual prison channels.
They had not gone there for an identification parade. So Dr. Kayiira
got scared about the whole matter. He and all of us inmates protested
to the officer-in-charge of the prison who regretted the incident and
promised that it would never happen again.
Surprisingly, the day Dr. Kayiira and some of us were released, these
two soldiers were seen at the court. In fact, he had at first feared
to leave the court cells and go out unless he was given security
protection. He was finally convinced by commander Muntu-Mugisha who
came to give him reassurance that no one would harm him.
When he got out of the court, his relatives whisked him away and took
him to live with one of the relatives at Namugongo, about ten miles
out of the city. While there, he heard that government agents were
circulating rumours that he had gone to the bush.
So he decided to leave the place and come to live with his friend, a
Ugandan journalist Henry Gombya, in outskirts of the city, so that the
government could know his whereabouts and keep surveillance over him,
if they chose to do so, to prove that he was not planning to return to
the bush.
Almost on daily basis he came to the city centre to ring his family in
the USA or to see some friends. Unfortunately by doing so, he
overexposed himself to his enemies who eventually gunned him down.
The brutal murder of Dr. Kayiira
On the 6th day of March, 1987, Dr. Lutakome Andrew Kayiira was
brutally murdered at a home of his friend, Henry Gombya. His tragic
and brutal death shocked the nation. After his death, the regime tried
to lead the nation to believe that his murder was not politically
motivated but that it was an act of robbers.
This stand by the government is rejected by the overwhelming majority
of Ugandans most of whom were supporters, followers, associates,
colleagues and friends of the assassinated Dr. Kayiira. Moralists,
political leaders, freedom fighters and human rights activists also
joined the Kayiiraists to demand a thorough inquest in the matter.
Right from the day Dr. Kayiira was assassinated, the government
behaved in such a manner that every right-thinking person could not
rule out the NRA and [government] involvement in the hideous act.
First and foremost, very early in the morning before Mr. Gombya
reported the matter to the police, Dr. Kiiza-Besigye, Minister of
State for Internal Affairs, rang Dr. Paulo Kawanga Ssemogerere,
Minister of Internal Affairs, to inform him of the murder.
Dr. Ssemogerere immediately summoned the CID officials and they went
to the scene. They were the first government officials to visit the
scene. On arrival they found Gombya's wife Vicky just returning from
the Police Station where she had gone to report the matter. The CID
officers started interviewing the Gombyas, their relatives and others
who were living with them and were present at the scene that night.
Before the CID submitted their report to the Minister of Internal
Affairs, the Prime Minister's Office issued a statement saying that
the murder was an act of robbery by criminals who, the government
statement claimed, were plenty in the area. The statement tried to
implicate Gombya for having kept a large sum of money in the house
whereas he knew that the area was infested with criminals who would
come for the money.
Those who heard the statement were shocked at its clumsiness and
hypocrisy. After issuing the lame statement, the Prime Minister
[Samson Kisekka] went to the USA on an unscheduled journey where he
stayed for over two weeks. He never attended the funeral of his former
cabinet Minister, a fellow freedom fighter, a fellow Muganda and a
fellow nationalist.
It is even rumoured that before the Prime Minister left the country,
he rang a few of his close associates in the cabinet and advised them
not to attend the burial ceremony.
President Museveni decided to keep completely mum. When the incident
took place, he was in Kampala. The next day, he left for Gulu to visit
his troops in the civil war zone. After two days, he came back and
then left for an official visit to Libya where he had a grand
reception by Col. Muamar Qadaffi. On his return he found that Dr.
Kayiira's burial had already taken place. Even then he said nothing
about the whole matter.
Museveni 's silence increased the suspicions by the Public. Previously
when leading personalities in the country [died], like the late Erisa
Kironde, a leading official of the Uganda Patriotic Movement, and
Chairman of the Uganda Red Cross, Museveni sent messages of
condolences to the bereaved persons and issued a press statement on
behalf of the government expressing sadness.
He would also send some money to cover the funeral expenses. In this
case, he kept completely silent and sent no donations or financial
assistance. He avoided going to the burial or send one of his high
ranking military officers to represent him.
Due to public pressure demanding the truth surrounding the
assassination, the government had to try to exonerate itself from the
murder by putting the blame where it does not lie. It accused Henry
Gombya, then Obote's followers, and then later former Kayiira's
fighters i.e. members of the Uganda Freedom Army (UFA) as being the
murderers of Dr. Kayiira.
Kayiira's friends have so far gathered enough primary and
circumstancial evidence which goes a long way to prove that Dr.
Kayiira was murdered by the state through its agents. And that his
murder was not a criminal act by robbers, but a politically motivated
act by his opponents.
It is very clear that top NRM government officials and senior officers
of the NRA planned the murder and sanctioned the act. The government
is now in the dock. The evidential burden is cast upon them.
January 11, 2007
By Kalori Ssemogerere
Before daily newspapers became commonplace in Uganda, we received news
over state broadcasts on radio and television. In my boys' only
boarding school, Savio Junior School, the Brothers of Christian
Instruction relayed the news to us second hand at prayer assembly
before we went to bed.
Our headteacher Emmanuel Kisitu delivered blow by blow accounts of the
presidential inaugural of 1986. Andrew Lutakoome Kayiira's death was
relayed by Vincent Kirangwa an almost archived figure of the hill
where he has taught for more than half a century.
Prior to 1987, the name Kayiira came up twice, during the historic
attack on Lubiri by the Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) that shook the
inner core of Rubaga Hill. Even though each night, the children in the
home cloistered ourselves in a corridor, this was one night when the
walls of our modest three bedroom brick house were ready to head for
the skies in the tremors of artillery and mortar shells landing on the
ground.
Abayekeera is a term we understood very remotely. In our family's
tightly knit circle, perhaps only my late uncle Wasswa Nkalubo knew
much about them. He spent the days of panda gari holed up on top of
his home in Najjanankumbi scanning the roads into the city. The rest
of the stories from the war front were delivered in news of plunder,
death, grief, torture from the Luwero Triangle.
But such was the deep-seated hatred of former president Dr Apollo M.
Obote (RIP) in the heartland that he did not survive long in power in
spite his willingness to act as a client state of the West ern powers
who installed him in power and bankrolled his early years.
Kayiira and later Yoweri Museveni represented a broadly intellectual
effort to unseat the political-military complex that had driven
Uganda's politics since independence. Between the two of them, most of
the tactical sizing up of the regime in Kampala was done. Kayiira did
not prevail because he never hedged his bets. He was profusely western
in outlook. Museveni looked in both directions east and west as the
politics of the day suited him.
Museveni's relationship with Kayiira was never comfortable.
Chroniclers of the bush war mention that NRA did not keep its part of
the bargain in the 1982 attack on Lubiri Barracks. Kayiira supporters
mention he was the more nationalistic of the two even though his
rather permissive lifestyle made him more vulnerable than Museveni.
UFM supporters who drifted to NRM in the 1980s and after 1986 like the
late Zimula Mugwanya, and Manuel Pinto served comfortably within NRM.
In the exile community, one of the biggest laments of those who
switched support from Kayiira to Museveni was that Kayiira, in
hindsight would have been a true democrat and turned the country on
the path to political stability.
However, his political record was too thin to make such a historical
assessment. The Anglo Saxons were not comfortable with him. Yusuf
Lule's alliance with Museveni was in anger at the Kayiiras' refusal to
install him as leader.
Press reports to-date indicate that having failed in the first attempt
to oust Museveni in October 1986, anti Museveni forces had quickly
mobilised financially to make a second putsch against him. The
charisma of Kayiira was a threat whether as a civilian or military
leader especially in Buganda.
Kayiira's death in 1987 was not a murder. It was an execution. So was
Henry Mugisa's, the former Bujenje MP executed in1989. It could not
have happened without the consent and directives from the highest
people in the land.
Over the years Museveni has attempted to make nice with the Kayiira
family. He used envoys like Betty Bigombe in the United States to
financially bail out the Kayiira family. Betty Kayiira his widow who
has since returned to Uganda now lives an almost decrepit existence
tending her sisters' shop in Kampala. She was curiously absent in the
Democratic Party's (DP) charade of the past two weeks promising to
release the Scotland Yard Report.
Mr Francis Bwengye's book on the murder of Kayiira has never hit the
shelves of bookstores in Uganda. No one has asked for the copyright.
Mr Henry Gombya like others in the Kayiira story fell on hard times
and had to make good with the lords in Kampala.
DP's wish to publish the report was laudable but the mechanics and
accompanying histrionics were weak.
The only way to extract the report from government is forcing it to
release it "officially" through the courts and the Access to
Information Act. That is not an act of Alice in Wonderland. Government
would have to show how implication of its senior officials is a
"threat" to national security. That is the import of Article 41 of the
Constitution. Even if the president's name came up 20 times in the
trial of Kayiira's actual killers, that problem has been taken care
of. Article 98(4) of the Constitution shields him as a defendant and
witness in any proceedings before a court in Uganda. If that fails,
Scotland Yard must be pursued in British courts; there are enough
bases for jurisdiction for that.
kssemoge@gmail.com
Lydia Draru's kempt appearance counters Kazini murder
Lydia Draru,
alleged killer of Maj. Gen. Kazini, on her way to the Central Police Station,
Nov. 10, 2009. Photograph for the Daily Monitor by Joseph Kiggundu.
Wednesday, 11th November 2009
http://www.ugandarecord.co.ug/index.php?issue=28&article=360&seo=Lydia%20Draru%27s%20kempt%20appearance%20counters%20Kazini%20murder%20story
By Timothy Kalyegira
The widow of the former army
commander, Maj. Gen. James Kazini, has raised questions about the circumstances
of his murder early on Tuesday morning, Nov. 10, 2009.
"Maj. Gen. James Kazini's widow yesterday said she was doubtful that Lydia Draru, her husband's alleged killer, was the lone assailant in the killing of the former army commander," reported the Daily Monitor on Nov. 12, two days after the Uganda Record, in no uncertain terms, had made it clear in its reporting that Kazini's death was a political murder, not the result of a drunken brawl between him and his mistress, Lydia Draru.
"Maj. Gen. James Kazini's widow yesterday said she was doubtful that Lydia Draru, her husband's alleged killer, was the lone assailant in the killing of the former army commander," reported the Daily Monitor on Nov. 12, two days after the Uganda Record, in no uncertain terms, had made it clear in its reporting that Kazini's death was a political murder, not the result of a drunken brawl between him and his mistress, Lydia Draru.
In an interview with the Daily Monitor on Wednesday, Phoebe Kazini said: ""I highly doubt he was hit by a woman [acting] alone in that kind of way. I think that other people were involved, but of course there was this lady. Do you think a woman can fight a man in such a way? She must have been among the group which did it. We really doubt that she is the one who did it the way it was done."
On Tuesday morning, Fiona Basajjabalaba, wife of the businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba and also a cousin to the late Kazini, went to Mulago Hospital to view his body.
While there, she noted the tight security by the Military Police and the tension and suspicion around the mortuary and the fact that she was not allowed to view the body or, if she had to, had to get clearance from somebody who was constantly being consulted via phone.
This led her to start being suspicious of the whole story as had been given to the media, about Kazini's death.
It says something about the state of cohesion within the Museveni regime when the wife of a businessman whom most people believe is a front for President Yoweri Museveni's secret business deals, starts to question the official version of the events that ended Kazini's life.
Yesterday, Nov. 11, the Uganda Record got further details on Kazini's death.
A security analyst noted the fact that the alleged murder object was a 25mm aluminium hollow metal tube, hardly the sort of object to cause the kind of dent in Kazini's skull as happened.
Also, this security analyst, with sources in Military Intelligence, said Kazini was actually killed with an axe. The analyst added that Kazini had been trailed by a double cabin pickup on his way to Draru's house in Namuwongo in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
It is starting to become obvious that Kazini was murdered, but not in the way, not by the person, and not for the reasons the Ugandan public has been told.
The photographs of Draru that have so far appeared in the mainstream Ugandan newspapers hours after she was arrested and taken to the Central Police Station, are of a woman with full make up, hair all waxed in place, her clothes without a single drop of blood, well-pressed, all buttons in place.
In no way do her appearance or her clothes suggest a scuffle or the sort of physical fight that would result in Kazini's head being so badly shattered.
The Uganda Record repeats and stands by its original story: Maj. Gen. James Kazini's death was a political assassination, not manslaughter following a fight between two drunken lovers.
The political killing was carried out with the full prior knowledge of State House and therefore, is the full responsibility of President Yoweri Museveni.
