FIRST READ:
Hiding the serpent: Months have passed by Since Pastor Umar Mulinde’s acid attack: As usual the Ugandan police is just silent about investigations into this attack
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/05/hiding-serpent-months-have-passed-by.html
My analysis
Over five months ago, Pastor Mulinde Umar , a popular Pentecostal pastor who converted to Christianity from Islam was attacked with acid by a Muslim assailant. None of the Muslim leaders openly came out to condemn this violence. Now, the Kibuli and Old Kampala Muslim factions have started to kill each other using mafia like assassination techniques . So, far two Muslim Ugandan clerics have been killed. Recently a Ugandan local newspapers reported that Pastor Mulinde is about to return to Uganda after successful surgery, see( http://www.bukedde.co.ug/news/64523-omusumba-mulinde-eyayiirwa-asidi-anaatera-okudda.html). One Muslim fundamentalist commented on this story as follows, ‘’Jama Umar, nga bwomaliride okuda mu Uganda, Tewelabira okuleeta ESANDA yo. Kabuli yo yagwadda okusimibwa eli tayari ekisera kyonna’’( You guy Umar, Since you are ready to return to Uganda, do not forget to bring your coffin, your grave was already dug and is waiting for you). Muslims should be ware that radical Islam is not only a danger to non-Moslems but also Muslims themselves.
Another pro-Kibuli Muslim faction follower shot dead
Kayihura sets up special team to investigate sheikh’s murder
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Kayihura+sets+up+special+team+to+investigate+sheikh+s+murder/-/688334/1434888/-/2wyeg0z/-/index.html
By Dear Jeane
Posted Monday, June 25 2012 at 01:00
Police Chief Kale Kayihura has set up another special committee of
investigators to hunt down the killers of one more pro-Kibuli Mosque Muslim
faction leader, Abubaker Kiweewa, amid growing fears that the group’s leaders
are being targeted.Hajj Kiweewa was shot dead by unknown assailants at 9pm on Friday within the premises of his Prime Supermarket in Kyanja, a city suburb.
His murder comes barely two months after the Inspector General of Police constituted a special team of police investigators to probe the murder of another member of the same faction, the respected Islamic cleric Sheikh Abdul Karim Sentamu, who was shot to death in April.
According to Mr Ibin Ssenkumbi, the Kampala Metroplitan police spokesperson, the investigators have not yet got a break through and investigations are ongoing although no suspects have been arrested in either case.
The new committee that is headed by Police Commissioner Joel Aguma is out in the field, Mr Ssenkumbi confirmed to this newspaper.
Kiweewa’s shooting on Friday provoked fresh finger pointing by the Kibuli-based faction of a Muslim community torn between two sides competing for leadership of the Islamic faith in the country.
The Kibuli group opposed to the leadership of government-leaning Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje has now accused security organisations of not doing enough to protect Muslims allied to Supreme Mufti Zubair Kayongo yet they appear to be deliberately targeted.
“The way the two people have been killed leave a lot of questions unanswered and we are worried whether we have been targeted or not,” Shiekh Hassan Kirya, the spokesperson of Kibuli Muslim faction, said.
Sheikh revealed: “We have been told that all the money [in Kiweewa’s case] was left at the scene; so there are no possibilities that it was a robbery.”
A gun was abandoned by the suspected shooter on the scene of murder.
A private security guard manning the supermarket also sustained serious injuries during the shooting incident and has since been admitted to Mulago Hospital for medication.
Who is Hajji Kiweewa
Leadership: Hajj Muhammad Abubaker Kiweewa of Kyanja-Kisaasi in Kawempe Divisison, was a leader in the Kibuli Muslim faction.
Work: In his early 40s at time of death, Hajj Kiweewa was an employee of Allied Bank. He was also the managing director of Kigejjogejjo Real Estate Company: Among his private businesses was a general merchandise shop in Bukoto just outside the city, and Prime Supermarket.
Family: He was a member of the Nakyewa Muslim Group (an association of Muslim businessmen). He is survived by two wives and seven children.
Fate: At the time of his death, he was said to have been preparing to travel to Mbale District with the Kibuli faction leader Sheikh Zubair Kayongo to celebrate the anniversary of the return of the Muslim cleric, Nuhu Mbogo, from exile in 1898 this weekend.
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Top Muslim cleric gunned down in City Center
http://www.newvision.co.ug/article/fullstory.aspx?story_id=630504&catid=1&mid=53
Publish Date: Apr 23, 2012
By
Vision reporter
Unknown
gunmen on a motorcycle gunned down a Muslim cleric in the city on Friday night.
Sheikh
Abdu Karim Sentamu, a leader of Sheikhs in the Dawat — Islamic sect was gunned
down at about 9:30pm at the William and Ben Kiwanuka Street junction, after
apparently being trailed.
The
cleric with a degree in Islamic theology in Prophet Muhammad’s Sunna (Hadith)
had just left the contested Masjid Noor Mosque on William Street, where he had
presided over a Madarasa (Muslim class) when the thugs caught up with him at
the nearby junction.
At
the time of the incident, Sentamu was driving his car — a Toyota Noah in the
company of another person, said to either be his daughter or wife. He was
killed with two bullets to his body, the Police said.
Deputy
Kampala Police spokesperson Ibin Ssenkumbi yesterday said the thugs waved down
the cleric and saluted him in Islam before one of them shot him. They then sped
off on the motorcycle. Sentamu breathed his last at the Kibuli Muslim
Hospital, where he had
been rushed.
“We
are treating it as an outright case of murder,” Ssenkumbi said, adding that no
arrests had so far been made. Speaking to mourners at the Tablique Mosque in
Nakasero, the Supreme Mufti Sheikh Zubairi Kayongo vowed the Muslims would not
be derailed by the death of Sheikh Ssentamu in their struggle.
He
appealed to the authorities to carry out thorough investigations, saying
Muslims had a lot of interest in the murder.
Kayongo,
however, said they would continue fighting for peace and justice and asked the
Government to protect the life of its citizens.
Sheikh w’Omuzigiti ogukaayanirwa akubiddwa amasasi mu Kampala wakati
Apr 22, 2012
Kampala
Bya Musasi waffeEBY’OKUKUBA Sheikh w’omu Kampala amasasi byogezza Abasiraamu ebikankana ne banokolayo ensonga ssatu bo ze bagamba nti zandiba nga ze zaavuddeko Sheikh Abdul Karim Sentamu okuttibwa.
Sheikh Ssentamu yakubiddwa amasasi mu kiro ky’Olwokutaano ku ssaawa 3:30 bwe yabadde ava mu muzigiti gw’oku William ng’ava okusaala swala ya isha.
Abasiraamu abamu bagamba nti eky’okuba nga Sentamu yali omu baali bakulira abavubuka abatabuliiki ab’ekibiina ky’obuyeekera kye baalimu ne Jamil Mukulu (ADF) kyokka ye n’asalawo okusaba ekisonyiwo kya gavumenti era n’akifuna n’akomawo mu ggwanga nga kati abadde yeemalira ku kusomesa Basiraamu mu mizigiti egyanjawulo, kyandiba nga kye kyavuddeko okuttibwa kwe.
Bagamba nti okuva mu buyeekera kyandiba nga kyanyiiza banne bwe baali mu nsiko nga mu bano mwe muli ne Jamil Mukulu yennyini bwe baali abakulembeze mu kibiina kino kyokka ye n’asalawo okubavaako n’adda ku ludda lwa Gavumenti era n’akkiriza ekisonyiwo.
Abalumiriza ensonga eno bagamba nti n’engeri gye yattiddwaamu eraga nti abaamusse ddala bakugu.
Sheikh Jamil Kiddu omu ku bakulembeze b’abavubuka abatabuliiki ku muzigiti gwa William eyabaddewo ng’obutemu buno bwakabaawo yategeezeza nti omuzigu eyakubye Sheikh Sentamu amasasi baasadde naye swala ya Isha.
“Sheikh bwe yamaze okusaaza n’asomesa Abasiraamu era nga bw’ebadde enkolaye, yamalirizza ku ssaawa nga 3:15 n’afuluma akwate mmotokaye adde ekka kyokka yabadde yaakayingira omuzigu n’asembera ku mmotoka ye n’asooka okumutoolera salaam n’oluvannyuma n’amusaba lifuti Bwe yamugambye nti yabadde tadda Kawempe olwo n’amusaba ku ssente era Sheikh bwe yabadde akwata mu nsawo azimuwe, oli kwe kuggyayo basitoola n’aamukuba amasasi ana mu kifuba agaamusse.
Bawa n’ekyokulabirako kya Maj. Muhamadi Kigundu naye eyaliko mu buyeekera kyokka n’asaba ekisonyiwo kya gavumenti kyokka nga waliwo abantu abaakamwegezaamu emirundi ebiri nga baagala okumutta.
Kyokka waliwo Abasiraamu abamu olunwe abalusonze ku byokulonda kw’Abasiraamu okutegekebwa ab’e Kampalamukadde kyokka nga kuwakanyizibwa nnyo ekiwayi ky’e Kibuli ne Bamasheikh abakulu mu ggwanga nga ne Sheikh Sentamu mw’agwa.
Omuzigiti gwennyini ogwa William Ssentamu mw’akola nga Sheikh omukulu nagwo gukaayanirwa era muno mwe yabadde ava balyoke bamukube amasasi.
Sheikh Sentamu y’omu ku bamasheikh abanene mu ggwanga ababadde bamanyiddwa ennyo okuba nga baakuguka mu kusomesa hadisi za Nabbi Muhamadi (SWA) byeyakugukamu okuva mu Yunivasite ye Madina.
Mu myaka gye 90, Sheikh Sentamu yayatiikirira bwe baali ne Sheikh Jamil Mukulu nga be bakulembeze b’Abatabuliiki mu muzigiti gw’e Nakasero era be baduumira abavubuka abaazinda ekitebe kye Kampalamukadde omwafiira abaserikale ba Poliisi n’embwa.
Yakwatibwako gavumenti n’asibwa e Luzira kyokka oluvannyuma yavaayo mu ngeri etaategerekeka n’agenda mu Bungereza.
Ssentamu yakwatibwa n’abavubuka abalala ne basibwa e Luzira kyokka oluvanyuma yateebwa n’adduka wano n’agenda e Kenya kyokka n’akomawo mu 2005 era n’addamu okusomesa mu mizigiti n’amasomero ag’enjawulo.
Bamasheikh ab’enjawulo boogedde ku Sentamu ng’omusajja abadde omuvumu ennyo ku nsonga ezikwata ku ddiiniye.
Sheikh Ibrahim Kirya omwogezi we Kibuli yagambye nti Obusiraamu buviiriddwako omusajja enjasabiggu kyokka n’asaba abasiraamu okusigala nga bakakkamu.
Akulira abatabuliiki Sheikh Muhamadi Kamoga yagambye nti : Sentamu omulimu ogugwe agukoze, kati kiri eri ffe abasigaddewo okuteeka mu nkola ebyo by’abadde ayigiriza.
Omuddumizi wa poliisi mu ggwanga, Gen. Kale Kayihura yakungubagidde Sentamu n’agamba nti abadde musajja akolaganika naye okutereeza ensonga z’abasiraamu. Kayihura yaweze okukola kyonna ekisoboka okuwenja omuzigu eyakoze ekikolwa kino.
Sheikh Sentamu yaziikiddwa eggulo mu limbo esangibwa e Nkowe ku luguudo lwe Hoima.
Police Teargas Kibuli Muslim Faction in a Demo
http://allafrica.com/stories/201204270004.html
By Vision Reporter, 26 April 2012
Police on Thursday afternoon fired tear gas to a Kibuli based Muslim faction led by Sheik Zubair Kayongo as they marched through Kampala city to 'overthrow' Uganda Muslim Supreme Council leadership at Old Kampala.Police intercepted the group led by the director of Dawah Sheik Nuhu Muzaata at Pride Theatre as they were heading to Old Kampla the national Muslim headquarters chanting Allar Hakbaru, Allar Hakbaru.....
Police on Wednesday quizzed Muzaata for allegedly inciting the public. He is said to have urged Muslims not to participate in the coming Muslims elections.
Muslim war on Museveni
http://observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18447:muskim-war-on-museveni&catid=78:topstories&Itemid=116
Friday, 27 April 2012 01:27
Kibuli hill was yesterday engulfed in calls of “Allah Akbar” as Muslims declared President Museveni Islam’s ‘Enemy Number One’ in Uganda.
Speaker after speaker told of how Museveni’s continued meddling in Muslims’ affairs has greatly divided their community.
“I have seen several governments in this country,
but none beats Museveni in harassing Muslims.
He should receive a medal for that,” Sheikh Nuh
Muzaata Batte, head of Dawa (chief preacher) in the Kibuli-based faction, said
amidst applause from hundreds of followers that thronged Kibuli for afternoon
prayers. Muslims had gathered to chart the way forward ahead of elections
called by the Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Ramathan Mubajje faction, which
start today.
The Kibuli-based faction, led by Sheikh Zubair
Kayongo, is opposed to the elections, saying they are an illegality since they
are not sanctioned by the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council constitution, which was
supposed to be reviewed in 2005. The elections at mosque level are intended to
fill the 110 seats of the General Assembly. Yesterday, the Kibuli faction
barred associated mosques around the country from the elections.
President Museveni, however, was understood to
have legitimised the elections by siding with Mubajje on the exercise and
directing the police to provide security for participants. The Kibuli faction
is aggrieved. To them, Museveni is going against the spirit of their
gentleman’s agreement.
“We have met Museveni on seven occasions. On one
of them, he pledged to help sort out the leadership wrangles, but only after
his election in 2011. But what has he done instead? [He has] sided with
Mubajje, the thief!” charged Mohammed Kisambira, the faction’s secretary
general.
Fearless
“You should stop intimidating us. You can only
jail or kill us,” the burly Muzaata bellowed, as barbs continued raining at
Museveni.
“I urge all you Muslims to be firm. We are ready
to die. I am going to inform you of the day and time we shall storm Old
Kampala. You should be ready. They will kill some of us, but others will
continue with the struggle,” Muzaata charged, as the worshipers chorused,
“Allah Akbar!” (God is great).
About three yards away, Prince Kassim Nakibinge,
Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, Kawempe South MP, Latif Ssebaggala, and other
dignitaries listened quietly, occasionally breaking into a smirk, possibly out
of admiration for the fearless Muzaata. Not yet done, Muzaata further charged
that there is overwhelming proof that Museveni and his government have
marginalised and impoverished the Muslim community.
“They have taken everything, and we still think
they are our friends? What more should they do to prove that they are our
enemies? You should stop participating in any government programmes. Museveni
has fooled us for far too long. To him, there is no lesser person in this world
than a Muslim,” Muzaata said.
By this time, the gathering was already charged,
only waiting for a spark. And they did not have to wait for long. Sheikh Hassan
Kirya, the Kibuli faction publicist, asked them to stand up to prove that they
are not lame. They did, and never sat again. Shouting on top of their voices,
the worshipers said they were only waiting for a go ahead to storm Old Kampala,
the seat of the Mubajje faction.
Anxiety filled the air. The leaders engaged in
some pep talk. The charged crowed waited with bated breath. At 3:20pm, it was
announced that the march to Old Kampala was on. And down they went, descending
Kibuli hill and marching towards Nsambya and onto Clock Tower, where Police’s
riot squad intervened before the situation went out of hand.
At Old Kampala, Military Police had already
surrounded the mosque, firing live bullets in the air, while riot police hurled
canisters of teargas. The number of Muslims arrested could not be readily
verified. Back in Kibuli, another sheikh, Umar Sudiq Ndaula, also blamed
Museveni for the woes in the Muslim community.
He urged Muslims to stop engaging Museveni. “Let him talk to Mubajje!”
Luweero district chairperson, Abdul Nadduli, was also added to the enemy list for telling Museveni during a State House meeting that the Kibuli faction is led by rebels. Perhaps Nadduli’s most unforgivable crime in the eyes of the Kibuli community was to say that Prince Nakibinge should be questioned for selling the entire Kibuli hill. Nakibinge, heir to Prince Badru Kakungulu, is revered in the Muslim community, where he is fondly referred to as the grandfather of Islam in Uganda. Nadduli, however, distanced himself from the accusations.
“I am not the custodian of the Kibuli land titles,” he told The Observer.
Genesis
Back in 2006, a group of Muslims dragged Mubajje
to court, accusing him of fraudulently disposing of Muslim property to
businessmen Hassan Basajjabalaba and Drake Lubega. The properties included
three plots: two on William Street
and another at Old Kampala. Although a commission of inquiry had been set up
prior to the court action, its work was frustrated.
The Chief Magistrate’s court at Buganda Road
acquitted Mubajje of theft charges but accused him of lying to the Muslim
community. His accusers had wanted him convicted of theft and punished. Since
then, they have been opposed to his leadership, saying he is no longer fit to
be Mufti. A parallel leadership was set up in Kibuli led by Kayongo, who was
enthroned as Supreme Mufti.
hbogere@observer.ug
BYA Meddie Musisi
Abasiraamu bavuddeyo ku by’okuyiira Omusumba Mulinde asidi ne bagamba nti alina bizibu bye na bantu balala kubanga singa bbo baali baagala kumutuusaako bulabe bandibadde baakikola dda.
Omwogezi w’e Kibuli, Sheikh Hassan Ibrahim Kirya yagambye nti Mulinde asaana abaggyeko omumwa kubanga abavumidde emyaka egiri eyo mu 20 naye tewali kye baali bamukoze.
“Ffe ensonga ezaffe tuziroopa wa Allah, tetusalira muntu yenna musango, omugenzi Balabyekubo bwe yavvoola Kurani n’agirinnyamu twamukola kki, naye Allah yamwebonerereza,” Kirya bwe yagambye.
Wabula Kirya yagambye nti bwe wabaawo abasiraamu abeenyigidde mu kikolwa kino era nga Mulinde abamanyi, abategeeze Poliisi esobole okukola ogwaayo era bakwatibwe.
Ye Ssentebe w’ekibiina ekigatta abatwala abalamazi e Mecca Sheikh Yahaya Lukwago yagambye nti bwe wabaaawo omusiraamu yenna eyakikoze, nga Mulinde amwekakasa amuloopere Poliisi nti kyokka asaana ebintu bino abiggyemu okukonjera olw’obukyaayi bw’alina ku Busiraamu.
Ate omwogezi w’e Kampalamukadde, Haji Nsereko Mutumba yagambye nti Mulinde Abasiraamu yeekwasa ba bwereere kubanga okuva lwe yabuvaamu (Obusiraamu) tebulina kye bwali bufiiriddwa n’olwekyo tewali ayinza kumwonoonerako budde wadde ensimbi okumuggyawo.
Abasumba kye boogera ku Mulinde
Joseph Sserwadda: owa Victory Church mu Ndeeba: Tuli mu ntegeka zaakulaba ngeri ki munnaffe ky’aba ayambibwamu kyokka eky’okumutwala ebweru tukyakirowoozaako kubanga kyetaagisa ebintu bingi omuli n’okusooka okusasula gye mumutwala. Weetuli era tujja kukola ekyetaagisa.
Irene Manjeri: owa Bethel Healing Centre: Ebikolwa nga bino bisaana okuvumirira ennyo, Gavumenti erina okusoomoozebwa kw’amaanyi nnyo kw’eyolekedde okulaga ensi amazima n’ eggyayo abeenyigidde mu kikolwa kino.
hbogere@observer.ug
Abasiraamu boogedde ku Mulinde
Dec 28, 2011
Kampala
Abasiraamu bavuddeyo ku by’okuyiira Omusumba Mulinde asidi ne bagamba nti alina bizibu bye na bantu balala kubanga singa bbo baali baagala kumutuusaako bulabe bandibadde baakikola dda.
Omwogezi w’e Kibuli, Sheikh Hassan Ibrahim Kirya yagambye nti Mulinde asaana abaggyeko omumwa kubanga abavumidde emyaka egiri eyo mu 20 naye tewali kye baali bamukoze.
“Ffe ensonga ezaffe tuziroopa wa Allah, tetusalira muntu yenna musango, omugenzi Balabyekubo bwe yavvoola Kurani n’agirinnyamu twamukola kki, naye Allah yamwebonerereza,” Kirya bwe yagambye.
Wabula Kirya yagambye nti bwe wabaawo abasiraamu abeenyigidde mu kikolwa kino era nga Mulinde abamanyi, abategeeze Poliisi esobole okukola ogwaayo era bakwatibwe.
Ye Ssentebe w’ekibiina ekigatta abatwala abalamazi e Mecca Sheikh Yahaya Lukwago yagambye nti bwe wabaaawo omusiraamu yenna eyakikoze, nga Mulinde amwekakasa amuloopere Poliisi nti kyokka asaana ebintu bino abiggyemu okukonjera olw’obukyaayi bw’alina ku Busiraamu.
Ate omwogezi w’e Kampalamukadde, Haji Nsereko Mutumba yagambye nti Mulinde Abasiraamu yeekwasa ba bwereere kubanga okuva lwe yabuvaamu (Obusiraamu) tebulina kye bwali bufiiriddwa n’olwekyo tewali ayinza kumwonoonerako budde wadde ensimbi okumuggyawo.
Abasumba kye boogera ku Mulinde
Joseph Sserwadda: owa Victory Church mu Ndeeba: Tuli mu ntegeka zaakulaba ngeri ki munnaffe ky’aba ayambibwamu kyokka eky’okumutwala ebweru tukyakirowoozaako kubanga kyetaagisa ebintu bingi omuli n’okusooka okusasula gye mumutwala. Weetuli era tujja kukola ekyetaagisa.
Irene Manjeri: owa Bethel Healing Centre: Ebikolwa nga bino bisaana okuvumirira ennyo, Gavumenti erina okusoomoozebwa kw’amaanyi nnyo kw’eyolekedde okulaga ensi amazima n’ eggyayo abeenyigidde mu kikolwa kino.
Michael Kimuli: Bino bikolwa bya batiitiizi
ebitagenda kutuggya ku mulamwa kubanga tulwanirira kituufu.Ababikola balaga
bunafu era bavumaganya erinnya lya Katonda lye bagamba nti mwe bakolera
bino.Mulinde ky’atuuseeko kitwongedde kuyiga na kumanya abantu be tukoleramu
emirimu gyaffe.
