{"id":22769,"date":"2016-06-20T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=22769"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:09:22","slug":"igp-gen-kayihura-accused-of-intimidating-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/igp-gen-kayihura-accused-of-intimidating-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"IGP Gen Kayihura accused of intimidating suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Chief General Kale Kayihura has been accused of threatening and intimidating some\u00a0suspects\u00a0linked to the alleged murder of Muslim clerics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17276\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17276\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic.jpg\" alt=\"Police Chief Gen. Kale Kayihura\" width=\"599\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic-212x140.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic-235x155.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic-318x210.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kayihura-new-pic-360x238.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Chief Gen. Kale Kayihura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twaha Mayanja one of the lawyers representing the 32 suspects at the ongoing trial has told court that the police chief has been pushing them to make additional statements implicating fellow accused persons.<\/p>\n<p>He says 4 suspects Ismeal Ssentongo, Yusuf Kakande and Isa Musa have frequently been taken out of the gazatted remand prisons to police inorder to pin Sheikh YunusKamonga to have masterminded the murders.<br \/>\nMayanja also alleged that GenKayihura\u00a0promised the suspects\u00a0freedom and huge sums of money in return for their confessions.<br \/>\nThe High Court\u2019s International Crimes Division has nowordered prison authorities not to allow any one including police officers to take away\u00a0accused persons from their mandated custody.<br \/>\nThe court has also cautioned the suspects to be vigilant not to make any additional statements in absence of their lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Chief General Kale Kayihura has been accused of threatening and intimidating some\u00a0suspects\u00a0linked to the alleged murder of Muslim clerics. Twaha Mayanja one of the lawyers representing the 32 suspects at the ongoing trial has told court that the police chief has been pushing them to make additional statements implicating fellow accused persons. He says 4 suspects Ismeal Ssentongo, Yusuf Kakande and Isa Musa have frequently been taken out of the gazatted remand prisons to police inorder to pin Sheikh YunusKamonga to have masterminded the murders. Mayanja also alleged that GenKayihura\u00a0promised the suspects\u00a0freedom and huge sums of money in return for their confessions. The High Court\u2019s International Crimes Division has nowordered prison authorities not to allow any one including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}