The General Court Martial has dismissed the case against seven senior police officers who had been charged alongside former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Gen Kale Kayihura, with aiding and abetting kidnap of Rwandan refugees and failing to protect war materials.<\/p>\n
In a twist of events, on August\u00a0 30, 2023,\u00a0the state\u00a0decided to withdraw\u00a0 charges against Gen Kayihura and left his\u00a0juniors to battle without any single witness\u00a0 presented by the prosecution.<\/p>\n
The withdrawal letter dated\u00a0 March 5, 2024, has been\u00a0signed\u00a0by the Army Director of Prosecutions Lt. Col Rapheal Mugisha who did not explain why the charges have been withdrawn.<\/p>\n
Prosecution had alleged\u00a0 that on October,\u00a0 25, 2013, at Kamengo in Mpigi District, the 7 police officers conspired\u00a0 with their former boss Kale Kayihura to\u00a0 kidnap three Rwandan refugees;\u00a0 Joel Mutabazi,\u00a0Jackson Kaleemera and Innocent Kaliisa and\u00a0 conveyed them to their country against their will.<\/p>\n
The eight\u00a0police officers were also charged with\u00a0unlawfully\u00a0allowing\u00a0the issuance of guns to the then\u00a0Boda Boda 2010 leader Abudallah Kitatta; who was unauthorized\u00a0 to own millitary possessions.<\/p>\n
In addition, the officers along with Kayihura were accused of failing\u00a0 to account for guns issued to specialised police units such as the Flying Squard , Special Operations Unit, Witness Protection Unit and the crime intelligence directorate unit of police.<\/p>\n
For the 2 offences , the senior police officers were jailed for several months at the millitary police barracks in Makindye before being released on bail.<\/p>\n
Me Kitatta and his bodyguard, Detective Constable Sowali Ngobi were later in\u00a0 May 2019\u00a0 also\u00a0charged, convicted and sentenced to 8 years in prison\u00a0for being in illegal\u00a0 possession of firearms ammunitions by the\u00a0then court’s chairman Lt Gen Andrew Gutti.<\/p>\n
The duo’s sentence was later reduced on appeal and too set free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The General Court Martial has dismissed the case against seven senior police officers who had been charged alongside former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Gen Kale Kayihura, with aiding and abetting kidnap of Rwandan refugees and failing to protect war materials. In a twist of events, on August\u00a0 30, 2023,\u00a0the state\u00a0decided to withdraw\u00a0 charges against Gen Kayihura and left his\u00a0juniors to battle without any single witness\u00a0 presented by the prosecution. The withdrawal letter dated\u00a0 March 5, 2024, has been\u00a0signed\u00a0by the Army Director of Prosecutions Lt. Col Rapheal Mugisha who did not explain why the charges have been withdrawn. Prosecution had alleged\u00a0 that on October,\u00a0 25, 2013, at Kamengo in Mpigi District, the 7 police officers conspired\u00a0 with their former boss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2597],"class_list":["post-73485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-army-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}