Kaweesi murder investigations

Insiders say top security officials are divided about these aspects. While some have punched holes in it, others appear keen to pursue these leads.

Slippery Kayihura

Significantly, however, The Independent understands that Kayihura’s real crimes are of a political nature and pinning the Kaweesi murder on him is an attempt to get a holding charge on him.

Kayihura’s crime is that he was working with forces of another country in a bid to oust President Yoweri Museveni from power. Intelligence reports have fingered Kayihura allegedly using crime preventers to train rebels in Mubende with the backing of Rwanda.

According to this narrative, Kayihura’s lieutenants like Nixon Agasirwe, were the foot soldiers of the mission.

When Agasirwe and others were arrested last year, they were charged in the General Court Martial with unlawful possession of firearms and grenades ordinarily a monopoly of the Defence Forces.

They were also accused of handing to the Rwanda government two prominent persons; one Lt. Joel Mutabazi; a former presidential guard for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame who had sought refuge in Uganda, and Jackson Kalemera.  The two were reportedly handed to Rwanda without their consent. But Rwandan authorities say these were handed to them through official channels.

The Independent has seen a document showing a list of persons, cars, cash, cows and phones that Ugandan and Rwandan police authorities officially handed to each other. Mutabazi is listed amongst those handed to Rwanda.

Kayihura’s case is not being helped by the disappearance of some of his top aides, including one Jonathan Baroza.

Baroza gained prominence in the Kaweesi murder investigations when he was accused of scooping soil samples from the scene of crime yet he was not part of the forensics team.

It is alleged that Baroza even had a public altercation with AIGP Fred Yiga over the same day at the Kaweesi muder scene.

Kayihura’s tormentors are focusing on Baroza’s flight as an indicator of guilt. It is not mentioned that Baroza could vanish out of fear.

At the time of his disappearance, Baroza, who had been dispatched as an attaché in Algeria, had been expected to return to Uganda and boarded the plane from Algiers. He, however, disappeared at Istanbul Airport in Turkey, where he was supposed to connect to Entebbe.

Insiders suspect that having learnt that all Kayihura’s allies were being rounded up by the army, Baroza decided to go into hiding the same way another Kayihura ally, Amos Ngabirano, the former police director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) disappeared when trouble started unfolding.

As the action unfolds, it appears arresting and detaining Kayihura was the easy part for his tormentors; concluding investigations about his alleged transgressions is proving a lot harder.