{UAH} Exclusive: Why Chief investigator in Wamala murder probe fled to Zambia
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Exclusive: Why Chief investigator in Wamala murder probe fled to Zambia
Police flying squad detective, Patrick Segujja who became the lead investigator on Wilberforce Wamala murder case fled the country in 2013 to Zambia fearing for his life, TrumpetNews reliably reports.
Segujja was a highly skilled police tracker who pursued a prime suspect, Hakim Ssali a resident of Gomba in Mbpigi district and later arrested him Sembabule.
Ssali, a shamba boy who worked in Mutungo, a Kampala suburb at a Wamala's residence, a little known but affluent businessman confessed to detective Segujja that indeed he had participated in the assassination of the tycoon.
"He confessed to us that the people who had sent him were his wife Jolly Kasande and his personal driver," one of the detectives who was on the support team told this website.
This detective sergeant Enock Twesigye attached to Teza police station on Mityana road under Mpigi district police command is currently incarcerated at Kira road police station in Bukoto, Kampala over a related case of suspect Ssali who was found dead in cells in Bukasa 4 years ago.
This website managed to talk to Twesigye who said that he was arrested from Teza on March 18, a day after the tragic death of AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi at Kulambiro near his residence.
And later detained at Mpigi Police Station where he met with officials from Police's Professional Standards Unit (PSU).
Tumwesigye would be transferred to PSU headquarters in Bukoto where he was questioned about Ssali's death.
Tumwesigye, being a detective got involved in the Wamala murder probe after rendering support to lead detective Segujja, "because I am good in tracking my supervisor in Butambala (2013) asked me to help these officers from flying squad to track Ssali."
Segujja and Twesigye would later become a team and successfully apprehended Ssali.
Ssal's death while in cells turned out to be suicidal but would later be pronounced as murder by the police pathologist Silvester Onzivuwa who exhumed the body on orders of Makindye Magistrates Court and a fresh post-mortem was carried out.
This all happened 4 years ago.
A minor who shared a same cell with Ssali testified before Makindye Grade One Magistrate George Watyekere on June 10, 2015, Ssali was possibly murdered.
"I was detained at Bukasa police post for theft. I was in the cells with four people when Hassan was brought in under critical condition; he was bleeding profusely and he was being held by someone who was granted police bond hours later," the boy narrated.
Enock Twesigye who says fellow officers told him that his arrest was sanctioned by police chief Kayihura confirmed to this website that indeed top police officials were interested in the case.
"That's why Patrick Segujja who had become my boss sort off fled the country in 2013 after receiving life threats from these officers," he said.
One of the high ranking officers cited in this case was late Andrew Kaweesi who vehemently denied the allegations.
When we contacted police for a comment on the whereabouts of detective Segujja, AIGP Asan Kasingye couldn't pick our repeated calls.
His deputy Polly Namanya, referred is to Vincent Ssekate the CIID spokesman who denied knowledge of Segujja.
"I don't know that him," he said on phone.
An online news site The Investigator published a series of articles linking Kaweesi and the top police administrators to this murder.
Some reports suggest that it's Wamala's murder that could have sparked off the brutal assassination of the former police publicist.
Sgt Twesigye whose fate remains unknown wonders why his arrest came a day after Kaweesi's death.
Kaweesi's untimely demise has exposed police institution as very rotten and engulfed by criminals in uniform.
Opposition kingpin Col Kizza Besigye has at all times referred to this establishment as "criminal police."
President Yoweri Kaguta two months ago admitted that police is full of criminals and he directed Kayihura to clean his house.
Whereas the IGP made massive reshuffles, he has failed to punish the bad cops even when the public has come out to name them but rather give them more powers to execute sensitive projects.
Nalufenya, a police detention facility under Flying Squad unit commanded by Herbert Muhangi has drawn ire among government officials, security kingpins and members of the public with human rights bodies decrying extreme torture unleashed on suspects.
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