{UAH} Nebanda's Death: Dear State, Why Haven't You Lost Interest In Dr. Onzivua’s Case?

I am watching with disbelief the case against Dr. Sylvester Onzivua, the government pathologist who was arrested at Entebbe airport while on his way to South Africa with samples from the late Hon. Nebandas' body for toxicology tests.(See Daily Monitor Story here)

 

The deceased has long been buried, the younger sister has taken her legislative role on behalf of Butaleja district and the family has made amends with the current government (particularly after the mother's initial and understandable fury during the burial ceremony when she tore Museveni's speech to shreds).

The really important case of who actually committed the crime and how, is ongoing separately.

Couldn't the Director of Public Prosecutions use his wisdom and consultations to determine if the case is still of any interest to Uganda as a nation and/or to government in particular?

In the courts of law, Doctor Onzivua's case is premised on a simple matter of professional procedure.

But in the court of public opinion, the doctors' misfortunes were and still are about a plot by government to cover-up the late Nebanda's true cause of death.

That perception is increased by the fact that the Parliament of the Republic of Uganda and the late Nebanda's family are the ones who officially requested Dr. Onzivua's services with the noble aim of transparently and independently determining the cause of her death.

The doctor also had a written approval by his superiors who are government health officials.

If he had reached South African and their lab tests had corroborated the government's findings, there would be no oxygen for the persisting claims that this regime had a hand in the late legislators death.

So is the state genuinely still interested in Dr. Onzivua's case when it only serves to further tarnish its image by reminding the public of what role government could possibly have had in the victims death?

I hear that Uganda police actually needs the doctor's unique expertise to solve other pressing crimes since he is the only one who excels in this field in the whole country.

For example, he might be the only Ugandan capable of telling us if Nsenga was murdered intentionally or unintentionally. But he wasn't available to check the body nor survey the crime scene.

So besides the accused wife and the deceased husband, the rest of us including government, might never know what really happened.

By all accounts, Dr. Sylvester Onzivua is a good civil servant who has always worked perfectly with police and the judiciary in solving serious crimes and bringing real culprits to book.

Yet the way things have been going since his arrest, one would think Dr. Onzivua is a criminal. Yet isn't this a clear case of persecution?

Why torture the messenger while dining happily with the ones who actually sent him.

This is ridiculous! Hypocritical to say the least!

The late Nebanda's family could plead on behalf of this man. It is for her sake, and in the line of duty, that Dr. Onzivua is suffering.

Even both sides of parliament could join hands to let this man go back to his important work that helps both the government and the many other daily victims of violent crimes in this country.

Keeping Onzivua's case alive discredits anyone who stands up to try and put him in jail.

It also adds to the perception of an oppressive regime that is punishing the innocent to cover up its murderous deeds.

That is the verdict from the court of public opinion. 

If he is found innocent, the perception will be that the state has wasted tax-payers money on a non-issue. And if he is sentenced to jail, the state will look like it is arm-twisting the judiciary to try and cleanse itself from Nebanda's blood.

So Dear State,

Why don't you just loose interest in Dr. Onzivua's case?

Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin

hussein-juruga.blogspot.com