{UAH} Family Members Accuse Lt Joel Mutabazi Of Stage-Managing His Shooting In Uganda
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Family Members Accuse Lt Joel Mutabazi Of Stage-Managing His Shooting In Uganda
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Two of the three detained members of Lt. Joel Mutabazi’s family have told court of how he (Lt. Mutabazi) faked an attack on himself to convince Ugandan Authorities and UNHCR to grant him asylum in Uganda.
Since yesterday, the hearing of Mutabazi and co-accused case has been proceeding at Military high court in Kanombe.
In yesterday’s hearing, Lt. Mutabazi’s uncle, Eugene Mutamba and younger brother Jackson Karemera narrated how they both helped Mutabazi obtain the gun he had hidden at Mutamba’s house in Rwamagana.
According to Karemera, who admits to having carried the gun from Rwamagana and delivered it to Mutabazi in Uganda, the defendant used it to shoot at his house in Kampala in order to draw the attention of Ugandan security and the sympathy of UNHCR. Mutabazi later claimed the shooting was an attempt on his life by ‘Rwanda’s security agents’.
The Defence and Military Spokesman, Brigadier General Joseph Nzabamwita said that yesterday’s hearing was a ‘strong incriminating’ evidence.
“Today’s hearing revealed strong incriminating evidence against Joel Mutabazi including confessions from his own family. It is not surprising that he has decided to retract the recorded statements he made when the case was heard in camera; it is his constitutional right to plead not guilty. But this does not in any way affect the available evidence,” said Nzabamwita.
Diane Gasengayire, Joel Mutabazi’s sister-in-law who, during the pre-trial phase confessed to having carried two bullets from Rwanda and delivered them to Joel Mutabazi, appeared in court today (Wednesday 29 January 2014).
Fresh confessions
Appearing before Judges at the court today, Gasengayire admitted to having carried the bullets to Mutabazi in Uganda, but did not know for what reason the suspect wanted the bullets.
However, Mutabazi’s brother, Jackson Karemera said it all started in 2011 with the former hiding a gun at his Uncle Eugene Mutamba’s residence in Rwamagana, Eastern Province. At the time, Mutabazi was a serving army officer with the Presidential Guard Brigade.
The revelation gave prosecution sounding evidence that Mutabazi had planned his ill acts before deserting the army. According to Karemera, after escaping to Uganda, Mutabazi asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kampala to provide him protection as a refugee fleeing persecution and harassment in Rwanda.
Lt. Joel Mutabazi, together with co-accused are being charged jointly and separately with deserting the military, terrorism, formation of an armed group, spreading rumours with the intention of inciting the public to rise up against the state, murder, crimes against the state, illegal possession of a firearm and attempt to harm the person of the President.
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