{UAH} KAWEESI MURDER: Amama Mbabazi to be investigated
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Former Security minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has come under the spotlight as investigators dig deeper into the gruesome murder of Assistant Inspector of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
Kaweesi, the former police spokesperson was gunned down on March 17th alongside his diver Godfrey Mambewa and bodyguard Kenneth Erau. Unknown gunmen ambushed the car in which the three were travelling and sprayed it with bullets less than a kilometre away from Kaweesi's home in Kulambiro, a Kampala suburb.
Detectives involved in the murder case are reportedly scrutinizing at recordings of Mr. Mbabazi's 2016 Presidential elections trail where the former Prime Minister constantly assailed his opponent President Yoweri Museveni's spy machinery and the rampant murders in the country.
Mbabazi had a front row seat during the late Felix Kaweesi's requiem mass at Rubaga Cathedral despite the frosty relationship the seasoned politician had with the slain Police officer.
Now, TheUgandan understands that officers in the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CIID) headed by AIGP Grace Akullo are keen on reading between the lines of Mbabazi's utterances last year that he was the only presidential candidate who could guarantee that Ugandans are not murdered 'like it is in the Museveni regime' and connecting dots between Kaweesi's death and the gruesome killings of important people since the end of the general elections, which Mbabazi disappointingly lost.
A Criminal Investigations Intelligence Director (CIID) detective who is part of the Kaweesi murder investigation anonymously said; "Finding the killers of Afande Kaweesi and our two other officers is now Police's primary concern and will involve very many people including politicians. We are studying audio evidence and some of it is of high ranking politicians who kept talking about murders during their campaigns you never know we could have connections. We are keen on understanding Amama Mbabazi's utterances."
Mbabazi vs Kaweesi
Detectives are also looking at words Mbabazi and then Director of Police Operations Kaweesi exchanged during a brawl when the latter was arrested at Njeru, a town 75 km outside the capital Kampala. Mbabazi was traveling to Mbale, a town near Uganda's border with Kenya to do a consultative meeting with his supporters and promote his candidature.
The former secretary general of the NRM, who had announced in mid-June 2015, that he would bid for the Presidency against his former ally Museveni had been traveling with his daughter and a number of political assistants before he was stopped by Kaweesi who was allegedly working on orders from 'above'.
During that incident, Mbabazi's supporters led by the infamous Aine Christopher wrestled with Police officers when Kaweesi sternly ordered Mbabazi to turn his car around and return to Kampala or step out and be preventively arrested.
Mbabazi being recorded on camera shot words to Kaweesi as he objectively tried to proceed to Mbale but Police stood its ground with Kaweesi yelling to Mbabazi that; "Now you are under arrest" as the politician expressionlessly looked the late Police boss into the face.
"I am telling you … I am the police and I have arrested him. He has to stick to what the law requires … there's no going to Mbale. He's now under incarceration," Kawesi said.
Mbabazi was later taken to Kiira road police station in Kampala where he was held for nearly 12 hours.
Mbabazi's words
In a televised presidential debate in Uganda on January 15, Mbabazi—an independent candidate, who called his movement Go Forward—asked the audience a rhetorical question: "Do you want a change, or do you want more of the same? Then he narrated how he had been in Karamoja and seen Ugandans die of hunger and others were being murdered daily yet you listen to "someone brag that Uganda is secure."
He continued, "Only me, Amama Mbabazi can ably keep Ugandans safe, others have no security they can guarantee our people.
While on the campaign trail in Lango sub-region, Mbabazi also had another altercation with Policemen over mistreating civilians and was almost shoot at, before warning them that; '..time will come for everyone to pay for their wrong deeds…'
Mbabazi lost the election amid accusations that the president's supporters rigged the vote and intimidated his opponents and after Museveni had been sworn-in, Mbabazi went to court, lost and the murders started again like in Kasese, the clerics killings resumed, barracks and police stations were attacked and along the way, AIGP Felix Kaweesi was killed by unknown assailants.
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