{UAH} CIP Records: Military Eludes Police, Charges and Remands Kitatta and Company to Kigo Prisons

MBUYA, Uganda: Following a rigorous brainstorming over the weekend after the police boss Gen. Edward Kale Kayihura refused his officers to record statements and/or open up any case files against CMI detained suspects, Military today (Monday) successfully paraded Abdallah Kitatta and five others before their own Unit Disciplinary Court (UDC).

The Investigator can authoritatively report that Kitatta and his lieutenants, most of them Stage Chairmen for the now semi-defunct Boda-boda 2010 around the City, were aligned before the Military Court chaired by Col. Kayemba and were charged with several offenses related to obstructing lawful arrests as well as destruction of Military equipment, reportedly on Kitatta's orders.

Hitherto the all-powerful and untouchable Boda 2010 Patron and personal friend to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Gen. Kale Kayihura, Kitatta is also charged with illegal possession of military reserves contained in a pistol and an SMG riffle. It is believed that the same guns were used to commit several crimes around the city and the country at large.

Again, Kitatta is likely to be charged with abetting and aiding the callous murder, a charge that puts him in the driving seat along with the real killers. This is because in the Investigators' bowel are credible confessions that he provided his brother with Shs200, 000 for purposes of hiring a vehicle in which Ekalungar was kidnapped and his body kept all the day before burning it in Kajjansi along Entebbe Road. Even when he had known of the murder before and after execution, he proceeded to block their arrests and reportedly continued to plead for them before the police boss.

The new development by the military follows our exclusive report in these lines where we broke the story of how Gen. Kayihura had ordered his police to desist from recording the CMI's detained suspects. (Please refer to: Shock as Kitatta and Group are set to Walk Free as Gen. Kayihura orders Police not to Open Case Files against Them).

"We have strict directives not to open any file and or record any statements of cases from CMI," a top police source had revealed to the Investigator last week. The stations that turned down CMI officers include Nateete, Katwe, Jinja Road, Kiira Road and Central Police Station (CPS) Kampala. Stuck and confused, they trotted to the Directorate of Public Prosecution for legal advice before they hit a dead end.

Kitatta and other 27 suspects' arrest arose from the murder investigations where, a Case Hospital Accountant, Francis Ekalungar was on January 2^nd 2018 kidnapped and later killed before his body was torched to ashes. Whereas the burnt remains were recovered from Kajjansi, police indicated they had hit a dead end with the investigations, prompting the military intervention.

The military started with arresting Huzair Kiwalabye on Thursday last week and whose self-confessions led to other arrests, including Kitatta's brother Mawa Muzamir. During these arrests, Kitatta believably ordered his men to desist the arrests by all means. This led to a scuffle between the operatives and Boda 2010 rogues where, several operatives, who had orders not to shoot, sustained severe injuries and their vehicles destroyed.

These arrests have since sent into irreparable position, the already sour-blooded relationship between Gen. Kayihura and the country's Security Minister Gen. Henry Tumukunde with the later vowing to disband the former's hither to militia-laced Boda 2010 group, a process he has already started in high gear.

Whereas it is not clear whether the UDC's holding charges are maintainable after the two weeks' remand of the suspects in Kigo Prisons, Kitatta's appearance in Court Martial is a likely occasion since he has extra charges of being found in illegal possession of military reserves.

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Allaah gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him."And if Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He, and if He touches you with good, then He is Able to do all things." (6:17)

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