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Unmasking Asiimwe: Key suspect in Magara murder

Ronald Asiimwe

Suspect. Ronald Asiimwe, aka Kanyankore, is paraded at Kireka police
facility in 2010. PHOTO BY JAMES KABENGWA
In Summary

The latest kidnap and murder of the Susan Magara in which
Kanyankore is one of the prime suspects shows he did not reform, but
continued with his criminality while he served as a police informant.
It also casts suspicion on the operations of the forces mandated to
protect life and property.

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By James Kabengwa & franklin draku

The key suspect, Ronald Asiimwe a.k.a Kanyankore, in the murder of
Susan Magara has been in and out of prison on similar crimes in the
past, but what is more puzzling is how he would be released and work
with police.
Magara was kidnapped on February 7 and her body was later recovered at
Kitiko off Entebbe road on February 27.

This is not the first time Kanyankore, now under military custody, has
been arrested over murder and robbery. He has a trail of criminal
history.
On November 2, 2010, Daily Monitor published a story about the arrest
of Kanyankore and seven others and their appearance in court on
several murders and robberies in Kampala.
Kanyankore was arrested on October 3, 2010 over murder of several
special hire taxi drivers before robbing them of their vehicles.

He was arrested along with Robert Kazahura, a resident of Nakigalala,
Charles Yiga, a resident of Kitebi, Abdalla Ssenfuka, a resident of
Namungoona-Lubya, Francis Abiku from Nansana-Nabweru and Edward
Bagalagaza from Bulenga.
They were detained at Nalumunye, Kajjansi and Katwe police stations
and later taken to Kireka police base for further interrogation.

During interrogation, Kanyankore, Kazahura and Iga reportedly admitted
to murder and robbery. When they were paraded to the press before they
were taken to court, they repeated the "confessions" to murder and
robbery.
They narrated how they had murdered a number of special hire taxi
drivers in Kampala. Kanyankore and the gang leader Kazahura told
police that their victims were people known to them – in fact their
friends.

At the time, Kazahura and Kanyankore revealed they killed all their
victims because they were their friends who would report them if they
left them alive.
Police at the time recovered a number of vehicles: UAL 330D, UAL 330D,
UAL 760V, UAM 576Z and UAN 434F. A Toyota Hiace Super Custom UAM 524U
and a Toyota Corona UAE 935P were also recovered during the operation.
None of the drivers of those vehicles survived Asiimwe's gang- all
were killed.
Police at Mirama Hills border with Rwanda opened a case which was
transferred to Jinja Road Police Station in Kampala.

Kanyankore and his co-accused were paraded before the press on October 18, 2010.
Kanyankore told the police Rapid Response Unit in rather shocking
detail how he, Kazahura and Iga killed a one Raymond Mugagga Nkata, a
special hire taxi driver in Najjanankumbi.

"I was also working at Najjanankumbi. I called Nkatta on telephone and
told him to drive me with another person (Kazahura) to inspect land
that was up for sale at Nakigalala. When he reached us, we asked him
that our colleague Charles Yiga drives. He did not object," Kanyankore
told investigators.

"When we reached the farm of Naggayi Nabila (Kampala District Woman
Member of Parliament), Yiga stopped the vehicle. Kazahura and I
strangled him and he died instantly," he further revealed.
Another victim was Azaria Kafuluma who had been set to wed two months
later on December 12, 2010. According to the widow, Lydia Nafuna who
spoke to this reporter then, Kafuluma was kidnapped on July 12, 2010
and his Toyota Ipsum car UAN 395L was stolen.

He was murdered and the body dumped in a bush at Buwama on Masaka
highway. The case of Kafuluma's murder was recorded under CRB/367/2010
at Buwama Police Station.
Kanyankore and his colleagues were later prosecuted, but somehow they
were released from prison in 2015. It is not clear how he and his
colleagues later left Luzira prison.

However, after their release, they started working with police until
Kanyankore was rearrested over Magara's murder about a week ago while
Kazahura was rearrested last year on murder of another person and
remanded to Luzira again. He is said to be in prison to-date.

Since 2015 after being released from Luzira, Kanyankore and his
colleagues have been working with police as informants. Apart from
murdering special hire taxi drivers, Kanyankore also confessed to
being a contract killer, working for several city tycoons. In November
2016, Kanyankore went public, confessing how he had been in the past
hired by city tycoons to murder at a fee. No case has ever been opened
against any of the tycoons based on Kanyankore's confession. He has
also never been charged in any courts after the confession.
At the time of the public confession, he claimed to have completely
abandoned his criminality and was now a reformed man. At the time he
also said he was demanding about Shs500m for crime work he had
accomplished for his master.
Kanyankore said his life was in danger because the people who had been
hiring him to murder their adversaries were now after his life.
Sources said at the time of his arrest, he was in company of officers
who said he was their informant.

Kanyankore's association with the police

The latest kidnap and murder of the Susan Magara in which Kanyankore
is one of the prime suspects shows he did not reform, but continued
with his criminality while he served as a police informant. It also
casts suspicion on the operations of the forces mandated to protect
life and property.

A number of criminal gangs like Kifesi, the Boda Boda 2010 and its
leader Abdallah Kitata and other individuals, who have been have had
close association with police over years, are now in detention over
murders and other serious crimes.

Two more suspects arrested over Susan Magara murder

March 8, 2018
Written by URN

Police together with Chieftaincy Military Intelligence (CMI) have
arrested another two suspects alleged to have orchestrated the kidnap
and killing of Susan Magara, a 28-year-old accountant whose body was
found dumped near Kajjansi last week.

The two suspects who include Bob Kibirango and Patrick Agaba were
arrested a few days after the arrest of Ronald Asiimwe also known as
Kanyankole, the prime suspect in the heinous crime.

Susan Magara's body was found dumped in Kitiko three weeks after her
kidnap on February 7
Kibirango, a known associate of Kanyankole was arrested over the
weekend by operatives of the Police Flying Squad who had been tracking
him down.

Patrick Agaba, a businessman who is well known in Kampala for driving
expensive motor vehicles number plated 'PATO', was arrested in South
Africa by South African police after they were tipped off by Uganda's
State House officials.
A highly placed source in security told URN that Agaba travelled to
South Africa on February 25 and was carrying the ransom money which
was allegedly given to the kidnappers by the Magara's family on
February 24.

Magara's kidnapped had demanded for $1 million (about Shs 3.5 billion)
in ransom but the family reportedly managed to raise between Shs
700-800 million a few days before her eventual murder.

"Our intelligence revealed that Agaba transported the money which was
in dollars out of the country through Entebbe Airport, " the source
who preferred anonymity said.

Agaba has been a frequent traveller between Uganda and South Africa.
He got a visa last year in October claiming that he was invited by
Mercedes Benz company of South Africa as an employee of Spear Motors
Uganda.

It was the same visa that Agaba used to transport the money to South
Africa. It is still unknown whether the suspect was found in
possession of some of the money.

Police and CMI have been interrogating Kibirango and Kanyankole but
are yet to get a confession from any of them. Preliminary
investigations into the killing suggest that Magara may have been
raped before she was killed.

Police and CMI are now using pieces of evidence collected during
autopsy to connect the suspects currently in custody to the crime
scene.

Magara was kidnapped on February 7 on Kabaka Anjagala road as she was
driving to her home in Lungujja. She was later killed after three
weeks in her kidnappers' custody and her body dumped in an area
between Kajjansi and Kigo, on the Southern bypass.

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