Lawyers representing suspects arrested by security forces in relation to the murder of a driver and the daughter to Works and Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala have filed an application demanding for their production in court.
The suspects, eight in number include:
Ramadan Mustafa Kawawa alias Musa alias Amin, Kamada Walusimbi alias Mudinia alias Ogema, Juma Saidi, Muhammed Kagugube alias Bafumoya, Hussein Wahab Lubwama alias Christopher Kinene alias Master, Idris Serwadda alias Swakibu alias Juma, Taata Umar and Siriman Kisambira alias Mukwasi.
They were arrested during operations last week, from different parts of Kampala. Now, lawyers from Wameli and Company Advocates, in their application filed before the Civil Division of High Court in Kampala contend that the whereabouts of their clients were unknown to them for a number of days until last week on Thursday when the Deputy Inspector General of Police Major General Paul Lokech addressed the media confirming their arrest.
Gen. Lokech told the country, that they arrested five suspects but one of them Hussein Chiefma alias Master was killed as he allegedly resisted the arrest by the security officers.
Adding that, the group had been arrested in relation to the June 1st 2021 murder of Katumba Wamala's daughter Brendah Nantongo and his driver Haruna Kayondo who were gunned down in a shooting that left the former Chief of Defense Forces Katumba Wamala with gunshot injuries. The shooting occurred along Kisota Road in Kisaasi a Kampala city suburb.
However, the lawyers in their documents argue that on various dates between June 24th and July 2nd 2021, the said suspects were picked up from their respective homes in Kawanda, Maganjo, Muyenga, Namuwongo in Kampala and Wakiso districts.
Their application is supported by an affidavit of Francis Nyakoojo, an Advocate of High Court and a Human Rights Activist who states that the group was taken by plain clothed men armed with guns and brutally dragged into waiting vans while some were even taken with their relatives to places they didn't know then.
However, the activist adds that they have since learnt that they were detained at Special Investigations Department Unit of Police -SIU Kireka where they tried accessing them but have failed to date.
The lawyers further argue that the continued detention of the applicants is in contravention of their constitutional right to personal liberty.
