How Uganda Police is handling the investigations into the murder of Late Mr Kenneth Watmon Akena has caused one of the largest deterioration in the country’s search for justice, opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye says.
The comments hinge on the fact Dr. Besigye has has zero confidence in Uganda’s Police Force and thinks there are fundamental problems.
On Thursday night while appearing on NBS TV’s Frontline talkshow, he said, “If you’re talking about security, the starting position should be involvement of the people themselves and once those people are detached from the institutions of justice, then there are fundamental problem.”
“We have institutions which are in a major way detached from people they are supposed to protect and the efficiency of how these institutions are facilitated is a problem.
Akena breathed his last at Norvick Hospital on Sunday morning, where he was rushed after being shot in the stomach near Lugogo Shopping mall in Kampala.
Besigye has time immemorial viciously confronted police, resulting in nasty standoffs.
Police are currently holding Besigye’s son-in-law Matthew Kanyamunyu (Winnie Byanyima’s nephew) and his girlfriend, Cynthia Munwangari in connection with the shooting. Shortly after the incident, several people took to social media and made ethnic sentiments. Akena’s remains will laid to rest at Gang-dyang Ward Pandwong Division Kitgum Municipality on Wednesday afternoon.
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In Kitgum, late Akena’s father, Eng Francis Omona spoke out about his son’s death, calling it “brutal and devastating”.
“We are asking the government to ensure the rule of law; the law must take its course, we shall not demand for anything more than that,” he said.
He said the investigating authorities should ensure that there is no manipulation, must come to the real truth and find out who really did it, and why he did it.
“If we receive the results of the investigation that is convincing, that will bring happiness but if it’s manipulated then we shall say Uganda is doomed,” he said.
There has been a rhetoric of slain Akena’s alleged killer being connected and protected by powerful people in government.
