Brian Bagyenda, son of Uganda’s spy chief, ISO director Col Frank Bagyenda Kaka, has been committed to High Court for trial over the murder of his university girlfriend, Enid Twijukye, 22.
This followed the submission by State Attorney, Ms Margaret Aanyu, that investigations into the murder were complete and the prosecution was ready for the trial.
“I am committing you to the High Court for trial and you will remain on remand till then,” Magistrate Noah Sajabi of Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court on Thursday told Mr Bagyenda aged, 29, a pharmacist and the co-accused persons; Innocent Bainomugisha, 24, a cleaner and Vincent Rwahwire, 28, a casual labourer.
Prosecution states that on January 4, 2016 at Njobe Road in Nakawa Division, Kampala District, Bagyenda and his two accomplices, with malice aforethought, murdered his girlfriend Enid Twijukye.
On January 18, police arrested Bagyenda and his two alleged accomplices after telephone print outs from the mobile phone of the deceased showed that he was the last person she frequently called before she disappeared mysteriously from her home.
Twijukye, an international relations student of Ndejje University, was murdered and her body was dumped in Seeta in Mukono district.
Twijukye lived with her sister in Namugongo, Kira Municipality, Wakiso District. On the eve of the fateful day, she left home and told her sister she was going to visit someone in Bweyogerere.
The following day the deceased’s phones went off, prompting her mother, Esther Mirembe Nkoko to contact her other daughters about her whereabouts.
Police recovered Twijukye’s decomposing body in Namanve forest, 11km away from the murder scene after the family had reported her missing.
Bagyenda reportedly told the investigating officers at Jinja Road Police Station that his first statement about how his lover had robbed him of Shs4 million was not true. “I killed her because I loved her so much that I could not allow her to get married to a Rastafarian. I learnt of her other man from the messages they were exchanging and what pissed me off mostly was Enid fixing a day to take the Rastafarian to meet her parents in Kiruhura instead of me,” he reportedly told cops, just hours before he was taken to court to be charged with the 22 year-old lover’s murder.
At the time of death, Twijukye was working at Capital Shoppers in Ntinda and was due for graduation.
Twijukye was the fourth born in a family of six. Her mother is a housewife and her father Mr Wilson Tibegaya is the head-teacher of Karobwa Education Centre in Kazo, Kiruhura district.
