Brig. Gen. Christopher Ddamulira Sserunjogi the Crime Intelligence Director who is the leading commander in the ongoing operation to arrest fugitive Tabula Luggya Bbosa who allegedly masterminded the plan to assassinate Eng. Daniel Bbosa Lwomwa the fallen head of Endiga (Sheep) clan two weeks back and Maj. Dr. Tom Magambo the Director Uganda Criminal Investigation Department (CID) are expecting the ballistic analysis report on the killer gun.
Sources at Wandegeya based government laboratory and ballistic analysis center revealed to the might Grapevine that the results from the examination of the killer gun powder and bullet cartridges picked at the crime scene at Lungujja in Lubaga Division Kampala city where Bbosa was gunned from are out.
Sources assigned to investigate the shocking murder said that the report is going to help detectives to trace the owner of the gun and establish if it was ever used in committing any crimes around the country.
Noah Derrick Luggya the prime suspect who pulled the trigger and showered Bbosa with bullets that killed him recorded a statement denying ownership of the killer gun.
He confessed that it was Tabula who is currently on the run who gave him the gun.
Luggya is still receiving medication from Mulago hospital and he is recovering from the injuries he suffered after he was badly beaten by the angry mob at Bulange who intercepted him together with his co-accused Emmanuel Sserunkuma who was killed on the spot.
However, highly placed sources in the intelligence circles have told theGrapevine that the recovered killer gun is likely to be among the many which were smuggled into the country from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by serial criminals and business persons.
“There are many illegal guns which are in the possession of private individuals, especially criminals and business people who are harvesting millions of shillings from hiring them out to fellow criminals,” a source said.
He added that it was a blessing that Bbosa’s assassins were amateurs and they failed to protect their weapon.
We have been told by sources that when such guns are used to execute deadly missions, they are returned to the owner who takes it back and hides it mostly in holes that they dig inside their houses or in compounds.
A source revealed that there are two criminals in Luzira Upper Prison who smuggled two guns into the country and have been hiring it to fellow criminals to commit crimes.
They pay them money which they use to survive in prison.
“When you hear an inmate on the phone making statements like ‘ka machine’ just knows they are talking about a gun. And they only hire it out after they are satisfied that the mission is very sensitive and other weapons like pangas, axes, iron bars cannot be used in the said mission.”
Sources divulged that this was the reason why security in prison, especially Upper Prison Luzira is now very strict when it comes to allowing inmates to make phone calls to friends and relatives.
The procedure now is that the Officer in Charge has to first verify that the phone number the inmate is going to call is registered in that very person’s names and the inmate has to first put in writing his relationship with that person and why he wants to talk to them.
The phone call then has to be made in the presence of the prison’s warden who verifies that the conversation is related to what the inmate put in writing.
Security is still looking for the gun which was used in the murder of Joan Kagezi a senior prosecutor in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, Ibrahim Tusubira alias Jjajja Icuri and Muslim sheikhs like Sheikh Hassan Ibrahim Kirya, Sheikh Mustafah Bahiga, Sheikh Maj Muhammad Kiggundu and a number of others.
Sources at Crime Intelligence said that the arrest of Tabula will help them establish where he hired the gun from and how he got in contact with the owner of the gun.
Brig. Gen. Ddamulira has dispatched a number of deadly commandos to Kalangala island to look for Tabula who is expected to be hiding in Kalangala’s think forests.
In the same development, Buganda Kingdom clan heads have pleaded with Brig. Gen. Ddamulira and Maj. Dr. Magambo to execute a special investigation on some members sitting on Buganda Kingdom Cultural Court (Kkooti yakisekwa).
“You remember the Ngabi clan head Nsamba’s home was attacked at night and he narrowly survived. He has a case in kkooti ya kisekwa and those people are always threatening him,” one of the clan heads in Buganda told theGrapevine.
He accused members of Kisekwa court of soliciting for bribes from parties who bring their matters before the local court since they are not on the payroll of the Kingdom administration.
theGrapevine tried to reach out to Owekitiibwa Israel Kitooke Kazibwe the Kingdom Information and Mobilization minister for a comment but he did not respond to our frequent phone calls.
Mubiru Njuuki, a Buganda Kingdom historian told theGrapevine that the local Kisekwa court lost credibility because it is now being used by mafias in the Kingdom to fight clan heads who are against their wishes.
He said that over 10 clan heads are in fear of losing their offices and were advised that the only way to survive is to amend their relationship with big people sitting at Bulange the Kingdom headquarters.
“We are praying to president Yoweri Museveni as the custodian of the country’s peace and law to establish a judicial committee to investigate members sitting on Kisekwa court and those sitting at Bulange because they are the ones responsible for Bbosa’s assassination and they are the ones threatening other clan heads,” Njuuki said.
He asked Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda to explain why it took him so long to dispose of the clan appeals from ‘kkooti ya kisekwa’ as the supreme person on Buganda Kingdom cultural matters.
He noted that if Museveni doesn’t intervene, clan heads are still going to be killed because of the ongoing fights inside clan members who think that people sitting at Bulange want to forcefully install their people as heads of clans.
Security arrested Milly Naluwenda a clerk to Kisekwa court in connection with Bbosa’s murder and she is waiting for Justice Jane Frances Abodo the Director Public Prosecution (DPP) to seal her fate whether she is added on those to be formally charged.
Police spokesperson Fred Enanga confirmed that Bbosa’s suspected killers’ investigation file was forwarded to Justice Abodo for advice.
He stated that Tabula masterminded the murder of Bbosa because he was competing with him for the office of the Endiga clan head.
By Sengooba Alirabaki
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