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    Pastor Ssenyonga Beef With Kayanja Intensifies; Star Witness Pins Him For Masterminding Sodome Accusations Against Miracle Centre Cathedral Man Of God…

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    The accused in the dock. Inset L is Pastor Kayanja and Pastor Ssenyonga (R)

    Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga of Christian Life Church, Bwaise is in trouble after one of the lead witnesses told court that he was behind the plot to falsely accuse Lubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral senior pastor, Robert Kayanja in the aborted sodomy case.

    The revelation was made at Mengo Chief Magistrate’s court where nine people are being charged of falsely accusing Pastor Kayanja of practicing sodomy with intent to defame him and destroy his church as well giving false news to police.

    Sam Magomu (26), a guard at pastor Kayanja ‘s church testified before the presiding magistrate Adams Byarugaba that on September  17th, 2021, a plot to falsely accuse Kayanja was hatched by Pastor Ssenyonga who promised them millions of money and passports to relocate abroad if they succeeded in pining Kayanja.

    In a fully parked Court, Magomu explained that they joined Pastor Kayanja ‘s church in 2016 but later begged him to work as guards which he accepted and sponsored their training in Kabalye police training school in Kiryandongo district before commencing work with Reagan Ssentongo as their leader.

    He however said that in 2021, during Covid19 outbreak, Ssentongo called him to join the team at Miracle Center Cathedral.

    He also told them that they were going to receive cash.

    But when he arrived, things changed after Ssentongo told them that they were supposed to cause commotion by shouting and accusing Kayanja of sodomizing them in order to get good money a thing which they did.

    “We shouted accusing Kayanja of sodomy and we threatened to shatter the church windows unless he paid us good money,” they testified.

    He added that Kayanja’s church management team called police, who immediately arrested them and locked them up at old Kampala police station.

    Magomu testified that while in police cells, late at night, one suspect Jamir Mwada who introduced himself as a youth leader from Kisenyi surprised them when he pulled out a mobile phone and told them not to worry because their matter was under control.

    He however said he didn’t know whether Mwada and Ssentongo were working together by then.

    Magomu said that that very night, Mwada called different people from the coolers.

    They included; Pastor David Kiganda, Pastor Ssempa and Sylvia Namutebi commonly known as Maama Fiina narrating how Pastor Kayanja had been sodomizing his guards and had even locked them up at Old Kampala.

    Mwada asked them not to despair but pin Kayanja over sodomy.

    Magomu added that the following day, they were taken to Mulago hospital for medical checkup and while there, Mwada came with Israel Wasswa the head of pastor Ssenyonga ‘s security team, a one Aggrey  Kanene and a certain police officer who asked them to maintain the accusations against Kayanja.

    Wasswa’s team begged Magomu to also join his friends to vigorously accuse Kayanja because he was a bit reluctant. They even promised to help them secure police bond which they actually got and they were released.

    Magomu said the results from the medical checkup didn’t confirm any act of sodomy.

    Magomu told court that they started having regular meetings with Wasswa and Kanene ‘s team who assured them not to worry because Pastor Ssenyonga was with them in this plot and was going to pay them a lot of money and secure travel documents for them so that they relocate them abroad safely.

    “One of us, Simon Tumukunde, asked them why they were doing all this. They said the move was a brain child of Ssenyonga to damage Kayanja and that he was going to pay them dearly and fly them abroad. I joined Tumukunde and we demanded proof that pastor Ssenyonga supports us. We asked them that if possible, they should allow us to meet him. They said they were representing him well and showed us photos while they were sitting with him in a meeting,” Magomu said.

    He said Wasswa and Kanene took them to Kawempe police station where they opened up fresh cases against Kayanja saying old Kampala police officers were biased.

    Magomu’s guided statement was recorded by a police woman named D/IP Cotilda  Nandutu.

    The accused are; Wasswa an ex-convict on aggravated robbery, and former head of Ssenyonga ‘s security, Peter Sserugo, Reagan Ssentongo a former guard at Miracle Center Cathedral, Moses Ssemanobe (27), Labeeb Khalifa (22),  Alex Wakamala (22) Martin Kagolo (22), Jamir Mwada an LC leader from Kiganda zone in Kisenyi and Aggrey Kanene.

    In 2021 pastor Kayanja opened criminal cases against the group including criminal trespass, defamation with intent to harm and destroy his person and church, uttering false information and giving the same to police on police file videCRaB978/2021 at old Kampala police station.

    During this session, the prosecutor Jonathan Muwanga paraded a second witness, Mr. Aggrey Magumba who witnessed all the drama at Miracle Centre Cathedral but was not cross examined because of time.

    The case was adjourned to October 20, 2023.

    Four of the accused; Ssemanobe, Wakamala, Kagolo and Kanene were released on bail while the rest were sent back on remand to Luzira prison.

     

    By Sengooba Alirabaki

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    Did Minister Muyingo Curse NUP MP Ssekitoleko! Legislator Faces Arrest For Swiddling Speaker Among, Voters Money For Hospital Rehabilitation..

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    MP Robert Ssekitoleko (L) and Minister Muyingo (R)

    Robert Ssekitoleko the National Unity Platform (NUP) legislator who represents Bamunanika Constituency is fighting to elude arrest after a section of his voters accused him of swindling funds that were contributed by voters towards the rehabilitation of the dilapidated  Zirobwe Health Center 3.

    Ahmed Kasibante, the Zirobwe Town Council councillor told theGrapevine that last year, the area leadership organised a fundraising function and the Speaker of parliament Annet Anita Among was invited as the Chief Guest but she sent one of her assistants to represent her.

    She promised to contribute Shs10m to the cause.

    He explained that the Chief Guest told them that within one month money will be given to Ssekitoleko to deliver to the organizing committee.

    He narrated that they were looking for Shs100m and Ssekitoleko personally promised to double the amount of money the people at the function will contribute.

    Shs4m was contributed which meant that Sekitoleko was supposed to add Shs4m to make Shs8m.

    Soria Nabachwa, the Zirobwe Central councillor who was the treasurer of the fundraising drive told theGrapevine that after the function, Ssekitoleko told her to give him all the money they had collected so that he adds his Shs4m to make Shs8m and it is banked at once as they are continue looking for more money.

    She explained that she gave all the money to the legislator but it is now a year but she has not received any message on her phone showing that the legislator has banked the money.

    When they call him, he does not pick their calls.

    “We have received communication from the office of the speaker that Ssekitoleke picked the money. We are going to take legal action against him. We will start with reporting him to police for getting money by false pretense,” Kasibante said.

    Sources close to the legislator told theGrapevine that their man is highly indebted and he sometimes spends some nights in his car in parliament parking yard to avoid moneylenders who are looking for him.

    Suit shops in Wandegeya are also looking for the legislator. They allege that he picked their clothes when he had just been elected as a Member of Parliament and promised to pay them later but since then, he has refused to pick his phone calls.

    Mechanics at Mulago kubbiri and Wandegeya have also chased Ssekitoleko from taking his car to their garages claiming that they are tired of fighting with him to get their money. Sometimes have to attach his car until he pays them.

    One of the people close to the legislator told theGrapevine that he told them that the reason why he is not enjoying parliament is because of the curse that State Minister for Higher Education John Crysotom Muyingo placed on him.

    He claims that when he defeated Muyingo in the 2021 parliamentary elections, Muyingo told his people that Ssekitoleko had betrayed and embarrassed him but he was going to pay for it the hard way.

    It should be remembered that Muyingo paid for Ssekitoleko’s education from secondary school to university and he was at one time one of his personal assistants.

    Sources said that in 2019, Ssekitoleko told Muyingo that he wanted him to buy for him a new posh car which he was going to use in the 2021 campaigns but Muyingo refused because he had already received rumours that he was planning to contest against him.

    Ssekitoleko later contested against Muyingo on NUP ticket and defeated him very badly in the umbrella wave that swept the whole country in 2021.

    Sources in the corridors of power said that if it was not for the First Lady maama Janet Kataha Museveni to fight tooth and nail to make sure that Muyingo retains his ministerial job, he was going to be like other former ministers that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni fired when the lost their parliamentary seats.

    However, when contacted, Ssekitoleko rubbished the allegation terming them as political malice targeting his personality and his political party.

     

    By Sengooba Alirabaki

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    Lubaga South Legislator Mukasa On Suicide Watch After Landlord Throws Him Out Of Rented House, Puts His Properties On Sale To Survive …

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    Lubaga South legislator Aloysius Mukasa

    Flamboyant Lubaga South legislator Aloysius Talton Gold Mukasa is on suicide watch with money lenders breathing down his neck.

    His woes escalated recently when his landlord threatened to throw him out of his house along Entebbe road over delayed rent payments.

    Mukasa is among the National Unity Platform(NUP) legislators who have not enjoyed their stay in parliament and is always on the run, hiding from moneylenders to elude arrest him over none payment.

    His woes started in Court where he spent millions of shillings to settle the legal battle instituted against him by his immediate political rival Princess Eugenia Nassolo who was contesting his education and accusing him of committing election offences.

    Nasolo hired some of the best lawyers in Kampala who included; Caleb Alaka, Samuel Muyizi Mulindwa and Kenneth Paul Kakande who convinced her to settle the matter out of Court, where a juicy deal was reached.

    This deal punched big holes in Mukasa’s pockets.

    Mukasa also hired Justine Ssemuyaba another serious lawyer who he paid huge sums of money in legal fees to represent him.

    It should also be noted that Mukasa was among the candidates who spent a lot of money during campaigns and sources close to him claim that he spent more than Shs5bn in campaigns including facilitating the process of winning the NUP ticket.

    Sources divulged that Mukasa thought that he was going to get a lot of money in politics by cutting deals which would help him to cover the gaps in his businesses among which included FACO which is dealing in solving the problems of manhood among men, changing women’s figures and DX4.

    However, news reaching our political desk shows that the landlord on the building which has been housing FACO for years in Ndeeba along Masaka road has thrown him out of his building over delayed rent payments.

    Sources added that Mukasa first sold his primary school and used part of the money to pay the loans to survive money lenders who were on his neck.

    Recently, he sold his Ambulance car which he bought during the campaigns to Rhino Funeral Management Company.

    He also sold the vehicle truck which he bought to help his people to solve the problem of water especially at the functions and sources claim that he sold it to Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi the Butambala County legislator at Shs53m.

    Kivumbi was not interested in the track but he bought it to save his fellow legislator and he added it to his two water tracks in the constituency.

    Sources said that the big problem that Mukasa currently has is to settle the landlord at home because he is going to be embarrassed if he throws him out of his house with his wife and entire family.

    His competitors claim that Mukasa was among the NUP legislators who were facilitated by the State to infiltrate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu’s camp during the 2021 general election.

    theGrapevine made a number of efforts to talk to Mukasa for a comment by making several phone calls to his five known phone numbers but they were all not going through.

     

    By Levi Yashayahu

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    Battle Lines Drawn As Top Ankole Families Hire Top Lawyers To Fight For Justice For Murdered Tycoon Katanga, Save Widow Molly And Daughters From Death Sentence…

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    The late Henry Katanga (L) his wife Molly Katanga (C) and daughter Patricia Kakwanza (R)

    The fight for justice for late Henry Katanga is set to expose and put top Ankole Sub Region families to a test on who holds superior powers of influencing decision making in the country as all is set for a mouthwatering legal battle.

    This conclusion is drawn after Justice Jane France Abodo the Director Public Prosecution (DPP) sanctioned murder charges against Molly Katanga, widow to the deceased, her daughter Martha Katanga Nkwanzi and Patricia Kakwanza who is being charged with the offence of Destroying evidence.

    The DPP also charged George Amanyire and Charles Otai, a medical doctor.

    A joint team of detectives from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Internal Security Organisation (ISO) and the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been investigating the circumstances under which tycoon Katanga was killed inside his master bedroom at Mbuya a Kampala City suburb.

    According to a police postmortem report, after police pathologists and family doctors examined Katanga’s body, they reached to a conclusion that he was killed.

    The Postmortem report is part of the evidence that the DPP is set to use against the accused persons after investigations established that the deceased’s murder was intentional and the prime suspect is the wife who is still under tight security at International Hospital Kampala (IHK) Intensive Care Unit.

    Since the investigation kicked off on November 2, 2023 when the deceased was murdered, detectives working on the file are yet to interact with the main suspect.

    However, her lawyers of Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA) have confirmed that their client is ready to interact with the investigators.

    The other suspects are currently being detained at Jinja road police station and Special Investigation Unit Kireka. They have already recorded their statements over the matter.

    Highly placed sources at the DPP chambers revealed to theGrapevine that Justice Abodo has been facing a lot of pressure from different influential government and security officers who are connected to the suspects and the deceased and on two occasions, she has been referring the files back to police for further investigations to close all the gaps.

    Sources added that there was no way Justice Abodo could not have sanctioned the files because whatever she instructed the investigators to do, they have been doing it.

    This kind of alertness led to investigators discovering that the crime scene was tampered with after the main suspect committed the crime.

    According to the Monitor News Paper, a top government official and some security bosses are involved in this battle to save their beloved with others involved because they want to ensure that the deceased gets justice.

    They include: Brig. Charity Bainababo the deputy commander of the Special Forces Command (SFC) who is a cousin to the deceased; Marjorie Nyangweso a Human Resource expert and also niece to the deceased, Naomi Kashishane a security expert and sister to the deceased, Mirieli Kyobuhoro the deceased’s mother and a friend to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Maj. Bright Rwamirama the State Minister for Agriculture and uncle to the deceased, Col. Naboth Mwesigwa Rwabwera, Director of Protocol, Defence ministry friend to Molly, Maj. Gen. Sam Kavuma, Deputy Coordinator and former ADC to president Museveni who is a friend to Molly, Lt. Gen. James Mugira the Managing Director National Enterprises Corporation and also the deceased’s cousin, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Katsigazi the Deputy Inspector General of police who is also the deceased’s relative.

    Others are; Lt. Col. Albert Kashakamba cousin to the deceased, Lt. Col. Benon Muhinda Biteeya a cousin to the deceased and Patricia Katanga step daughter to the deceased.

    According to a petition filed at the Civil Division of the High Court Kampala, lawyers from M/S Kanduho & Company Advocates led by Frank Kanduho together with Paul Kutesa’s M/S Arcadia Advocates claim that there is a clandestine move by influential officers in government to make sure that the deceased does not get justice by helping the suspect walk free.

    Two powerful law firms representing Barnabas Bwaniaga Taremwa, a close friend to the deceased, want Court to establish a committee of experts to investigate the cause of his friend’s death.

    However, to protect their rights, Molly and her daughters have also hired President Museveni’s longtime lawyers of the Kampala Associated Advocates(KAA) to head the fight for their rights.

    It should be remembered that when the former Inspector General of police Gen. Edward Kale Kayihura was arrested on charges related to treason, he also hired the same law firm and was saved.

    The same law firm also saved controversial city businessman Matthew Kanyamunyu who was charged with the murder of Kenneth Akena, a social worker. Senior counsel Peter Kabatsi and John Jet Tumwebaze led the negotiation to convince the DPP to accept their pre-bargaining prayer.

    They further convinced the trial judge Stephen Mubiru to accept the five years sentence which they had agreed upon with the DPP even though there was overwhelming evidence which would have sent Kanyamunyu on death penalty.

    KAA lawyers further saved Kanyamunyu’s girlfriend Cythia Munwangari who was also charged with offences related to murder. The charges were dropped immediately when KAA took over the matter from lawyers Caleb Alaka and Evans Ochieng.

    It is very likely that Molly’s team hired KAA Advocates to use their influence and legal expertise to make sure that their people don’t die in prison.

    Sources also revealed to theGrapevine that Molly has also hired Macdusman Kabega commonly nicknamed as the ‘devil’s advocate’ of Tumusiime Kabega & Company Advocates.

    Kabega has saved a number of prominent personalities.

    They include: the late Dr Aggrey Kiyingi Ssebowa who was facing murder charges after state alged that he masterminded the murder of his wife Robinah Kiyingi.

    Dr. Kiyingi was acquitted.

    Kabega also saved Sarah Nabikolo Ssebunya who was acquitted after State failed to convince court that she was behind murder of her husband Eria Bugembe Ssebunya alias Kasiwukira.

    If the trial of Molly and her daughters kicks off, they are likely to face off with DPP’s top legal brains who include Thomas Jatiko with the help from a team of lawyers from the DPP on behalf of the deceased friends.

     

    By Sengooba Alirabaki

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